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Ideas Explained eBook Series

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  • Ayn Rand Explained

    From Tyranny to Tea Party

    by Ronald E. Merrill, Marsha Familaro Enright ...
    Series Book 10 - Ideas Explained
    Fifty-five years after Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand is more in the news than ever. Ayn Rand Explained is an accurate and riveting account of Rand’s life, work, and influence, with the emphasis on her ideas.The book covers Rand’s career, from youth in Soviet Russia to Hollywood screenwriter and then to ideological guru; her novels and other fiction writings; her work in ethics, epistemology, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Age of Wonder

    How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    by Richard Holmes ...
    The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in ... Read more

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  • The Ethics

    by Benedictus de Spinoza ...
    The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza. Although published after Spinoza's death, in 1677, it is considered his greatest and most famous work. In it, Spinoza tries to set out a "fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues

    by George Berkeley ...
    One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge eloquently outlines this philosophical concept, and argues forcefully that the world consists purely ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    A Philosophical Biography

    by Julian Young ...
    In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the conjunction of Nietzsche's personal history and his work: why the son of a Lutheran pastor developed into the self-styled 'Antichrist'; why this ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: George Berkeley, Voltaire and David Hume

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    What exists? How do we know? What are we going to do about it?These three questions are at the heart of philosophical enquiry, an endeavour which has stretched more than two thousand years. It's multiple branches, including ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and theology, have been pondered over by many a philosopher, and this series from The Independent introduces some of these great minds.The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Introducing Empiricism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics

    Edited by Olli Koistinen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Since its publication in 1677, Spinoza's Ethics has fascinated philosophers, novelists, and scientists alike. It is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy. Written in an austere, geometrical fashion, the work teaches us how we should live, ending with an ethics in which the only thing good in itself is understanding. Spinoza argues that only that which ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The World of the Imagination

    Sum and Substance

    by Eva T. H. Brann ...
    In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference. ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Background Practices

    Essays on the Understanding of Being

    by Hubert L. Dreyfus ...
    This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition. One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical canon of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Descriptive Psychology and Historical Understanding

    Translated by Richard M. Zaner, K.L. Heiges ...
    by W. Dilthey ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Perhaps no philosopher has so fully explored the nature and conditions of historical understanding as Wilhelm Dilthey. His work, conceived overall as a Critique of Historical Reason and developed through his well-known theory of the human studies, provides concepts and methods still fruitful for those concerned with analyzing the human condition. Despite the increasing recognition of Dilthey's ... Read more

    $49.49 USD