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Six Myths about the Good Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 12.50Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of Life. We all have ideas about the good life. We think that pleasure makes life better. We want to be happy. We think that achievements make a difference. There is something to all these ideas, but if taken... more...
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 21.95Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle?s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon?s The Basic Works of Aristotle ?constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years?has long been considered... more...
Beyond Good & Evil
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95Philosophy Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which had immediately preceded it, Beyond Good and Evil represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy ? but in less flamboyant and more systematic form. The nine parts of the book are... more...
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
End of History and the Last Man
Free Press 2006; US$ 15.95Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated... more...
On Liberty
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.Perhaps the most memorable point made by Mill in this work, and his basis for liberty, is that "Over himself,... more...
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 24.95This new edition offers expanded selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu); two new works, the dialogues Robber Zhi and White Horse ; a concise general introduction; brief introductions to, and selective bibliographies for, each work; and four appendices that shed light on important... more...
The Moral Landscape
Transworld 2011; US$ 13.34Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith , ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning... more...
The Hungry Spirit
Random House 2008; US$ 12.00With his characteristically very personal anecdotal style, Charles Handy analyses how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, and examines the false certainties of science and religion. Offering a carefully considered and compelling alternative vision, the book challenges the status quo on everything... more...
Starting with Leibniz
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 75.00Gottfried Leibniz has been one of the most important and influential philosophers of the seventeenth century and, alongside Descartes and Spinoza, one of three great early modern Rationalist thinkers. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Leibniz provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker.... more...









