Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas,Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930	Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the r…	OL15314568W
How Philosophers Saved Myths	Luc Brisson	This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical …	OL1699539W
Men of ideas	Bryan Magee	Philosophers	OL1731635W
Great philosophers	Jeremy Stangroom	Introduces history's greatest philosophers and explains their major contributions to the field of philosophy, profiling such figures as Francis Bacon, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russe…	OL17894966W
Moses Maimonides and his time	Eric L. Ormsby	vii, 180 p. ; 24 cm	OL18272041W
Appetites for thought	Michel Onfray	"[O]ffers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers if we look at their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with er…	OL20023392W
The philosophy book	Gregory Bassham	"Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal pub…	OL20046351W
The happiness philosophers	Bart Schultz	Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism--one of the most influential yet misunderstood and maligned philosophies of the past two centuries. B…	OL20060232W
Legitimation of belief	Ernest Gellner	"The main aim of this thoughtful and thought-provoking book is to characterize and explain the difference between pre-scientific systems of belief within which science could, and did, emerge and deve…	OL2711013W
The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought	William Outhwaite	"This Dictionary provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the main themes of social thought, principal schools and movements of thought and those institutions that have been the subjec…	OL3534206W
From Socrates to Sartre	T.Z. Lavine,Thelma Z. Lavine,T. Z Lavine,T. Z. Lavine	A tour of philosophy through six philosophers, with an emphasis on epistemology and ethics.	OL3677810W
The Liar's Tale	Jeremy Campbell	"Lies are often so subtle, so deftly woven into easily acceptable truths that we often fail to recognize them. Fireflies find mates by duping rivals with patterns of deceptive flashes; politicians wi…	OL4799513W
Hegel, Haiti and universal history	Susan Buck-Morss	In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reint…	OL487095W
Lectures on modern philosophy	Anderson, John	"These lectures from the 1930s on David Hume, Thomas Reid, and William James trace the development of John Anderson's empirical realism, helping to distinguish his position from "English" empiricism,…	OL5546720W
Philosophy	Philip Stokes	Who am I? What is justice? What does it mean to live a good life? Many of the fundamental questions of philosophy are questions that we begin to ask ourselves as young adults when we look at the worl…	OL6033895W
Theosophie	Rudolf Steiner	Austrian philosopher, playwright, and artist Rudolf Steiner (1861 1925) is perhaps best known as an educational philosopher and reformer, the founder of Steiner (or Waldorf) schools located around th…	OL619169W
Logic and the Art of Memory	Paolo Rossi	xxviii, 333 p. ; 23 cm	OL6884850W
The Search for the Causes of Crime	Michael Dow Burkhead	"This volume examines criminology from the perspective of centuries of study. Written by a psychologist who has worked extensively with the criminal population, it focuses on the diverse theories tha…	OL8569248W