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The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution by Edward Dutton
£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360753Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 13mm -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: £35.00£27.21An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in... -
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A fun, fascinating, and original book that will challenge you to become a better version of yourself'Daniel H. Pink, author of DriveWhat does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and fortune or the respect of our friends and family? How can... -
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy by Lee McIntyre 9780262546300
RRP: £13.99£8.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546300Author Lee McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous by W. Jay Wood 9780877845225
RRP: £21.00£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877845225Author W. Jay WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn 9780674241398
RRP: £17.95£14.28"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."-Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal"Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness."-George SorosThe age of human... -
The Virtue of Harmony by Chenyang Li
RRP: £26.49£24.22Harmony, the bringing together of dissimilar elements in a manner that coordinates these as parts of an organic whole, is central to different aspects of human existence. In many cultures, harmony is considered an important virtue. As a personal, social,... -
Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life by Karen Stohr
RRP: £16.99£12.28An exploration of everything Kant's philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties. Immanuel Kant is well known as one of the towering... -
Why Free Will Is Real by Christian List
RRP: £23.95£18.74A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philosophers believe.Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries... -
In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling by Emmanuel Yartekwei Lartey
RRP: £18.99£17.94The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and re-examined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order... -
A Commentary on Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" by Lewis White Beck
RRP: £28.00£27.39When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This landmark... -
Why Vegan? by Peter Singer
RRP: £5.99£4.46'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human... -
Dao De Jing by Laozi
RRP: £20.00£16.15From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated version of the classic work of Daoist philosophyC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: £10.99£7.77Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of... -
Killing in War by Jeff McMahan 9780199603572
RRP: £19.99£17.13Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that... -
How to Hustle and Win: A Survival Guide for the Ghetto by Supreme Understanding 9780981617008
RRP: £24.95£17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981617008Author Supreme UnderstandingFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Supreme Design PublishingPublisher Supreme Design PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions by Michael Cholbi 9781551119052
RRP: £33.95£27.99Suicide was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2012!Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions is a provocative and comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical issues surrounding suicide. Readers will encounter seminal arguments... -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds
RRP: £28.00£21.94From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of... -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £20.00£15.54Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing... -
Phaedo by Plato
RRP: £6.99£5.26The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's greatest masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary... -
Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601753Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews 9780785232322
RRP: £13.99£9.75A New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Traveler's Gift comes a story of common wisdom based on the remarkable true story of "Jones," a mysterious old man who has a knack for showing up in people's lives at just the right time, providing... -
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes
RRP: £14.99£11.82An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess,... -
That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic by Musonius Rufus
RRP: £10.99£8.35Perennial wisdom from one of history's most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers"He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well-bravely, boldly, patiently-to what life threw at us. That's what we should be doing now."-Ryan Holiday, Reading... -
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker
RRP: £7.99£5.79'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so... -
How To Be Accountable by Joe Biel
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621062363Author Joe BielFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £12.99£8.60Leading philosopher's guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'. This is a book that celebrates... -
The Morality of Law by Lon L. Fuller
RRP: £22.50£18.95"Among the important books in the history of American legal philosophy. It includes insights into the relations between morality and law, and advances a theory of law of great practical relevance. . . . [This] is the best discussion of the demands of... -
Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future: Hope for Animals, Food Security, and the Environment by Ira van Eelen 9781590566978
RRP: £18.99£14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566978Author Ira van EelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Came from, What They Really Mean and Where They Might be Taking Us by Brendan Myers 9781846941153
RRP: £11.99£10.15The Celts, the old Norse and Germanic people, the Greeks of the time of Homer and Hesiod, and other ancient heroic societies are popularly believed to be tribal warrior cultures, where the light of civilisation had not yet dawned. In fact, this is far... -
The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by Oliver O'Donovan
RRP: £30.99£19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802883490Author Oliver O'DonovanFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care by Elizabeth Cripps
RRP: £12.99£9.52We owe it to our fellow humans - and other species - to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change. Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all... -
The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics by Richard Norman
RRP: £41.99£38.38The Moral Philosophers adopts a historical approach to moral philosophy, taking in chronological sequence some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. Richard Norman introduces the thought of each figure as a coherent and comprehensive ethical... -
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674072350
RRP: £17.95£14.28If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators,... -
Singer and His Critics by Dale Jamieson
RRP: £37.95£33.36This is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Singer, one of the leaders of the practical ethics movement, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.About the AuthorDale Jamieson is Henry L. Luce Professor in Human... -
Tetralogue: I'm Right, You're Wrong by Timothy Williamson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is... -
What's Wrong with Rights? by Nigel Biggar 9780198861973
RRP: £36.49£31.73Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights... -
Ethics For Dummies by Christopher Panza 9780470591710
RRP: £18.99£13.15An easy-to-grasp guide to addressing the principles of ethics and applying them to daily life How do you define "good" versus "evil?" Do you know the difference between moral "truth" and moral relativity? Whether or not you know Aristotle from Hume,... -
The Good-Enough Life by Avram Alpert
RRP: £22.00£17.39How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)...