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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
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How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
$18.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals–and our vital relationships with them
How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Usher, M. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0691240434
- Language: English
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
$15.00 Add to cartThe book Nietzsche called “the most personal of all my books.” It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God–to which a large part of the book is devoted–and his doctrine of the eternal recu… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394719859
- Language: English
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Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy
$19.99 Read moreDas Kapital, Karl Marx’s seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth … [more below]
- Series: Skeptical Reader
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: July 01 1996
- ISBN10: 089526711X
- Language: English
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
$18.00 Add to cartBy one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679733841
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.95 Add to cartCompiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly stud… [more below]
- Series: Shambhala Pocket Classics
- Author: Sun-Tzu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0877735379
- Language: English
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Essays and Aphorisms
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by ‘will’ – the blind and irrational desire for physical… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442278
- Language: English
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Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
$19.99 Add to cart“Devastating in its use of cold logic,” (The Independent), the classic essay collection that expresses the freethinker’s views to religion and challenges set notions in today’s society from one of the… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 30 1967
- ISBN10: 0671203231
- Language: English
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Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour
$20.00 Read moreA unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city.
This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both- Author: Samuelson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 022678004X
- Language: English
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A Manual for Living
$12.99 Read moreThe Greek philosopher Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 CE in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. While still a slave, Epictetus was brought to Rome and sent by his master Epaphroditus
- Series: Little Book of Wisdom (Harper San Francisco)
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 23 1994
- ISBN10: 0062511114
- Language: English
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Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
$29.99 Add to cartThis excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from several different Latin American countries and from variou… [more below]
- Author: Gracia, Jorge J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1573929786
- Language: English
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Meditations (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$9.95 Add to cartMeditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time.
A collection of personal reflections written by Marcus Aurelius during his reign as one of Rome’s greatest empero… [more below]
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1959891472
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$15.00 Add to cartKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826600
- Language: English
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Phaedo
$11.95 Add to cartThe Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato’s masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953893X
- Language: English
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Nihilism
$16.95 Add to cartAn examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.
When someone is labeled a nihilist, it’s not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with des
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Gertz, Nolen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537176
- Language: English
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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2: Volume 2
$34.99 Add to cartArthur Schopenhauer’s Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It i… [more below]
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217620
- Language: English
