Author: Machado de Assis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: philosopher
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1992-05-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0374523282
ISBN-13: 9780374523282

The rich and eccentric philosopher Quincas Borbas names his dog after himself because he knows his pet will outlive him. Quincas does die first, leaving his fortune to his friend Rube provided that he takes care for the dog. The dim-witted friend is hardly prepared for the life that awaits him.

Author: Henry George
Publisher: Mcmaster Press
Keywords: philosopher, perplexed
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1443710172
ISBN-13: 9781443710176

A Perplexed Philosopher, By Henry George. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Paul Radin
Publisher: Maudsley Press
Keywords: philosopher, man, primitive
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $44.45
ISBN-10: 1443726990
ISBN-13: 9781443726993

Primitive Man as Philosopher by Paul Radin. Originally published in 1927. PREFACE: When a modern historian desires to study the civilization of any people, he regards it as a necessary preliminary that he divest himself, so far as possible, of all prejudice and bias. He realizes that differences between cultures exist, but he does not feel that it is necessarily a sign of inferiority that a people differs in customs from his own. There seems, how ever, to be a limit to what an historian treats as legitimate difference, a limit not always easy to determine. On the whole it may be said that he

Author: Kancha Ilaiah
Publisher: Gazelle Distribution Trade
Keywords: philosopher, political, god
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8185604444
ISBN-13: 9788185604442

Ilaiah demystifies Buddha whom he sees as a man and not a god and as India’s first social revolutionary. Critical of the caste system, Buddha inducted low caste members into the sangha and made them his trusted advisers. Dissent was given a constructive place. In contrast with contemporary Hindu society, Buddha gave women an honoured place in the sangha. Pre-dating Socrates and Plato by years, Buddha also foreshadowed key elements of their philosophy and propounded theories of the state, the individual, and the role of society with the signal difference that he also put his ideas into pr

Author: J. L. Ackrill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: opus, philosopher, aristotle
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1981-10-01
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0192891189
ISBN-13: 9780192891181

Discusses Aristotle’s views on change, natural science, the mind, logic, philosophical method, metaphysics, and ethics, and suggests why the Greek philosopher still provokes controversy.

Author: Jeffrey A. Mason
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: address, philosopher
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-08-05
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0739100718
ISBN-13: 9780739100714

Jeffrey A. Mason has written an informative, accessible guide to today’s most popular form of philosophical writing, the journal-length essay. "The Philosopher’s Address" does what no other book on the market has attempted: it takes the reader behind the scenes of the writing process to expose the rhetorical underpinnings of philosophical texts. Mason argues that readers need to understand why philosophical writing is constructed as it is, and to be aware of the rhetorical devices by which authors seek to persuade them if they are to engage fully with these texts. This book is inte

Author: Morton White
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: story, philosopher
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1995-09-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271024909
ISBN-13: 9780271024905

Although a great many memoirs are being published these days, this autobiography by Morton White has special significance because professional philosophers seldom write their memoirs and, when they do, they rarely produce books as engaging as this one. As historian of ideas and a philosopher, White is able to situate his life in the deeper and broader intellectual currents of his time, and therefore the story of his experiences at Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study is a brilliantly conceived contribution to the history of American philosophy in the twentieth century. Reade