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Meditations: The Philosophy Classic by Marcus Aurelius 9780857088468
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $13.36A 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: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.80If 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: $31.10Booksplease Price: $30.63The 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.62This 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50The 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... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50'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... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $24.36Booksplease Price: $19.07This 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00THE 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37Many 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: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77'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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'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: $11.68Booksplease Price: $7.59Human, 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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.77Find 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Kierkegaard'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: $37.03Booksplease Price: $35.08'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... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini 9781783788538
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50As 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... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $38.32A 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.50First 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.07One 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58The 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: $37.05Booksplease Price: $34.42When 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:... -
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an... -
Absence – On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by BC Han
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.58Western 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 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.29Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.39In 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00One 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15Discover 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: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.35The 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84Illuminations 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',... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521639873
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $37.03The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.24One 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 Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic by G. R. F. Ferrari 9780521548427
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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine 9780393652499
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $36.80Some 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: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Rene 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25The 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... -
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850: The 'Heathen' at Home and Overseas by Alison Twells 9781403920409
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $177.16This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than... -
Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Janaway
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.33Schopenhauer 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49One 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... -
Locke on Toleration by Richard Vernon 9780521139694
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.