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The Great Ages of Western Philosophy in Six Volumes. [box set]
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- 1957
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New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Box condition good. Volume I, The Age of Belief: The Medieval Philosophers, edited by Anne Fremantle. Volume II, The Age of Adventure: The Renaissance Philosophers, edited by Georgio de Santillana. Volume III, The Age of Reason: The Seventeenth Century Philosophers, edited by Stuart Hampshire. Volume IV, The Age of Enlightenment:… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language.
by Hagi Kenaan.
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- 2005
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- 9780231133500
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New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket condition Fine. Drawing on Wittengenstein, Kant, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, the author explores the relationship between language & reality and the phenomenological notion of the 'personal' human voice. 199 pages, index. Item Price
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Between Hell and Reason. Essays from the Resistance Newspaper Combat, 1944-1947.
by Albert Camus.
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- 1991
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- 9780819551894
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Wesleyan University Press, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. A young Camus spells out his political philosophy, thoughts on the French Resistance, socialism, and the future government of France. 167 pages, selected and translated by Alexandre de Gramont. Foreword by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Previous owner's initials in pencil, very light edgewear. Item Price
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Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic, and Humanist Strain.
by Paul Oskar Kristeller.
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- 1961
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New York & Evanston: Harper Torchbook, Harper & Row, 1961. Softcover, trade paperback. Good. Essays on humanism, the Aristotelian tradition, Renaissance Platonism, Paganism & Christianity. Revised edition, originally published as The Classics & Renaissance Thought. New essays added. 173 pages, index, some marginalia. Item Price
SGD 6.85
George Washington's Rules of Civility.
by George Washington.
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- 2001
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- 9780965675888
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Leesburg, Virginia: Goose Creek Productions, 2001. Hardcover, brown leather. Fine. 18th century etiquette from the Commander of the Continental Army and First President of the United States. Complete with the original French text and new French to English translations by John T. Phillips II. Collector's Classic Edition. Revised 2nd printing. 128 pages. Original Colonial Williamsburg sticker on back. Item Price
SGD 16.45
The Consolations of Philosophy.
by Alain de Botton.
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- 2000
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New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. Softcover, trade paperback. Very Good. Offers up works of classical philosophy for application to modern issues and personal problems, such as unpopularity, not enough money, broken hearts, etc. 265 pages. Light general wear. Item Price
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.
by Immanuel Kant.
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- 1950 [later printing]
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- 9780023193309
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Macmillan, Library of Liberal Arts, 1950 [later printing]. Softcover. Good. Moderate wear, student copy with underlining and marginalia. 136 pages, a revision of the Carus translation, with an Introduction by Lewis White Beck. Originally published in 1783. Item Price
SGD 2.74
Modern European Thought: Continuity and Change in Ideas, 1600-1950.
by Franklin L. Baumer.
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- 1977
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- 9780023065002
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New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Analysis of Western thought from Bacon to Nietzsche and Bergson, including questions of God, nature, man, society, and history. 541 pages. Light general wear. Item Price
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Main Currents in American Thought. [2 volumes]
by Vernon L. Parrington.
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- 1954 [1927]
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Harvest Books, 1954 [1927]. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good. Volumes 1 and 2, The Colonial Mind 1620-1800 and The Romantic Revolution in American 1800-1860. Examines the role of European intellectual traditions, new political philosophies, and theology in shaping the American mind. Explores such issues as slavery, the Western frontier, romanticism and transcendentalism, and the beginnings of liberalism.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Christian Response to the Atomic Crisis.
by Edward Leroy Long, Jr.
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- 1950
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Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. A scientist and theologian explores the ethical issues surrounding the development of the atomic bomb. 112 pages. Endpapers darkening, some wear & tear to jacket. Item Price
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The Philosopher's Joke. Essays in Form and Content.
by Richard A. Watson.
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- 1990
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Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1990. Softcover. Fine/No Jacket. 122 pages, philosophical essays, some of which originally appeared in The Georgia Review in the 1980s. Item Price
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Sociology of Religion.
by Georg Simmel.
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- 1959
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New York: Philosophical Library, 1959. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Translated from the German by Curt Rosenthal. Introduction by Feliks Gross of Brooklyn College. First published in 1905 as Volume II of Die Gesellschaft edited by Martin Buber; this is the first English edition. 76 pages, moderate wear & soil. Item Price
SGD 13.71
Why War?
by C. E. M. Joad.
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- 1939
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SGD 10.97
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A Penguin Special, Penguin Books Ltd., 1939. Softcover, mass market paperback. Good/No Jacket. 247 pages, well-darkened and worn. Originally published in the UK, this book outlines Joad's political philosophy of non-violence, even as Hitler had begun his march through Europe. Item Price
SGD 10.97
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The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans.
by Francis Bacon.
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Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, [no date]. Hardcover, decorative boards. Very Good/No Jacket. In a New Edition by the Peter Pauper Press. 228 pages. Includes glossary of archaic words and phrases. Item Price
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Back and Forth: An occasional, casual communication.
by Morris L. Ernst and Malcolm A. Hoffmann.
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- 1969
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Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition good. Political and philosophical dialogue between two 20th century humanists, with thoughtful and reasoned discourse on the tangled world of the 1960s. Both men were eminent lawyers and discussed the pressing issues of the day. Signed and inscribed on the ffep by Ernst; inscription refers to voting… Read more about this item Item Price
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Philosophy What Is It?
by F. B. Jevons, Litt.D.
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- 1914
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London; New York: University Press; G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 172 pages, general wear & soil. Introduction to philosophy for the 'average man.' Covers philosophy and science, materialism and idealism, scepticism in philosophy, philosophy in practice, personality and the whole. Item Price
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The Five Great Philosophies of Life.
by William Dewitt Hyde.
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- 2nd Edition
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- 1911
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- Hardcover, maroon cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. 2nd Edition. Hardcover, maroon cloth boards, gilt-stamped cover & spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Explores major themes or segments of Western philosophy: I- The Epicurean Pursuit of Pleasure; II- Stoic Self-Control by Law; III- The Platonic Subordination of Lower to Higher; IV- The Aristotelian Sense of Proportion; and V- The Christian Spirit of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Armed Conflict: The Cost to Civilians.
by Jan Eliasson.
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- 2009
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Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego, 2009. Softcover. Fine. Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture series, printed copy of a lecture delivered March 25, 2009. 63 pages. Includes interview. Ambassador, formerly U.N. Special Envoy of the Secretary General for Darfur and Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs. Item Price
SGD 6.85
Integrating Security, Development and Human Rights.
by The Hon. Louise Arbour.
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- 2008
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Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego, 2008. Softcover. Fine. Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture series, printed copy of a lecture delivered September 24, 2008. Series Editor Emiko Noma. 77 pages. Former U. N. Commissioner for Human Rights, also an interview. Item Price
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Between Man and Man.
by Martin Buber.
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- 1959 [1947]
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1959 [1947]. Softcover. Good. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. Includes 5 works written in the 1920s-30s: Dialogue; The Question to the Single One; Education; The Education of Character; What is Man? 211 pages, general wear, text clean. Item Price
SGD 5.48