Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer
$28.00 Add to cartAs the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s lear… [more below]
- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1616201673
- Language: English
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What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
$27.95 Add to cartA short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value–and what to do when your goals conflict
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money–or work for justice? To run ma- Author: Tiberius, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 069124068X
- Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time
A Penguin Classic Aristotle’s classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates takin- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0140455477
- Language: English
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Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
$28.99 Add to cartHow do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what we most value? Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, M… [more below]
- Author: Sherman, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0197501834
- Language: English
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Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism
$20.00 Add to cartKurt Vonnegut and humanism go hand in hand. In BEHAVING DECENTLY: KURT VONNEGUT’S HUMANISM, Wayne Laufert examines how Vonnegut revealed his moral philosophy through the themes and characters in his w
- Author: Laufert, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0931779863
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$18.99 Add to cartA distinguished religious leader’s ”brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.
With liberal democracy embattled, our public- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675339
- Language: English
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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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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
$16.00 Add to cartFrom celebrated Congressman John Lewis comes an eyewitness account of history from a key member of the Civil Rights Movement and confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.
In turbulent times Americans look- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0316510939
- 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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Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
$30.00 Read moreTHE UPDATED CLASSIC OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI
“The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophic
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0063335980
- Language: English
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Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals
$20.00 Add to cartIn Entangled Empathy, scholar and activist Lori Gruen argues that rather than focusing on animal “rights,” we ought to work to make our relationships with animals right by empathetically responding to… [more below]
- Author: Gruen, Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1590564871
- Language: English
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The Classic Friedrich Nietzsche Collection: 5-Book Paperback Boxed Set
$39.99 Add to cartThis handsome five-volume box set brings together the classic works of Friedrich Nietzsche, presented with striking contemporary cover designs.
One of the most prominent thinkers of the 19th century,- Series: Arcturus Classic Collections #7
- Author: Nietzsche, Frederich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 139881184X
- 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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The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On Liberal as an Adjective
$30.00 Read moreA testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era
“Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals. In his preface, he writes that t- Author: Walzer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267231
- Language: English
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Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence
$26.95 Add to cartA brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher
Is violent self-defense ethical? In the history of colonialism, racism, sexism, capitalism, the- Author: Dorlin, Elsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761059
- Language: English
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Assholes: A Theory
$17.00 Read moreThe perfect graduation gift for every young adult entering the real world.
In the New York Times bestseller Nick Hornby calls “helpful, stimulating, and very timely” (The Believer), philosopher Aaron- Author: James, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0804171351
- Language: English
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How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging new translation of a timeless masterpiece about coping with the death of a loved one
In 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from compl- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691220328
- Language: English
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Simone Weil: An Anthology
$19.00 Add to cartPhilosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist — Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a gre… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Sian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137296
- 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
