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Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers Volume 4
$19.95 Add to cartPeter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner’s philosophy text that
- Series: Socrates’ Children
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780083
- Language: English
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How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking
$16.95 Add to cartWhat we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times–the ancient Greeks
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are sti- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691213739
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Everything (20th Anniversary Edition)
$19.95 Add to cart“A clarion call for seeing the world as a whole,” this philosophical bestseller takes readers through history, from the Big Bang through the 21st century–now featuring an afterword with the writer-di… [more below]
- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1611804523
- Language: English
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The Pocket Epicurean
$15.00 Add to cartA short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.
As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, t- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022679864X
- Language: English
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The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartHermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society – from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and
- Author: Rodriguez, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736866508
- Language: English
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Basic Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century.” — New York Times
The finest single-volume anthology of the great philosopher’s work, with a new introduction by leading Heidegger scholar Taylo
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0061627011
- Language: English
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The Metaphysics
$17.00 Add to cartAristotle’s probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought
The Metaphysics presents Aristotle- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140446192
- Language: English
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The Way of Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartPhilosophy is the quest for a life that is fully alive. Drawing on the insights of philosophers through the ages, The Way of Philosophy clarifies what it means to live life intensely. It exposes the s… [more below]
- Author: Engelland, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1498220967
- Language: English
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Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.
“There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . rejoice in what is yours. What- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2021
- ISBN10: 022678293X
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Philosophy Classic
$15.00 Add to cartThus Spoke Zarathustra is a treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in four parts and published in German between 1883 and 1885. The work is among the first of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and is co
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0857089307
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
$40.00 Add to cartA monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy.
When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed
- Author: Vieweg, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1503630579
- Language: English
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Language, Truth and Logic
$9.95 Add to cart“A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself.” — Bertrand Russell
First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath- Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
- Author: Ayer, Alfred Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 1952
- ISBN10: 0486200108
- Language: English
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The End of History and the Last Man
$22.00 Add to cartEver since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. “Profoundly realistic and important…supremely timely… [more below]
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743284550
- Language: English
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Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Craig, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019886177X
- Language: English
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How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic
$16.95 Add to cartHow ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment
Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy th- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 069120604X
- Language: English
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Aristotle for Everybody
$18.99 Add to cartAristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Mortimer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684838230
- 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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Phaedrus
$12.00 Add to cartPhaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449744
- 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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God & Human Beings: First English Translation
$18.00 Add to cartIn this little-known work by Voltaire (1694-1778)-now available in English for the first time- the famous French philosophe and satirist presents a wide-ranging and acerbic survey of religion througho… [more below]
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141786
- Language: English
