Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A profound, uplifting and accessible introduction to key philosophical ideas and their relevance to everyday life. Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-loved Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, looking at the works of twenty eminent thinker ...Show more
Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues th ...Show more
Might Is Right - The Authoritative Edition by Ragnar Redbeard; Arthur Desmond; Peter H. Gilmore
29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The Path by Michael Puett
22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Harvard's most popular professor explains how thinkers from Confucius to Zhuangzi can transform our lives The first book of its kind, The Path draws on the work of the great but largely unknown Chinese philosophers to offer a profound guide to living well. By explaining what these teachings reveal about ...Show more
Humankind: A New Hopeful History of Human Nature - Human Kind by Rutger Bregman
39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2020'Humankind challenged me and made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah HarariFrom 'the folk hero of Davos', Fox News antagonist and author of the international bestseller Utopia for Realists comes a radical history of our innate capacity for kindnes ...Show more
Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
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Category: Philosophy
What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons i ...Show more
The Little Art of War Book: Strategies to Live By by Unnamed
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
Condensed into six themes that help you get strategic about modern life, The Little Art of War Book will help you learn how to avoid confrontation and outsmart your competitors. It contains tactics and strategies that are drawn on by modern leaders of business and sports teams.
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophy Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How ...Show more
Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Ser.
Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure an ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...Show more
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of ...Show more