Rules - A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do ...Show more
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A ground-breaking book that examines the place of women in twentieth-century philosophy and is a call to arms for the present dayWINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKElizabeth Anscombe- defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wear ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
The Failures of Philosophy - A Historical Essay by Stephen Gaukroger
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Category: Philosophy
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy--and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy has a ...Show more
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
SUM shows us forty wonderfully imagined possibilities of life beyond death. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different ver ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
The Prince: Popular Penguins by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. ...Show more
The Problem of Pain - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C S Lewis
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Category: Philosophy | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
Beautifully repackaged as part of the C.S. Lewis Signature Classic Range, Lewis addresses the question which tortures every generation -- why must we suffer? For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all -- 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer ...Show more
How to Travel (The School of Life) by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy
An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable. Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happ ...Show more
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...Show more
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Fatherhood, Love and Raising Great Kids by Ryan Holiday, Nils Parker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad needs guidance: because fatherhood is not a one-off, it is something you do every day. Instead of a parenting book you read once as a sleep-deprived new parent, The Dail ...Show more