Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet’s Guide for an Age of Excess
$18.95 Read moreWhat the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment
What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome’s greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Horace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0691182523
- Language: English
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
$18.00 Add to cartAn urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl
“Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is … [more below]- Author: Manne, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1984826573
- Language: English
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Think on These Things
$16.99 Add to cart‘The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful… [more below]
- Author: Krishnamurti, Jiddu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 11 1989
- ISBN10: 0060916095
- Language: English
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Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
$18.00 Read moreWhat does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate st
- Author: Macfarquhar, Larissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109782
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
$17.00 Add to cartA celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer t… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0147517605
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$12.95 Add to cart‘The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.’
Timaeus, one of Plato’s acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its conten- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0192807358
- Language: English
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
$18.00 Add to cartMasterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works.
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche using philsophy,… [more below]- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724621
- Language: English
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Procrastination: What It Is, Why It’s a Problem, and What You Can Do about It
$26.90 Add to cartWhy do we procrastinate? How can we stop wasting time, and finish our work?
Drawing on the latest theory and research, this book explains why people procrastinate, and provides practical, evidence-ba- Series: APA Lifetools
- Author: Sirois, Fuschia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1433838060
- Language: English
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The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
$19.99 Add to cartThe Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
The oldest book in the world is the filled with wisdom quotes and teachings on how one is to conduct ones life and how to treat his fellow man
- Author: Gunn, Battiscombe G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 956291836X
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$9.99 Add to cartIn Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche gives an impassioned analysis of Western religion, specifically Christianity, that confronts its authoritative view of humans and nature. Nietzsche introdu
- Series: Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 151326673X
- Language: English
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How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
$18.99 Add to cartThis insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.
“A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive
- Author: Kidder, Rushworth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0061743992
- Language: English
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Ethics for Capitalists: A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure
$44.99 Add to cartEthics for Capitalists offers a powerful new statement of the Market Failures Approach to business ethics. While the competitive context of the market economy provides economic actors greater freedom … [more below]
- Author: Heath, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1039173993
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Identity
$19.95 Add to cartA bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism
Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexual- Series: Princeton Classics #132
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254079
- Language: English
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The Little Red Book of Wisdom: Updated and Expanded Edition
$16.99 Add to cartThe search for wisdom invariably leads us back to the places we’ve overlooked. If you’re seeking simplicity in a complicated world, Mark DeMoss’ insights will illuminate your path to a wiser and more
- Author: DeMoss, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1400336953
- Language: English
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Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
$22.00 Add to cart” This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the ‘Westt’s mainstream high culture’ and the ‘radically changing world’ of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and sch… [more below]
- Author: Tarnas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 16 1993
- ISBN10: 0345368096
- Language: English
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Social and Political Philosophy: Readings from Plato to Gandhi
$21.00 Add to cartAn anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau,… [more below]
- Author: Somerville, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 06 1963
- ISBN10: 0385012381
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus (ca. 50-ca. 130 CE) maintained that all people are free to control their lives and live in harmony with nature…. [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0486433595
- Language: English
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Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture
$14.95 Add to cartWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a pr
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485274
- Language: English
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In Praise of Love
$19.82 Read moreThe renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly).
In a world rife with consumerism, where online dati- Author: Badiou, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1595588779
- Language: English
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Spinoza’s Ethics
$27.95 Add to cartAn authoritative edition of George Eliot’s elegant translation of Spinoza’s greatest philosophical work
In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics while living in- Author: Spinoza, Benedictus De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 069119324X
- Language: English
