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Philosophy Bites by David Edmonds
RRP: $18.88$13.55Take 25 of the liveliest philosophers of our time. Talk to each about one of the most intriguing topics you can think of--from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics. The result is a Philosophy Bite--a lively, informal conversation that brings the subject... -
Ecodharma: Buddhist Teaching for the Precipice by David Loy
RRP: $29.38$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293828Author David LoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia by Anya Bernstein 9780691182612
RRP: $42.00$32.63A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries... -
The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
RRP: $42.00$37.00A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Shame is being weaponized by governments and corporations to attack the most vulnerable. It's time to fight backShame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool. When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
RRP: $27.28$20.77A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary... -
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell
RRP: $48.28$41.16The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible,... -
Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide by Thomas Szasz 9780815607557
RRP: $35.60$28.35This is a defence of every individual's right to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the... -
Philosophy of Epicurus by ,George,K. Strodach
RRP: $20.98$13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486833033Author George K StrodachFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler
$80.45Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain committed to your current projects and plans? Would... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: $136.50$120.52On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724650
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724650Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: $18.88$13.55'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on moral philosophy whose central concern is what makes life... -
Ethics: A Beginner's Guide by Peter Cave
RRP: $20.98$14.93Should we aim to maximize happiness? Are there characteristics that we should foster within ourselves? Why is it important to act morally? From the ancient Greeks to Sartre, from utilitarianism to the categorical imperative, Ethics: A Beginner's Guide... -
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by S. Matthew Liao
RRP: $79.78$69.24As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly progress, questions about the ethics of AI, in both the near-future and the long-term, become more pressing than ever. This volume features seventeen original essays by prominent AI scientists and... -
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism by Michael Huemer
RRP: $37.78$33.68After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students - a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian - discuss this... -
Why It's OK to Mind Your Own Business by Justin Tosi 9780367141745
RRP: $39.88$35.43Every year, millions of students in the United States and around the world graduate from high school and college. Commencement speakers-often distilling the hopes of parents and four years of messaging from educators-tell graduates that they must do... -
Now: The Physics of Time by Richard A. Muller 9780393354812
RRP: $27.28$25.96You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge. He begins... -
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780195074857
$159.77This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $20.98$13.46`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his... -
Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $25.18$21.32A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic... -
Being Realistic about Reasons by T. M. Scanlon 9780198748106
RRP: $44.08$40.05T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications;... -
Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity (Deluxe Edition): 2021 by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: $25.20$20.41This anthology (the first in a series) is an attempt to help us perceive our context with an exploration of the premise, coherence and scope of the 'metamodern' sensibility: a structure of feeling, cultural ethos, epistemic orientation and imaginative... -
Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays by P. F. Strawson 9780415448505
RRP: $54.58$47.52By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years ago but long since unavailable, Freedom and Resentment collects some of Strawson's most important work... -
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $52.40$41.75The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices... -
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
RRP: $31.48$20.37Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the... -
Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices by Jennifer A. Herdt
RRP: $75.60$73.98Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical... -
A Companion to Ethics by Peter Singer
RRP: $58.70$53.03In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of... -
Why It's OK to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists by Mary Beth Willard
RRP: $41.98$37.15The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally. One natural thought is that fans ought to give up the artworks of immoral artists. In Why It's OK to Enjoy the Work of... -
An Autobiography: 150th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by Pankaj Mishra by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: $27.28$19.09The life of Gandhi, in his own words150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra'Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood' Albert Einstein upon the death of M. K... -
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981--1982 by Michel Foucault 9780312425708
RRP: $37.78$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425708Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Gareth Southwell
RRP: $31.48$20.58Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in... -
Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals by Gary Francione
RRP: $35.68$28.01Most people care about animals, but only a tiny fraction are vegan. The rest often think of veganism as an extreme position. They certainly do not believe that they have a moral obligation to become vegan.Gary L. Francione-the leading and most... -
How To Raise an Antiracist: FROM THE GLOBAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $23.08$16.32A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on... -
Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World by Jordi Casamitjana
RRP: $27.28$18.23'Veganism is not just a diet. Not just an opinion, nor a trend. It is a 21st-century revolution which began 20 centuries ago.' From the activist, scientist and animal welfare consultant whose employment tribunal changed the law forever comes a timely,... -
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
RRP: $23.08$14.70Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of... -
Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner
RRP: $39.88$32.19In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B. F. Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society.Insisting that the problems of the world today can be solved... -
An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists: Sources and Commentary by Douglas Hedley 9781032023847
RRP: $79.78$70.10Notwithstanding their neglect in many histories of ideas in the West, the Cambridge Platonists constitute the most significant and influential group of thinkers in the Platonic tradition between the Florentine Renaissance and the Romantic Age. This... -
Ethical Studies by Robert A. Bowie
$91.85A best-selling book written by popular author Robert Bowie, offering trusted and accessible coverage of the Religious Ethics requirements for all major awarding bodies.Book InformationISBN 9780748780792Author Robert A BowieFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI: Ethical and World-View Philosophy by Wilhelm Dilthey 9780691195575
RRP: $105.00$80.66This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human... -
Corruption: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
RRP: $18.88$13.55Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in...