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Neoplatonism (Classical Life and Letters)
$35.00 AUD
Author: Richard T. WallisBinding: HardbackPublished: Duckworth, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Neoplatonism, a philosophical system that emerged in the 3rd...
Scepticism (New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion)
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Author: Kai NielsenBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan/St Martin's Press, 1973Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores various aspects of skepticism in the context of religious philosophy. Kai Nielsen...
Proceedings of the Calvinistic Congress Edinburgh 1938
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Author: Various AuthorsBinding: HardbackPublished: Calvinistic Congress Committee, 1938Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book contains the proceedings from the Calvinistic Congress held in Edinburgh in 1938, featuring...
Equality: The history of an elusive idea
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
Love
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Author: Leo BuscagliaBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles B. Slack, 1972, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerIn 'Love', Leo Buscaglia explores the concept of love in all...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
You didn't choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions-this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence is fleeting, an inspired sense of...
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
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Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we strive for equality if we don't understand it? As...
What Makes Us Human?: 130 answers to the big question
A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that make us,...
Wolfish: The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for...
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER READ OF 2024'Enthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON'A must-read.' - STEPHEN FRY'Spectacular. Changed my perspective on the whole living world.' - CHRIS VAN...
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being?These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century...
The Pseudo-Science of B. F. Skinner
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Author: Tibor R. MachanBinding: HardbackPublished: Arlington House Publishers, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book critiques the behaviorist theories of B. F. Skinner, arguing that they lack...
Sexual Excitement And Sexual Peace
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Author: Suzanne SarnoffBinding: HardbackPublished: M. Evans and Company, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the complexities of human sexuality, discussing both the excitement and...
Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1
Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk...
Spectres of False Divinity: Hume's Moral Atheism
Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. In Hume's view, no first cause or designer...
Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of [...]
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from...
Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe
Heidegger's influence in the twentieth century probably outstrips that of any other philosopher, at least in the so-called Continental tradition. The 'revolution' Heidegger brought about with his compelling readings of...
Hegel's Conscience
This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also...
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works-such as his groundbreaking Jerusalem-which have...
Permission to Rest
We all have the power to transform our lives from the inside out by simply slowing down. Resting is one of the most impactful practices we can adopt for self-compassion,...
Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy
This book is the first to explore in detail the role that symbolic representation plays in the architecture of Kant's philosophy. Symbolic representation fulfills a crucial function in Kant's practical...
Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy
This book is the first to explore in detail the role that symbolic representation plays in the architecture of Kant's philosophy. Symbolic representation fulfills a crucial function in Kant's practical...
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the...
Summulae de Dialectica
This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the entire text of the Summulae de dialectica, by the Parisian master of arts John Buridan (1300-1358). One of...
Pleasures and Pains: A Theory of Qualitative Hedonism
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Author: Rem Blanchard EdwardsBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornell University Press, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Pleasures and Pains: A Theory of Qualitative Hedonism', Rem Blanchard Edwards explores...
Wisdom of Confucius
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Author: Confucius; Lin YutangBinding: HardbackPublished: Modern Library, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsExplore the fascinating world of Confucius with this rare and collectible edition of 'The Wisdom...
The Tower and the Abyss or the Transformation of Man
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Author: Erich KahlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1958, UK First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThe Tower and the Abyss is a profound exploration into the...
A Text-book of Jurisprudence
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Author: George Whitecross PatonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1964, Third EditionCondition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA comprehensive examination of the principles of jurisprudence, this book...
The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths
A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous...
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume I: Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective
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Kantian Conceptual Geography
Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...
Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the New Philosophy, c 1680-1740
Author: Ruth Hill (Dept. of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Virginia (United States))Format: Hardback, 163mm x 239mm, 304 pagesPublished: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom, 2000This study centres on science,...
Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life
Author: Daniel Russell (Wichita State University, Kansas)Format: Hardback, 163mm x 242mm, 585g, 284 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2005Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and...
The Philosophy of Money
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Author: Georg Simmel; Tom Bottomore (trans.); David Frisby (trans.)Binding: HardbackPublished: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGeorg Simmel's The Philosophy of Money examines...
The Architecture of Happiness
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The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy
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Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume 1: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth & Volume 2: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
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Author: Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow, James D. FaubionBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, 1997; 1998Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents essential works of Michel...
Andre Gide: The Theism of an Atheist
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Author: Hagop J. Nersoyanbinding: HardbackPublished: Syracuse University Press, 1969Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the philosophical conflict between theism and atheism...
Socrates: The Original and Its Image
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Author: Alan F. Blumbinding: HardbackPublished: Routledge and Kegan Paul Books, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book presents a radical approach to the...
The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory (Volume 2)
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Author: Brian O'Shaughnessybinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1980Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsIn Volume 2 of 'The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory', Brian O'Shaughnessy explores...
The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West (Princeton Legacy Library)
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Author: Karl F. Morrisonbinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1982Condition: book: Good, jacket: Damaged, page: Good, markings: No markingsIn this study, Karl F. Morrison explores the far-reaching consequences of the distinction...
How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival
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See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World - and How You Can Too
Author: Will Gompertz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beauty Artists have...
The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of the year'
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Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into...
The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of the year'
Author: Sarah Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting." Daily Mail "This charming book weaves hedgehogs into...