How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
With a little help from a monk, and a neuroscientist, Ruby Wax answers every question you've ever had about- evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions, relationships, kids, the future and compassion. How to be Human is extremely funny, true and the only manual you'll need to help you upgrade y ...Show more
The Little Book of Philosophy by DK
21.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Learn everything you need to know about the world of philosophy- from the key thinkers to modern concepts in a brand new portable size.To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting - The Little Book of Philosophy changes all that. With the use of powerful and easy-to-follow images, fa ...Show more
The Metamorphosis of Reason by Rod Cameron
34.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The metaphysics contained within the cover of 'Absolute Truth' has a logic. Metaphysical logic is logos-logic. The logic that squares with its etymology explicates absolute Truth. The successful school is absolute Idealism. Absolute Idealism has an exact ontology and a prodigious teleology. This means ' ...Show more
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: General Adult
SUM shows us forty wonderfully imagined possibilities of life beyond death. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different ver ...Show more
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection.' Daily Mail'I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris's take on existence is calm, unique, and makes on ...Show more
The Art of Losing Control : A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable of so many more states of experience?Piecing together interviews, analysis of ancient and modern philoso ...Show more
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag
27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher Wil ...Show more
Dream of Enlightenment .. Rise of Modern by Anthony Gottlieb
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy. What does the advance of science entail for ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more
Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships by Julia Edelman
18.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
What would Kant's sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder? Love Voltaire Us Apart is a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge, made up of philosophers' love letters, advice columns and breakup letters. From C ...Show more
How To Be A Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living by Massimo Pigliucci
35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
'In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one of Stoicism's greatest teachers.' RYAN HOLIDAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY AND THE DAILY STOIC Who am I? What am I doing? How ought ...Show more
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris's take on existence is calm, unique, and makes one's soul feel good yet never once does he rely on feel-good techniques." (Douglas Coupland). Solitude is a rapidly vanishing experience. Our society now embraces sharing like never before: t ...Show more