Henry David Thoreau Penguin Classics Retail Price: $12.00
Two classic examinations of individuality in relation to nature, society, and government, Walden conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and s ... more.
Will Durant Pocket Books Retail Price: $7.99 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $2
The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew. ... more.
Plato Oxford University Press Retail Price: $10.95
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements ... more.
Plato Random House, Inc Retail Price: $19.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.01
The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. Now Robin Waterfield offers a ... more.
Juan Mascaro Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
The Upanishads represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of these spiritual treaties, which vary greatly in length, were put down in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BC. This s ... more.
Robert W. Crapps Mercer Press Retail Price: $24.95
Developed in almost thirty years of classroom experience, this book is designed to introduce students and other readers to the psychological study of religion. Robert W. Crapps deals with the major question ... more.
Barry Ulanov Westminster John Knox Press Retail Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $24.99 You Save: $4.96
This book seeks to define prayer not only as a very broad-based reaching out to God, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a coping tool which people can utilize, day to day, to achieve harmony in their live ... more.
Barry Ulanov Westminster John Knox Press Retail Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $22.99 You Save: $6.96
This is a book about the pains and pleasures of human interiority and some special ways of dealing with both. The ways are those of religion and the appointed--some might say the self-appointed--guardian of the unconscious, ... more.
Adam Smith Random House, Inc Retail Price: $26.95 Sale Price: $19.99 You Save: $6.96
Combining economics, political theory, history, philosophy, and practical programs, Smith assumes that human self-interest is the basic psychological drive behind economics and that a natural order in the universe makes all the indi ... more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because he provides vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, and ... more.
Soren Kierkegaard Random House, Inc Retail Price: $19.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $5.01
Soren Kierkegard anticipated twentieth century existentialism and provided it with many of its motifs; he transformed Protestant theology and Biblical exegesis; and in such works as Fear And Trembling ... more.
Edmund Burke Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
Burke's Reflections (1790) predicted with uncanny accuracy the Reign of Terror which lay ahead . . . The book, however, is far more than a supremely eloquent piece of occasional writing. For Burke is without doub ... more.
Edited by Hans Lewy Dover Publications Retail Price: $7.95 Sale Price: $7.49 You Save: $0.46
A contemporary of Jesus Christ, Philo of Alexandria ranks among the greatest of Jewish and Greek thinkers. He was not only the first theologian--that is, the first who attempted to reconcile the teachings o ... more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Divided into two parts--'Against Tyranny' and 'How to Live'--this selection of Cicero's work reveals the private and public sides of his liberal personality and his opposition to oppressive and unparliamentary methods of ... more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
This collection of Cicero's writings discusses duty, friendship, the training of a statesman, and the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. ... more.
Through a series of telling commentaries on early Roman history, Machiavelli shows how citizenship can work to maintain freedom, even in the face of civil strife. And yet he remains as clear-eyed a pragmatist as ever. He c ... more.
The only reliable account of the philosophy of the legendary Chinese sage, the Lun-yu (Analects) constitue a collection of Confucius's sayings compiled by his pupils shortly after his death. ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Considering the nature of life, Aristotle surveys and rejects the ideas of Plato and the pre-Socratics, developing his philosophy of the soul and mind, and introducing the central concep ... more.
James Madison Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted constitution in 1787. ... more.
Xenophon Penguin Classics Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Xenophon's complete Socratic works--Socrates' Defence, Memoirs of Socrates, The Dinner Party, and The Estate-Manager--not only portray the character and teachings of the great philosopher but apply Socratic principles to the dai ... more.
Soren Kierkegaard Penguin Classics Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $5.01
The first major work by the precursor of existentialism examines the philosophical choice between aesthetic and romantic life versus ethical and domestic life, and offers profound observations on the meaning of ch ... more.
Karl Marx Penguin Classics Retail Price: $8.00 Sale Price: $5.99 You Save: $2.01
After some four years of collaboration, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels produced this incisive account of their conception of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. The Manifesto ... more.
Boethius, translated by Victor Watts Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $4.01
(PUBPenguin)Composed in the sixth century A.D., while its author was awaiting death on a charge of treason, this Christian treatise consoles readers with the tenets of Greek philosophy in the form of a ... more.
Two Ages, the novel under review, tells the story of a family whose fortunes span the immediate post-Revolutionary Age, a period characterized by honour, loyalty and passion, and the advent of Modernity, w ... more.
Niccolo Machiavelli Penguin Classics Retail Price: $7.00 Sale Price: $5.49 You Save: $1.51
Machiavelli grew up at a time when the excesses of the church were more under scrutiny than at any time since Constantine. As Savonarola was decrying Florentine governmental excesses in the 1490s, Machiavelli's star was on the rise. T ... more.
Twilight of the Idols, 'a grand declaration of war' on all the prevalent ideas of Friedric Nietzsche's time, offers a lighting tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for The An ... more.
W. Jay Wood Inter-varsity Press Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $5.01
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the c ... more.
In the Dialogues, one of his supreme masterpieces, David Hume savages most of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, shows how religion is often founded on ignorance and irrational fears, and sugges ... more.
Andrew Louth Continuum International Retail Price: $38.95 Sale Price: $28.99 You Save: $9.96
The writings ascribed to the Athenian convert of St. Paul, Denys (or Dionysius) the Areopagite, made their first appearance the early sixth century. Since then, through the Renaissance and beyond, they have exercised an enormous inf ... more.
Michel Montaigne Penguin Classics Retail Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $7.01
In 1572 Montaigne retired from public life and began the reading and writing which were to develop into 'assays' of his thoughts and opinions. Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do. ... more.
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