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  • Erasing the Invisible Hand

    Essays on an Elusive and Misused Concept in Economics

    This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith believed on the economic role of government. The essays further show how Smith was silent as to his intended ... En savoir plus

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    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Maxims

    Traduit par Leonard Tancock ...
    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. ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

    A Portrait of Descartes

    par Steven Nadler ...
    How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals—or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the ... En savoir plus

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  • Leibniz

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow human beings through the advancement of all the sciences and the establishment of a stable and just political order. In this Very Short Introduction ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • On Purpose

    par Michael Ruse ...
    A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin’s theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. Indeed, teleological explanation—what Aristotle called understanding in terms of “final ... En savoir plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

    Modifié par Ken Gemes, John Richardson ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out by the book's systematic plan. The aim is to treat each topic at the best current level of philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. The first group ... En savoir plus

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  • Philosophic Pride

    Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau

    Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of ... En savoir plus

    $69.29 CAD

  • Environmental Philosophy

    An Introduction

    par Simon P. James ...
    Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which parts of it are we morally obliged to protect?Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of sources, from virtue ethics to Buddhism, ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Thinking Like an Engineer

    A Collection of Addresses and Essays

    Collections series Practical and Professional Ethics
    A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick's major treatise on moral theory, The Methods of Ethics. Reissued here as Volume One in a new series sponsored by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, ... En savoir plus

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  • What Happened at the Boston Massacre? US History Lessons for Kids 6th Grade | Children's American History

    par Baby Professor ...
    You may want to protect your child from dark historical truths but you cannot take away their curiosity. Learning about what happened in the past will help a child learner associate events to current times. It will also produce valuable lessons that will shape decisions and actions later on in life. If you think your child can handle What Happened at the Boston Massacre, then get him/her this book ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • 100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War

    Crisis and Reconfigurations

    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is a collection of specifically commissioned articles on the key continental European philosophical movements since 1914. It shows how each of these bodies of thought has been shaped by their responses to the horrors set in train by World War I, and considers whether we are yet ‘post-post-war’. The outbreak of World War I in August 1914,set in chain a series of crises and re ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD