This Is Philosophy: An Introduction by Steven D. Hales
$57.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The new edition of the clearest and most readable introduction to the questions, problems, and great thinkers of Western analytic philosophy Philosophy invented systematic ethics, formal logic, and the scientific method. It created the Enlightenment and laid the foundations for constitutional governmen ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic by Seneca, Donald Robertson
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Throughout the centuries, Seneca has been admired as one of the greatest writers of antiquity. He has a way of expressing Stoic philosophy that makes it seem just as relevant to life today as it was two thousand years ago. Seneca taught that we should remain grounded in the present moment by being fully ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
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
The Little Art of War Book: Strategies to Live By by Unnamed
$12.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
Condensed into six themes that help you get strategic about modern life, The Little Art of War Book will help you learn how to avoid confrontation and outsmart your competitors. It contains tactics and strategies that are drawn on by modern leaders of business and sports teams.
A Guide to the Good Life - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, a ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more
Become What You Are by Alan Watts
$21.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
Renowned lecturer and author Alan Watts presents his meditations on the dilemma of seeking your true self. In this collection of writings, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern t ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. This book charts the progress of a relationship between a man and a woman, from their first kiss to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work’s genius lies in the way it minutely analysis emotions we’ ...Show more
Tao Te Ching: Traditional Wisdom by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Stephen Mitchell's translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) has sold over half a million copies worldwide. In this edition, Mitchell's text is set against ancient Chinese paintings selected by Asian art expert, Dr Stephen Little. 'What is rooted is easy to nourish What is recent is e ...Show more
Buddhism for Meat Eaters: Simple Wisdom for a Kinder World by Josephine Moon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 6 Home
For many years Josephine Moon struggled with the question of eating meat, fervently wishing to live as a vegetarian yet requiring meat in her diet. From Josephine's philosophical, spiritual and physical battle with eating meat came, Buddhism for Meat Eaters - a book for animal lovers, the environmentall ...Show more
Introducing Ethics - A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disas ...Show more