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On Liberty

Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the issue of personal liberty went without codification until the 1859 publication of Mill's enduring and eloquent treatise. In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions ...

Christian Ethics - A Historical Introduction

This updated survey of Christian ethics addresses major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. A broad range of topics is discussed, including the biblical and philosophical legacies of Christian ethics and ethics th...

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire - War And Democracy In The Age Of Empire

With enormous intellectual depth, historical perspective, and positive, enabling spirit, the renowned authors of "Empire"--two visionary theoreticians of the new global order--lay down a powerful case for hope in today's supranational wo...

Tao: The Watercourse Way

Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature ...

The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris has discovered that most people, from secular scientists to religious fundamentalists, agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, science's failure to address questions of meaning and morality...

The Quantum Society: Mind, Physics and a New Social Vision - Mind, Physics, and a New Social Vision

Drawing on many analogies between quantum reality and the dynamics of self and society, the authors of The Quantum Self take their theory one step further, arguing that we can change our perceptions, values and behavior--the whole of our society--...

Time, Narrative and History

<p>"For description and defense of the narrative configurations of everydaylife, and of the practical and social character of those narratives, there is nobetter treatment than Time, Narrative, and History.... a clear, judicious, andtru...

The Power of Logical Thinking - Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives

America has become a society devoid of any clear understanding of the power and logic of numbers. In this book, one of America's most popular columnists offers a classic and enduring work intended to help readers restore the ability to reason, to ...

The Subjection of Women

Landmark in the struggle for human rights argues for equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations between men and women.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

In his proposal of the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis, Wittgenstein sets the stage for the development of logical positivism. Introduction by Bertrand Russell.

Philosophy of Natural Science

This volume explores the logic and methodology of scientific inquiry rather than its substantive results.

Introduction To Political Philosophy

What would life be like without the state? What justifies the state? Who should rule? How much liberty should the citizen enjoy? This book examines the problems involved in political philosophy and the attempts to respond to these problems. The fi...

On Aging - Revolt and Resignation

"On Aging", the first of Jean Amry's books after "At the Mind's Limits", is a powerful and profound book about the process of aging and the limited, but real defenses available to those experiencing the process. Each essay cove...

The Essential Yoga Sutra: Ancient Wisdom for Your Yoga - A New Translation And Commentary Of Patanjali's Ancient Classic

This new, expert translation of the original Sanskrit text of Patanjali's best-known work presents his seminal ideas and methods in accessible, plain-language English--from a Buddhist perspective.

A Philosophy of Solitude

Man's Search for Meaning

When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book - at once ...

Libertarianism - A Primer

Tens of millions of Americans, from Generation X-ers to baby boomers and beyond, are rediscovering libertarianism, a visionary alternative to the tired party orthodoxies of left and right. In 1995 a Gallup poll found that 52 percent of Americans s...

The Ethics of Food - A Reader for the Twenty-First Century

Food makes philosophers of us all. Death does the same ...but death comes only once ...and choices about food come many times each day. In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethi...

Democracy - The God That Failed - The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order

The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in bot...