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Beyond Good and Evil: The Philosophy Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780857088482
RRP: $20.57$13.72A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be one of the most well-known and influential explorations of... -
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $15.42$11.06'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most... -
The Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy by Alice Roberts
RRP: $17.14$11.66THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWe all want to lead a happy life. Traditionally, when in need of guidance, comfort or inspiration, many people turn to religion. But there has been another way to learn how to live well - the humanist way - and in today's more... -
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
RRP: $18.85$13.33'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result... -
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop
RRP: $18.85$13.33From Larry Siedentop, acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe, Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today'Magisterial, timeless, beautifully written ..... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.85$13.33The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence... -
The Dynamics of Power in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics, politics and practice by Gillian Proctor
RRP: $36.02$33.79This hard-hitting, impeccably referenced book draws on academic theories and analyses of power and the author's personal experience both as client and practitioner to critique power within the psychotherapeutic relationship and within the organisations... -
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects by Joanna R. Macy 9780865717756
RRP: $30.86$21.78Deepening global crises surround us. We are beset by climate change, fracking, tar sands extraction, GMOs, and mass extinctions of species, to say nothing of nuclear weapons proliferation and Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster in history. Many of us... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
RRP: $17.14$12.20'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand RussellPublished shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a... -
The Road to Character by David Brooks
RRP: $18.85$13.33The No. 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good lifeWe live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: $17.14$12.20What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our... -
How To Be a Stoic by Epictetus
RRP: $13.71$9.93'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen'How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers -... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780141441252
RRP: $17.14$12.20Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked... -
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
RRP: $27.43$19.91In The Lucifer Effect, the award-winning and internationally respected psychologist, Philip Zimbardo, examines how the human mind has the capacity to be infinitely caring or selfish, kind or cruel, creative or destructive. He challenges our conceptions... -
Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature by Miles Richardson
RRP: $34.31$26.14How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science and industry have seen the human bond with nature eroded with the... -
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel 9780197690888
RRP: $29.14$25.23This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with... -
The Little Book of Humanist Funerals: Remembering and celebrating a life by Andrew Copson
RRP: $22.28$12.88From the Sunday Times bestselling authors of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISMA humanist funeral allows us the freedom to remember and celebrate the life of someone in exactly the way we want to and - as the most popular alternative to a religious ceremony -... -
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life by Thomas Nagel 9780197681671
RRP: $34.29$29.38This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $17.14$11.39Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9780140449495
RRP: $18.85$13.33A profound examination of the nature of happiness by one of the giants of ancient Greek philosophyIn The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue' - for example, with moral virtues,... -
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 9780099528449
RRP: $11.99$8.80The original self-help book: bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journeyThe time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his... -
Philosophy and Ethics (KS3 Knowing Religion) by Robert Orme
RRP: $18.01$16.98Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich philosophy and ethics curriculum at KS3 with 18 ready-made, flexible and high quality KS3 lessons. The first unit 'Philosophy of religion' explores the ideas of influential Western philosophers focusing on... -
Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education: Applying Theoretical Perspectives to Complex Dilemmas by Joan Poliner Shapiro
RRP: $60.02$52.92The fifth edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethics and assists educational leaders with complex dilemmas in today's challenging, divided, and diverse... -
Of Human Freedom by Epictetus
RRP: $13.71$9.93In this personal and practical guide to moral self-improvement and living a good life, the second-century philosopher Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, stubbornness and fear, family, friendship and love, and leaves an intriguing... -
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
RRP: $42.88$28.87The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the... -
This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters
RRP: $22.28$15.59Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the... -
The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten: And 99+ Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini 9781803510477
RRP: $18.85$12.56'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of thought' Guardian Is it right to eat a pig that wants... -
Winnie the Pooh the Little Things in Life by Disney
RRP: $39.43$23.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368076098Author Catherine HapkaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 159mm * 14mm -
The Alignment Problem: How Can Machines Learn Human Values? by Brian Christian
RRP: $18.85$12.56'Vital reading. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need right now.' Mike Krieger, cofounder of InstagramArtificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our modern lives influencing the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage,... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: $49.66$38.49"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that... -
The Pocket Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
RRP: $17.14$11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806991Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $22.28$15.59'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier EribonThe Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $25.71$18.78AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an... -
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) by Jordan Erica Webber
RRP: $18.85$13.35WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?These sound like questions from a... -
The People Of The Lie by M. Scott Peck
RRP: $18.85$13.33A gripping book from the bestselling author of hugely popular self-help book, The Road Less Travelled. Leading psychiatrist and self-help pioneer Dr M.Scott Peck reveals his encounters with evil, during sessions with patients of his psychiatric therapy. ... -
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $15.42$11.37Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy?Known as the first modern theologian, SorenKierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher,poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and theimportance of... -
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
RRP: $39.43$34.73Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: $15.42$11.37What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: $13.71$9.93In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional... -
Protagoras by Plato
RRP: $13.71$9.93'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public...