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  • Walking With Plato

    A Philosophical Hike Through the British Isles

    by Gary Hayden ...
    “If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright.” So said Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain’s most challenging trek: to walk from John O’Groats to Land’s End. But it wasn’t all quaint country lanes, picture-postcard villages and cosy bed and breakfasts.In this humorous, inspiring and delightfully British tale, Gary finds ... Read more

    $7.99 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

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thought leader, visionary, philanthropist, mystic, and yogi Sadhguru presents Western readers with a time-tested path to achieving absolute well-being: the classical science of yoga.“A loving invitation to live our best lives and a profound reassurance of why and how we can.”—Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element, Finding Your Element, and Out of Our Minds: Learning ... Read more

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  • Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture

    From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House

    Edited by William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson ...
    What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God?Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophersWith examples from film, television, and music ... Read more

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  • Patience

    The Art of Peaceful Living

    by Allan Lokos ...
    "As founder and guiding teacher of the Community Meditation Center in New York, Allan Lokos has an arsenal of tools for coping with stressful situations." - Rachel Lee Harris, New York TimesTo survive the roller-coaster ride of life, with its ever-changing shifts from pleasure to pain, gain to loss, and praise to blame, requires a substantial depth of patience. In this life-changing book, Allan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Recursive Mind

    The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and Civilization - Updated Edition

    by Michael C. Corballis ...
    A groundbreaking theory of what makes the human mind uniqueThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. "I think, therefore I am," is an example of ... Read more

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  • Man is the Measure

    by Reuben Abel ...
    An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect.An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete examples that should call the reader to a higher level of critical thinking and self-perception. ... Read more

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  • Activation of Energy

    Enlightening Reflections on Spiritual Energy

    by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ...
    The renowned Jesuit thinker explores science, theology, and the course of human evolution.Following in the footsteps of his earlier works, this collection of essays from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin brings greater clarity to the stunning potential of human energy if it is properly channeled, as he describes, "upward and outward."While energy wrongly directed appears as depression, drug addiction, ... Read more

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  • The Human Animal

    Personal Identity without Psychology

    by Eric T. Olson ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically non-psychological account of personal identity. He defines human beings as biological organisms, and claims that ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Greek Models of Mind and Self

    by Anthony A. Long ...
    Series Book 22 - Revealing antiquity ;
    A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by. ... Read more

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  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in ... Read more

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  • The School of Franz Brentano

    Edited by L. Albertazzi, M. Libardi, R. Poli ...
    Series Book 52 - Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
    The central idea developed by the contributions to this book is that the split between analytic philosophy and phenomenology - perhaps the most impor tant schism in twentieth-century philosophy - resulted from a radicalization of reciprocal partialities. Both schools of thought share, in fact, the same cultural background and their same initial stimulus in the thought of Franz Brentano. And one ... Read more

    $260.09 USD