The Old Philosopher

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The Roman stoic philosopher and statesman's manifesto for a happy life based on old-age wisdom from the classical age.Publisher: Brolga Publishing ...

America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place...

Reducere. As a student of philosophy, I took interest in it. History was also a favorite study. I was an A student in English. I liked to read and write. Cre...

"Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on its last legs, " declared Friedrich Nietzsche in this 1889 polemic. Forceful in his language ...

Reducere. ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 9Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably cu...

A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a cr...

DescriptionRenowned philosopher Roger Scruton draws on his own experience as a counter-culture presence in public life to explain conservatism in a...

Reducere. Young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, creates an intelligent but grotesque living creature in a fantastic scientific experiment. Written by 18 year...

Reducere. The Book of Wisdom is a short Greek magical text that survives in eight manuscripts, the earliest of which date to the 15th century. Although spuri...

Reducere. Select poems from the work of journalist, analyst and digital street philosopher Caitlin Johnstone. Show Me An Old RebelDo not show me a young rebe...

Reducere. DescriptionFollowing the success of 'Of Errors & Truth', published in 1775, this second book by the Unknown Philosopher (Louis-Claude de Saint-Mart...

Reducere. DescriptionFollowing the success of 'Of Errors & Truth', published in 1775, this second book by the Unknown Philosopher (Louis-Claude de Saint-Mart...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter KreeftIs abortion a woman's right? When does human life begin? Should we legislate morality? What would happen if the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the second volume of his commentary on the gospel of Matthew, Peter Leithart presents a close study of Matthew 13 through 28, undersc...

'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher ...

Reducere. Discover the real sources of many of the traditions, beliefs, and techniques of modern Witchcraft And what author Raven Grimassi reveals in Heredit...

Tao Te Ching is the 2, 500 years old source to Taoism, written by the legendary Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu. In 81 short chapters, he presented the ...

Reducere. "In a work that is both imaginative and ambitious, Belinda exploits very well the spiritual potential of the Old Testament. Her specialist knowledg...

In this practical, refreshingly optimistic guide, philosopher William B. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with ever...

Reducere. The award-winning author of Lens of the World "concludes what may be one of the best fantasy series of the decade" with her now elderly hero Nazhur...

Reducere. DescriptionUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality b...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James GainesIn one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment...

Pragmatism was America's first major contribution to philosophy, and it is an ideal rooted in the American ethos of no-nonsense solutions to real p...

Reducere. DescriptionArun Gandhi was only twelve years old when his parents left him in the care of his grandfather. For Arun, the man was just another famil...

Reducere. Opening a major new front in discussions of the Anthropocene, The Neganthropocene is a collection of recent lectures by the leading French philosop...

Feuerbach's departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has...

New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write h...

Reducere. Jorge Semprun was twenty years old - already an accomplished philosopher and poet - when arrested by Nazis for activites in the French Resistance. ...

Reducere. With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife...

Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's "Selected Works" is translated with an introduction...

A critical history of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict Eminent historian Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders, and shifting geopolitical ...

Reducere. Herein are contained the sardonic definitions published by Ambrose Bierce as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906; augmented, edited and republished by th...

Description"While life needs the services of history, it must just as clearly be comprehended that an excess measure of history will do harm to the...

From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep ...

Reducere. Oftentimes the answers to life's biggest questions can be found by searching for them at the smallest scales. In Book of Days, beloved nature write...

Reducere. Oftentimes the answers to life's biggest questions can be found by searching for them at the smallest scales. In Book of Days, beloved nature write...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Reducere. DescriptionAll the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources. Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, us...

Reducere. Almost every hour of every day, people will try to change your mind -- and they don't want you to notice, because none of it consists in giving you...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards. Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philos...

Reducere. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of i...

Reducere. In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling ...

Reducere. In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling ...

Reducere. Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist li...

Reducere. A side-splitting skewering of the sober world of STEMNo one is safe when humorist and cartoonist Tom Gauld directs his hilarious gaze to your profe...

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philoso...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Nick PatoskiWillie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things ...

Reducere. DescriptionPlato's most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, "The Republ...

Reducere. What does Palpatine have to do with British philosopher Thomas Hobbes? Was the rise of the Empire a historical necessity? How much Nietzsche can yo...

Reducere. Written between 1873 and 1876, The "Untimely Meditations, " or "Thoughts out of Season" is a collection of four essays by famed philosopher Friedri...

DescriptionAn introduction to Welsh deities through traditional myths and practical exercises. Written by a practising witch, living in the heart o...

Reducere. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The American Scholar, "" 1837 F...

Reducere. We may not give much thought to the boxes in our freezers or the cans on our shelves, but behind the story of food preservation is the history of c...

Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we cal...

Reducere. Description"Every family can have a garden." -Liberty Hyde BaileyFinally, the best and most accessible garden writings of perhaps the most influent...

DescriptionThe Mountains of California is John Muir's tribute to the beauties of the Sierra, in the book form. When he came to California and final...

Reducere. Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motio...

Reducere. The present volume contains two curious documents concerning Dr. Dee, the eminent philosopher of Mortlake, now for the first time published from th...

Reducere. "The Sages of Old Live Again in Us." With the aim of making the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius approachable for a contemporary reader, author M ric ...

The great 20th century Indian sage, Ramana Maharshi, has often been described as the very incarnation of non-dualism, or advaita, even though the H...

Reducere. Tom Tibbets takes a job at a small weekly newspaper in Portage, New Hampshire, and an apartment in the old Cooper Building, where the residents for...

GENIUS MINDS: Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking - 2 Books in 1 Featuring*Albert Einstein*Stephen Hawking2 Great Books In 1 Albert EinsteinAlbert ...

Reducere. Tom Tibbets takes a job at a small weekly newspaper in Portage, New Hampshire, and an apartment in the old Cooper Building, where the residents for...

Reducere. When he came to California and finally settled in San Francisco, John Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about...

Reducere. DescriptionThus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical novel which mostly deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable ...

Reducere. DescriptionIvan Ilyich, a high court judge, becomes seriously ill and faces a long and gruelling battle with death. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is mor...

Reducere. In this Book, though so very old, is contained more true knowledge of God and Nature, than in all the Books in the World besides, except only Sacre...

Reducere. In this Book, though so very old, is contained more true knowledge of God and Nature, than in all the Books in the World besides, except only Sacre...

DescriptionA Belletrist Book Club Pick When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, the...