Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a stellar work by Publishers Weekly From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu; Peter Harris (Translator)
18.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. For the l ...Show more
Freedom: The End of the Human Condition by Jeremy Griffith;
49.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery--the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our ''good and ...Show more
The Precipice - Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
'Splendid . . . The Precipice is a powerful book, written with a philosopher's eye . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator. We live during the most important era of human history. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves without develop ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks ...Show more
Together by Luke Adam Hawker
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A beautiful book to connect us after such a challenging time. 'Dark clouds were looming in the distance. We watched them gather, and we wondered... When will it come? How long will it last?' A monumental storm brings huge and sudden change. We follow a man and his dog through the uncertainty that it b ...Show more
Meditations - The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius; Robin Waterfield (Editor)
49.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome--and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely privat ...Show more
Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation by Peter Sloterdijk
74.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignati ...Show more
What Is Existentialism? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Simone de Beauvoir
12.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own des ...Show more
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
12.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...Show more
Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons i ...Show more