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Philosophy Today, Winter 1973, Vol. 17, No.4/4

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Messenger Press: 1973

Seller ID: 2289475

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Wrappers loose but included, a few light stains and spots on wrappers, wrappers lightly toned and lightly creased. 1973 Stapled Binding. Philosophy Today, Winter 1973, Vol. 17, No.4/4. CONTENTS: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by Robert F. Lechner; The Formation of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy, by Robert M. Friedman; Merleau-Ponty and the Spirit of Painting, by James Gordon Place; Selected Bibliography on Art and Aesthetics in Merleau-Ponty, by Francois H. Lapointe; Merleau-Ponty and the Husserlian Reductions, by Raymond J. Devettere; For-itself and In-itself in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, by John M. Morel...
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The Review of Metaphysics, Volume XIX, No. 3, Issue No. 75, March 1966

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philosophical Education Society, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2289477

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Binding starting to loosen, wrappers and page edges stained, wrappers lightly toned. 1966 Soft Cover. The Review of Metaphysics, Volume XIX, No. 3, Issue No. 75, March 1966. A philosophical quarterly. CONTENTS: Articles: George Santayana, The Unity and Beauty of the World, Introduction, by Paul Grimley Kuntz; Alvin Plantinga: Induction and Other Minds. Critical Studies: Twentieth Century Philosophers: Stephen A. Erickson, Martin Heidegger; Richard Schmitt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I; Peter Achinstein, Rudolf Carnap, I. Discussions: Merold Westphal, Temporality and Finitism in Hartshorne's Theism...
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Papers in Honor of Josiah Royce on His Sixtieth Birthday

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: .New York, [Longmans, Green & Co.]: 1916

Seller ID: 2304623

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fair

Lacks front wrapper. 1916 Soft Cover. 294 pp. Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism."
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Far-Eastern Proverbs

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2270173

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Top edge of jacket front previously mended with tape, front jacket flap clipped, jacket spine very faintly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Far-Eastern proverbs covering a range of topics including: advice, business, caution, children, contention, education, friendship, honor, house, inclination, justice, labor, learning, opportunity, riches and poverty, satisfaction, sin, speech and silence, strength and power, time, virtue and piety.
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Essays.

By: A Barrister [Stephen, James Fitzhugh]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder and Co.: 1862

Seller ID: 2305047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Corners rubbed, minor transfer on front board, ink name and small bookplate on front endpapers. 1862 Hard Cover. iv, 335, 16 pp. 8vo. A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf's uncle, a graduate of Eton College, King's College, and Trinity College, Cambridge. These originally appeared in The Saturday Review. The author writes quite a bit about morality and virtue, and also reviews a work by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and assesses the philosophies of several other writers. Includes: Casuistry; Mr. Hallam; Conventional Morality; Philanthropy; The Wealth of Nature; John Bull; Physical Strength; Doing...
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The Path of Peace: or; A Practical Guide to Duty and Happiness.

By: Abbott, John S.C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Crocker & Brewster: 1836

Seller ID: 2262521

Binding: Small Hard Cover

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.
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How to Think About War and Peace

By: Adler, Mortimer J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1944

Seller ID: 2199256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pages heavily toned. Jacket edges rubbed, a few small tears to jacket, jacket toned. 1944 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, 307 pp. Mortimer Adler writes in his introduction: In thinking about war and peace, as in thinking about other basic practical problems, the man who brings general ideas and principles to bear upon particular problems and formulations has a unique advantage. He can make effective contact with the concrete and the immediate without losing a dispassionate vision of the universal and the timeless. He can exercise that critical detachment necess...
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After-Dinner Freud Cards

By: Aguayo, Joseph

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Viking: 1995

Seller ID: 2297557

ISBN: 0670863254

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Includes box and all cards. Box corners lightly bumped. 1995 Unbound. Includes box and all cards. One hundred parlor cards with questions and answers to stimulate the mind and provoke lively conversation. Rediscover the wit and wisdom of Freud. Did Freud have an active sex life? What is the Super-Ego? What did Freud think of jokes? From the essential to the esoteric, the fundamental to the fascinating, After-Dinner Freud offers endless challenges and delights.
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A History of English Utilitarianism

By: Albee, Ernest

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1962

Seller ID: 2305128

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Minor general wear. 1962 Mass Market Paperback. 383 pp. A comprehensive account of the greatest happiness doctrine in English philosophy. Utilitarianism is the term first applied by Jeremy Bentham to the system of moral philosophy that sets the highest values on those acts which bring the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. A century later Henry Sidgwick, its last important exponent, called it universalistic hedonism. Tracing the roots of utilitarian ethics to the theological writings of Bishop Cumberland, Gay, Brown, Tucker, and Paley, this book weighs the impact of such thin...
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Physiology des Passions, ou Nouvelle Doctrine des Sentimens Moraux.

By: Alibert, J.-L. [Jean-Louis]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Bechet Jeune, Libraire: 1827

Seller ID: 2305440

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Second edition, revised and enlarged (corrigee et augmentee). Spines repaired, boards lightly rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1827 Half-Leather. Complete in two volumes. xc, 384; [4], 552 pp. 8vo. Leather spines over marbled boards, marbled edges. 16 engraved plates. A work on the psychology of morals by a prominent physician best known for pioneering researches in dermatology (see several titles in Garrison-Morton).
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Philosophy in America: From the Puritans to James, with Representative Selections (The Century Philosophy Series)

By: Anderson, Paul Russell; Fisch, Max Harold

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.: 1939

Seller ID: 2304613

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Ink name and pencil note on front free endpaper, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. xiii, 570 pp. CONTENTS: Editor's Introduction; Preface; Part I. Colonial Thought: Introduction - College, Church, State and Society - Samuel Johnson - Jonathan Edwards - Cadwallader Colden - Benjamin Franklin; Part II. The Age of Reason: Introduction - Ethan Allen - Thomas Jefferson - John Taylor and John Adams - Thomas Cooper - Benjamin Rush - Samual Stanhope Smith; Part III. Transcendentalism and Evolution: Introduction - Ralph Waldo Emerson - John C. Calhoun - Jean Louis Rod...
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Politics & Poetics (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Aristotle; Jowett, Benjamin & Butcher, S.H.; Kallen, Horace M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2285623

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed. 1979 Full-Leather. xxi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen and portraits by Leonard Baskin. 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 zoology. Together w...
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Introduction to Aristotle (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 248)

By: Aristotle; McKeon, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Modern Library: 1947

Seller ID: 2298557

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Buddha (Penguin Lives)

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2001

Seller ID: 2305569

ISBN: 0670891932

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Ninth printing. Jacket spine head and bottom corner of rear jacket panel bumped. 2001 Hard Cover. xxix, 205 pp. Karen Armstrong's portrait of the Buddha explores both the archetypal religious icon and Buddha the man. Armstrong follows the Buddha - born Siddhama Gotama - as he leaves his wife, his young child, and his comfortable life and eminent social status for an arduous quest for spiritual enlightenment.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine (The Black and Gold Library)

By: Augustine, St.; Pilkington, J.G.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boni & Liveright: 1927

Seller ID: 2293266

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine base, 2 inch tear on rear corner, and some other minor loss, jacket toned. 1927 Hard Cover. l, 414, [6] pp. 8vo. Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo Regius, also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, or St. Austin was a Latin speaking philosopher and theologian living in the Roman Africa Province. Augustine was canonized by popular acclaim, and later recognized as a Doctor of the Church in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII. His feast day is August 28, the day on which he died. He is considered...
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Logical Positivism (The Library of Philosophical Movements)

By: Ayer, A.J.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1966

Seller ID: 2304833

ISBN: 0029011302

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. Spine and rear wrapper creased, wrappers lightly rubbed, a few page corners dog-eared. 1966 Trade Paperback. viii, 455 pp. Edited by a leading exponent of the school, this book offers--in the words of the movement's founders--logical positivism's revolutionary theories on meaning and metaphysics, the nature of logic and mathematics, the foundations of knowledge, the content of psychological propositions, ethics, sociology, and the nature of philosophy itself.
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A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology

By: Baase, Sara

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Pearson: 2012

Seller ID: 2283511

ISBN: 027376859X

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Rousseau and Romanticism

By: Babbitt, Irving

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1947

Seller ID: 2304488

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Eighth printing. Lacks jacket. Ink underlining throughout first half of book, slightly musty. 1947 Hard Cover. xxiii, 426 pp. Deep red boards with gilt title on spine. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Terms Classic and Romantic; Romantic Genius; Romantic Imagination; Romantic Morality: The Ideal; Romantic Morality: The Real; Romantic Love; Romantic Irony; Romanticism and Nature; Romantic Melancholy; The Present Outlook; Apendix: Chinese Primitivism; Bibliopgraphy; Index.
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The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Moral of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Bacon, Francis; Morley, Christopher; Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2285627

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss of gilt from front board. 1980 Full-Leather. ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosop...
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The Essayes or Counsels Civill & Moral of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)

By: Bacon, Francis; Morley, Christopher; Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980

Seller ID: 2294860

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Light spotting on fore edge, a few minor scuffs. 1980 Full-Leather. ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, the Pursuit of Truth, and On Other Subjects.

By: Bailey, Samuel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ticknor and Fields: 1854

Seller ID: 2204495

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, top edges of a few pages stained. 1854 Hard Cover. xii, 422, [4] pp. Samuel Bailey (5 July 1791 – 18 January 1870) was a British philosopher and writer. His first work, Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, published anonymously in 1821, attracted more attention than any of his other writings. A sequel to it appeared in 1829, Essays on the Pursuit of Truth. Between these two were Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, &c. (1823), and a Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measure, and Causes of Value (1825), directed against the opinions of David Ricardo...
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Philosophical Remains of George Croom Robertson, with a Memoir

By: Bain, Alexander; Whittaker, T.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Williams and Norgate: 1894

Seller ID: 2304839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. Tissue guard loose but included, hinges broken. 1894 Hard Cover. xxiv, 481 pp. Blue cloth boards. George Croom Robertson (10 March 1842 20 September 1892[1]) was a Scottish philosopher. He sat on the Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and his wife, Caroline Anna Croom Robertson was a college administrator.--Wikipedia
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Ancient Philosophy (Philosophic Classics, Volume I - 3rd Edition)

By: Baird, Forrest E.; Kaufmann, Walter

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall: 1999

Seller ID: 2196198

ISBN: 0130213144

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Light edge wear, text unmarked. 1999 Trade Paperback. For courses in Ancient Philosophy. Designed to be accessible to today's students, this anthology of readings in Ancient Western philosophy focuses on the writings of the most important Greek philosophers, along with selections from some of their Roman followers. Striking a balance between major and minor figures, it features the best available translations of texts--complete works or complete selections of works--which are both central to each philosopher's thought and are widely accepted as part of the canon. The selections ...
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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

By: Bakewell, Sarah

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Other Press: 2016

Seller ID: 2304286

ISBN: 1590514882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Smudge to page ridge. 2016 Hard Cover. Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists’ story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters—fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships—and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have...
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An Examination of the Human Mind

By: Ballantyne, John

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood: 1828

Seller ID: 2304794

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Rebound with cloth spine over paper-covered boards, (original?) spine label laid down, new end sheets. 1828 Hard Cover. vi, 502 pp. 8vo. The first part, all published, of three that were envisioned, of a significant work of mental philosophy by perhaps the only Scot of his day who had a sufficient grasp of Hume’s arguments to realize that Paley's rebuttals had loopholes…. — Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment. A Secessionist preacher, Ballantyne had studied with John Finlayson and Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh. The Examination, his principal work … is in effect a critique o...
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Filosofia Fundamental, Four Volumes in Two [SPANISH TEXT]

By: Balmes, D. Jaime

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Barcelona, Imprenta de A. Brusi: 1848

Seller ID: 2304654

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Edges of boards rubbed. 1848 Hard Cover. Four volumes, in two. Spanish text. Clear expositions of the scholastic system of thought (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition). ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá (Catalan: Jaume Llucià Antoni Balmes i Urpià; August 28, 1810 – July 9, 1848) was a philosopher, theologian, Catholic apologist, sociologist and Spanish political writer. Familiar with the doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Balmes was an original philosopher who did not belong to any particular school or stream, to whom Pius XII qualified as the Prince of Mod...
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Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters

By: Barreno, Maria Isabel; Horta, Maria Teresa; Da Costa, Maria Velho

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam Books: 1976

Seller ID: 2263071

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Pages toned. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. A work by three Woman's Rights activists who were arrested for their shocking literary output.
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A History of Literary Aesthetics in America

By: Baym, Max I.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Ungar: 1973

Seller ID: 2304750

ISBN: 0804420300

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Half inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1973 Hard Cover. xii, 388 pp. The author approaches literary aesthetics from the point of view that the quest itself is a thing of beauty. And to comprehend the fluctuations in that quest through two centuries, he has combed the works of writers who have dealt explicitly with the problem of aesthetic definition (George Santayana and John Dewey are accorded separate chapters) and those in whose writings a thought-out point of view is implicit (including such major imaginative writers as Melville and Frost)....
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The Story of Oriental Philosophy

By: Beck, L. Adams (Barrington, E.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation: 1928

Seller ID: 2303911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket toned, jacket edges reinforced with clear tape, mostly on verso. 1928 Hard Cover. viii, 429 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and four plates. In writing this book upon the thought and thinkers of Asia my aim has been to convey what I have to tell in as clear and simple a manner as possible to readers unaccustomed to oriental modes of expression. This has meant more than translation from original languages, for beyond that lies the necessity for familiar English terms, which sometimes do not express the full implication of the original. I can hope only that I have not been wholly unsuccessful and t...
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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

By: Becker, Carl L.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Yale University: 1964

Seller ID: 2271390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers rubbed. 1964 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. A four-lecture look at the philosophical climate during the time of Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and many others.
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