Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching - The Definitive Edition by Lao Tzu
$14.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Cornerstone Editions
In the hands of Jonathan Star, the eighty-one verses of the TAO TE CHING resound with elegant, simple images and all-penetrating ideas that have made this ancient work a cornerstone of the world's wisdom literature. This is another classic title in the 'Tarcher Cornerstone Edition' series, in which the ...Show more
Essential Marcus Aurelius by John Piazza; Marcus Aurelius; John P. Piazza; Jacob Needleman
$17.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Tarcher Cornerstone Editions Ser.
This inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and eth ...Show more
Jesus for the Nonreligious by John Shelby Spong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Controversial bishop and moral activist John Shelby Spong has been on a lifelong quest to rescue the Church from irrelevance. In JESUS FOR THE NON RELIGIOUS, he takes aim at the core of the Christian faith: the identity of Jesus himself. He first strips back the myths that have surrounded Jesus for cent ...Show more
Essential Dalai Lama by Dalai Lama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A huge international success, the Dalai Lama's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Now, for the first time, this inspirational new book brings together the Dalai Lama's writings on all sides of life from work to meditation, in his highly appealing and unique voice that applies the principles o ...Show more
Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A highly ambitious and lucid history of ideas from the very earliest times to the present day. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. The book begins over a million y ...Show more
On Suicide by David Hume
$9.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
In Praise Of Slow - How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging The cult of speed by Carl Honore
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Across the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better food. DON'T HURRY, BE HAPPY. Almost everyone complains about the hectic pace of their lives. These days, our culture teaches that faster is better. But ...Show more
Engels by Terrell Carver
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
It is by no means absurd to say that Engels invented Marxism. His work did more than Marx to make converts of the most influential political movement of modern times. He was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of history and science in many communist ...Show more
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist. This study evaluates Hobbes's philosophy, describing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of scepticism, and to have developed a theory of knowledge, which rivalled ...Show more
Russell by A.C. Grayling
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical contributions to logic and philosophy, and his wide-ranging views on education, politics, war, and sexual morality. ...Show more
Theaetetus by Plato
$16.45 AUD
$22.95 (28% off)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue covers many questions, such as: is knowledge purely sub ...Show more
Le Rochefoucauld - Maxims by Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.