Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas
By: Jean Grondin
4.09
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Co…
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. Being and Time
By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence… read more
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"But “nowhere"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"El ente existente “se"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"الترجمة ضرب من أدب الضيافة إزاء تراث ما"-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
"Everyone is the other and no one is himself."-Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
5. Timaeus
By: Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None
4.00
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeusis prese… read more
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6. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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7. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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8. Utilitarianism
By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more
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9. On Interpretation
By: Aristotle , None
5.00
Format: 176 pages,
First we must define the terms 'noun' and 'verb', then the terms 'denial' and 'affirmation', then '… read more
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10. Meditations on First Philosophy
By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more
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11. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
Format: None pages,
Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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12. Bestiario
By: Julio Cortázar
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more
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13. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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14. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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15. Dark Night of the Soul
By: None , None
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A 16th-century mystic, St. John of the Cross was also a Carmelite monk who helped reform the Order.… read more
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16. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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17. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
18. Letters from a Stoic
By: Seneca , Robin Campbell
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were… read more
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19. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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20. Life Without Principle
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.50
Format: 168 pages,
Life Without Principle is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that gives his program for right liveliho… read more
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21. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor
4.27
Format: 197 pages, paper
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more
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22. Pensées
By: Blaise Pascal , A.J. Krailsheimer
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and… read more
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"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."-Blaise Pascal, Pensées
23. Monadology
By: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz , None
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
G.W. Leibniz' Monadology, one of the most important pieces of the Leibniz corpus, is at once one of… read more
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24. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
25. The Birth of Tragedy
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , Shaun Whiteside
3.99
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his e… read more
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"Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Look at this! Look carefully! It is your life! It is the hour-hand of your clock of existence!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
"Večita je to pojava: požudna volja uvek nalazi sredstva da iluzijom prostrtom preko stvari zadrži svoje stvorove u životu i da ih prisili da i dalje žive."-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
26. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
27. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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28. Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Maxim Osipov
3.72
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story.Maxim Osi… read more
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"The place could be anywhere with its own kind of appeal—particularly central Russia. You can fall for this place just as easily as a woman can fall for a loser."-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
"There's no easier pastime than bad-mouthing the church. Much like bad-mouthing Dostoyevsky: it's true, of course, all true, but it also misses the point. The church is a thing of wonder, Dostoyevsky …"-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
"The consultant starts explaining again. She isn't participating, isn't listening. Then suddenly she hears him say: "... if he has the operation he could live to a good age. We've persuaded him, almos…"-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
"Of course, certain external circumstances are impossible to predict. ... For instance: Will our country last? Its predecessor, with all its might, was more short-lived than your average violin, for w…"-Maxim Osipov, Rock, Paper, Scissors: And Other Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
29. A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls
By: Stephen P. Schwartz
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of … read more
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30. Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas
By: Jean Grondin
4.09
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Co… read more
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31. Sartre (Elementaire Deeltjes #74)
By: Ruud Welten
3.66
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre geldt als een van de belangrijkste en meest dwarse denkers van de twintigste eeuw.… read more
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