Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$39.99 Add to cartAs chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which ph
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1638232482
- Language: English
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El Discreto: The Complete Man (1646)
$31.95 Add to cartAlmost four hundred years ago, in Zaragoza, Spain, Baltasar Graci? began to write what many modern-day scholars consider to be the most prolific and mysterious of his seven works, El Discreto: The Com
- Author: Graci?n, Baltasar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1945028521
- Language: English
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A Guide for the Perplexed
$16.99 Add to cart“A condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas.” — Arthur Koestler, Observer
From one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, and the author of the international b
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Schumacher, E. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006241481X
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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Practical Philosophy
$85.00 Add to cartThis is the first English translation of all of Kant’s writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 706
- Publish Date: June 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521654084
- Language: English
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Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
$17.95 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions
In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community f- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691233950
- Language: English
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Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
$19.00 Add to cart“A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature.”–George Packer, The New Yorker
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but w- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024080
- Language: English
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Israelis and Palestinians: From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind
$25.00 Read moreCan Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this c
- Author: Glover, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559787
- Language: English
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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
$50.00 Add to cartWhat is it to grieve for the death of a parent? More literary and experiential than other philosopical works on emotion, Upheavals of Thought will engage the reader who has ever stopped to ask that qu… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: April 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531829
- Language: English
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
$17.95 Add to cartFor many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fresh evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate socie… [more below]
- Author: de Waal, Frans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347796
- Language: English
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The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
$25.95 Read moreSo said Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine in 1953 but refused to patent it–forgoing profit so that more lives could be saved.
Salk’s radical generosity to future generations should inspire … [more below]
- Author: Krznaric, Roman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1615197303
- Language: English
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Measure of a Man Hardcover
$25.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1959, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activis
- Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: March 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1639233598
- Language: English
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
$21.99 Add to cartTimely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned histo
- Author: Ignatieff, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0805055223
- Language: English
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The Republic
$7.99 Add to cartPackaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal… [more below]
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1945186275
- Language: English
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Ethics: The Essential Writings
$21.00 Add to cartIn Ethics: The Essential Writings, philosopher Gordon Marino skillfully presents an accessible, provocative anthology of both ancient and modern classics on matters moral. The philosophers represent … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Marino, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977785
- Language: English
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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
$5.95 Add to cartWhat is morally permissible, and what is morally obligatory? These questions form the core of a vast amount of philosophical reasoning. In his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, Imm… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0486443094
- Language: English
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Manual of a Christian Knight
$24.99 Add to cartThe Handbook of the Christian Knight (Latin: Enchiridion militis Christiani), sometimes translated as The Manual of the Christian Knight or The Handbook of the Christian Soldier, is a work written by
- Author: Erasmus, Desiderius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 108813033X
- Language: English
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
$17.95 Add to cartCan virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? “It’s the animal in us,” we often hear when we’ve been bad. But why not when we’re good? Primates and Philosophers tackl
- Series: University Center for Human Values #43
- Author: de Waal, Frans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169160
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Right
$14.99 Add to cartComplete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher’s influential system. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel applies hi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445631
- Language: English
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
$29.95 Add to cartTracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provoca
- Author: Hicks, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1925826325
- Language: English
