Utopia by Sir Thomas More
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hold all possessions in common, and view gold as worthless ...Show more
Story of Philosophy: From Antiquity to the Present by Christoph Delius
35.00 AUD
Category: Religion & Philosophy
Retraces the story and development of philosophy from the antique times to our days, with numerous illustrations and excursuses about major philosophers, thinkers, theoricians and movements. This textbook is suitable for students and for anyone interested to know more about philosophy.
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more strictly philosophical topics of logic, metaphysics and ethics. To the poet Dante, he was simply 'the master of ...Show more
Upanishads by Suren Navlakha
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expressed in the Rig-Veda more than 4000 years ago. Remarkab ...Show more
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This translation first appeared in a privately printed edition in 1904 (the translator remains anonymous). With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellec ...Show more
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
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Category: Religion & Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the history of ideas in the eighteenth centur ...Show more
Greek & Roman Myths by Jake Jackson
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Category: Mythology | Series: The World's Greatest Myths and Legends
The classical gods of Rome uncoiled from the fertile imaginations of the ancient Greeks whose gods were passionate and violent, jealous of their powers and subject to both mighty outbursts of love and all-consuming bouts of vengeful war. The dark forces of the ancient world were held at bay by the resou ...Show more
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius; Richard H. Green (Translation & Notes)
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Category: Religion & Philosophy
2016 Reprint of the 1962 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Translated, with an introduction and notes by Richard H. Green. "The Consolation of Philosophy" was written in the sixth-century and has been described as having had the single mos ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
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Category: Mythology
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales (HB) by Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
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Category: Barefoot
This engaging collection includes eight delightful tales from the Jewish tradition. Each story has been chosen for its appeal to families and each has a simple yet powerful, message. Written by Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, herself a mother of three, this is a fantastic set of stories to share and to tre ...Show more
Selections and Essays (John Ruskin) by John Ruskin
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Category: Religion & Philosophy
A leading art patron, lecturer, and author of the Victorian era, John Ruskin was also one of the period's foremost art and social critics. This anthology features excerpts from some of his best-known books, including Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice, on the subjects he held most dear: nature, ar ...Show more
Stoic and Epicurean by R. D. Hicks
49.99 AUD
Category: Religion & Philosophy
The ongoing popularity of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations testifies to a continuing interest in Stoic philosophy. Epicureanism offers the other side of the same coin, and in spite of the obvious differences between the two philosophies, it is easy to discern their fundame ...Show more