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  • The Philosophy of Paul Elmer More

    The Ethical Basis of Life and Letters

    by Folke Leander ...
    Folke Leander (1910-1981) was a prolific and internationally known Swedish philosopher. He is best known in the United States as an explicator of the New Humanism, an informal movement of literary and cultural criticism founded by Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865-1933).Leander’s manuscript for The Philosophy of Paul Elmer More was completed in the early 1970s, but because of ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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    An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

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  • After Virtue

    A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand ... Read more

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  • Kierkegaard

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  • Upheavals of Thought

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  • Philosophy: The Classics

    by Nigel Warburton ...
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  • Eclipse of Reason

    by Max Horkheimer ...
    In Eclipse of Reason, Horkheimer discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as "reasonable", but also identifies the Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the instrumental dimension of reasoning. It is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline of the Individual and On the Concept of ... Read more

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  • The Little Book Of Philosophy

    by Andre Comte-Sponville ...
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    In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the essential bones of philosophical thought and shows why philosophy is relevant in our day-to-day lives.In his brilliant and concise writing on morality, politics, love, death, knowledge, freedom, God, ... Read more

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  • Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy

    by Hannah Arendt ...
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    Wisdom as a Practice

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  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

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