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The School of Life: An Emotional Education by The School of Life; Alain de Botton (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...Show more
Life: a User's Manual - Philosophy for (almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini; Antonia Macaro
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How should I live? What is my purpose? Can I find happiness? Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B. Since the beginning of time, people have asked questions a ...Show more
Conversations with Buddha: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by Joan Duncan Oliver
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A relaxed chat with the Buddha tells us what he thought about impermanence, karma, mindfulness, compassion, love, and everything else that leads us toward a true understanding of ourselves and the cosmos. We know him as the Buddha, the "Awakened One". Born Siddhartha Gautama 2,500 years ago in northern ...Show more
On Getting Off - Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' — Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explo ...Show more
Yes to Life Inspite of Everything by Viktor E. Frankl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Extraordinary uncovered work by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man's Search For Meaning Just months after his liberation from Auschwitz renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl delivered a series of talks revealing the foundations of his life-affirming philosophy for which he would become world ...Show more
Think Least of Death - Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's impo ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas by The School The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can l ...Show more
Philosophy in 100 Quotes by Gareth Southwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The story of philosophy through 100 wonderful quotes.
The Life You Can Save (10th Anniversary Ed) How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In the 10th Anniversary edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives bo ...Show more
Mythic Worlds Modern Words by Campbell Joseph
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Collected Works of Joseph Campbell Ser.
In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce's Ulysses. Known for being praised and for kicking up controversy (including an obscenity trial in the United States in 1920), the novel left Campbell both intrigued and confused, as it had m ...Show more
The Future of an Illusion (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Sigmund Freud
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourse ...Show more