Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and emergence in metamodernity
$19.99 Add to cartNo doubt the 21st century will continue to surprise us, but the battle for the soul of humanity appears to be quickening. Do we have what it takes to save ourselves from ourselves? The internet has fu
- Series: Dispatches #1
- Author: Rowson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1914568044
- Language: English
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Eighteen Words to Sustain a Life
$25.00 Add to cartIn the Jewish tradition, going back to Jacob, many fathers have written down whatever wisdom they might have attained in their lives in order to pass along that wisdom to their heirs. It is called an … [more below]
- Author: Patterson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 166675093X
- Language: English
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Meditations
$16.95 Add to cartIn one of the world’s most famous and influential books, Meditations, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) describes the Stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and ruler of an… [more below]
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0486848531
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling: A New Translation
$26.95 Read moreFirst published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498312
- Language: English
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Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: Why People Enslave Themselves to Authority
$11.95 Add to cartWhile short in words, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude speaks volumes to all those who value liberty on all levels, but who are currently trapped in the yoke of oppression by the many tyrants in every
- Author: De La Boetie, Etienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: December 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1944855017
- Language: English
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Ethics Lost in Modernity
$35.00 Add to cartEthics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics turns to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a guide to understand the immense success–yet great danger–of bioethics. Matthew V… [more below]
- Series: Veritas #39
- Author: Vest, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: July 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1666747181
- Language: English
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The Road to Character
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success–“r sum virtues”–and our core principles.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE… [more below]- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 081299325X
- Language: English
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Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life
$23.99 Add to cartAn exploration of everything Kant’s philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties.
Imm- Series: Guides to the Good Life
- Author: Stohr, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197537812
- Language: English
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Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue
$24.95 Read moreThis cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility
History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, excessive individual
- Author: Bellitto, Christopher M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647123763
- Language: English
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Meditations
$18.00 Add to cartDiscover Meditations with this striking collector’s edition from Union Square & Co.’s Signature Editions series! The classic texts that shaped our culture feature exclusive cover art by distinguished
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1435172493
- Language: English
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On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
$14.99 Add to cart“We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.”–New York Times Book Review
Reissued for the age of “fake news,” On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche’s evolving thinking on tru
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0062930842
- Language: English
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On Truth
$20.00 Add to cartHaving outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture’s devotion to bullshit may s… [more below]
- Author: Frankfurt, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 030726422X
- Language: English
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
$55.00 Add to cartThis book is a study of ancient views about “moral luck.” It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a pers… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0521794722
- Language: English
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The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
$17.95 Add to cartWhat is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology–especially in Da
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0691150699
- Language: English
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Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
$18.00 Read moreWhat does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate st
- Author: Macfarquhar, Larissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109782
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$12.95 Add to cart‘The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.’
Timaeus, one of Plato’s acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its conten- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0192807358
- Language: English
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
$18.00 Add to cartMasterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works.
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche using philsophy,… [more below]- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724621
- Language: English
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Procrastination: What It Is, Why It’s a Problem, and What You Can Do about It
$26.90 Read moreWhy do we procrastinate? How can we stop wasting time, and finish our work?
Drawing on the latest theory and research, this book explains why people procrastinate, and provides practical, evidence-ba- Series: APA Lifetools
- Author: Sirois, Fuschia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1433838060
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$9.99 Add to cartIn Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche gives an impassioned analysis of Western religion, specifically Christianity, that confronts its authoritative view of humans and nature. Nietzsche introdu
- Series: Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 151326673X
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Identity
$19.95 Add to cartA bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism
Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexual- Series: Princeton Classics #132
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254079
- Language: English
