Philosophy from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1902 8vo (22.5 cm), XVII, 466 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed, ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps but solid and firm).

Harvard University Press, 1962 12mo (17 cm), XXIX, 650, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth (without dust jacket). With an English translation by H. Rackham.

Harvard University Press, 1952 12mo (17 cm), XX, 450, 10 pp. Publisher's cloth (without dust jacket, minor shelf-wear). With an English translation by Harold N. Fowler (Statesman. Philebus) and W. R. M. Lamb (Ion).

Paris: [Allais], 1809 12mo (17.5 cm), [XVI] 104 pp. Demi-veau fauve, dos orné, tranches mouchetées (reliure du XIXe siècle). Édition originale, tirée à 750 exemplaires. Quelques annotations dans le catalogue des ouvrages de l'auteur. De la bibliothèque Chapuis, avec ex-libris. (Fine copy of the first edition in cont. calf backed marbled boards. From the Chapuis' library (bookplate). Included translation of… Read more about this item

Thoemmes Continuum, 2006 3 volumes 8vo (22.5 cm), VIII, 1018 pp. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spines (ownership signature on the half-title of the vol. 1). This is the single most important collection of bibliographical data on American philosophy in the modern period. No other reference work or encyclopedia has such a complete listings of both major and minor works, of… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill , 2002 8vo (23 cm), XXI, 235, 14 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This up-to-date text treats political philosophy and issues (including the terrorist attacks of September 11) from a global perspective, considering the virtues of both nationalism and cosmopolitanism. As part of his aim of describing a comprehensive global political philosophy, Pojman devotes considerable attention to a defense of ethical… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 2002 12mo (17 cm), VIII, 552 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. We have Seneca's philosophical or moral… Read more about this item

Allen Lane, 1999 8vo (22 cm), XII, 228 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "How has the Western Christian world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is meant by the end of the world? What have science and philosophy got to say about the end… Read more about this item

Continuum, 2011 8vo (21.5 cm), VIII, 157 pp. Laminated wrappers. "A concise introduction to the context, themes, and influence of one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy. John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice", first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and political philosophy of the twentieth century. A staple on undergraduate… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 2005 8vo (21.5 cm), VIII, 292 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of… Read more about this item

Warszawa: Polskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne, 1913 8vo (25 cm), PP. 129-432. Printed wrappers (untrimmed and partly uncut, wrappers discolored, little stained and frayed at extremities). In Polish. Przegląd Filozoficzny (The Philosophical Review), the first Polish philosophical journal, has been published from 1897. This double issue included studies by Benedykt Bornstein, Bronislaw Biegeleisen, Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz.

Harvard University Press, 2008 8vo (21 cm), XII, 274 pp. Laminated wrappers. "In the past few decades, scientists of human nature - including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists - have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troubling explanations for various moral intuitions. Research… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 1996 8vo (24 cm), XXVI, 237 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The fourth and final volume in the magnum opus of Ernst Cassirer, this text presents the metaphysics that is implicit in the author's epistemology and phenomenology of culture.

Suhrkamp, 1982 8vo (20 cm), 180 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Oxford University Press, 1986 12mo (19.5 cm), XV, 543 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This book has four loosely connected parts. Part One discusses some ways in which theories about morality and rationality can be self-defeating. Such theories give us certain aims, but also tell us to act in ways that frustrate these aims. If these theories are revised, these objections can… Read more about this item

Métailié, 2002 8vo (21.5 cm), 280 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Prometheus, 1995 8vo (21 cm), VIII, 262 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this compelling new volume. "If we can detach ourselves from our own… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1991 8vo (21.5 cm), XVI, 216 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. This… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1999 8vo (21.5 cm), XIII, 393 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Peter Singer's remarkably clear and comprehensive Practical Ethics has become a classic introduction to applied ethics since its publication in 1979 and has been translated into many languages. For this second edition the author has revised all the existing chapters, added two new ones, and updated the bibliography.… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1997 8vo (22.5 cm), VI, 148 pp. Laminated boards. "If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists… Read more about this item