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  • The Theory of Mind As Pure Act
    Giovanni Gentile / H. Wildon Carr
    Giovanni Gentile’s philosophy of mind and consciousness remains a landmark of early 20th century thinking, his perspectives on reality and being.A firm follower of Hegel’s phenomenology, Gentile sought to build upon the Hegelian theories. He believes that reality and everything around us is conceived by consciousness, and that while objects in the world physically exist, they a...
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    15,05 €

  • War, Progress, and the End of History
    Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov / Alexander Bakshy
    Vladimir Solovyov’s philosophical classic explores the nature of war and battle in human society, and the potential manifestations of the Antichrist foreseen in Christian texts.Taking the form of a dialogue between several participants, Solovyov explores a series of philosophical ideas. At times lively freeform conversation sparkling with wit and insight, at times making intens...
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    11,30 €

  • Theism and Humanism
    Arthur James Balfour
    Arthur Balfour’s famous lectures, delivered in 1913 at the University of Glasgow, offer insight into the link between theism, a belief in God, and the philosophical aspects of humanism.In delivering and publishing these lectures, Balfour sought to explain complex concepts in a way that ordinary people could understand. The connection between faith in a divine God, and the human...
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    15,25 €

  • The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
    Dr. Ernst Mach / C. M. Williams
    Physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach investigates the physical sensations of sight, sound, motion, and the perceptions of space and time.Mach is frank about his book incorporating both scientific and philosophical ideas. While acknowledging his investigations were on the border of what science had helped humans comprehend, he defends his work by stating that the manifold sensat...
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    15,87 €

  • The Prince (Chump Change Edition)
    Niccolò Machiavelli / N. H. Thomson / NHThomson
    Unabridged version of THE PRINCE, by Niccolo Machiavelli and translated by N. H. Thomson, offered here for chump change.From 1513, THE PRINCE is divided into chapters covering ruling power, be it in the office or across continents. Topics include power forms (mixed, heredity), power acquisition (with help, through criminal acts), and power aspects (bearing, flatters, secretarie...
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    16,52 €

  • The Prince
    Niccolò Machiavelli / N. H. Thomson / NHThomson
    Unabridged value reproduction of THE PRINCE, by Niccolo Machiavelli and translated by N. H. Thomson for a Harvard series, is game theory from the year 1513.THE PRINCE is divided into 26 chapters covering all the steps of power, be it in the office or across continents. Topics include various forms of power (mixed, heredity), how power is acquired (with help, through criminal ac...
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    6,42 €

  • On The Social Contract
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau / G. D. H. Cole / GDHCole
    Unabridged English value reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole.  It’s publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about ‘what is government’ on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today.How much government is too much? What rights should be given up for government? It is the Social Contract which ...
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    8,21 €

  • On The Social Contract
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau / G. D. H. Cole / GDHCole
    Unabridged English value reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole.  It’s publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about ‘what is government’ on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential reading today. How much government is too much? What rights should be given up for government? It is the Social Contract which...
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    17,62 €

  • Sadhana
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    Sadhana, literally 'a means of accomplishing something', is an ego-transcending spiritual practice. It includes a variety of disciplines in Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Muslim traditions that are followed in order to achieve various spiritual or ritual objectives. Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philoso...
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    26,49 €

  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    Wassily Kandinsky
     It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearness and moderation. Some people will say that any such capacity is a flaw in the perfect artist, who should find his expression in line and colour, and leave the multitude to grope its way unaided towards comprehension. This attitude is a relic...
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    23,64 €

  • Parmenides
    Plato
    Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the more, if not the most, challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of h...
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    19,82 €

  • The Problems of Philosophy
    Bertrand Russell
    The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge...
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    11,68 €

  • Taoist Teachings
    Lionel Tyler Giles
    Noted scholar and translator Lionel Tyler Giles offers his history and analysis of Taoism, an Eastern tradition which is variously termed philosophical and religious.The author’s principal source is the founding text of Taoist thought; the Book of the Way – or Tao te Ching - by Lao Tzu. Though the book is considered of enormous importance to formalizing Taoism as a belief syste...
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    11,95 €

  • Art of War (Chump Change Edition)
    Sun Tzu
    This Complete and Unabridged English value reproduction of THE ART OF WAR is wisdom on competition from 2,500 years ago. It lists the 13 Chapters in bare form for the reader to review and contemplate Sun Tzu’s teachings as it applies to their life.THE ART OF WAR is divided into 13 chapters covering all the steps of battle, be it in the office or across continents. Topics includ...
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    6,17 €

  • The Art of War (Chump Change Edition)
    Sun Tzu
    This Complete and Unabridged English value reproduction of THE ART OF WAR is wisdom on competition from 2,500 years ago.  It lists the 13 Chapters in bare form, without commentary, for the reader to review and contemplate Sun Tzu’s teachings as it applies to their life.THE ART OF WAR is divided into 13 chapters covering all the steps of battle, be it in the office or across con...
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    16,57 €

  • The Art of War
    Sun Tzu
    The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost ...
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    10,40 €

  • The Great Illusion
    Norman Angell
    What are the fundamental motives that explain the present rivalry of armaments in Europe, notably the Anglo-German? Each nation pleads the need for defence; but this implies that someone is likely to attack, and has therefore a presumed interest in so doing. What are the motives which each State thus fears its neighbors may obey?They are based on the universal assumption that a...
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    28,46 €

  • The Art of Logical Thinking
    William Walker Atkinson
    William Walker Atkinson, an attorney by trade, explains different kinds of logic and reasoning - deductive, inductive and hypothetical.The author begins by describing how the mind forms ideas and concepts, and then subjects these to the mental processes of higher reasoning. The memory stores a repository of terms, which are different from concepts in that they apply exclusively...
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    8,38 €

  • The Art of Logical Thinking
    William Walker Atkinson
    William Walker Atkinson, an attorney by trade, explains different kinds of logic and reasoning - deductive, inductive and hypothetical.The author begins by describing how the mind forms ideas and concepts, and then subjects these to the mental processes of higher reasoning. The memory stores a repository of terms, which are different from concepts in that they apply exclusively...
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    21,18 €

  • Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
    William Walker Atkinson
     By "Reincarnation" we mean the repeated incarnation, or embodiment in flesh, of the soul or immaterial part of man's nature. The term "Metempsychosis" is frequently employed in the same sense, the definition of the latter term being: "The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the body, into another living body." The term "Transmigration of Souls" is ...
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    13,37 €

  • Prince
    Niccolo Machiavelli
    'It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both.' -Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1503 Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli wrote his best-known work The Prince (1513), a short political treatise based on his experiences with powerful rulers leading Italian city states. Throughout the ages, this book has been a guide to aspiring leaders on how to g...
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    29,68 €

  • Studies of Political Thought
    John Neville Figgis
    Cambridge scholar and political philosopher John Neville Figgis examines how ideas concerning politics and religion changed during the Renaissance.Drawing on a range of pertinent texts from a period spanning over two centuries, Figgis examines how some of the finest scholars of the Renaissance era established and refined their ideas. In the earlier part of the period, politics ...
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    15,11 €

  • The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
    George Long / Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
    The philosophical thoughts of Emperor Marcus Aurelius are presented here in a superb reprint, brimming with the intellect and sincerity of the author.Known for his tolerance and benevolence, Marcus Aurelius was the only Emperor to tolerate satire of his own character. As a ruler he was renowned for sound judgment, respected for both his military successes and for his wise, meas...
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    8,70 €

  • The Imitation of Buddha
    Ernest M Bowden
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    15,34 €

  • The Questions of King Milinda, Part 2 of 2
    T. W. Rhys Davids
    The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization. The Questions of King Milinda, P...
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    25,77 €

  • The Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts
    Edward Byles Cowell
    The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization.The Buddhist Mahayan Texts (1894)...
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    25,59 €

  • The Questions of King Milinda, Part 1 of 2
    T. W. Rhys Davids
    The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization. The Questions of King Milinda, P...
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    24,64 €

  • Vinaya Texts, Part 3 of 3
    Hermann Oldenberg / T. W. Rhys Davids
    The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization.Vinaya Texts, Part 3 (1885), tran...
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    25,62 €

  • The Saddharma-Pundarika
    H. Kern
    The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization.The Saddharma-Pundarika (1884) tr...
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    28,05 €

  • The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King
    Samuel Beal
    The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization.The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King (1883),...
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    25,81 €


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