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1984
by George Orwell

ISBN 1595404325 (1-59540-432-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library

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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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Adventures of Ideas
by Alfred North Whitehead

ISBN 0029351707 (0-02-935170-7)
Softcover, Free Pr

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This book has soft covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. [via]
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Basic Political Writings
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN 0872200477 (0-87220-047-7)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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'The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory...' - Raymon M Lemos, "Teaching Philosophy". [via]
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Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy on the Socia
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN 0872200485 (0-87220-048-5)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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"The publication of these excellent translations is a happy occasion for teachers of courses in political philosophy and the history of political theory..." -- Raymon M Lemos, Teaching Philosophy [via]
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The Birth of the Clinic
by Michel Foucault

ISBN 0415307724 (0-415-30772-4)
Softcover, Routledge

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In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucaults penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again.
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault

ISBN 0679753346 (0-679-75334-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.

In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes -- in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death. [via]
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Capitalism
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0451147952 (0-451-14795-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major philosophic revolution. In this series of essays, she presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism. Here is a challenging new look at modern society by one of the most provocative intellectuals on the American scene.
This edition includes two articles by Ayn Rand which did not appear in the hardcover edition: The Wreckage of the Consensus," which presents the Objectivists views on Vietnam and the draft; and Requiem for Man," an answer to the Papal encyclical Progresso Populorum.
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The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield

ISBN 0944353002 (0-944353-00-2)
Hardcover, Satori Pub

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Find out for yourself why virtually everyone you know has this book, described as an "adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery", on their coffee table. In the tradition of Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan. [via]
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The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0060506083 (0-06-050608-3)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco

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For the first time ever, these seven essential volumes by C. S. Lewis are available in a single edition. This remarkable book presents the classic works Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, A Grief Observed, and Lewis's prophetic examination of universal values, The Abolition of Man. Beautiful and timeless, this is a vital collection by one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. Lewis reached a vast audience during his lifetime, and books such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters continue to be regarded as among the best spiritual writing of all time. With his uncanny grasp of human nature, Lewis offers a refreshing antidote to the modern world's consumerism and moral relativism. This new edition of his most celebrated books highlights Lewis's compassion for humanity and his relevance for the twenty-first century. [via]
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The Courage to Be
by Paul Tillich

ISBN 0300002416 (0-300-00241-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr

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This book has more good ideas in it than clam chowder has calories. It's packed into every page, every line. Tillich is concerned with how the question of finding the courage to face up to existential doubts about death, meaninglessness, and guilt are tied to the ontological questions of being versus nonbeing. How can we affirm our existence when it seems so temporary, meaningless and full of moral failure? Tillich explores with incredible freshness and insight age old strategies, from Spinoza to the Stoics (his discussion of the Stoics alone is worth the price of the book). He gives a brilliant account of how people find the courage to overcome existential anxiety through particpation in groups and through individual strategies like existentialism. Finally, he explores the theological implications in a way that may challenge anyone who has stereotyped Tillich as a mouthpiece for Christianity. The book is excellently written, never dumbed down but always graspable. He also litters the book with brilliant asides on subjects like the history of existential angst and its relations to social relations and a great exploration of existential art. Don't pass this one up. [via]
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A Discourse on Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Roussear, Maurice Cranston

ISBN 0140444394 (0-14-044439-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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In "A Discourse on Inequality", Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau's political and social arguments in the "Discourse" were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century. [via]
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Franklin Philip

ISBN 0192829475 (0-19-282947-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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In Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. His sweeping account of humanity's social and political development epitomizes the innovative boldness of the Enlightenment, and it is one of the most provocative and influential works of the eighteenth century. This new translation by prize-winning translator Franklin Philip includes all of Rousseau's own notes, and Patrick Coleman's introduction builds on recent key scholarship, considering particularly the relationship between political and aesthetic thought. [via]
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Early Greek Philosophy
by Jonathan Barnes

ISBN 0140448152 (0-14-044815-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Zeno's extraordinary and disturbing paradoxes, the atomic theories of Democritus that so strikingly anticipate contemporary physics, the enigmatic and haunting epigrams of Heraclitus - these are just some of the riches to be found in this collection of writings of the early Greek philosophers. Jonathan Barnes's masterly Introduction shows how the most skilled detective work is often needed to reconstruct the ideas of these thinkers from the surviving fragments of their work. But the effort is always worth while. In forging the first truly scientific vocabulary and offering rational arguments for their views, the pre-Socratics were doing something new and profoundly important; they also posed the questions that have remained at the centre of philosophy to this day. [via]
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
by David Hume

ISBN 1419106325 (1-4191-0632-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Judging it to be "of all my writings incomparably the best," Hume accurately assessed this groundbreaking classic, which continues to influence philosophical thinking on ethics to this day through the force of its ideas and its clarity of expression. Among the many insights that Hume expounds in this work is that morality is grounded in feelings, not in knowledge. Based on moral sentiment, people naturally value agreeable qualities and shun disagreeable ones. On closer analysis, Hume concludes that the feeling of agreeableness comes from an innate perception of the utility of a particular quality or person to ones self. Anticipating later utilitarian philosophy, he maintains that the virtues that are most highly esteemed are those that have the greatest usefulness to most people. Justice, for example, is greatly prized because it ideally ensures to everyone a fair share of happiness and security.
Hume puts special emphasis on altruism, which he says is rooted in the natural feeling that each of us has for our fellow human beings. When surrounded by people in enjoyable circumstances, we tend also to feel the same enjoyment, and when learning of tragedy, even among people on the other side of the world, we tend to feel sad. Out of such natural sympathy and our general moral sentiments, moral distinctions between good and bad arise, and we are motivated to direct our actions toward ideal goals, not only for ourselves but especially for others.
In many ways, Humes thinking about ethics was considered radical in its day. His empirical method of interpreting morality as an outgrowth of innate, human emotions helped to steer later philosophy away from the transcendentalist notions of ethics that had earlier prevailed. [via]
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The Ethics ; Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect ; Selected Letters
by Benedictus De Spinoza

ISBN 0872201309 (0-87220-130-9)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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Since their publications in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect this enlarged edition will be even more useful to students of Spinoza's thought. [via]
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The Ethics and Selected Letters
by Benedictus De Spinoza, Samuel Shirley, Seymour Feldman

ISBN 0915145197 (0-915145-19-7)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co

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The Ethics: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect Selected Letters
by Baruch Spinoza, Seymour Feldman, Samuel Shirley

ISBN 0872201317 (0-87220-131-7)
Hardcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc

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Euthyphro Apology Crito
by Plato

ISBN 002322410X (0-02-322410-X)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill Co

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Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito written by legendary Greek philosopher Plato is widely considered by many to be among his greatest of approximately thirty five dialogues. These great classics will surely attract a whole new generation of readers of Plato's work. For many, Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, the combination of these three gems by Plato is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books America and beautifully produced, Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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The Four Loves: Featuring the Vintage Recordings of the voice of C. S. Lewis
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0156329301 (0-15-632930-1)
Softcover, Harcourt

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The Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's wise, gentle, candid reflections on the virtues and dangers of love draw on sources from Jane Austen to St. Augustine. The chapter on charity (love of God) may be the best thing Lewis ever wrote about Christianity. Consider his reflection on Augustine's teaching that one must love only God, because only God is eternal, and all earthly love will someday pass away:
Who could conceivably begin to love God on such a prudential ground--because the security (so to speak) is better? Who could even include it among the grounds for loving? Would you choose a wife or a Friend--if it comes to that, would you choose a dog--in this spirit? One must be outside the world of love, of all loves, before one thus calculates.
His description of Christianity here is no less forceful and opinionated than in Mere Christianity or The Problem of Pain, but it is far less anxious about its reader's response--and therefore more persuasive than any of his apologetics. When he begins to describe the nature of faith, Lewis writes: "Take it as one man's reverie, almost one man's myth. If anything in it is useful to you, use it; if anything is not, never give it a second thought." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
by Willard V. Quine

ISBN 0674323513 (0-674-32351-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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George Orwell Complete & Unabridged

ISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub

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History of Philosophy
by Copleston F

ISBN 0385016379 (0-385-01637-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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History of Philosophy: Bentham to Russell
by Frederick Copleston

ISBN 080910072X (0-8091-0072-X)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr

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The utilitarianism of the 19th century, the idealist movement, the pragmatist movement, modern realism, Bertrand Russell and more recent trends in British philosophy. [via]
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History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy
by Frederick Copleston

ISBN 0385065426 (0-385-06542-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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A History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America
by Frederick Copleston

ISBN 0385470452 (0-385-47045-2)
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Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics and Correspondence
by Benedictus De Spinoza

ISBN 1596053372 (1-59605-337-2)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc

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Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: With a Supplement, a Dialogue
by David Hume

ISBN 0023531304 (0-02-353130-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co

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Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
by Ayn Rand

ISBN 0452010306 (0-452-01030-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential nature--and power--of man's conceptual faculty. She offers a startlingly original solution to the problem that brought about the collapse of modern philosophy: the problem of universals. This brilliantly argued, superbly written work, together with an essay by philosophy professor Leonard Peikoff, is vital reading for all those who seek to discover that human beings can and should live by the guidance of reason.
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La Rebelion De Las Masas / The Revolt of the Masses
by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

ISBN 8430939695 (84-309-3969-5)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial

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La rebelion de las masas es el libro mas difundido, comentado y controvertido de Jose Ortega y Gasset. Junto con El Quijote y la poesia de Garcia Lorca es la obra de mas fortuna internacional de las letras espanolas. Es, en sintesis, un analisis historico de la relacion entre masas y minorias, un diagnostico de la vida publica, una serie de profecias cumplidas, la exploracion de una dimension nueva de la edad moderna, asi como una condena del nacionalismo y una llamada a la union europea. Esta edicion sigue la de Paulino Garagorri revista de Occidente en Alianza Editorial a la que se ha agregado una introduccion, notas y un Apendice (IV) que complementa los tres de Garagorri. [via]
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The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All
by Gregory Bassham, Eric Bronson

ISBN 0812695453 (0-8126-9545-3)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co

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Can power be wielded for good, or must it always corrupt? Does technology destroy the truly human? Is beer essential to the good life? The Lord of the Rings raises many such searching questions, and this book attempts some answers. Divided into five sections concerned with power and the Ring, the quest for happiness, good and evil in Middle-earth, time and mortality, and the relevance of fairy tales, The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy mines Tolkiens fantasy worlds for wisdom in areas including the menace of technology, addiction and fetishism, the vitality of tradition, the environmental implications of Tolkien's thought, Middle-earth's relationship to Buddhism and Taoism, and more.
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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

ISBN 0226468011 (0-226-46801-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.

In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
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Miracles
by C. S. Lewis

ISBN 0060653019 (0-06-065301-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Can God Intervene in Our Lives?
C.S. Lewis trains his impeccable logic on the question of miracles, setting up a philosophical framework for the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. Focusing his inquiry on the feasibility of miracles in general, rather than on anecdotal evidence for specific miracles, Lewis builds a solid and compelling argument for the acceptance of divine intervention. [via]
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On the Good Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant

ISBN 0140442448 (0-14-044244-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays that are articulate, meditative and inspirational, Cicero presents his views upon the significance of friendship and duty to state and family, and outlines a clear system of practical ethics that is at once simple and universal. These works offer a timeless reflection upon the human condition, and a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest thinkers of Ancient Rome. [via]
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On the Shortness of Life
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, C.D.N. Costa

ISBN 0143036327 (0-14-303632-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Phenomenology of Perception
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Colin Smith

ISBN 0415278414 (0-415-27841-4)
Softcover, Routledge

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Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato. Drawing on case studies such as brain-damaged patients from the First World War, Merleau-Ponty brilliantly shows how the body plays a crucial role not only in perception but in speech, sexuality and our relation to others. [via]
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Philosophical Dictionary
by Voltaire, Theodore Besterman

ISBN 014044257X (0-14-044257-X)
Softcover, Viking Pr

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"Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary", first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged alphabetically, than a conventional dictionary - considers such diverse subjects as Abraham and Atheism, Faith and Freedom of Thought, Miracles and Moses. Repeatedly condemned by civil and religious authorities, Voltaire's work argues passionately for the cause of reason and justice, and criticizes Christian theology and contemporary attitudes towards war and society - and claims, as he regards the world around him: 'common sense is not so common'. [via]
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke, David Womersley

ISBN 0140436251 (0-14-043625-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The "Philosophical Enquiry" is a study of the relationship between strong feelings and forms of art, that considers the inspired persuasiveness of certain kinds of writing alongside experience of the natural landscape, and is gradually being recognized as an important work of aesthetic theory. This eloquent and sometimes erotic book was long considered to be a piece of Burke's juvenilia, published when he was only 28. But it is a precursor of his later political writings, and clearly deals with a fashionable topic of intellectual preoccupation in the 18th-century. This work is also one of the first major works in European literature on the sublime, a subject that was later to fascinate thinkers from Kant and Coleridge in the 18th-century, to contemporary philosophers and literary critics. Adam Phillips has also edited Charles Lamb's "Selected Prose" and Walter Pater's "The Renaissance", as well as writing a study of his own entitled "Winnicott". [via]
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Plato, Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito
by John Burnet

ISBN 0198140150 (0-19-814015-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Pooh and the Philosophers
by Ernest H. Shepard, John Tyerman Williams

ISBN 0413693503 (0-413-69350-3)
Hardcover, Methuen

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Pooh and the Philosophers: In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-The-Pooh
by Ernest H. Shepard, John Tyerman Williams

ISBN 0525455205 (0-525-45520-5)
Hardcover, E P Dutton

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The Poverty of Historicism
by Karl Raimund Popper

ISBN 0415278465 (0-415-27846-5)
Softcover, Routledge

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On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'
A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker. [via]
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Process and Reality
by Alfred N. Whitehead

ISBN 0029345707 (0-02-934570-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
by Alfred North Whitehead

ISBN 0029345804 (0-02-934580-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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The Revolt of the Masses
by Josey Ortega Y Gasset

ISBN 0393310957 (0-393-31095-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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From his perspective as one of the intellectual leaders of the Spanish Republican government, the author defines the masses as those opposed to excellence and inclined toward conformed thinking. Therefore any revolt of the masses seeks to obliterate the very concept of excellence. 5 cassettes. [via]
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Six Great Ideas
by Mortimer Adler

ISBN 068482681X (0-684-82681-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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This enlightening study is the result of group discussions at Dr. Adler's annual seminar in Aspen, Colorado, and conversations between Dr. Adler and Bill moyers filmed for public television. 6 cassettes. [via]
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Six Great Ideas: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Justice, Equality, Liberty Ideas We Judge By, Ideas We Act on
by Mortimer J. Adler

ISBN 002500560X (0-02-500560-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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This enlightening study is the result of group discussions at Dr. Adler's annual seminar in Aspen, Colorado, and conversations between Dr. Adler and Bill moyers filmed for public television. 6 cassettes. [via]
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The Tao of Pooh
by Benjamin Hoff

ISBN 0416195261 (0-416-19526-1)
Softcover, Routledge

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Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. [via]
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The Tao of Pooh/the Te of Piglet
by Benjamin Hoff

ISBN 014095144X (0-14-095144-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living. [via]
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
by George Berkeley

ISBN 1933382635 (1-933382-63-5)
Softcover, Green Integer Books

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Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics And Atheists
by George Berkeley

ISBN 1846378974 (1-84637-897-4)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
by S. Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

ISBN 1590302672 (1-59030-267-2)
Hardcover, Shambhala Pubns

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Zen mind is one of those enigmatic phrases used by Zen teachers to throw you back upon yourself, to make you go behind the words themselves and begin wondering. "I know what my own mind is," you tell yourself, "but what is Zen mind?" And then: "But do I really know what my own mind is?" Is it what I am doing now? Is it what I am thinking now?" And if you should then try to sit physically still for a while to see if you can locate it-then you have begun the practice of Zen, then you have begun to realize the unrestricted mind. The innocence of this first inquiry-just asking what you are-is beginner's mind. The mind of the beginner is needed throughout Zen practice. It is the open mind, the attitude that includes both doubt and possibility, the ability to see things always as fresh and new. It is needed in all aspects of life. Beginner's mind is the practice of Zen mind. This book originated from a series of talks given by Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki to a small group in Los Altos, California. He joined their meditation periods once a week and afterwards answered their questions and tried to encourage them in their practice of Zen and help them solve the problems of life. His approach is informal, and he draws his examples from ordinary events and common sense. Zen is now and here, he is saying; it can be as meaningful for the West as for the East. But his fundamental teaching and practice are drawn from all the centuries of Zen Buddhism and especially from Dogen, one of the most important and creative of all Zen Masters. [via]
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind : Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
by Shunryu Suzuki, Trudy Dixon

ISBN 0834800527 (0-8348-0052-7)
Hardcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated

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A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu Suzuki has blazed a path in American Buddhism like few others. He is the master who climbs down from the pages of the koan books and answers your questions face to face. If not face to face, you can at least find the answers as recorded in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, a transcription of juicy excerpts from his lectures. From diverse topics such as transience of the world, sudden enlightenment, and the nuts and bolts of meditation, Suzuki always returns to the idea of beginner's mind, a recognition that our original nature is our true nature. With beginner's mind, we dedicate ourselves to sincere practice, without the thought of gaining anything special. Day to day life becomes our Zen training, and we discover that "to study Buddhism is to study ourselves." And to know our true selves is to be enlightened. --Brian Bruya [via]
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1984
by GEORGE ORWEL

ISBN 9685270880 (968-5270-88-0)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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La Miseria Del Historicismo
by Karl R. Popper

ISBN 8420640883 (84-206-4088-3)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell

ISBN 8423328651 (84-233-2865-1)
Hardcover, Ediciones Destino

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En esta novela encontramos al lider unico cuya presencia es ante todo una abstraccion, la negacion del individuo, la sustraccion de la informacion: el Gran Hermano. Es, al mismo tiempo, una advertencia y un deseo. El autor ha construido una metafora del imaginario social del siglo XX, al describir un pais carcelario, vigilado por un lugar desde donde se ve a el y a todos. [via]
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LA Novena Revelacion/the Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield, Cristina Sardoy

ISBN 9500826011 (950-08-2601-1)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc

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La Rebelion De Las Masas / The Revolt of the Masses
by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

ISBN 8420641014 (84-206-4101-4)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Seis Grandes Ideas/Six Great Ideas
by Mortimer J. Adler

ISBN 9684195842 (968-419-584-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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De Brevitate Vitae: Von Der Kurze Des Lebens
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Josef Feix

ISBN 3150018471 (3-15-001847-1)
Hardcover, Reclam

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