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"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre"... Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy.Sku: 9780141395098
Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes, Edited by Christopher Brooke$19.00 -
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives?Sku: 9780143108702
Making Sense of God
By: Timothy Keller$24.00 -
Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.Sku: 9780140449334
Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius, Translated and Edited by Martin Hammond$16.00 -
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform.Sku: 9780761814672
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
By: David V. Hicks$90.50 -
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform.Sku: 9781538195352
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (Second Edition)
By: David V. Hicks$33.95 -
On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent tensions between honorable conduct and expediency in public life, and the right and wrong ways of attaining political leadership. The principles of honorable behavior are based on the Stoic virtues of wisdom, justice, magnanimity, and propriety; in Cicero's view the intrinsically useful is always identical with the honorableSku: 9780199540716
On Obligations: De Officiis
By: Cicero; Translated by P. G. Walsh$18.90 -
Derived from Greek Epicureanism, Lucretius's work challenges ancient mythology in favor of virtuous materialism. Through a combination of rich poetry and thoughtful analysis, Lucretius tackles such subjects as happiness, the soul, fear of death and the gods, and the material world.Sku: 9781936648474
On the Nature of Things
By: Lucretius$26.50 -
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests.Sku: 9780140446456
Pensees
By: Blaise Pascal$17.50 -
Any attempt to encapsulate Plato’s thought regarding education is a daunting task. Plato’s views are many and diverse, and throughout history innumerable analyses of his thought already have been made. The attention that has been paid to interpreting Plato, however, is certainly not undeserved. Plato is one of the principal founders of the Western intellectual tradition, and it is nearly impossible to examine the historical development of any academic topic without, knowingly or unknowingly, addressing Plato’s views. Regardless of our final assessment of Plato’s educational thought, it is unquestionable that his understanding of education has had a profound impact on the development of educational theory and practice around the world for nearly two and a half millennia. The study of his views is thus of great benefit, both as a means of examining fundamental questions about the nature of education addressed in his work, and also as a means of better understanding the historical roots of the Western educational tradition.Sku: 9781600512636
Plato: The Great Philosopher-Educator
By: Diener, David$13.50 -
The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun.Sku: 9780891077688
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture
By: Gene Edward Veith Jr.$34.50 -
Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression.Sku: 9780486277905
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
By: Ralph Emerson$8.50 -
A finely honed abridgement of Emerson's principal essays with an introduction that clarifies the essence of Emerson's ideas and establishes their relevance to our own troubled era.Sku: 9780517585122
Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson$19.99 -
The Summa Theologica (Summary of Theology) was written by Thomas Aquinas from 1265-1274. It is considered his best-known work.Sku: 9781951200312
Summa Theologica Selections
By: $26.50 -
Preserved in China for more than 2,000 years before it was brought to the West by the French, this compact little book is widely regarded as the oldest military treatise in the world.Sku: 9780486425573
The Art of War
By: Sun Tzu$8.00 -
What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University.Sku: 9780877849223
The Best Things in Life
By: Peter Kreeft$31.95 -
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration.Sku: 9780140447576
The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels$12.00