Category: Philosophy

Following on from the success of the first edition of What Philosophers Think, this second edition brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading figures in the arts and politics, including: Bernard Williams - Onora O'Neill - Philippa Foot - Philip Pullman - Bhikhu Parekh - Slavoj Zizek - AC Grayling - Igor Alexander - Alexander McCall Smith - Daniel Dennett - Oliver Letwin The interviews - all revised and expanded from The Philosopher's Magazine - cover a wide range of issues and offer a unique insi...
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Why Plato Wrote

By: Allen, Danielle S.

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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell : December 2012

Seller ID: 546592

ISBN-13: 9781118454398

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SOME HIGHLIGHTING AND ANNOTATIONS
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St. Anselm's Proslogion, with A Reply on Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo and The Author's Reply to Gaunilo

By: Anselm, Saint,Gaunilo,

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Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press : July 1979

Seller ID: 462503

ISBN-13: 9780268016975

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In the Proslogion St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the systems of Descartes, Leibniz, Hegel, and others. Included in this edition of St. Anselm's Proslogion are Gaunilo's A Reply on Behalf of the Fool and St. Anselm's The Author's Reply to Gaunilo. All three works are given in the original Latin with English translation on facing pages. Professor Charlesw...
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

By: Appiah, Kwame Anthony

Price: $8.00

Publisher: : March 2010

Seller ID: 82747

ISBN-13: 9780393061550

Binding: Hardcover

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A political and philosophical manifesto considers the ramifications of a world in which western society is divided from all other creeds and cultures, challenging the separatist doctrines espoused by other writers to evaluate the limited capacity of differentiating societies as compared to the power of a united world. By the author of In My Father'
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On Faith and Reason (Hackett Classics)

By: Aquinas, Saint Thomas

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. : February 1999

Seller ID: 809936

ISBN-13: 9780872204560

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The selections included in this anthology, drawn from a variety of Aquinas' works, focus on the roles of reason and faith in philosophy and theology. Expanding on these themes are Aquinas' discussions of the nature and domain of theology; the knowledge of God and of God's attributes attainable through natural reason; the life of God, including God's will, justice, mercy, and providence; and the principal Christian mysteries treated in theology properly speaking--the Trinity and the Incarnation.

On Being and Essence

By: Aquinas, Thomas

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Publisher: : September 2012

Seller ID: 809840

ISBN-13: 9780888442505

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The Political Ideas Of St. Thomas Aquinas (Hafner Library Of Classics)

By: Aquinas, Thomas

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Free Press : October 1997

Seller ID: 486063

ISBN-13: 9780684836416

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What is the relation of the state to God? How can a man be both a political animal and a follower of Christ? These enduring questions are considered in detail in this volume of selected writings of St Thomas Aquinas. Among the most influential of the medieval philosophers, he is recognized for synthesizing Christian theology with Artistotelian metaphysics, recognized for synthesizing Christian theology with Artistotelian metaphysics, and providing a philosophical defence of Christianity addressed to the non-Christian reader. This selection specifically focuses on Aquinas's concepts of politics...
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Between Past and Future

By: Arendt, Hannah

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Publisher: : July 2011

Seller ID: 804990

ISBN-13: 9780140186505

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On Revolution (Penguin Classics)

By: Arendt, Hannah

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : September 2006

Seller ID: 804992

ISBN-13: 9780143039907

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A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing fac...
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On Revolution (Viking Compass)

By: Arendt, Hannah

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Publisher: Viking Press : January 1969

Seller ID: 789168

ISBN: B004E2UPWI

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Slightly creased and yellowed cover, spine is sun-bleached
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On Violence

By: Arendt, Hannah

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Publisher: : August 2012

Seller ID: 804991

ISBN-13: 9780156695008

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Political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker Hannah Arendt's On Violence is an analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. The public revulsion against violence and nonviolent philosophies continues to diminish in the twenty-first century. In this classic and still all too resonant work, Hannah Arendt puts her theories about violence into historical perspective, examining the relationships between war and politics, violence and power. Questioning the nature of violent behavior, she reveals the causes of its many manifestati...
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Thinking Without a Banister

By: Arendt, Hannah

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 573162

ISBN-13: 9780805242157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Spine is detaching but readable
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Readings in Modern Philosophy Volume II: Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Associated Texts

By: Ariew, Roger

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 154278

ISBN-13: 9780872205321

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This anthology offers the key works of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.

A New Aristotle Reader

By: Aristotle

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : January 1988

Seller ID: 104731

ISBN-13: 9780691020433

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In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy. In selecting the texts Professor J. L. Ackrill has drawn on his broad experience of teaching graduate classes, and his choice reflects issues of current philosophical interest as well as the perennial themes. Only recent translations which achieve a high level of accuracy have been chosen; the aim is to place the Greekless reader, as nearly as possible, in t...
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A New Aristotle Reader

By: Aristotle

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : January 1988

Seller ID: 520279

ISBN-13: 9780691020433

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy. In selecting the texts Professor J. L. Ackrill has drawn on his broad experience of teaching graduate classes, and his choice reflects issues of current philosophical interest as well as the perennial themes. Only recent translations which achieve a high level of accuracy have been chosen; the aim is to place the Greekless reader, as nearly as possible, in t...
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