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  • The Cultural Psychology of Self

    Place, Morality and Art in Human Worlds

    by Ciaran Benson ...
    Philosophers and psychologists both investigate the self, but often in isolation from one another. this book brings together studies by philosophers and psychologists in an exploration of the self and its function. It will be of interest to all those involved in philosophy, psychology and sociology. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

    by Roger Scruton ...
    "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

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  • Critias (Illustrated Edition)

    by Plato ...
    In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy. That year Plato was born to a wealthy family: with an uncle who was ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy

    by Alfred Denker, Frank Schalow ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    By the time Martin Heidegger passed away on May 26th, 1976, he had become the most important and controversial philosopher of his age. While many of his former students had become important philosophers and thinkers in their own right, Heidegger also inspired countless others, like Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Paul Sartre.The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Plato: Meno and Phaedo

    Edited by David Sedley ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied around the world. The Meno is a seminal work of epistemology. The Phaedo is a key source for Platonic metaphysics and for Plato's conception of the human soul. Together they illustrate the birth of Platonic philosophy from Plato's reflections on Socrates' life and doctrines. This ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A History of Russian Philosophy 1830–1930

    Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity

    Edited by G. M. Hamburg, Randall A. Poole ...
    The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, through the 'Silver Age' of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the formation of a Russian 'philosophical emigration' in the wake of the Russian Revolution. This volume is a major history and interpretation of Russian ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Point of View of the Universe

    Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics

    by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer ...
    What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual is of no more importance than the good of any other. Ethical judgments, he held, are objective truths that we can know by reason. The ethical axioms he ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714

    by Melinda Zook ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Russell's Philosophy of Logical Analysis, 1897-1905

    by J. Galaugher ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in 1898 to his landmark theory of descriptions in 1905, draws important connections between his philosophically motivated conception of analysis and the technical apparatus he devised to facilitate analyses in mathematics ... Read more

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  • The Axiology of Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Nicolae Râmbu ...
    In his unmistakable style, Friedrich Nietzsche approached the issue of all classes of values, not only the moral ones. The author presents Nietzsche as a philosopher of values par excellence by analysing vital and economic values, religious and political values, moral and aesthetic values, and, in addition to all these, value in general, with all its implications for human life and humanity. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Integrating History and Philosophy of Science

    Problems and Prospects

    Edited by Seymour Mauskopf, Tad Schmaltz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series of workshops on both sides of the Atlantic (called '&HPS') intended to bring historians and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD