Thomas Hobbes, C. B. MacPherson Penguin Classics Retail Price: $11.00
But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes's answer is soveriegnty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capab ... more.
David Hume, Ernest C. Mossner Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
It is nothing less than an attempt to extend the Copernican Revolution to philosophy - to put to the test of experience a complete system of the moral sciences which had hitherto gone unquestioned. But Hume was ... more.
John S Mill & Jeremy Bentham Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.95
In his essays on Bentham and Coleridge, and above all in Utilitarianism, Mill balanced the claims of reason and the imagination, justice and expediency, individuality and social well-being in a system of et ... more.
George Berkeley Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $4.01
Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the great British empirical philosophers. He believed that the existence of material objects depends in their being perceived and The Principles of Human Knowledge sets out this denial of non ... more.
In the course of its tautly reasoned Socratic dialogues, The Republic accomplishes nothing less than an anatomy of the soul and an exhaustive description of a state that both mirrors and enforces the ... more.
First published in 1776, this book is generally regarded as the foundation of contemporary economic thought. Combining economics, political theory, history, philosophy, and practical programs, Smith assumes that human se ... more.
Martin Heidegger Harpercollins Publishing Retail Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3
Essential reading for anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a ... more.
William James Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Written with cordiality and candor, James's essays seek to bring his readers into the processes and play of his own reflections. Ranging across the intellectual terrain from philosophy and psychology to religion and politi ... more.
Arthur Schopenhauer Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhaur's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. No German philosopher had w ... more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches f ... more.
Soren Kierkegaard Random House, Inc Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 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.
Francis Bacon Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
Including the fifty-eight essays of the 1625 edition, this collection comprises reflections on the successful conduct of life and management of men, as well as reworkings of many of the ideas of Bacon's philosophical and scientific writings ... more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00
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 Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Amid the corruption and power struggles accompanying the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43 BC) produced some of the most stirring speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the few outs ... more.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Penguin Classics Retail Price: $16.00
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.
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It is impossible to be certain which, if any, of the works in the Hippocratic corpus were written by Hippocrates himself. His fame was such that many Greek medical writings became attributed to him. What they have in common is not ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred Penguin Classics Retail Price: $15.00
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.
H. Lawson Tancred Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Few, if any writers in history have made major contributions to as many fieldsof knowledge as Aristotle. In the city-states oratocial competence was an essential asset for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils and even for ... more.
Xenophon Penguin Putnam Inc. 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 Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
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: $6.29 You Save: $1.71
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.
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.
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.
Karl Marx Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $18.00 Sale Price: $13.99 You Save: $4.01
Indeed, this 'forgotten' volume, suggests Ernest Mandel in his stimulating Introduction, occupies a 'key place in the monumental theoretical construction'. For it is here that Marx analyses in depth the specific problems of the commodity ... more.
Karl Marx Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
It is in this third volume that Marx sets out his central, epoch-making thesis that 'the basic laws of motion of the capitalists mode of production lead to explosive crises and its ultimate collapse'. Here we find not only a sustained e ... more.
Karl Marx Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
The astonishingly rich body of works produced in 1833-4, when Marx was hardly twenty-five, formed the basis for his subsequent development. Commentators had long assumed that Marx's own solutions to the underlying philosophical problems of M ... more.
Karl Marx Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
In these seven notebooks on capital and on money, drafted during the winter of 1857-8, he first explored the themes and theses that dominate all his later writings. It is here that Marx set out his mature views on labour, surplus value ... more.
Michel D. Montaigne Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
To overcome a crisis of melancholy, Montaigne put together his reflections on fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and other equally unexpected themes. A chapter On Some Lines of Virgi ... more.
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