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Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites by Suki Finn
RRP: $23.08$16.32Thirty leading women philosophers draw on and advance the rich heritage of the philosophical tradition to explore topics of pressing interest for today. Women of Ideas is edited by Suki Finn, based upon interviews by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton,... -
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
RRP: $31.48$24.93What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years... -
The Genesis of Values by Hans Joas 9780745621548
$39.98One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the leading social theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of values in relation to some of the leading figures of... -
How We Get Along by J. David Velleman
RRP: $48.28$45.97In How We Get Along, philosopher David Velleman compares our social interactions to the interactions among improvisational actors on stage. He argues that we play ourselves - not artificially but authentically, by doing what would make sense coming from... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: $53.53$45.32Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi 9780190900151
RRP: $75.58$64.93We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a... -
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $35.68$25.79'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life by Stephen C. Angle
RRP: $35.68$25.79Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on understanding that we are deeply connected to one another. For thousands of years, Confucian thinkers... -
Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in by Kai Whiting
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686933Author Kai WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: $27.28$24.07In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter 9780192897930
$71.93Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how... -
Humanism: A Beginner's Guide (updated edition) by Peter Cave
RRP: $20.98$14.93Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason, experience and shared human values. In this thought-provoking... -
Why Climate Breakdown Matters by Dr Rupert Read
RRP: $46.18$37.46Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a... -
Natural Law: The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences of Law by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $46.18$39.46One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural... -
Unintended Consequences: Or Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Decisions? by Clive Wills 9781789042887
RRP: $31.48$27.36How is it that, in doing our very best to achieve one thing, we can end up achieving just the opposite? There exists an unseen force with an unassuming name that conceals all manner of terrors. It is `Unintended Consequences', and it takes our efforts to... -
The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack
RRP: $52.48$46.58We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $39.88$31.06Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
A Short Treatise On Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: $33.58$24.38Much of the history of philosophy is the history of ethics. From Plato to Sartre, the great philosophers have returned to the central ethical questions of how we are to live good lives; how is it appropriate and virtuous for us to behave, both to... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: $52.50$39.06Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Selected Essays by Andrews Reath 9780199288830
$93.28Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. The opening essays explore different... -
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals by Christine M. Korsgaard 9780198753858
RRP: $53.53$45.32Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good... -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: $67.18$63.69The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Stuck Together: The Hope of Christian Witness in a Polarized World by J Nelson Kraybill
RRP: $39.88$25.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513810645Author J Nelson KraybillFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Herald Press (VA)Publisher Herald Press (VA)Weight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions by Ian Olasov
RRP: $21.00$14.28The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life.For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answering questions from passersby. Now in this book he offers answers to the real-life questions on people's... -
Philosophy Bites Again by Nigel Warburton
RRP: $25.18$18.14Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives... -
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780192858016
RRP: $79.78$73.63Epiphanies is a philosophical exploration of epiphanies, peak experiences, 'wow moments', or ecstasies as they are sometimes called. What are epiphanies, and why do so many people so frequently experience them? Are they just transient phenomena in our... -
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
RRP: $20.98$14.93Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in... -
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication by Onora O'Neill
RRP: $20.98$17.16Communication is complicated, and so is the ethics of communication. We communicate about innumerable topics, to varied audiences, using a gamut of technologies. The ethics of communication, therefore, has to address a wide range of technical, ethical... -
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy by John Rawls 9780674004429
RRP: $62.90$48.70The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a... -
The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems by Peter Cave 9781780747422
RRP: $25.18$18.25What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from the funny to the very serious indeed... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$48.13The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the... -
Clearing a Way: Unveiling the Mental Tricks That Hide Reality by Trevor Griffiths 9781803412894
RRP: $48.28$40.59How to make better life-enhancing choices when environments crumble and population shifts disrupt our ways of living? Dr Griffiths takes a deep look at how our brains trick us into seeing the surface of things so that we lose sight of the deep... -
Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford
RRP: $18.88$13.88Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any... -
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer 9780300219869
RRP: $31.48$25.54From the ethicist the New Yorker calls "the most influential living philosopher," a new way of thinking about living ethically"Singer's argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right. The world would be a better place if we were as... -
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively by Emma Kidd 9781782501695
RRP: $35.68$25.79In the twenty-first century we are confronted with a rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties. We are all inherently connected to this changing world and in order to create the best possible conditions for life to... -
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept by Brent Nongbri
RRP: $41.98$35.64For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
RRP: $20.98$16.78A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be... -
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Pena-Guzman
RRP: $42.00$32.63A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on... -
Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price
RRP: $37.80$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354943Author Andy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott 9780525537441
RRP: $42.00$27.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525537441Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...