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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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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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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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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.

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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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Michel Foucault shaped the way we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality.

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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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Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasises the influence of Socrates.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.