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Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.71'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible'Whether or not Lao Tzu was a historical figure is uncertain, but the wisdom gathered under his name in the fourth century BC is central to... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini 9781783788538
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.71As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Think Like A Philosopher is a revelatory exploration of... -
Meditations: The Philosophy Classic by Marcus Aurelius 9780857088468
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $19.59A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from... -
The Little Book of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Key Thinkers and Theories You Need to Know by Rachel Poulton
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $14.11If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for wisdom and... -
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: $37.96Booksplease Price: $37.39The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of ""Simulacra et Simulation"" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu 9780872202320
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $27.61This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92The 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... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $29.73Booksplease Price: $23.28This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROne of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of LifeAlain... -
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.54Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the... -
Aphorisms on Love and Hate Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141397900
RRP: $9.52Booksplease Price: $8.26'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'This volume contains a... -
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.64'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... -
Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $9.26Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced... -
I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten by Wilhelm Richard
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $32.68Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature . . . __________ The I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it... -
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith, choice and sacrificeIn Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his... -
I and Thou by Martin Buber
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $42.82'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: $52.24Booksplease Price: $46.77A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the... -
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $26.54First published in 1844, Soren Kierkegaard's concise treatise identified-long before Freud-anxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human existence largely as a constant struggle with our... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28'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... -
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71One of Kierkegaard's central writings, "Works of Love" is a profound and indispensable examination of the human heart. 'Deep within every man', Kierkegaard writes, 'there lies the dread of being... -
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.02The Sunday Times Bestseller'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry___Everyone says they... -
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by John Durham Peters
RRP: $45.22Booksplease Price: $42.01When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth:... -
Absence – On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by BC Han
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.77Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.23In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras,... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for... -
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato... -
The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas 9781845951627
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.82The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.58One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Soren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private... -
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine 9780393652499
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $44.91Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient... -
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the... -
Man a Machine and Man a Plant by Julien Offray de La Mettrie 9780872201941
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.82The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes... -
Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Janaway
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.49Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to... -
Mini Philosophy: A Small Book of Big Ideas Jonny Thomson 9781472282170
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.46'Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more' - David... -
Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Descartes
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.06'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.16'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825
RRP: $14.26Booksplease Price: $11.61Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian... -
Continental Philosophy: An Introduction David West (Australian National University) 9780745645827
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $40.53This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in... -
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh 9780241961063
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.01WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people,...