Category: Philosophy

The Life of John Locke (2 volumes)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1876

Seller ID: 018263

Condition: Very Good

Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and political theorist whose works were instrumental in laying the foundations of both the Enlightenment and the philosophy of liberalism (freedom, equality in the eyes of the law, and consent of governed people). He would later be a major influence on both Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Both volumes brown cloth w/Harper Brothers crest blind-stamped to both front and back covers, gilt spine lettering, gilt top edge, fore-edges untrimmed. Volume I: (xvi) including preface, contents, 488 pages; Volume II: (xii), 574 pages (including index). Both volumes bu...
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DESCARTES, Pasiunile Sufletului

By: Bratescu, G. (introduction)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Bucuresti (Bucharest), Editura Stiintifica si Enciclopedica : 1984

Seller ID: 012132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Romanian-language edition of the philosopher's 'Les passions de l'ame' ('Passions of the Soul). Grey cloth, 239 pages (including index/glossary), illustrated. Moderate general wear, in dust jacket w/impressions, general wear. Uncommon.
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FRIENDSHIP and other Essays

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodge Publishing Company

Seller ID: 019037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Contains the title essay, and two others: "Prudence" and "Heroism." Black cloth w/green/lilac/gilt floral decoration to front cover, gilt floral decoration/lettering to spine, 90 pages, frontispiece. Moderately worn corners/spine ends. A nice little book uncommon in this edition.
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INTERPRETING MAIMONIDES, Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy

By: Fox, Marvin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press : 1990

Seller ID: 015436

ISBN-13: 9780226259413

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A study of the work of the 12th-century philosopher Moses Maimonides. "Fox offers a general approach to reading Maimonides' philosophy and more specific reconsiderations of his ethical, metaphysical, and religious thought." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 356 pages (including index). Gently bumped corners/spine ends, tiny ink mark to top edge in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, thin scratch to bottom right corner of front panel.
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THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, Problems, Prospects, Perspective

By: Greyson, Bruce, and Charles P. Flynn (editors)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C Thomas : 1984

Seller ID: 019045

ISBN-13: 9780398050085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

"This anthology samples for interested professionals the more significant scholarly forays into what has come to be known as the near-death experience." Contributors include the editors, Carl B.Becker, Daniel B. Carr, Kimberly Clark, John C. Gibbs, Michael Grosso, Anthony Lee, Raymond A. Moody Jr., Russell Noyes Jr., Annalee R. Oakes, Kenneth Ring, Ernst A. Rodin, Michael Sabom (who also contributes the foreword), Carl Sagan, Ronald K. Siegel, and Donald J. Slymen. Blue cloth w/silver lettering to front cover/spine, 289 pages. A nice copy in dust jacket w/rubbing, thin impressions/scratches...
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POUR UN NOUVEL ART DE VIVRE, Entretiens sur la vie, la sante, l'ethique biomedicale et l'education

By: Ikeda, Daisaku, Rene Simard, and Guy Bourgeault

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal : 2001

Seller ID: 011766

ISBN-13: 9782760618237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Translated from the English edition (published as "On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge") by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon. Based on a series of dialogues originally published in a Japanese literary magazine in 1998. Cream cloth w/olive cloth backstrip w/gilt spine lettering, 294 pages, illustrated. A lovely copy.
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Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason

By: Ingram, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1987

Seller ID: 009962

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Ingram summarizes the themes of Jurgen Habermas' 'Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns,' "placing them in the context of the philosopher's other work, relating them to poststructuralism, hermeneutics, and Neo-Aristotelianism, and surveying what other critics have said about Habermas." 263 pages, including index. Moderate soil to top edge, moderate general wear.
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The Question of German Guilt

By: Jaspers, Karl

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Capricorn Books : 1961

Seller ID: 019060

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

This one "presents one of the world's greatest minds treating one of history's most complex problems: the question of the nature and extent of the guilt of a great modern nation for some of the world's greatest crimes." 123 pages + two-page list of other Capricorn titles. Rubbing, previous owner's name to inside front cover, four titles circled on two-page list at rear, tanning. Internally tight and clean.
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume I

By: Locke, John

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, S. Birt, D. Browne, C. Hitch, J. Hodges, J. Oswald, J. Shuckburgh, A. Millar, J. Beecroft, J. Ward, M. Cooper, and the executors of H. Pemberton : 1748

Seller ID: 019008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(MDCCXLVIII). Volume I only (of IV) of the 13th edition of Locke's classic work dealing with the basis of human knowledge/understanding. Full leather, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, pp: (v), frontispiece, (32) 372. Bumped/worn/scraped spine ends/corners/edges, worn/moderately soiled covers, tanned/soiled edges, first end paper excised, pencil notations on rear pastedown, some internal foxing/soil, light moisture damage, previous owner's signature to verso of title page. Internally tight. Uncommon.
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FUTURE CONSCIOUSNESS, The Path to Purposeful Evolution (signed)

By: Lombardo, Thomas

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Winchester & Washington, Changemakers Books / Change Makers : 2017

Seller ID: 018306

ISBN-13: 9781780999852

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

"--a masterpiece, a must-read book, not only for futurists, psychologists, social scientists, scholars, and academics of every type showing them how to improve their thinking about future consciousness, but also for ordinary people to improve the quality of their future daily lives." Inscription reads: "To Paul,/Hope you enjoy/the book./Tom Lombardo/8/20/2018". 805 pages, including references, + four pages advertising other Changemakers Books. Light corner wear, tiny soil mark to rear end paper. Internally tight and clean.
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The Story of Zen (signed)

By: McDaniel, Richard Bryan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ottawa, The Sumeru Press : 2019

Seller ID: 018513

ISBN-13: 9781896559513

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

The sixth book on Zen by a former university professor who, with this one, has written "a book that traverses the evolution of Zen Buddhism from the historical Buddha to the present." Foreword by Genjo Marinello Roshi (who is quoted, above), and an afterword by Dosho Port Roshi. 463 pages (including acknowledgments, bibliography, glossary, and brief author biography). Inscription reads, "To Kelly/with gassho--/Rick" followed by his signature. A very nice copy w/a hint of surface wear.
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JACQUES LACAN (Social Theory: A Bibliographic Series, No. 5)

By: Nordquist, Joan (compiler)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Cruz, Reference and Research Services : 1987

Seller ID: 013884

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Intended "to provide access to the essays and books of Jacques Lacan that have been translated into the English language," with critical literature about his work also presented. Divided into four sections, the first contains Lacan's books in English, with a list of reviews and essays specific to the work; the second section contains a list of essays reprinted in English, with sources; the third section lists English books about Lacan and his material; and the fourth section contains "a selection of the general critical literature in English about Lacan's work." Typescript, 53 pages. A 1/8" te...
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BABEL, A Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume II (signed)

By: Reid, Lindsay, Lisa Mullins, Ron Haflidson, and Hugh Samson (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Halifax, The Early Modern Studies Department / University of King's College : 2003

Seller ID: 016939

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Students from King's College and Dartmouth University provide a collection of student essays that are "explorations, proposals, interpretations, and diatribes about the historical events, literature, philosophy, and art, that helped shape Western Society." Contributors include the editors, Samuel Austin, Jesse Blackwood, Naomi Blackwood, John Blanchard, Sarah Brodbar-Nemzer, Robyn Brown, James Bryson, Jeremy Dickstein, Micheal Fountain, Ross Gower, Christopher Hobrecker, Katherine E. Ireland, Elizabeth Smith, Christina Van Herk, and Katie Woodside. This copy signed by editors Samson and Reid, ...
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The Sayings of Confucius

By: Ware, James R. (translator)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mentor ME2168

Seller ID: 005031

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The classic work presenting the wisdom of "the most famous of all the wise men of ancient China." 128 pages (including a list of Chinese dynastic successions, bibliography, and index of subjects). Impressions, scratches. Internally tight and clean.
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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY, Volume One/Vol. 1, Number 1/#1, Summer 1975/'75

By: Wilson, Arnold, and William Todd (editors)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Waltham, The Ehling Company : 1975

Seller ID: 018362

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Good

The first issue of "a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the practical and theoretical discussion of teaching and learning philosophy. Since 1975 it has provided a unique forum for the exchange of ideas about the challenges faced by philosophers in the classroom. It publishes articles and case studies on theoretical issues, classroom strategies, experimental courses, student counseling, and teaching and learning assessment. It also publishes reviews and review articles on new books, instructional media, and online resources." (description from the Philosophy Documentation Center). Articles by Wi...
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Category: Philosophy