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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth
RRP: £20.99£14.59"Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn't just a book to read-it's a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation... -
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £9.99£6.70THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to... -
The Choice by Edith Eger 9781846045127
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey'Extraordinary ... will stick with you long after you read it' - Bill Gates'One of those rare and eternal... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous... -
Beyond Good and Evil: The Philosophy Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780857088482
RRP: £11.99£8.00A 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... -
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 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... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £14.99£10.95AUTHORITATIVE 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: £10.99£7.78WOULD 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... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: £8.99£6.63What 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... -
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner 9780393337136
RRP: £12.99£11.46In this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short," why have we evolved with positive emotions like gratitude,... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141395838
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: £10.99£7.77One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation by Adam Beresford'Right and wrong is a human thing' What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £7.99£5.79'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781453651025
RRP: £6.95£6.48Apologies 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... -
Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts by David Baggett
RRP: £15.99£12.37In 'Harry Potter and Philosophy', 17 philosophical experts unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, and uncover surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and the most discerning mugglesBook InformationISBN 9780812694550Author David... -
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or... -
Everything You Believe Is Wrong by William M Briggs 9781087987156
RRP: £15.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087987156Author William M BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.77TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius' John Banville, Guardian'Like Isaiah... -
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free by Andy West
RRP: £9.99£6.87An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' - Sir Lenny Henry'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving' - Terry Waite__________Can someone in prison be... -
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us by Simon Critchley
RRP: £10.99£7.77We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with the things we don't want to know about ourselves, but which still make us who we are. It articulates the conflicts and... -
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God by Marilyn McCord Adams
RRP: £26.99£22.85When confronted by horrendous evil, even the most pious believer may question not only life's worth but also God's power and goodness. A distinguished philosopher and a practicing minister, Marilyn McCord Adams has written a highly original work on a... -
Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy by Franklin Perkins
RRP: £29.99£25.99That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the... -
Living with the Devil: A Buddhist Meditation on Good and Evil by Stephen Batchelor
RRP: £14.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594480874Author Stephen BatchelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 16mm -
The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503612549
RRP: £21.99£18.79The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in... -
The Bystander Effect: The Psychology of Courage and Inaction by Catherine Sanderson
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Fantastic ... It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking'Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in Mind In the... -
Divine Love and Wisdom by Emanuel Swedenborg 9781461195399
RRP: £9.54£9.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461195399Author Emanuel SwedenborgFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) by Jordan Erica Webber 9781472137913
RRP: £14.99£10.76WOULD 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... -
Human, All Too Human II / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of <I>Human, All Too Human II</I> (Spring 1878-Fall 1879): Volume 4 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £21.99£18.79Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), originally published separately, then republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They... -
Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion by Thomas Holden 9780192871329
RRP: £60.00£54.13Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice. It argues that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language. According to Hobbes, the proper... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781503250888
RRP: £6.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503250888Author Sheba BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt 9780691226149
RRP: £22.00£16.99An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of... -
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11`Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good... -
The Joyful Science / Idylls from Messina / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of The Joyful Science (Spring 1881–Summer 1882): Volume 6 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503632325
RRP: £23.99£20.81Written on the threshold of Thus Spoke Zarathustra during a high point of social, intellectual and psychic vibrancy, The Joyful Science (frequently translated as The Gay Science) is one of Nietzsche's thematically tighter books. Here he debuts and... -
Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy by Robert Arp
RRP: £14.99£10.87In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvel's compelling series of movies: Is the Thanos snap truly an answer to overpopulation and famine, or is it simply indefensible... -
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781451574814
RRP: £7.77£6.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451574814Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
Without God, Is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics by Julian Baggini
RRP: £12.99£7.51Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really... -
J.S. Mill by Alan Ryan
RRP: £36.99£32.53First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill's... -
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
RRP: £7.99£5.79'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and...