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Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each--from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir--offers practical and spiritual lessons for today's unsettled time ...Show more
Four Archetypes by Carl Gustav Jung
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
Extracted from Volume 9, Part I. Includes "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," "Concerning Rebirth," "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," and "On the Psychology of the Trickster-Figure."
Together by Luke Adam Hawker
$35.00 AUD
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 brin ...Show more
Big Ideas for Curious Minds by The School Of Life
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Children are, in many ways, born philosophers. Without prompting, they ask some of the largest questions: about time, mortality, happiness and the meaning of it all. Yet sadly, too often, this inborn curiosity is not developed and with age the questions fall away. This is a book designed to harness chil ...Show more
Children's Book of Philosophy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Children's...
From Socrates and Aristotle to Kant and Confucius, meet the thinkers and theories which shaped our world. Find answers to life's big questions such as 'Who am I?' or 'Should I ever tell a lie?' and what philosophy is. How do you know whether you're awake or dreaming? Is the world real? Why do we need ru ...Show more
Kant (The Great Philosophers) by Ralph Walker
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.' Kant In today's increasingly fractured world of oppression and uncertainty, Kant's moral philosophy is more important than ever before. And never has the need for moral absolutes been more pressing than in this age of doubt, disillusion and cyn ...Show more
Marx (The Great Philosophers) by Terry Eagleton
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl Marx For Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. ...Show more
Nietzsche (The Great Philosophers) by Ronald Hayman
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself. Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self. While the nineteent ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it is now thought that the work was compiled in about the fourth century BC. An anthology of wise sayings, it offers a model by which the individual can live rather than explaining the human place in the universe. Th ...Show more
The Art of War (Popular Penguin) by Sun-tzu
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy (Popular Penguin) by Alain de Botton
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Godless Gospel - Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.