Philosophy

UK: Axiom Publishing, Inc., 2005 This collection of Zen poems and sayings encompasses the important elements of the Zen tradition. Koans, sayings and haiku tantalize the reader with hints of the enlightenment process. An appreciation of Zen philosophy and art is revealed through the simple expressions and intuitive insights within these pages.. Soft Cover. New. 6 x 8 1/2. more information

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Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1981 This book is in good, clean condition. Highlighting is concentrated to the first half of the book. Spine unbent. Cover shows edge/shelfwear.. Soft Cover. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1985 Examines basic errors in modern thought, how they came about, their consequences, and how to avoid them. Contents: Consciousness and Its Objects; The Intellect and the Senses; Words and Meanings; Knowledge and Opinion; Moral Values; Happiness and Contentment; Freedom of Choice; Human Nature; Human Society; Human Existence. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1984 This is a used book in new condition, clean and unmarked. Adler discusses Turth, Goodness, Beauty, Liberity, Equality, and Justice to emphasize that philosophy is everybody's business. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York: Quartet Books, 1974 Translated from the French with an Introduction by Richard Pevear. Alain pursued the ethical and the metaphysical in search of a common philosophy which he found embodied in the community of world religious traditions.. Soft Cover. New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: State Univ of New York Pr, 2001 Argues that organisms, persons, and cultures are all meaningful systems, and that the ontological conditions necessary for their sustained systemic unity provide a normative standard, ideals of virtue and responsibility, by which individuals can judge how best to live their lives and seek a common good.. Soft Cover. New. 6 x 9. more information

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Fairfield, Iowa, U.S.A.: Sunstar Pub Ltd, 1997 This book is in as new condition with very light edge/shelfwear. A discourse on philosophical issues raised by evolution explored via science fiction.. Soft Cover. As New. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. more information

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Fremont, California, U.S.A.: Jain Pub Co, 1995 An introduction to the mystical branch of Islam called Sufism. Writen in a non-technical, easy-to-understand style.. Soft Cover. New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Totem Books, 2003 A new edition of the international bestseller. Traces the pedigrees of postmodernism in art, theory, science and history, providing an urgent guide to the present. Derrida, Baudrillard, Foucault and many other icons of postmodern complexity are elucidated and enlivened by cartoonist, Chris Garratt.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New Jersey: Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, Inc., 1998 Spring 1998 edition. In very good, clean condition. Contains articles on various subjects by different authors devoted to the dissemination and exploration of materials relating to the myths, symbols, rituals, and art of the world's religious and cultural traditions.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 10. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1956 In very good, clean and crisp condition showing little wear. Arendt examines three classic revolutions of modern times, The American, The French and the Russian, providing insights into history and politics in practice and theory.. Soft Cover. As New. more information

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San Diego, California, U.S.A.: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997 This is a new book. Aristotle's philosophical writings about what makes a good human life. With Introduction, Notes, and line references. . Soft Cover. New. 5 x 8. more information

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Barnes & Noble, 2004 F. H. Peters (Translator). In very good, clean condition. Some marginalia and underlining in black ink scattered throughout text. Spine uncreased. Cover shows light wear. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8. more information

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New York: The Modern Library, 1947 In very good, clean condition, name written on front endpage. Cover shows light smudges/spots. Ed. by Richard McKeon. Includes selections and some complete works: Biography, Logic, Physics, Physics, Psychology and Biology, Metaphysics,Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric and Poetics.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 5 x 7. more information

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Princeton University Press, 1981 Text is clean and unmarked. Cover shows minor wear and some age-related discoloration. Explores how far we have drifted from the classical understanding of the city as a moral community and challenges many of the basic liberal assumptions about the relations of law, morals, and politics.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 6 x 9. more information

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Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr, 2003 New book with a D/J that shows some minor shelfwear. Author illustrates what the metaphysical landscape looks like once we avoid a militant Realism which forces our commitment to anything that our theories quantify.. Hard Cover. New/New. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2. more information

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New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987 177 pgs. Examines a wide range of physicalistic conceptions of mind in the works of Jerry A. Fodor, Stephen P. Stich, Paul M. Churchland, Daniel C. Dennett, and others.. Soft Cover. As New. 6 x 9. more information

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Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1972 Text is in very good, clean condition. Cover/edges show some wear and age-related discoloration. Provides selected texts on Work, Love and Passionate Attraction from the massive writings of one of the most provocative of nineteenth-century thinkers.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8. more information

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Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1998 Remainder on bottom edge. Provides a history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to modern deconstruction, examining the writings by critics, philosophers, and other writers from Europe, Latin America, and the United States.. Soft Cover. New. 5 1/2 x 9. more information

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Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000 Includes nearly the whole of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Part I of his Principles of the Civil Code, and Anarchical Fallacies, an energetic criticism of the French Revolutionary Declaration of Rights, and Leading Principles of a Constitutional Code. With Introduction and notes.. Soft Cover. As New. 5 x 8. more information

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Amherst, New York, U.S.A.: Prometheus Books, 1988 Great Books in Philosophy Series. In three dialogues Berkeley agrues for ideas in the mind as the only true reality about which one can have knowledge.. Soft Cover. As New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York: The Liberal Arts Press, 1954 Number 39 in the series. This book is in very good, clean, unmarked condition. Previous owner's name on title page. Cover faded with light edge/shelfwear. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8. more information

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UK: Phoenix House, 1997 The Great Philosophers series # XII. Traces Berkeley's experimentalism, from experiments with sight and touch to near-death experience, finding in his writings an intriguing marriage of philosophy and psychology.. Soft Cover. As New. 4 1/2 x 7. more information

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India: Gandhi in Action, 1988 Appears to be inscribed by the author on front endpage. In good, clean condition with some age-related discoloration to cover and pages. Illustrated. Focuses the impact of Gandhian movements that are flourishing in different countries, and provides a treatise on living non-violence.. Soft Cover. Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York: Hafnes Press, 1981 215 pgs. Selections from The Summa Theologica and On Kingship, relating to Politics: law, justice; tyranny; obedience, etc. Book has a little highlighting in pink. Otherwise, in good condition with minimal wear.. Soft Cover. Good. 5 x 8. more information

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Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1987 392 pages in very good, clean condition. Jacket is price clipped and gift inscription written on front flyleaf. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf/edgewear and text is like new. A critique of the intellectual and moral confusions of our era.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6 x 9 1/2. more information

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United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 1999 Offers a provocative glimpse into the daily life of a thriving inner-city community a hundred years from now, stressing that the individual can make a difference and creative use of knowledge to improve the world.. Soft Cover. New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: State Univ of New York Pr, 1999 Establishes the basic terms for a critical discourse between the theory of communicative action and the tradition of practice-based inquiries inspired by Wittgenstein and elaborated within the field of ethnomethodology.. Soft Cover. New. 6 x 9. more information

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Israel: Astrolog Pub House, 2005 A selection of original texts that present the ideas and philosophy of eight Taoist sages who lived at the court of the king of Huainan during the second century BC.. Soft Cover. New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd, 2000 Contains everything you need, including a new, contemporary translation of every hexagram, to practice the mystical arts of ancient China for yourself. Illustrated.. Soft Cover. New. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, Pub., 1965 In very good, clean condition. Corners lightly bumped, D/J shows light wear. In the clarity of small-group conversation, Tillich presents his religious and philosophical beliefs. His profound thought is revealed in remarkably simple language that brings this grat mind within the reach of all men.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: Liberty Classics, 1982 This is a new book with a name obliterated on front endpage. In it Burke presents his views on the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society. Includes In A Letter to Lord by a Late Noble Writer. Edited and with an Introduction and notes by Frank N. Pagano.. Soft Cover. As New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Modern Library College Editions, 1967 In very good condition with some underlining, notations in the first two sections on Bacon and Hobbes. Includes the essential writings of Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, John Gay, Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill.. Very Good/Very Good. 6 x 8. more information

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Macon, Georgia, U.S.A.: Mercer Univ Pr, 1984 A collection of essays that provide an understanding of Paul Tillich's analysis of culture, describing the different historical epochs and his philosophy of history. Grey cloth cover. No D/J.. Hard Cover. New. 6 x 9 1/2. more information

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New York: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1974 Second Edition. In very good, clean condition; cover shows light lower corner bumps. Part I: Informal Logic: Words and Meaning, Language, Arguments, etc. Part II: Formal Logic: Truth Tables, Syllogistic Logic, Predicate Logic, Axioms, etc. Part II: The Logical Structure of Science.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. more information

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1987 In very good, clean, unmarked condition. Spine uncreased. Cover shows edge/shelfwear including bumped corners and a red star inked on bottom edge. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 6 x 9. more information

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Bedfor, United Kingdom: Kegan Paul Intl, 1998 This is a new book with a D/J that shows some shelfwear. Addressing the major issues facing the global Islamic community, Choudhury offers critiques of Western paradigms and one of his own Shuratic process, or Islamic socio-scientific world view, rooted in the Islamic doctrine of Tawhid, the Unity of God.. Hard Cover. New/As New. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. more information

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Roma, Italy: Edizioni Sormani, 1981 Text is in interlinear Latin, modern Latin, and Italian. It presents Cicero's On Friendship. Testo Latino, Costruzione Versione, Italiana Interlineare, Argomenti e Note. A cura del Prof. M. C. Bassi. Text is clean and unmarked. There is a gift inscription in Italian on the front endpage.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Castle Books, 1998 Cleary's translation of two classic Chinese books describing the essential philosophy and practice of Tao: the Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang Tzu, composed in China over 2000 years ago.. Hard Cover. New/New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Wheaton, Illinois, U.S.A.: Quest Books, 1992 In very good, clean condition. An anthology of the spiritual experience of ordinary men and women as well as those of monks, philosophers, and spiritual teachers such as Lao Tzu, Krishnamurti, Aldous Huxley, Plato, and Paramahansa Yogananda.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York: Random House, 1947 In very good, clean condition. Bookplate pasted inside front cover. Cover shows some edge/shelfwear and light creases along spine. Writings by Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Epictetus, Marcus Arelius, Confucius, Michael de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Dewey.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 5 x 7 1/2. more information

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Fremont, California, U.S.A.: Jain Pub Co, 1993 An extraction from the major important books attributed, directly or indirectly, to Confucius: Chung Yung, Genuine Living and Ta Hsueh, Great Wisdom presented in lively, accessible prose. Illustrated with 16th century woodblock prints from a life of Confucius.. Soft Cover. New. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. more information

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Nebraska: The Modern Library, 1936 The book is in very good, clean condition. The dustjacket shows edgewear, small tears and age-related discoloration/wear. Editied and with an Introduction by Lin Yutang. Presents the great ethical teachings of China's immortal sage.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 5 x 7 1/2. more information

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Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1994 In good, clean condition. Some underlining in ink and marginalia scattered throughout. Previous owner's name inside cover. Spine uncreased. One corner crease on cover. A succinct portrait of the founder of modern philosophy.. Soft Cover. Good. 6 x 9. more information

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UK: Profile Books, 2002 Provides eleven satirical papers by literary critics attending the Modern Language Association's December 2000 convention in Washing, D.C. who were asked to apply their critical acumen to the adventures of that deceptively simplemeinded teddy bear of storybook fame.. Hard Cover. New/New. 5 x 7 1/2. more information

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins, 1993 In very good, clean, unmarked condition. Spine uncreased. Cover shows edge/shelfwear, a corner crease and a long, thin dent on front. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/ 2 x 8 1/2. more information

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New York: The New American Library, 1967 Soft Cover. Good. 4 x 7. 206 pgs. The Jesuit priest-paleontologist whose lifework was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of evolution. Book is clean. Pages lightly tanned. Cover shows light wear.. Soft cover. more information

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New York: The Liberal Arts Press, 1960 Number 29 in the series. This book is in very good, clean, unmarked condition. Cover faded with light edge/shelfwear. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8. more information

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Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, 1980 Second Edition.Translated by Donald A. Cress. 100 pages. Text is clean and unmarked; date on front endpage. Cover shows wear, vertical crease on rear, some bookstore tags. The 17th century philosopher outlines his philosophical method , then goes on to address the nature and extent of human knowledge.. Soft Cover. Good. 6 x 9. more information

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Open Court Pub Co, 2000 Explores the individual's relation to good and evil and with what psychology can tell us about it. The book culminates in an examination of Raskolnikov, the murderer of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.. Soft Cover. New. 6 x 9. more information

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