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(Paperback)

By: Sir Roger Scruton

ISBN: 9781472969033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th December 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: John Stuart Mill

ISBN: 9781857150810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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How can the individual be both free and happy What are freedom and happiness and how do they relate to each other These are the questions that Mill aims to answer from both a political and a philosophical perspective.


(Hardback)

By: Plato

ISBN: 9781857151947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Everyman
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It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. In both dialogues, Socrates plays the leading role, by turns teasing, arguing, analyzing, joking, inspiring, and cajoling his followers into understanding ideas that have remained central to Western thought through the centuries.


(Paperback)

By: Raimond Gaita

ISBN: 9781877008993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Text Publishing
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Raymond Gaita interweaves stories about animals with reflections on how animals think, trust, hope and mourn. He argues that it is love which gives us the best model for the respect we show to animals and the natural world. Gaita teaches philosophy at Australian Catholic University as well as King's College, London.


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By: Mel Thompson

ISBN: 9781444104998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Understand Philosophy is an in-depth guide to the most important philosophical ideas, both ancient and modern.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Philip J. Ivanhoe

ISBN: 9780872207806
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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Offers selections from the works of Kongzi (Confucius), Mengzi (Mencius), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Xunzi (Hsun Tzu); two works, and, the dialogues "Robber Zhi" and "White Horse". This work also contains introductions and bibliographies for each work. Four appendices on important figures, periods and terms in Chinese thought are also included.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Warnock

ISBN: 9780715635308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Debates several difficult moral issues, exploring the nature of ethics and the ways that we make moral decisions. This book explains how to distinguish right from wrong in areas ranging from euthanasia and abortion, Down's Syndrome and education, to genetic engineering.


(Paperback)

By: Alain de Botton

ISBN: 9781447275329
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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With an introduction by Sheila Heti. A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Dawidziak

ISBN: 9781250082374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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A guide to life's most important lessons inspired by The Twilight Zone


(Paperback)

By: Ben Aldridge

ISBN: 9781801290425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
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A practical exploration of how we can use the principals of Stoicism as a modern day 'operating system' to help enhance mental resilience to enable us to better cope with life's ups and downs.


(Paperback)

By: Johanna Oksala

ISBN: 9781862077676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2007
Publisher: Granta Books
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Michel Foucault shaped the way we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Wrathall

ISBN: 9781862077669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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Mark A. Wrathall unpacks Heidegger's dense prose, and guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence, to his later preoccupation with the threat that technology poses to our ability to live worthwhile lives.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Kraut

ISBN: 9781847080325
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasises the influence of Socrates.


(Paperback)

By: Julian Baggini

ISBN: 9781783789801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Ferguson

ISBN: 9781447245643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Essential life lessons from Soren Kierkegaard, one of life's Great Thinkers, brought to you by novelist and dramatist Robert Ferguson


(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

By: Viktor E. Frankl

ISBN: 9780340388310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1987
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Sacks

ISBN: 9781529342635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Internationally acclaimed thought-leader Jonathan Sacks demonstrates how we can build a strong collective morality for the modern era.


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By: Umberto Eco

ISBN: 9780857050205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom about the nature of beauty itself.


(Hardback, Main)

By: Simon Critchley

ISBN: 9781800816930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A provocative and personal examination, ranging from medieval mystics to T. S. Eliot and Krautrock, from Britain's most engaging and inventive philosopher


(Paperback)

By: Robert Arp

ISBN: 9781788400398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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100 ingenious hacks to make even the most complex philosophical theories easy to understand.


(Paperback)

By: Freya Mathews

ISBN: 9780868408095
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Identifying what she calls a materialist premise of modernity, the author explains the implications of it for major cultural aspects of modern civilization. When materialism is set aside she suggests, the world is acknowledged with having an inner life of its own.


(Hardback)

By: Jim Proser

ISBN: 9781250251428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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The first biography and an in-depth look at the work of bestselling writer and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, by award-winning author Jim Proser.


(Paperback, Main - Print on Demand)

By: Raymond Tallis

ISBN: 9781848871298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A deeply moving and startlingly original celebration of everyday life, by one of Britain's leading thinkers and writers.


(Paperback)

By: Kathryn Paige Harden

ISBN: 9780691232935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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