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Hagakure: Secret Wisdom of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
RRP: $25.71$16.81The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese texts-written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo... -
How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame across Cultures by Owen Flanagan
RRP: $32.57$25.37An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions-and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem... -
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $22.28$15.59What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family... -
Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction by Brad Inwood
RRP: $15.42$11.06Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781453651025
RRP: $11.92$11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453651025Author Sheba BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 9780525564454
RRP: $24.00$16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 1957.Book InformationISBN 9780525564454Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Moral Essays: v. 3 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $42.80$39.31Topics 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 ... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: $34.31$22.90***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art... -
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose 9780571332724
RRP: $22.28$14.68A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.'NEW YORK... -
On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan
RRP: $39.43$35.68Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't? In the face of popular criticism of people taking offence too easily, and the... -
To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters by Suzanne Fagence-Cooper
RRP: $18.85$12.69'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one'"Brilliant" - Philip Hoare, New StatesmanJohn Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life... -
The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin 9780226830001
RRP: $54.89$46.57A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended-failed, even-in the German Idealist tradition. In The Culmination, Robert B. Pippin... -
The Keys to Kindness: How Kindness Unlocks Wellbeing, Success and Purpose by Claudia Hammond 9781838854485
RRP: $18.85$12.56Kindness can be your super-power. It feels good to be kind to others. And it feels good to receive kindness. Making the world better, in however small a way, feels good and does good. Did you know kinder bosses are more successful bosses? That paying it... -
Controverting Kierkegaard by K. E. Løgstrup 9780198874768
RRP: $102.92$92.85This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Logstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism, which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Logstrup... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 9780140447804
RRP: $17.14$12.20Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written... -
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
RRP: $22.28$14.75'A serious - and seriously readable - book about the deep issues that our shallow age has foolishly tried to dodge' - Douglas Murray'A crystal-clear analysis of the multiple failures of "me-first" contemporary liberalism' - Giles FraserFor millennia,... -
Humanitarian Action and Ethics by Ayesha Ahmad 9781786992673
RRP: $41.15$35.92From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by... -
Charity Law: Exploring the Concept of Public Benefit by Daniel Halliday 9780367745134
RRP: $68.59$60.14This book investigates and critically evaluates the concept of public benefit within charity law in the common law world. In the course of the study the book: provides a rich account of how the concept of public benefit has developed over time in charity... -
This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction by Nyholm
RRP: $45.46$39.54An approachable introduction to the philosophical study of ethical dilemmas in technology In the Technology Age, innovations in medical, communications, and weapons technologies have given rise to many new ethical questions: Are technologies always... -
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior by James B. Stockdale
$8.68When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal... -
Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop by Max H. Bazerman
RRP: $37.74$29.14What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyondIt is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about... -
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
RRP: $22.28$12.88We are living through a period of cultural climate change. We have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and the state on the other. The markets have brought wealth to many, and the state has done much to contain the worst excesses of... -
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
RRP: $41.15$35.63This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best... -
Enchiridion by Epictetus
RRP: $6.84$4.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433592Author Epictetus EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: $34.31$26.66Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the... -
Can Animals Be Persons? by Mark Rowlands 9780190846039
$49.52Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting point,... -
Republic by Plato
RRP: $15.42$11.06Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the... -
The Crucified God - 40th Anniversary Edition by Jurgen Moltmann 9780334053309
RRP: $37.72$33.07Jurgen Moltmann's The Crucified God is one of the most influential theological books of the twentieth century and a classic to be found on every reading list on Christian doctrine. Arguably the most powerful of Moltmann's books. The Crucified God is a... -
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya 9780691183282
RRP: $24.00$19.13How 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 the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the... -
The Courage of Truth by Michel Foucault 9781403986696
RRP: $39.43$35.44The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to... -
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
RRP: $29.14$21.06We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous... -
Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $13.71$5.87"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on... -
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat [Second Edition]: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog
RRP: $22.28$14.55"A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience."- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $8.56$5.93Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us... -
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 9781781399576
$8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781399576Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
RRP: $18.85$13.33'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in... -
The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich
RRP: $22.28$18.87Selected as one of the Books of the Century by the New York Public Library "The brilliance, the wealth of illustration, and the aptness of personal application . . . make the reading of these chapters an exciting experience."-W. Norman Pittenger, New... -
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
RRP: $22.28$15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141037851Author Amartya SenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Vladimir Jankelevitch and the Question of Forgiveness by Alan Udoff 9780739176672
RRP: $132.08$121.89The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankelevitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his... -
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy 9780141036694
RRP: $11.99$8.80Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'...