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Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: $52.40$48.13Socrates without Plato.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BC to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the... -
The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God by Eric Nelson 9780674240940
RRP: $58.70$45.57One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing.We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after... -
Ethics Matters by Charlotte Vardy
$28.33How do we know the difference between right and wrong? How can we make decisions about issues from germ-line genetic engineering to the regulation of banking, from nuclear power to ethnic bioweapons, from end-of-life care to global warming? What does it... -
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
RRP: $37.78$27.99In Pedagogy of Freedom Paulo Freire travels ever more deeply into the territory where learning and activism are the essence of human life. This profound new book shows why an engaged way of learning and teaching is central to the creation of the... -
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya 9780691173931
RRP: $39.88$31.06Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of... -
Law Is a Moral Practice by Scott Hershovitz 9780674258556
RRP: $71.30$56.47A powerful argument for the essential role of morality in law, getting at the heart of key debates in public life.What is law? And how does it relate to morality? It's common to think that law and morality are different ways of regulating our lives. But... -
Moral Essays: v. 1: De Providentia De Constantiade Ira De Cementia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$48.13Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
RRP: $27.28$25.07Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$48.13Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Metaethics: An Introduction by Andrew Fisher 9781844652587
RRP: $92.38$80.72Do moral facts exist? What would they be like if they did? What does it mean to say that a moral claim is true? What is the link between moral judgement and motivation? Can we know whether something is right and wrong? Is morality a fiction? Metaethics:... -
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation by Cathy O'Neil 9781802060317
RRP: $27.28$19.09A 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... -
Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity by Larissa MacFarquhar
RRP: $23.08$16.32SUNDAY TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment, and tells their intimate stories: their... -
Critical Terms for Animal Studies by Lori Gruen
RRP: $58.80$57.52Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies to... -
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780486426914
RRP: $12.58$8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486426914Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Paradox of Love by Pascal Bruckner 9780691149141
RRP: $67.20$50.97The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of... -
The Question Concerning Technology: And Other Essays by Martin Heidegger
RRP: $37.78$22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062290700Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackImprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 181g -
Critique of Forms of Life by Rahel Jaeggi
RRP: $88.10$69.26For many liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But... -
Treated Like Animals: Improving the Lives of the Creatures We Own, Eat and Use by Alick Simmons
RRP: $41.98$34.48You don't have to be an animal rights activist to take an interest in how we treat other creatures. All of us, with few exceptions, use animals in some way: for food, research, recreation and companionship. In Britain we eat around a billion chickens... -
Kabbalistic Panpsychism - The Enigma of Consciousness in Jewish Mystical Thought by Hyman M. Schipper
RRP: $29.38$25.73From a scientific and philosophical point of view, there is arguably no phenomenon as intractable as the origin and nature of consciousness. This volume provides a comprehensive account of the Kabbalistic understanding of consciousness adduced from... -
Stop Being Reasonable: six stories of how we really change our minds by Eleanor Gordon-Smith 9781912854141
RRP: $31.48$20.58What if you aren't who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be ... wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith... -
Postmodern Ethics by Zygmunt Bauman 9780631186939
RRP: $69.20$61.19Zygmunt Bauman's powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way... -
Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard 9780874866438
RRP: $31.48$20.75The most accessible Kierkegaard reader ever "In a culture awash in religious silliness, Kierkegaard's bracing metaphors expose our mediocrities and energize us with a clarified sense of what it means to follow Jesus." -Eugene Peterson, author,... -
The Time of the Black Jaguar: An Offering of Indigenous Wisdom for the Continuity of Life on Earth by Arkan Lushwala
RRP: $29.40$25.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615681818Author Arkan LushwalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Arkan LushwalaPublisher Arkan LushwalaWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 9780865970120
RRP: $23.00$19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970120Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 682g -
Rethinking Existentialism by Jonathan Webber 9780198866763
RRP: $51.43$46.41bIn iRethinking Existentialism/i, Jonathan Webber articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values./b Offering an original analysis of classic literary and... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$48.13Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $14.68$10.08HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: $20.98$14.93`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition,... -
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: $136.50$92.59Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an... -
Critical Realism: an Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier 9780860916024
RRP: $41.98$35.49The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: $58.80$44.86A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Ruti 9780231164085
RRP: $46.20$35.68Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari... -
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $41.98$30.83We live in a culture of apology and forgiveness. But while there are a few thinkers who are critical of forgiveness as being too supine, and extol the virtues of retribution and 'getting even,' philosopher and intellectual Martha C. Nussbaum criticizes... -
The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9780367759568
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book draws on Iris Murdoch's philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch's ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: $27.28$19.40How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the... -
Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by Joseph S. Nye 9780190935962
RRP: $46.18$33.62Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of... -
Might is Right: or the Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard 9781682040232
RRP: $20.75$19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682040232Author Ragnar RedbeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Metal-Inex IncPublisher Metal-Inex IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
RRP: $41.98$35.97George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's... -
Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism by Sven Nyholm
$66.95Can robots perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, or potentially harm us? Even before these things truly happen, ethical and philosophical questions already arise. The reason is that we humans have... -
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham 9780691174426
RRP: $39.88$31.06How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mean when we talk about finding our soul,...