Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedo ...Show more
William Shakespeare - On Power by William Shakespeare
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
This work includes Shakespeare's writing on power: in love, war, government and the family. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, pro ...Show more
Utopia by MORE THOMAS
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In "Utopia" Thomas More painted a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony, yet its title means 'no place', and More's hugely influential work was ultimately an attack on his own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity. Throughout hi ...Show more
Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia by Tom Frame
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Category: Philosophy
In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australias best-known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious nation but that few Australians have deliberately ...Show more
Beauty by Roger Scruton
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Category: Philosophy
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. Here, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an obje ...Show more
The Power of Now - a guide to spiritual enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Power of Now is a guide to spiritual awakening from a man who is emerging as one of this generation's clearest, most inspiring teachers on the subject. Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular religion but does what all the great masters have done: shows that the way, the truth, and the ligh ...Show more
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
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Category: Philosophy
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why ...Show more
This is Not a Book : Adventures in popular philosophy by Michael Picard
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Category: Philosophy
Between the Monster and the Saint - Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
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Category: Philosophy
Provocative, wide-ranging and full of wisdom, Between the Monster and the Saintis a brilliant book about our place in the world. Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are dangerous and unpredictable places. We are susceptible ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Philosophy
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