The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World by Chao-Hwei Shih
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty and more. An unlikely duo-Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of b ...Show more
Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle an ...Show more
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a stellar work by Publishers Weekly From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what ...Show more
The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Fatherhood, Love and Raising Great Kids by Ryan Holiday, Nils Parker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What does it mean to be a great father? And how do you become one? Parenting is a role filled with meaning and purpose, but every dad needs guidance: because fatherhood is not a one-off, it is something you do every day. Instead of a parenting book you read once as a sleep-deprived new parent, The Dail ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids by Bill Manley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings and twelve conclusions of The Teaching of Ptahhatp, vizier, or chief minister, to the Old Kingdom pharaoh ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Wh ...Show more
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald Robertson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition-insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 301 BC, endured as an active movement for almost 500 years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil: Pocket Hardbacks by Friedrich Nietzsche
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the indi ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
Life Is Hard by Kieran Setiya
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A timely, lyrical book of philosophy that offers us solace and the hope of living better even while recognising life is hard - something we all need right nowAn eloquent, moving, witty and above all useful demonstration of philosophy's power to help us weather the storms of being human' Oliver Burkeman, ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is ...Show more