The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. B ...Show more
Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Dr. Durant's outline includes not only lucid explanations of the great philosophies, but the careers of the philosophers and interpretations based upon the two-fold view, together with a host of good tales and merry quips by and about famous scholars from Socrates to Professor John Dewey."
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
$28.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In her second compilation of published writing, Brianna Wiest explores pursuing purpose over passion, embracing negative thinking, seeing the wisdom in daily routine, and becoming aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. This book contains never before seen pieces as we ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simu ...Show more
My Year with God by Svend Brinkmann
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How are Christians capable of believing? Is it faith or delusion? Or is there something wrong with me? I do not believe in spirits, gods, miracles, resurrection or eternal life. But I will seek to cast off my prejudices and give God a chance. At least for a year. Danish writer Svend Brinkmann spent a ye ...Show more
Seeing Like a State - How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
$30.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Veritas Paperbacks Ser.
"Illuminating and beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A magisterial critique of top-down social planning."--Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times "One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been publish ...Show more
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality 'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. Wilson In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, i ...Show more
Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
$46.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmar ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Great Dialogues of Plato : Complete Texts of the Republic, the Apology, Crito Phaedo, Ion, Meno, Symposium by Rebecca Newberger (AFT) Matthew S. (INT); Goldstein W. H. D. (TRN); Santirocco Plato; Rouse
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the gl ...Show more
TREATISE ON LAW by Regan, Richard J.
$14.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Hackett Classics Ser.
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest who was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Doctor Angelicus" and "Doctor Communis". He is heralded as the most influential Western medieval ...Show more