The Zen of Cat: An A–Z of Japanese feline philosophy by Carla Francis
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
There's no doubt cats are a meaningful feature of Japanese culture. It's believed that felines first appeared in Japan with the arrival of Buddhism, and they've left a giant paw print on the culture. From folklore to fashion, cat shrines to cat islands, what can we learn from these philosophical felines ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
Aristotle: Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher by John Sellars
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today? There is in Athens a rather plain ruin; a simple courtyard lined with fragments of wall. Yet, this little patch of land has a claim to be the most significant place in human history ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful by Dean Rickles
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Why life's shortness--more than anything else--is what makes it meaningful Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death wou ...Show more
Astrology - The Library of Esoterica by Andrea Richards, Susan Miller
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been the central tenant of astrology for thousands of years. The practice has both inspired reverence and wor ...Show more
Essentials by David Whyte
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily shifts, the ever-turning seasons or the bigger cycle o ...Show more
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Ernest Becker tackles our relationship to mortality and searches for alternative ways to live.
Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher by Laura Beatty
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back two thousand years to rescue from obscurity Aristotle's friend and Chaucer's inspiration, the forgotten philosopher who grandfathered botany and the English novel. Standing on the deck of a f ...Show more
How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the Art of Authentic Living by Skye Cleary
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.' So said Simone de Beauvoir, the world's most famous female philosopher. In this galvanising tour of her rebellious philosophies for life by a leading Columbia professor,we learn how de Beauvoir can teach us to free ourselves ...Show more
Lovers of Philosophy by Warren Ward
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their ideas. In these pages, the reader learns about the significance of Kant's infatuation, Hegel's premarital liaisons, Nietzsche's heartbreak, Heidegger's hypocrisy, Sartre's prom ...Show more
Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan by Alex Kerr
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
An illuminating - and deeply personal - exploration of the essence of Buddhist thought, from the author of Lost JapanPowerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to contain the condensed essence of all Buddhist wisdom. This brief poem on emptiness has exerted immense influence throughout ...Show more