A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life by Andre Comte-Sponville
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Much of the history of philosophy is the history of ethics. From Plato to Sartre, the great philosophers have returned to the central ethical questions of how we are to live good lives; how is it appropiate and virtuous for us to behave, both to ourselves and to other? In addressing these questions, And ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex - Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be mo ...Show more
Assholes : A Theory by Aaron James
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What is it for someone to be an asshole? Although most of us are forced to deal with such people every day, few of us could easily say exactly what an asshole is. And as prevalent as they are, no one has offered a sustained analytical treatment of the subject. Assholes are arguably part of the human soc ...Show more
CAPITAL : A CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY - VOL. 1 BOOK 1 THE PROCESS OF PRODUCTION OF CAPITAL by KARL MARX
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Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
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Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Mona Lisa's Moustache - Making Sense of a Dissolving World by Mary Settegast
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In the eighty years since Marcel Duchamp drew a moustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, the dissolving of cultural forms has intensified to the point that there is no longer an absolute, a "proper" form, anywhere. This generalized breakdown is evident in social and moral codes, in gender distinctions and ...Show more
Ideas of Human Nature - From the Bhagavad Gita to Sociobiology by David P. Barash
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Unique in both scope and organization, this book presents an intriguing yet challenging introduction to the world's great ideas concerning the nature of human nature -- with a sampling of different approaches. The selections are drawn from religious writings, academic treatises, nonfiction, fiction, etc ...Show more
LLOYD'S INTRODUCTION TO JURISPRUDENCE by M. D. A. Freeman
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Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence is well established as the leading textbook on the subject. In this edition extracts have been selected from the works of more than a hundred jurists. These are supported by detailed introductory sections which give background and critical insight into the texts. Th ...Show more
The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (3rd ed.) by Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley (eds)
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A fully revised and updated edition of this unique, well-established, classic work of reference and companion to all fields of modern thought. The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought has been continuously in print in earlier editions for more than twenty years. The new Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thou ...Show more