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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $5.75
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sam Harris
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2005-10-10
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Sam Harris cranks out blunt, hard-hitting chapters to make his case for why faith itself is the most dangerous element of modern life. And if the devil's in the details, then you'll find Satan waiting at the back of the book in the very substantial notes section where Harris saves his more esoteric discussions to avoid sidetracking the urgency of his message. Interestingly, Harris is not just focused on debunking religious faith, though he makes his compelling arguments with verve and intellectual clarity. The End of Faith is also a bit of a philosophical Swiss Army knife. Once he has presented his arguments on why, in an age of Weapons of Mass Destruction, belief is now a hazard of great proportions, he focuses on proposing alternate approaches to the mysteries of life. Harris recognizes the truth of the human condition, that we fear death, and we often crave "something more" we cannot easily define, and which is not met by accumulating more material possessions. But by attempting to provide the cure for the ills it defines, the book bites off a bit more than it can comfortably chew in its modest page count (however the rich Bibliography provides more than enough background for an intrigued reader to follow up for months on any particular strand of the author' musings.) Harris' heart is not as much in the latter chapters, though, but in presenting his main premise. Simply stated, any belief system that speaks with assurance about the hereafter has the potential to place far less value on the here and now. And thus the corollary -- when death is simply a door translating us from one existence to another, it loses its sting and finality. Harris pointedly asks us to consider that those who do not fear death for themselves, and who also revere ancient scriptures instructing them to mete it out generously to others, may soon have these weapons in their own hands. If thoughts along the same line haunt you, this is your book.--Ed Dobeas
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $9.45
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 170
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Publication Date: 2008-11-24
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Reading Level: 78
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Description: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.50
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kenneth Paul Kramer
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51482
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Publication Date: 2004-01-05
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Martin Buber's classic philosophy of dialogue, I and Thou, is at the core of Kenneth Paul Kramer's scholarly and impressive Living Dialogue: Practicing Buber's I and Thou. In three main parts, paralleling the three of I and Thou, and focusing upon Buber's key concepts --"nature," "spirit becoming forms," "true community," the "real I," the "eternal Thou," "turning,"--and the two fundamental dialogues--the "I-Thou" and the "I-It"--the book clarifies, puts into practice and vigorously affirms the moral validity of Buber's philosophy, with its extension to love, marriage, the family, the community, and God, in the conviction that "genuine dialogue" will effect better relations with one another, the world and God. Well-researched, and replete with a glossary of Buberian terms, practice exercises for true dialoguing, and discussion questions, Living Dialogue emerges as an invaluable guide to I and Thou. Highlights: · a lens through which to see and understand the philosopher and his work anew · a must-read for undergraduates, as well as relationship counselors, therapists, and general readers, who will benefit from the work's clarity and ease of expression · includes a foreword by Maurice Friedman
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.06
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Manufacturer: Templeton Foundation Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: C. Robert Mesle
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Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 146
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 136
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $4.98
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Manufacturer: Totem Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dave Robinson
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Publisher: Totem Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 194
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Publication Date: 2006-06-25
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Introducing Descartes is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.06
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Manufacturer: Continuum
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. Thomas Cook
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Publisher: Continuum
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Dewey Decimal Number: 170
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Publication Date: 2007-12-09
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Reading Level: 174
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Description: This is a comprehensive and thorough guide to Spinoza's masterpiece of Rationalist thought. "The Ethics" is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too controversial to be published during his lifetime, it was surreptitiously printed by Spinoza's friends after his death. Nowadays the Ethics is studied in university classes as an exemplary work of early modern rationalism. In "Spinoza's 'Ethics': A Reader's Guide", J. Thomas Cook explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text. The book then guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, before exploring the reception and influence of this classic philosophical work. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $31.54
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Smith
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 170
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Publication Date: 1994-12-12
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: This widely anticipated volume offers a systematic introduction to and striking analysis of the central issues animating current debate in moral philosophy. It will be of interest to anyone with a serious interest in the philosophical foundations of ethics. Topics discussed include: realist vs. anti-realist accounts of moral truth, cognitivist vs expressivist accounts of moral judgement; internalist vs externalist accounts of the relation between moral judgment and the will; Humean vs anti-Humean theories of motivation; and the debate between those who think that morality is a system of hypothetical imperatives and those who think that moral requirements are categorical. In 2000, The Moral Problem received The American Philosophical Association's first APA Book Prize for excellence in scholarship.
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Price: $9.90
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Sale: $8.85
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Manufacturer: Echo Library
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Paine
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Publisher: Echo Library
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Dewey Decimal Number: 149
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Publication Date: 2006-03-27
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view — embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" — its critical and objective examination of Old and New Testaments cites numerous contradictions.
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Price: $30.98
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Sale: $6.94
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Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 211.8
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Publication Date: 1989-12
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Reading Level: 354
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Description: This anthology fills a conspicuous gap in the discussion of religion and theism. The issues that theology addresses, the meaning of life, the existence of God, the truth of the Bible, the possibility of life after death, are so important to people that they ought to examine both sides of these fundamental questions. The atheist and rationalist writings collected here are virtually impossible to obtain anywhere else, even in large university library collections.This material chronicles the contributions of many distinguished thinkers who have carefully investigated key issues in religion and philosophy, but have arrived at remarkably different conclusions from those of the clergy or media. We should not neglect this long and rich history or ignore the insights rooted in the free though tradition. "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism", a thorough introduction to the writings of the world's most famous freethinkers, will lead intellectually curious and intelligent people of all religious persuasions to an increased appreciation of the scope and limitations of their own opinions and attitudes on these important issues, including the existence of God, the definition of atheism and rationalism, the possibility of Divine Revelation, the existence of the Devil, and the real history/contribution of atheism to intellectual thought.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $34.60
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Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Immanuel Kant
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Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 110
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Publication Date: 2008-03-19
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Reading Level: 624
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Description: Collected in this 3-in-one omnibus edition are Kant's ground breaking critiques. The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason, and The Critique of Judgement. The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential philosophy books of all times. Kant's influence on modern perception of reason cannot be over estimated. Here Kant redefines reason and gives us the tools to understand reason on two levels: the empirical and the metaphysical. The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques and it deals with Kant's own moral philosophy and his views on free will. A masterpiece of philosophical writing. In The Critique of Judgement Kant states that "Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound."
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