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Advice from Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartAristotle knew things about happiness, habits, and human nature. This book is about his book, the Nichomachean Ethics. What this book will NOT do: -Make you feel good. -Make you rich. -Make you a good… [more below]
- Author: Younan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 166673540X
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$39.99 Add to cartAs chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which ph
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1638232482
- Language: English
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Story of Philosophy
$20.99 Add to cartThis brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world’s great philosophers–Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 1967
- ISBN10: 067120159X
- Language: English
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
$12.95 Add to cartRousseau’s last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and na… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199563276
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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The Corpus Hermeticum
$22.00 Add to cartThe Corpus Hermeticum are Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from which are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher enlightens a disciple. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism. They discuss the d
- Author: Trismegistus, Hermes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 15 2018
- ISBN10: 178724654X
- Language: English
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartThis English translation–the first since 1909–restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: December 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803283687
- Language: English
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Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartAn entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the excitin- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0691168695
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$24.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the Germ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 1995
- ISBN10: 679601759
- Language: English
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Practical Philosophy
$55.00 Add to cartThis is the first English translation of all of Kant’s writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 706
- Publish Date: June 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521654084
- Language: English
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Spinoza
$12.99 Add to cartFather of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a visi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803166
- Language: English
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Why I Am So Wise
$12.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036343
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
$24.95 Read moreA scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers
Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping cri- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839765119
- Language: English
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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
$48.00 Add to cartWhat is it to grieve for the death of a parent? More literary and experiential than other philosopical works on emotion, Upheavals of Thought will engage the reader who has ever stopped to ask that qu… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: April 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531829
- Language: English
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The Foucault Reader
$20.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary critici… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394713400
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
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An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Philosophy
$24.00 Add to cart“Philosophy’s the ‘love of wisdom’, can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done,” so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he ch… [more below]
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140275169
- Language: English
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On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
$8.99 Add to cartOn the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, also known as the Theurgia and under its abbreviated Latin title De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, is a work of Neoplatonic philosophy primarily co
- Author: Iamblichus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1960069543
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of History
$14.99 Add to cartHegel’s Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker’s efforts to capture the multidimensional character of reality within a broad theoretical framework.Heg… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879756314
- Language: English
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Introduction to Phenomenology
$35.00 Add to cartThis book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, mem… [more below]
- Author: Sokolowski, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0521667925
- Language: English
