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By: Plato
ISBN: 9781853264795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th July 1997
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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"Symposium" gives an account of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The other dialogues collected here under the title "The Death of Socrates" tell the tale of how Socrates was put on trial for impiety, found guilty and sentenced to death.
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By: William James
ISBN: 9781804177945
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2024
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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New, concise edition of one the most important pillars of modern philosophy. James' foundational work defines the move from the heritage of European thinking, with its abstractions and theoretical absolutes, to an energetic mode of philosophy based on facts and power, one more suited to the rising dominance of America through the 20th Century.
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By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781804175668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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One of Aristotles' great works The Physics is an investigation into the nature of being, of the world and its place in the universe. Although philosophically much broader it provides the foundation for the later work of Galileo, Isaac Newton, and prefigures Albert Einstein's breakthrough theories on time, space and the motion of stars.
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9781804177938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2024
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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Much of traditional Western thought began in Antiquity, flowing from the Platonic dialogues, The Republic being the most significant. Plato expresses the political, ethical and societal framework for the nature of the ideal state and defines the notion of justice. This new, accessible edition is carefully edited for the modern audience.
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By: R Buckminster Fuller
ISBN: 9783037786222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2008
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
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(Hardback)
By: Clare Dunleavy
ISBN: 9780994138330
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Andrea Kirk Assaf
ISBN: 9780008714154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The teachings of Stoic philosophy began and thrived in the Greek and Roman world until the 3rd century AD, and has since experienced multiple revivals right up to the modern day.
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By: Steven Nadler
ISBN: 9780691160184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell ...by the devil himself." This title the tells of story of incendiary ideas and vicious backlash.
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By: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
ISBN: 9781472136992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A new translation of two of Plato's dialogues, Timaios and Kritias, with commentary and critical discussion including an exploration of how the tale of Atlantis has been interpreted throughout history.
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By: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780140443295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1977
UK Publication Date: 28th July 1977
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. This title offers a selection of Nietzsche's writings.
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By: Edmund Burke
ISBN: 9780140436259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1999
UK Publication Date: 26th November 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Intends to propound the author's theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. This work offers an account of our sensory, imaginative and judgmental processes and their relation to artistic appreciation.
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By: Jerome Brillaud
ISBN: 9781789142273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Charts the ideas, motivations and practices of simplicity from antiquity to the present day.
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By: Patricia Curd
ISBN: 9781603843058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A study of the Presocratics and Sophists. It offers a selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates.
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By: Fitzroy Morrissey
ISBN: 9781789545661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of Islamic thought from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day.
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By: Fitzroy Morrissey
ISBN: 9781789545654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A scholarly yet accessible history of Islamic thought from its foundation in the seventh century to the present day.
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By: Samuel Fleischacker
ISBN: 9780691004464
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Taking the title of his book from Isaiah Berlin's famous essay distinguishing a negative concept of liberty connoting lack of interference by others from a positive concept involving participation in the political realm, Samuel Fleischacker explores a third definition of liberty that lies between the first two.
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By: Gilles Deleuze
ISBN: 9781780935379
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Michel Foucault
ISBN: 9780241435113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Quentin Meillassoux
ISBN: 9781441173836
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers readings of the history of philosophy and sets out a critique of the unavowed fideism at the heart of post-Kantian philosophy. This book introduces a philosophical alternative to the forced choice between dogmatism and critique.
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By: Jacques Rancire
ISBN: 9781350009110
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Habinek
ISBN: 9780141392646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Osho
ISBN: 9780984444496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Osho International
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"This book is a transcript of a series of original talks by Osho, given to a live audience." --t.p. verso.
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By: Robert Dobbin
ISBN: 9780241251461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'It's you who are the dogs...'
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By: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781647920890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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