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1	Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East more books like this by Baird T Spalding add to wishlist Abridged version of volume's 1-3 from Baird Spalding's Far East travels in 1894 that played a ground-breaking role in introducing to the Western world the knowledge that there are "Masters" assisting and guiding humanity. see all copies from £4.49! new only from £4.49! \| first editions
2	The History of Sexuality: An Introduction more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. see all copies from £6.51! new only from £8.08!
3	Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from £7.95! new only from £9.35!
4	The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy more books like this by Norman Melchert add to wishlist Now in its fifth edition, this historically organized introductory text treats philosophy as a dramatic and continuous story--a conversation about humankind's deepest and most persistent concerns. Tracing the exchange of ideas between history's key philosophers, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Fifth Edition, ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £37.49! \| first editions
5	Five Dialogues more books like this by Plato add to wishlist This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.08! \| first editions
6	Meditations more books like this by Aurelius Marcus add to wishlist In these personal reflections, the Roman emperor and second-century Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius discusses life, morality, duty, and community. Originally entitled "To Himself", the work did not surface until the fourth century, but it has inspired readers ever since. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.78! \| first editions
7	Republic more books like this by Plato add to wishlist In Plato?s "Republic", his most celebrated "dialogue," the philosopher condemns the justice and morality of Greek society after the trial and execution of his teacher, Socrates. Disillusioned with politics and politicians, Plato argued that civilization demanded truly enlightened government, led by philosopher-kings. He wrote that "...mankind will ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes more books like this by Thomas Cathcart, PhD, Daniel Klein add to wishlist This lively crash course in philosophy takes us on a hilarious - and at the same time, profound - tour through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts and thinkers. All with a light touch. As if being led on an intellectual adventure by a brilliant stand-up comic, the reader experiences light-hearted excursions through this ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition. see all copies from £2.50! new only from £2.50!
10	Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals more books like this by Immanuel Kant add to wishlist Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. Kant argues that ... see all copies from £6.79! new only from £6.80!
11 view cover	Nicomachean Ethics more books like this by Aristotle add to wishlist Amongst the works of Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics stands virtually alone in speaking not only to classicists, historians of ideas, and technical philosophers, but to anyone trying to make sense of practical human ideals. In this major new presentation, Aristotle's most engaging work has been freshly translated by Christopher Rowe into ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.83! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life more books like this by Jean-Francois Revel, Matthieu Ricard, John Canti (Translator) add to wishlist Jean-Francois Revel is a member of the Academie Français and a former university professor of philosophy; his son, Mathieu is a Tibetan monk and holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology. In this text, they reunite and discuss questions that cut to the core of two profoundly distinct world views. Their book is remarkable for its temperance and honest ... see all copies from £5.86! new only from £7.26! \| first editions
13 view cover	Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist 'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
14 view cover	Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy more books like this by Douglas J Soccio add to wishlist This book should be of interest to introductory philosophy text. see all copies from £5.33! new only from £19.63! \| first editions
15 view cover	Simulacra and Simulation more books like this by Professor Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Glaser (Translator) add to wishlist Baudrillard's 1981 work on postmodern theory is concerned with the economic matrix and empty reproducibility of contemporary electronic culture. see all copies from £7.00! new only from £7.00!
16 view cover	Philosophy, a Text with Readings more books like this by Manuel Velasquez add to wishlist Offering students an accessible, engaging complete introduction to philosophy, Velasquez combines clear prose and primary sources to provide a meaningful exploration of philosophy that relates to students' self-discovery. Covering a wide range of topics, such as human nature, feminist theory, diversity, and aesthetics, this text is organized to ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.57! \| first editions
17 view cover	The portable Nietzsche more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, 'Few writers in any age were so full of ideas', and few writers have been so consistently ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.35! \| first editions
18 view cover	Looking at Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter more books like this by Donald Palmer add to wishlist Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable, historically organized text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the readers - without ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £23.04! \| first editions
19 view cover	Thus Spoke Zarathustra more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," by Friedrich Nietzsche, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics": ... see all copies from £3.11! new only from £3.76!
20 view cover	Great Dialogues of Plato more books like this by Plato add to wishlist Plato wrote approximately 25 dialogues--intellectual debates on such topics as law, virtue, love, and beauty--which are normally divided into three periods: those featuring Socrates, those in which the words of Socrates are most likely Plato's own, and the last several written during Plato's later years. This translation includes the complete ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.40! \| first editions
21 view cover	Classics of Western philosophy more books like this by Steven M Cahn add to wishlist The seventh edition of Steven Cahn's "Classics of Western Philosophy" features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus' "Enneads", Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation", Husserl's "Paris Lectures", Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", and a new selection from Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £20.72! \| first editions
22 view cover	Human Condition more books like this by Professor Hannah Arendt add to wishlist In this text, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems are identified as diminishing human agency and political freedom - the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions. This ... see all copies from £3.23! new only from £9.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist Many other matters respecting the attributes of God and my own nature or mind remain for consideration; but I shall possibly on another occasion resume the investigation of these. Now (after first noting what must be done or avoided, in order to arrive at a knowledge of the truth) my principal task is to endeavour to emerge from the state of doubt ... see all copies from £1.94! new only from £1.94! \| first editions
24 view cover	What Does It All Mean: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy more books like this by Thomas Nagel add to wishlist Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it: What really exists? Can we know anything? Is anything really right or wrong? Does life have any meaning? Is death the end of everything? These problems have been written about for thousands of years, but the philosophical raw material comes directly from the world and our ... see all copies from £5.69! new only from £7.01! \| first editions
25 view cover	Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader more books like this by Gary E Kessler add to wishlist Adopting a multicultural approach, this reader covers Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, African, Amerindian, Latin American, Islamic, Jewish, and feminist philosophies. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.48!

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