Plato (The Great Philosophers) by Bernard Williams
$19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors' Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence has been greater, in every age and in every philo ...Show more
Reading with Feeling - The Aesthetics of Appreciation by Susan L. Feagin
$32.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Feelings and other affective responses to a work of fiction are an important part appreciation and the capacity to inspire such responses is part of what is valuable about literary works of art. Susan L. Feagin's philosophical exploration of appreciation, focusing specifically on its emotional or affect ...Show more
Russell (The Great Philosophers) by Ray Monk
$19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know'Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transpor ...Show more
Secret Tactics - Lessons from the Great Masters of Martial Arts by Kazumi Tabata
$24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secret Tactics offers ancient wisdom for contemporary readers--with new interpretations of Japanese martial arts classics In the tradition of Musashi, Kazumi Tabata, one of America's most experienced teachers of karate, distills invaluable lessons drawn from the most influential martial arts texts ...Show more
Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity by Larissa MacFarquhar
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
What 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 intimate stories: their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their wrenching d ...Show more
Studies in Aeschylus by Aeschylus; R. P. Winnington-Ingram
$50.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Professor Winnington-Ingram's reputation as an authority on Greek drama is based on a lifetime's careful scholarship. In 1980 the Press published Professor Winnington-Ingram's book on Sophocles and in 1983 he followed it up with some studies on Aeschylus. This book explores the problems in Aeschylus' ea ...Show more
Taoism for Beginners: A Guide to Living in Balance by C. Alexander Simpkins; Annellen Simpkins
$21.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Taoism for Beginners is a practical guide to applying the key notions, concepts and beliefs underlying Taoism's various branches and schools. Authors C. Alexander and Annellen Simpkins tap into their years of training and study in meditation, martial arts and Eastern philosophy to provide readers with a ...Show more
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World by Saul John Ralston
$22.50 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Secondhand. Despite the near-religious conviction with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds its original promise that nation-states were heading toward irrelevance, to be replaced by the power of global markets; that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the c ...Show more
The Dawn Warriors: Man's Evolution Toward Peace by Robert Bigelow
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The Dawn Warriors: Man's Evolution Toward Peace by Robert Bigelow
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
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The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Volumes 1-8 (4 books) by Paul Edwards ( Editor in Chief)
$220.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought by Alan Bullock (Ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good