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The Inner Citadel: The <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £29.95£23.19The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today-as they have been over the centuries-as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient... -
The Instruments of Torture by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£19.14From the simple fist and the boot, to the thumbscrew, rack and hallucinogenic drugs, torture has been used throughout history to punish, intimidate or obtain a confession. Long associated with absolute monarchies and totalitarian regimes, since the... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £28.00£21.36A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics by Jane Bennett
RRP: £35.00£27.21It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is... -
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian by Lucian
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the... -
After Life by Eugene Thacker
RRP: £31.00£30.19Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as... -
Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
RRP: £8.99£6.61Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and... -
Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement by Nicholas Agar
RRP: £28.95£25.07In this provocative book, philosopher Nicholas Agar defends the idea that parents should be allowed to enhance their children's characteristics. Gets away from fears of a Huxleyan 'Brave New World' or a return to the fascist eugenics of the pastWritten... -
Twelve Ways of seeing the World: Philosophies and Archetypal Worldviews for understanding Human Consciousness by Mario Betti
RRP: £20.00£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912480128Author Mario BettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hawthorn PressPublisher Hawthorn PressWeight(grams) 434gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Without God, Is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics by Julian Baggini
RRP: £12.99£7.51Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really... -
J.S. Mill by Alan Ryan
RRP: £36.99£32.53First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill's... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £17.95£14.28"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national chauvinism, Martha Nussbaum's excellent restatement of the... -
Getting Things Right: Fittingness, Reasons, and Value by Jonathan Way 9780198810322
RRP: £65.00£58.56Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way... -
Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis by Quassim Cassam
RRP: £18.99£16.87Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. Despite myriad programs of deradicalization and prevention around the world, it remains an intractable and poorly understood problem. Yet it is also sometimes... -
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics by Kenan Malik
RRP: £12.99£8.56In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: £13.99£10.03The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude... -
Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz
RRP: £35.00£31.88Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the... -
The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£12.86Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the... -
Matters of Life and Death: Human Dilemmas in the Light of the Christian Faith by John Wyatt
RRP: £18.99£13.61Conjoined twins dilemma... Suicide of terminally ill patient... Designer baby transplant success... Woman gives birth at sixty-six... Rarely are human dilemmas out of the news. And what medical science can do and ought to do - or ought not to do -... -
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death of God by Peter Watson
RRP: £14.99£10.20The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Self by Shaun Gallagher
£35.00Research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook of the Self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays... -
Training The Samurai Mind by Thomas Cleary
RRP: £22.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307212Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Bound by Convention: Obligations and Social Rules by David Owens 9780192896124
RRP: £71.00£64.64How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether those social arrangements (e.g. our family structures) reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If... -
Private Censorship by J.P. Messina 9780197581902
RRP: £22.99£19.56Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things... -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781585100354
RRP: £19.99£16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100354Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 341g -
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.79'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert... -
Aroha: Maori Wisdom for a Happier You and Better World by Hinemoa Elder
RRP: £12.99£9.09As seen on Oprah's Book Club! The #1 New Zealand Bestseller! Discover how to live a happier life - simple, traditional wisdom for difficult modern times.Aroha is an ancient Maori word and way of thinking. Maori psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder explores how... -
Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach by Alejo Jose G. Sison
RRP: £37.99£33.38Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology,... -
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer 9781913462031
RRP: £14.99£9.80Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core selection of Schopenhauer's later writings, gathered together for the first time in print. These texts, produced during the last decades of Schopenhauer's... -
Animal Rights Law by Raffael N Fasel
£27.46Do animals have legal rights? This pioneering book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law. Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and based on popular... -
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
RRP: £7.99£5.79'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and... -
Aristotle's Ethics: Writings from the Complete Works - Revised Edition by Aristotle 9780691158464
RRP: £22.00£17.39Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well-being or a life well lived, and rationally motivated action as a mean between extremes. Its influence was... -
Gorgias by Plato 9780140449044
RRP: £10.99£6.82Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral standards essential or should we give our preference to... -
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C. Nussbaum 9781982102517
RRP: £12.99£8.32A "brilliant" (Chicago Review of Books), "elegantly written, and compelling" (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world... -
The Philosophy of Aristotle by Aristotle 9780451531759
RRP: £8.95£5.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531759Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 105mm * 21mm -
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £20.00£17.25A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game... -
The Moral Maze: Way of Exploring Christian Ethics by E.David Cook
RRP: £11.99£10.78Moral decisions present the individual with a maze of possibilities which can be overwhelming. The increasing complexity of modern life makes it difficult for Christians to know what is ethically right and how to make the right choices.About the AuthorDr... -
The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader: Writings on Critical Thinking by Markar Melkonian
£27.46What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like "human nature"-a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that... -
The Road to Character by David Brooks 9780812993257
RRP: £30.00£17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812993257Author David BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games by Prof. Ian Bogost
RRP: £30.00£23.03Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." u- Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter ife is boring: filled with meetings and...