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A Short Treatise On Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Much of the history of philosophy is the history of ethics. From Plato to Sartre, the great philosophers have returned to the central ethical questions of how we are to live good lives; how is it... -
Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including Mill's 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin John Stuart Mill 9780631233527
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $13.99Including three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, this volume provides a... -
Is There a Christian Case for Assisted Dying?: Voluntary Euthanasia Reassessed by Paul Badham
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.19Key selling points: Issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted dying continue to hit the headlines with strong feelings on both sides Makes a significant and controversial contribution to an... -
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 9780415253994
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.14Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends... -
Man Disconnected: How the digital age is changing young men forever by Philip Zimbardo
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.85'Zimbardo has put his finger on a great challenge of the modern era' - The Sunday TimesMasculinity is in meltdown. Young men are failing as never before - academically, socially and sexually. But... -
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and... -
Husserl Search For Certitude Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318291
Booksplease Price: $11.58[Husserl] better than anybody, compelled us to realize the painful dilemma of knowledge: either consistent empiricism, with its relativistic, skeptical results (a standpoint which many regard... -
Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics by Richard Holloway
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65If the use of God in a moral debate raises more problems than it solves, is it better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for the rules we live by? Godless... -
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.40In 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,... -
Owl of Minerva: A Memoir by Mary Midgley 9780415371391
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $32.67One of the UK's foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a... -
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway 9780857860743 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.40Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013.At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained... -
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt by Richard Holloway 9780857860736 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $3.50Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. The acclaimed writer, respected thinker and outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway recounts a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? And what is... -
Sceptical Christianity: Exploring Credible Belief by Robert Reiss
Booksplease Price: $23.72How can Christianity remain a credible religion in our current era of scepticism? Reviving the debates begun by John Robinson and the demythologisation movement over half a century ago, Sceptical...