The Penguin History of Western Philosophy
Penguin Books, May 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, May 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 2010. Trade Paperback. Life throws ethical questions at us every day, some momentous and difficult, some fairly trivial and easily worked out. To help the average person deal with such puzzling issues, the website AskPhilosophers.org brings together a panel of distinguished philosophers who use their..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1973. Trade Paperback. This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world..... More
Routledge, January 1985. Trade Paperback. First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. As is. Creasing, light dampstaining. All text clean and clear. More
Harvest Books, February 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with moderate wear to cover. [169 pages plus one page list of Harvest titles]. More
Pelican / Penguin, January 1968. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Spine is reinforced by clear tape. Previous reader's name is written in ink first inside page. [270 pages]. More
Cengage Learning, December 1999. Paper Back. This brief text assists students in understanding Rorty's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the Wadsworth Philosophers Series, (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles..... More
HarperOne, September 1995. Trade Paperback. An essential collection of the world's spiritual wisdom--a world bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources. Octavo. Slightly curled cover. Previous owner's name in ink first inside page. More
NYU Press, August 1995. Paper Back. States of Mind presents a series of dialogues with twenty-two of the world's leading political, philosophical, and literary thinkers. Over the past decade, Richard Kearney has interviewed a range of notable figures, including Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, George Steiner, Charles Taylor, Herbert Marcuse, Seamus..... More
Oxford University Press, February 1994. Paper Back. In this new and enlarged edition of a standard introduction to moral philosophy, Raphael shows in clear and simple language the connections between abstract ethics and practical problems in law, government, medicine, and the social sciences in general. Moral Philosophy deals with six..... More
Oxford University Press, July 1993. Paper Back. Renaissance Thinkers contains studies of four of the most important philosophical writers of the European Renaissance. Previous owner's names. More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1994. Hardcover. From Plato's Republic and St. Augustine's Confessions through Marx's Capital and Sartre's Being and Nothingness, the extraordinary philosophical dialogue between great Western minds has flourished unabated through the ages. Dazzling in its genius and breadth, the long line of European and American intellectual..... More
SUNY Press, December 1999. Paper Back. A Parliament of Minds brings together groundbreaking interviews with a diverse cross-section of contemporary philosophers, demystifying and humanizing this formal discipline, making philosophy accessible and relevant to all. The companion volume to the national public television series of the same name, A Parliament of..... More
Clarendon Press, April 2002. Hardcover. Ranging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam, and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments, historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States. Readers will explore the thought of early American philosophers such..... More
Quill, 1983. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. More
Sterling, October 2009. Hardcover. How should we live? What really exists? And how do we know for sure? In this lively and engaging study, Edward Craig argues that learning philosophy is merely a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. But he also shows that philosophy..... More
Bobbs-Merrill, January 1953. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Sun-bleached spine. Previous owner's name in ink front cover upper right corner. And again this same former owner's name is written on half title page within. Some underlining scattered about occasionally through text. Book mark 'with the compliments of the Bobbs-Merrill company, inc..... More
Library Of Liberal Arts, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, June 1982. Trade Paperback. A masterly analysis of how and why power must be used in a market society to preserve peace and prosperity. Written at a time of great political turmoil in England, it has profoundly influenced political thought over the centuries. More
University Alabama Press, October 1975. Trade Paperback. Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English--Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2004. Trade Paperback. Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims..... More
Prometheus Books, May 1998. Paper Back. Comparing the lived world with the ideal world, noted American philosophical naturalist, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) seeks in this influential compilation of his earlier works to outline the ancient ideal of a well-ordered life, one in which reason is the organizing..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 1993. Paper Back. Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory. The text is reprinted here with the previously unpublished preface Moore wrote for a planned, but never completed, second edition. Though unfinished, it sets out clearly Moore's second thoughts about..... More
Penguin Classics, March 1984. Trade Paperback. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment..... More
Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1991. Paper Back. Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity..... More