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Soren Kierkegaard
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2013]
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Throughout 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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of... more
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Will Durant
[Paperback 1967]
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A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James and Dewey--The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. The Story of Philosophy is a key book for... more
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Adam Smith ,
Andrew Skinner
[Paperback 1982]
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It is in Books IV and V of The Wealth of Nations that Adam Smith offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats, perhaps the first great school of economic theorists, and assesses the nature of the mercantile system, particularly the colonial relationship with America, whose achievements could have been... more
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Bertrand Russell
[Paperback 1967]
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Description: First published in 1946, "History of Western Philosophy" went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from... more
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Thomas Cathcart ,
Daniel Klein
[Paperback 2008]
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Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for those who know not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. (Philosophy) Heres a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. Its... more
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Simon Blackburn
[Paperback 2008, 2nd Edition]
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Microsoft Digital Rights: Sharing not allowed Printing not allowed. Copying allowed. The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of philosophy available in a single volume. Nearly... more
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,--and rising one morning with the rosy dawn,... more
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Aristotle
[Paperback 1998]
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Of Aristotle's works, few have had as lasting an influence on subsequent Western thought as "The Nicomachean Ethics." In it, he argues that happiness consists in ?activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, ? defining ?virtue? as both moral (courage, generosity, and justice) and intellectual (knowledge, wisdom, and insight).... more
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Michel Foucault ,
M Foucault
[Paperback 2002, 1st Edition]
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In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose... more
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Edward Craig
[Paperback 2002]
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How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of studying philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related,... more
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Issac Kramnick ,
Various ,
Isaac Kramnick
[Paperback 1995]
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The Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an exultant intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience,... more
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Various ,
Robert Paul Wolff
[Mass market paperbound 2002]
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From ancient Greece to 19th-century America, this collection traces the history of civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers including Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, and others. From ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, this collection traces the history of our civilization through the seminal... more
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Ben Dupre
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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In a series of 50 accessible and lucidly written essays, Ben Dupre probes some of the most significant ideas in politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science and the arts. Some of these are unimpeachable (liberty, reason); others mind numbing (The Big Bang chaos); a few mysterious (fate, surrealism) or downright despicable... more
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T Z Lavine ,
Thelma Z Lavine
[Mass market paperbound 1985]
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"From Socrates To Satre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society Plato's Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world. T.Z. Lavine, Elton... more
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Ben Dupre
[Hardcover 2012]
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In a series of 50 accessible and lucidly written essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, beliefs, justice, language, meaning and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.... more
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Richard Appiananesi ,
Chris Garratt ,
Ziauddin Sardar
[Paperback 2007]
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Kabir ,
Vinay Dharwadker
[Paperback 2005]
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One of India's greatest mystics, Kabir (1398-1448) was also a satirist and philosopher, and a poet of timeless wit and wisdom. Equally immersed in theology and social thought, music and politics, his songs have won devoted followers from every walk of life through the past five centuries. He was a... more
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
[Paperback 2010]
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Description: The searing indictment of man-made inequality in all its many forms that Rousseau offers in Discourse on Inequality is a must-read for philosophy buffs and supporters of social justice. This artfully composed argument sets forth the core elements of Rousseau's philosophical views, including his unique take on Hobbes' concept... more
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Baltasar Gracian ,
Baltasar Gracin Y Morales
[Paperback 2005]
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... 8 ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM men. Sagacity fights with strategic changes of intention: it never does what it threatens, it aims... more
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Friedrich Nietzsche
[Paperback 2010]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: 1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which... more
