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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781474620949
RRP: £8.99£2.79How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful... -
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £9.99£6.87THE 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... -
Beyond Good and Evil: The Philosophy Classic 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... -
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... -
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Everything You Believe Is Wrong by William M Briggs 9781087987156
RRP: £15.99£12.17Apologies 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 *... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Tragedy, the Greeks and Us Simon Critchley 9781788161480
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... -
Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil by Safaruk Chowdhury 9781617979934
RRP: £49.99£42.85A rigorous study of the problem of evil in Islamic theology Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: £8.99£6.08What 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... -
No More Secrets, No More Lies: A Handbook to Starseed Awakening by Patricia Cori 9789895377343
RRP: £18.99£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789895377343Author Patricia CoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Patricia CoriPublisher Patricia CoriWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
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: £20.99£18.37The 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... -
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... -
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... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his... -
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... -
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... -
Might is Right: or the Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard 9781682040232
RRP: £9.88£8.95Apologies 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... -
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God by Marilyn McCord Adams
RRP: £23.99£20.84When 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... -
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves by James Hollis
£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592403417Author James HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksDimensions(mm) 203mm * 147mm * 18mm -
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: £20.99£18.37Volume 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... -
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain... -
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: £21.99£19.59Written 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... -
Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way by Tom Morris
RRP: £14.99£9.88The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of... -
Without God, Is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics Julian Baggini 9781780875972
RRP: £12.99£8.60Can 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... -
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free Andy West 9781529032017
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Tense and intimate... an education.' Geoff Dyer'Written with sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.' Amanda Brown'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.' Terry Waite'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending... a... -
Killing in War by Jeff McMahan 9780199603572
RRP: £20.99£16.66Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: £10.99£7.77Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of... -
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear
RRP: £24.95£19.89A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have...