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Price: $75.00
Publisher: Crocker & Brewster: 1836
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262521
Condition: Good
First edition. Boards a bit soiled, pages foxed throughout. 1836 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 192 pp. 12mo. Green cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design. Includes hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a man, his two daughters, and his wife before a fireplace. An analysis of moral culture and how it relates to the family, the church, and one's neighbors. Abbott made sure to disabuse us all of a misapprehension of happiness by entitling the first chapter Merriment is Not Happiness. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1838
Seller ID: 2290915
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed, spine sunned, pages foxed throughout, ink & pencil marks on endpapers (text unmarked). 1838 Small Hard Cover. vi, [7]-288 pp. 16mo. A book from the early 19th century meant as a guide to lead the boy into manhood. Includes sections on: Classical learning, industry, The Imagination and the Importance of its proper regulation, A good heart necessary to enjoy the beauties of nature, Filial love, Fraternal love, The want of Decision of Character, On Buffoonery in Conversation, etc. View more info
By: Aristotle; McKeon, Richard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1947
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2298557
Condition: Good
Some highlighting in text, nickel-sized chip from center of jacket spine. 1947 Hard Cover. xxix, [1], 667, [7] pp. Unabridged translations of the Posterior Analytics (Logic), De Anima (On the Soul), Nicomachean Ethics, and Poetics, plus selections from Physics, Metaphysics, and Politics, edited with an introduction by Richard McKeon. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zool... View more info
By: Baase, Sara
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Pearson: 2012
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2283511
ISBN: 027376859X
Condition: Fine
Fourth edition. Still in shrink wrap. 2012 Soft Cover. This book covers subjects ranging from hacking to telecommuting to proper testing techniques and everything in between. View more info
By: Becker, Ernest
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Free Press: 1975
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2294440
ISBN: 0029023106
Condition: Good
First paperback printing. Spine creased, hole punch in top corner of front wrapper, ink name and date on front flyleaf. 1975 Mass Market Paperback. 315 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the why of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that sti... View more info
By: Bok, Sissela
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pantheon Books: 1989
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2290961
ISBN: 0394556704
Condition: Very Good
First thus. Owner blind stamp on front endpaper. 1989 Hard Cover. xvi, 202 pp. 8vo. Books one and two together in one volume. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sissela Bok, born 2 December 1934, is a Swedish-born philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1970. Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis Univ... View more info
By: Coltman, John
Price: $75.00
Publisher: John Fordyce / Dickinson, Printer.: 1813
Seller ID: 1865242
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed, pages foxed throughout, bookplate from Social Library at Salisbury Ferry and ink name on front endpapers, pencil notes on front & rear endpapers. 1813 Full-Leather. vi, 398 pp. Original full leather, red leather spine label, gilt titles & double rules. A collection of maxims designed to encourage the successful raising of a family using moral principles. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Abingdon Press: 1994
Seller ID: 2200201
ISBN: 0687013860
Condition: Good
Laminate bumped, page corners lightly dog-eared. 1994 Trade Paperback. 210 pp. Cries for the elimination of welfare rise at the very time that the amount of poverty in the United States grows. And the Poor Get Welfare is an ethical and theological analysis of both of these realities. It sets the context for this analysis by surveying the current situation and the histories of poverty and welfare as public policy issues in the United States. The heart of Copeland's ethical analysis is the critical reading of the very different approaches to poverty and welfare of four recent influential write... View more info
By: Fitzhugh, George
Price: $500.00
Publisher: A. Morris, Publisher: 1857
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2289635
Condition: Good
First edition. Rebound with new end sheets. Moderately foxed throughout. 1857 Hard Cover. xxiii, [24]-379, [7] pp. 8vo. Howes F-164: influenced profoundly southern belief in Negro inferiority. Sabin 24617. Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, lais... View more info
By: Harris, Sam
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Free Press: 2011
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2284488
ISBN: 143917122X
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. A very nice copy. 2011 Trade Paperback. 307 pp. In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge. Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false—and comes at an increasing cost to humanity. And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values can be finally repelled: for just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can... View more info
By: Kant, Immanuel; Friedrich, Carl J.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Modern Library: 1949
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2298554
Condition: Very Good
Jacket rubbed, 1 inch closed tear on rear jacket corner. 1949 Hard Cover. l, 476, [2] pp. Many contemporaries criticized him for smashing the Age of Reason. Goethe, however, remarked that reading a page of Immanuel Kant was like entering a bright and well-lighted room: The great eighteenth-century philosopher illuminated everything he ever pondered. The twelve essays in this volume reveal Kant's towering importance as an ethical and social thinker as well as his enduring influence on the shape of philosophy. Included are excerpts from Dreams of a Visionary, Prolegomena to Every Future Metaphys... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Philosophical Library: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1768229
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed & toned. 1968 Hard Cover. ix, 521 pp. A theoretical framework of Bolshevism showing its philosophical and psychological underpinnings, and placing it in a context with Russian labor. View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2281574
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (stated, with $3.50 price on jacket). Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper, reverse of jacket foxed, jacket a bit rubbed. 1963 Hard Cover. x, [2], 146, [2] pp. 8vo. King's second book, a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence, and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love. So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: I believe it is because ... View more info
By: Marietta, Don E.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Temple: 1994
Seller ID: 2196200
ISBN: 1566392470
Condition: Good
Ink underlining & marginalia. 1994 Trade Paperback. The view of nature has begun to move away from a traditionally Western humans-apart-from-nature attitude toward one that sees humans as a part of nature. This book describes these changes and what the author perceives as a philosophical shift toward a different holistic models of environmental ethics. View more info
By: Pellingra, S.J.
Price: $9.99
Publisher: Friesen Press: 2012
Seller ID: 2263597
ISBN: 1770971467
Condition: Fine
First paperback printing. Brand new. 2012 Trade Paperback. vii, 90 pp. A compilation of S.J. Pellingra Sr.'s commentaries on a wide variety of topics regarding Christian and Biblical living. This is his interpretation of Scripture as he has faithfully applied to his own daily living throughout his life. Christians may attend Biblical studies and read commentaries in order to satisfy an inner longing to know God's Word on a deeper and more personal level. It is the Christian's desire to discern what God truly wants to reveal through His Word. To this end, S.J. Pellingra Sr. offers this work wit... View more info
By: Pfaff, Donald W.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Dana Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271565
ISBN: 1932594272
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Hard Cover. We remember the admonition of our mothers: “Treat others as you want them to treat you.” But what if being nice was something we were inclined by nature to do anyway? Renowned neuroscientist Donald Pfaff upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1988
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2294586
ISBN: 0801480566
Condition: Very Good
First paperback printing. 1988 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xii, [2], 288 pp. An amazing, fascinating, intellectually stimulating book on a subject too often the province of cranks, fanatics, or frauds--the Devil himself. Russell, a California history professor, has written several volumes on Lucifer, and this is the most far-ranging. An in-depth study that traces the history of the Devil from his shadowy origins in the desert wastes of the Middle East and of course even further back, in Africa; follows him through Judaism and early Christianity to the Middle ... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2010
Seller ID: 2280189
ISBN: 0374532508
Condition: Good
Highlighting. 2010 Trade Paperback. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets?Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well. View more info
