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  • Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave

    Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries

    by Amber D. Carpenter, Pierre-Julien Harter ...
    Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave brings philosophers from two of the world's great philosophical traditions--Platonic and Indian Buddhist--into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, language, and ethics. An international team of scholars address selected questions of mutual concern to Buddhist and Platonist: How can knowledge of reality transform us? Will such ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Philosophy's Big Questions

    Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches

    by Stephen J. Laumakis, Douglas S. Duckworth, Jan Westerhoff, Dan Arnold, Rick Repetti, Amber D. Carpenter, Peter Hershock ...
    Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions—about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffering, and the conditions for a just and flourishing society—that thinkers in different cultures across the ... Read more

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  • Philosophy's Big Questions

    Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches

    by Stephen J. Laumakis, Douglas S. Duckworth, Jan Westerhoff, Dan Arnold, Rick Repetti, Amber D. Carpenter, Peter Hershock ...
    Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions—about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffering, and the conditions for a just and flourishing society—that thinkers in different cultures across the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way

    Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna, Jay L. Garfield ...
    The Buddhist saint Nāgārjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating metaphysical and epistemological treatises. His greatest philosophical work, the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • The Fundamental Wisdom Of The Middle Way : Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Nagarjuna; Jay L. Garfield ...
    For nearly two thousand years Buddhism has mystified and captivated both lay people and scholars alike. Seen alternately as a path to spiritual enlightenment, an system of ethical and moral rubrics, a cultural tradition, or simply a graceful philosophy of life, Buddhism has produced impassioned followers the world over. The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the ... Read more

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  • Meditations

    by René Descartes ...
    Translated by Desmond M. Clarke ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They ... Read more

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  • Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

    With Selections from the Objections and Replies

    by John Cottingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy remains one of the most widely studied works of Western philosophy. This volume is a refreshed and updated edition of John Cottingham's bestselling 1996 edition, based on his translation in the acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It presents the complete text of Descartes's central metaphysical masterpiece ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, Terry Pinkard, Michael Baur ...
    Series series Cambridge Hegel Translations
    Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to world and of people to each other. Like Kant before him, Hegel offered up a systematic account of the nature of knowledge, the influence of society and history on claims to knowledge, and the social ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Jan Westerhoff ...
    The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and arguably the most influential Buddhist thinker after Buddha himself. Indeed, in the Tibetan and East Asian traditions, Nagarjuna is often referred to as the "second Buddha." His primary contribution to Buddhist thought lies is in the further development of the ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Classical Yoga

    by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. ...
    This is the first comprehensive and systematic analytical study of the major philosophical concepts of classical yoga. The book consists of a series of detailed discussions of the key concepts used by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sutra to describe and explain the enigma of human existence and to point a way beyond the perpetual motion of the wheel of becoming. Feuerstein's study differs from previous ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • You Kant Make it Up!

    Strange Ideas from History's Great Philosophers

    by Gary Hayden ...
    Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make it Up sends the reader on thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and counter-intuitive conclusions. Harry Potter is real. Matter doesn't exist. Dan Brown is better than Shakespeare. All these statements stem from philosophy's greatest minds, from Plato to Nietzsche. What were they thinking? Overflowing with compelling ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pyrrhonism

    How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism

    by Adrian Kuzminski ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from its founder Pyrrho of Elis in the fourth century BCE through Sextus Empiricus in the second century ... Read more

    $46.99 USD