What Should I Do?: Philosophers on the Good, the Bad, and the Puzzling by Alexander George (ed)
32.99 NZD
41.99 (21% off)
Category: Philosophy
Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games, or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts, or is morality relative? Life throws ethical questions at us every day. Some are momentous and difficult, while others ar ...Show more
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
137.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In these four volumes Sir Anthony Kenny unfolds a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work ...Show more
Philosophy in the Modern World : A New History of Western Philosophy Volume 4 by Anthony Kenny
43.00 NZD
Category: 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 ...Show more
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists by Robin Waterfield
20.95 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuit ...Show more
Breaking the Spell by Daniel C Dennett
14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask whyand howit has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a mora ...Show more
The Prophet: Popular Penguins by Kahlil Gibran
13.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and dea ...Show more
Interpreting Dreams by Sigmund Freud
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights about dreams, Freud was able to revise his method ...Show more
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
31.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the comm ...Show more
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
27.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see?There are questions that have intrigued the world's great thinkers over the ages, which still touch a c ...Show more
The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
27.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow And The Feeling Brain by Antonio R. Damasio
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A leading neurologist draws on 17th-century philosopher Spinoza and his own experience with patients to show the role of feelings in human affairs. ?Damasio thinks deeply and writes beautifully... We could not ask for a better guide.? < Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate, Columbia University. The eminent ...Show more