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By: David Hinton

ISBN: 9781611803389
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2016
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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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.


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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.


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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.


(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: 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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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By: Gregory Bassham

ISBN: 9781454918479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality. This accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events and seminal publications in the field.


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By: Jeffrey P. Emanuel

ISBN: 9781498572217
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book investigates the chaotic end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean through the lens of Homeric poetry, with an emphasis on the description of piratical activities described in the Odysseys Second Cretan Lie, and on the impact of revolutionary seafaring technology in this watershed period in Mediterranean history.


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By: Lijun Yuan

ISBN: 9781498558181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Confucian traditions have ingrained gender stratifications in Chinese culture today. Yuan proposes re-reading early Confucian texts as a vision of Ren with Dao with the unity of heaven, earth, and humanity, in order to reclaim the egalitarian aspects and develop openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care ethics.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Benedict de Spinoza

ISBN: 9781840221190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2001
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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First published in a posthumous edition of 1677, this work by Spinoza is a systematic attempt to work out the nature of God, the relation between mind and body, human psychology, and the best way to live.


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By: Ryan Hickerson

ISBN: 9781498577175
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Feelings of Believing, Ryan Hickerson interprets the doxastic theories of Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and James in light of empirical work on attention and overconfidence. It brings together the history of philosophy, phenomenology, and psychology.


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By: Lee Braver

ISBN: 9780262526043
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An in-depth comparison of Wittgenstein and Heidegger shows how the views of both philosophers emerge from a fundamental attempt to dispense with the transcendent.


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By: Frederich Nietzsche

ISBN: 9781398851146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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This handsome hardback edition presents Friedrich Nietzsche's classic philosophical work, Human, All Too Human, which marks a fascinating turning point in his thought processes. This edition features gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges, making it the perfect gift for any lover of philosophy or classic literature.


(Hardback)

By: Sarah Bakewell

ISBN: 9781784741662
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Stephanie N. Arel

ISBN: 9781498577298
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pauls Ricoeurs Lectures on Ideology and Utopia are more pertinent than ever forty years later. The chapters in this book reflect the lectures original intricacy as the authors not only insightfully analyze them but also creatively apply them.


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By: Rene Descartes

ISBN: 9781853264702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th January 1997
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Rene Descartes has been described as the "father" of modern philosophy. This selection of Descartes' writings attempt to answer central questions surrounding self, God, free-will and knowledge, using the science of thought as opposed to received wisdom based on the tenets of faith.



(Hardback)

By: Eihei Dogen

ISBN: 9784805316924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Robert Wicks

ISBN: 9781851687572
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Often quoted yet highly divisive, Nietzsche remains an enigma long after his death. This title examines the philosopher's work in the context of his tumultuous childhood and Christian upbringing. It discusses his infamous declaration that God is dead, his posthumous association with Nazism, and his criticisms of conventional morality.


(Paperback)

By: Epicurus

ISBN: 9781788883924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2019
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback, Abridged edition)

By: Carl Von Clausewitz

ISBN: 9781853264825
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 5th July 1997
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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In both a philosophical and a practical work, Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war, debates the qualities of a great commander, assesses the relative strengths of defensive and offensive war, and - in highly controversial passages - considers the relationship between war and politics.

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