Philosophy Bites by David Edmonds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, s ...Show more
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
$79.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: New History of Western Philosophy
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy - the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us ...Show more
Ideas That Matter by A.C. Grayling
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can - and does - change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move ...Show more
Do Animals Have Rights? by Alison Hills
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Category: Philosophy
Animal Rights is an emotive issue that is never far from the news. But it is often hard to know who to believe: radical animal rights protestors who claim that humans and animals should have equal rights; or scientists who argue that it is always legitimate to use animals for our benefit. In this superb ...Show more
The Truth About Feminism: The Movement That Ripped Apart Men and Women by B.P. Franklin
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Category: Philosophy
This book rejects Greer, Friedan, Mead, Freud; examines the way social engineers and manipulators have produced unhappy women, hurting men, lost teenagers; reveals the nature of women; explores the nature of men; and champions a new marriage contract and a new life pattern.
I Am, Therefore I Think by Alexander George
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Category: Philosophy
What is like to be another person? Why is stupidity not painful? Is it possible for a human ever to do a selfless act? Do chimpanzees really enjoy eating bananas? How can an exception ever prove a rule? Everyone confronts philosophical issues, so why shouldn't everyone have access to a philosopher? In t ...Show more
The Freedom Paradox : Towards A Post-Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good - very good
The Freedom Paradox is a radical reconsideration of the meaning of freedom in the modern world. Despite all the freedoms we now enjoy, the citizens of rich countries do not appear to be the contented, creative and flourishing individuals that were envisaged by the liberation movements of the 1960s and 1 ...Show more
Greed by Richard Girling
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Category: Philosophy
Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very beginning, ever since our earliest forebears climbed down from the trees and set off across the savannah in search of God. Evolution has given us an instinct that is as crucial to our survival as fear or sex but, in the third millennium ...Show more
What? Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History? by Mark Kurlansky
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Category: Philosophy
What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy - indeed, all of civilization - to ask what may well be the twenty ...Show more
Between the Monster and the Saint - Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
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Category: Philosophy
Provocative, wide-ranging and full of wisdom, Between the Monster and the Saintis a brilliant book about our place in the world. Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are dangerous and unpredictable places. We are susceptible ...Show more
Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
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Category: Philosophy
In his highly acclaimed style, historian Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of a homely but charismatic middle-class man living in Athens in the Fifth Century B.C., and how what this man thought still shapes the way people decide how to act, and how ...Show more
Metaphysics : An Anthology by Jaegwon Kim
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphy ...Show more