Arguing about War by Michael Walzer
$14.00 NZD
Category: Military | Reading Level: very good
A provocative discussion of recent wars and the issues that surround them, written by a preeminent political theorist Michael Walzer is one of the world's most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A C Grayling
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the ...Show more
The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good-very good
Transforming the Hermeneutic Context - From Nietzsche to Nancy by Gayle L. Ormiston (Editor); Alan D. Schrift (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Ser. | Reading Level: good
This book presents contemporary analyses of interpretation by some of the most prominent figures in contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. These essays question and transform traditional statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation. The essays demonstrate how contemporar ...Show more
Moral Perception and Particularity by Lawrence A. Blum
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Most contemporary moral philosophy is concerned with issues of rationality, universality, impartiality, and principle. By contrast Laurence Blum is concerned with the psychology of moral agency. The essays in this collection examine the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgment, perception, and grou ...Show more
Dishonest to God - On Keeping Religion Out of Politics by Mary Warnock
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Here is a pugnacious book by a philosopher who often hits the headlines. The book reflects on the nature of religion and how it relates or ought to relate to the rest of life. Many people today are totally indifferent to religion but religion is far from dead. Indeed religions are intensely defended a ...Show more
Weber by Donald G MacRae
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Modern Masters Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Persons - Human and Divine by Peter van Inwagen (Editor); Dean Zimmerman (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy, currently enjoying something of a revival. In this volume for the first time metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons are brought together with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. Fifteen specially writ ...Show more
Plutarch's Morals - Ethical Essays by Plutarch; Arthur Richard Shilleto
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bohn's Classical Library | Reading Level: very good
Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man & His Well-Being translated and edited with an introduction and and commentary and a Life of Spinoza by A Wolf
$40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
Spinoza's Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione by Harold H Joachim
$40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good-very good
Dancing in Chains - Narrative and Memory in Political Theory by Joshua Foa Dienstag
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy is often depicted as generically distinct from literature, myth, and history, as a discipline that eschews narration and relies exclusively on abstract reason. This book takes issue with that assumption, arguing instead that political philosophers have commonly presented their readers with a ...Show more