Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in Chaotic Times by Brigid Delaney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Tranquillity can be hard to find. The last few years have had most of us struggle with things outside of our control - lockdowns, illness, separation from loved ones, financial hardships. It's easy in times like these to feel overwhelmed, and when the world has turned itself upside down it's hard to fin ...Show more
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What do we really need in order to live a happy life? Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: pleasure. All we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word 'Epicurean' with the enjoyment of fine food and wine and decadent self-indulge ...Show more
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision co ...Show more
The Art of War (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sun Tzu
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Read the Essential Guide to Strategy "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
$12.99 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
Great Thinkers School of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing instead on the thinkers whose ideas are the most helpful to our lives now. This is a collection of sixty of the most important and ...Show more
New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
$42.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: A\New History of Western Philosophy Ser.
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us ...Show more
An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
In his controversial book "An Outline of Philosophy", first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from our physical world to the universe, his argumen ...Show more
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stor ...Show more
The Stoic Challenge - A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine; Anon
$42.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plumbing the wisdom of one of the most popular and successful schools of thought from ancient Rome, philosop ...Show more
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy a ...Show more
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change — even if it means undermining the foundations of ou ...Show more