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  • Facing Our Mortality Without Fear: Advice from the Great Philosophers

    by Robert Bonser ...
    The fear of our mortality is a common and natural fear among humans. There is a proud tradition in philosophy of being able to offer consolation and comfort for the trials and tribulations of life, including the greatest and final trial - death. Socrates said that whether death is extinction or the persistence of the soul in an afterlife, it is nothng to fear. The first half of the book" Montaigne ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Essential Schopenhauer

    Key Selections from The World as Will and Representation and Other Writings

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    "We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully." —Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy"Schopenhauer's philosophy has had a special attraction for those who wonder about life's meaning, along with those engaged in music, literature, and the visual arts." — Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyThe Essential Schopenhauer delivers ... Read more

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  • Fragments

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    Fragments of wisdom from the ancient worldIn the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history- ... Read more

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  • A Nietzsche Reader

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in Beyond Good and Evil (1886), grappled with the fundamental issues of the human condition in his ... Read more

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  • The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

    by Arthur Schopenhauer ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired ... Read more

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  • The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Perhaps one of the most controversial and inflammatory philosophers in western civilization, Friedrich Nietzsche summarized his extraordinary ideas in "The Twilight of the Idols." This work is a lightning strike on many of the prevalent ideas of his day, especially what he describes as the 'The Problem of Socrates' and 'The Four Great Errors.' Overall, Nietzsche attacks our system of evaluating ... Read more

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  • Femininity Lost and Regained

    by Robert A. Johnson ...

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  • The Wisdom of George Santayana

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    A survey of the influential—and prolific—modern philosopherIn dozens of books, magazine articles, and essays, George Santayana infused his philosophy with exquisite language, wit, and subtle humor, prompting one authority to state that he "writes philosophy more beautifully than any other thinker since Plato."The Wisdom of George Santayana makes accessible both his ideas and his oft-quoted ... Read more

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  • The Deepest Human Life

    An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

    by Scott Samuelson ...
    This accessible and thought-provoking introduction to philosophy shows how the eternal questions can shed light on our lives and struggles.These days, we generally leave philosophical matters to professional philosophers. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life, he restores philosophy to its proper place at the center of our ... Read more

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    by Vladimir Solovyov, Thomas R. Beyer ...
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  • Reverence : Renewing A Forgotten Virtue

    by Paul Woodruff ...
    Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. Like an important engine part that has rusted over time, the idea of reverence has become increasingly foreign. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the ... Read more

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