Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful
$49.92 Read moreWhy life’s shortness–more than anything else–is what makes it meaningful
Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn’t meaning require transcending death- Author: Rickles, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691240590
- Language: English
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the ethicist the New Yorker calls “the most influential living philosopher,” a new way of thinking about living ethically
“Singer’s argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219865
- Language: English
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Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)
$19.99 Add to cartThomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, wa… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Nagel, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604710
- Language: English
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
$41.58 Add to cartAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it–and explains why they have died today
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and ov- Author: Smith-Ruiu, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212325
- Language: English
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Children Learn What They Live
$9.99 Add to cartThe timeless New York Times bestselling guide to parenting that shows the power of inspiring values through example.
A unique handbook to raising children with a compassionate, steady hand–and to gi- Author: Harris, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 05 1998
- ISBN10: 0761109196
- Language: English
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The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from the World as Will and Representation and Other Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully.” — Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy
The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061768243
- Language: English
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
$19.95 Add to cartA compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy
We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless.- Series: New Forum Books #70
- Author: Storey, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691220115
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling: A New Translation
$17.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history
- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093579
- Language: English
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Stoicism: How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness
$39.99 Add to cart“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics knew what made for a good person – and a good life. Four simple virtues empowered them to cope with the end
- Author: Hemlock, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1777184940
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Life
$7.95 Add to cartA leading German metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) exerted an influence far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy, with adherents ranging from Richard Wagner and Fri
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: March 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0486435504
- Language: English
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God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him.
$14.00 Add to cartGrounded in his famous notion that “God is dead,” a selection from Nietzsche’s most personal book, The Joyous Science
Nietzsche’s devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08, 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472849
- Language: English
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Moral Courage
$18.99 Add to cartWhy did a group of teenagers watch a friend die instead of putting their own reputations at risk? Why did a top White House official decide to come clean and accept a prison sentence during Watergate?
- Author: Kidder, Rushworth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0060591560
- Language: English
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What We Owe the Future
$32.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better.- Author: Macaskill, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1541618629
- Language: English
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The Oxherd Boy: Parables of Love, Compassion, and Community
$20.00 Add to cartInspired by thousands of years of Chinese thought, an enchanting and heart-opening illustrated fable about a young boy who explores the many ways to make meaning and find joy in the everyday.
Sometime- Author: Linke, Regina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593580540
- Language: English
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Nietzsche on Love
$9.95 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche presented many of his greatest insights in pithy, well-turned short phrases that do not follow any philosophical dogma. Instead, his chastening but ultimately life-affirming philos
- Series: Warbler Press Contemplations #2
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1734452579
- Language: English
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Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.
Three months after George Saunders gave a graduat… [more below]- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0812996275
- Language: English
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
$16.95 Add to cartAn original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it–and explains why they have died today
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and ov- Author: Smith-Ruiu, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 069123521X
- Language: English
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Republic
$9.94 Add to cartThe central work of one of the West’s greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535760
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Science: Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully “objective?” What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Okasha, Samir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 28, 2016
- ISBN10: 0198745583
- Language: English
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From Temperament to Character
$24.93 Read moreNo attempt to practice Virtuous Leadership can succeed without a basic understanding of temperament and character, which, together, constitute human personality. The Virtuous Leadership approach to te
- Author: Havard, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1594173370
- Language: English
