Discourses and Selected Writings by EPICTETUS
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Category: Philosophy
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ide ...Show more
Entangled Empathy - An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals by Lori Gruen
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Category: Philosophy
In Entangled Empathy, scholar and activist Lori Gruen argues that rather than focusing on animal "rights," we ought to work to make our relationships with animals right by empathetically responding to their needs, interests, desires, vulnerabilities, hopes, and unique perspectives. Pointing out that we ...Show more
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
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Category: Philosophy
Have you ever found yourself struggling with information overload?Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised?Do you ever feel busy but not productive?If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is to become an Essentialist.In Essentialism, Greg McKeown, CEO of a Leadership and Strategy ag ...Show more
Ethics of Liberation - In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion by Alejandro A. Vallega (Editor); Yolanda Angulo (Translator); Camilo Pérez Bustillo (Translator); Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Translator); Eduardo Mendieta (Translator); Enriqué Dussel
$76.45 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Latin America Otherwise Ser.
Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998, is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the philosop ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster. 'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, t ...Show more
Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster by C.G. Jung
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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."
Glimpse of Light: New Meditations on First Philosophy by Stephen Mumford (Durham University, UK)
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Category: Philosophy
I firmly believed there was a world outside of our own minds . . . But all around me were challenges. . . . How could we be so sure there were such things existing apart from us? Philosopher Benedict Chilwell faces a crisis of confidence and hopes to resolve it in a self-imposed exile, far away in the n ...Show more
God is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major r ...Show more
Goddesses by Joseph Campbell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell | Reading Level: General Adult
Joseph Campbell brought mythology to mass audiences, most notably in his conversations with Bill Moyers on PBS. In print and on television, his accessible and conversational tone riveted without "dumbing down." His best-selling books, including "The Power of Myth" and "Hero with a Thousand Faces" are th ...Show more
Grand Hotel Abyss : The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
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Category: Philosophy
This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what ...Show more
Great Ideas: Tao Te Ching by TZU LAO
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the "Tao Te Ching" is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging from political advice to common wisdom, it has also served as an inspiration to artists across the ages and throughout the world. Throughout history ...Show more