Brew For Jefferson's

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Phillips Christopher

Energized by the initial optimism surrounding Obama's presidency and, conversely, the fierce partisanship in Congress, Christopher Phillips has set out to engage Americans in discussions surrounding our must fundamental rights and freedoms, with some help from Thomas Jefferson. A radical in his own day, Jefferson believed that the Constitution should be revised periodically to keep up with the changing times. Instead, it has become a sacred, immutable text-and in Phillips's opinion, it's in need of some shaking up.

From a high school in West Virginia to People's Park in Berkeley, California; from Burning Man to the Mall of America, Phillips gathered together Americans from all walks of life, moderating dialogues inspired by Jefferson's own populist political philosophy, formulating new Constitutional articles. With contagious passion and conviction, Philips has taken up Jefferson's cause for a truly participatory democracy at a time when our country needs it most.

Democracy Cafe

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Robert Rowland Smith

Annotated throughout but otherwise in good condition

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

What is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Breakfast with Socrates.

Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would, and so with dry wit and marvelous invention, Smith whisks you through a typical day, injecting a little philosophy into it at every turn. Wake up with Descartes, go to work with Plato and Nietzsche, visit the gym with Kant, have sex with Ovid (or Simone de Beauvoir).

As the day unfolds, Smith grounds complex, abstract ideas in concrete experience, giving you an informal introduction to applying philosophy to everyday life. Not only does Breakfast with Socrates cover the basic arguments of philosophy, it brings an irresistible, insouciant charm to its big questions, waking us up to the richest possible range of ideas on how to live. Neither breakfast, lunch, nor dinner will ever be the same again.

Breakfast with Socrates

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W. H. Auden

Louis Kronenberger

Light shelf wear on the jacket. Subtle. Pages in great shape with low mileage. Crisp and clean. Please see photos for reference.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

An anthology of pithy sayings dealing with man's ideas. Divided for easy reference into categories such as love, marriage, friendship, religion, science, the arts, and many others.

The Viking Book of Aphorisms

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Ryan Holiday

Minnesota

Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!

A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting...an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." Pick up the book everyone is talking about.

In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private.

This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental--it had been masterminded by Thiel.

For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. He would come to pit Hogan against Gawker in a multi-year proxy war through the Florida legal system, while Gawker remained confidently convinced they would prevail as they had over so many other lawsuit--until it was too late.

The verdict would stun the world and so would Peter's ultimate unmasking as the man who had set it all in motion. Why had he done this? How had no one discovered it? What would this mean--for the First Amendment? For privacy? For culture?

In Holiday's masterful telling of this nearly unbelievable conspiracy, informed by interviews with all the key players, this case transcends the narrative of how one billionaire took down a media empire or the current state of the free press. It's a study in power, strategy, and one of the most wildly ambitious--and successful--secret plots in recent memory.

Some will cheer Gawker's destruction and others will lament it, but after reading these pages--and seeing the access the author was given--no one will deny that there is something ruthless and brilliant about Peter Thiel's shocking attempt to shake up the world.

Conspiracy

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Peter. Kreeft

New York

Philosophy

Utilizing the dialogue format that the Greek philosopher made famous, Kreeft presents the latest in his series of small books on philosophy. In a unique and compelling take on the philosophies of the modern world, Kreeft pits the ancient Greek philosopher against the founder of Communism. Humorous, frank, and insightful, this book challenges the reader to step in and take hold of what is right and to cast away what is wrong. Topics covered include such varied subjects as private property, the individual, the "Three Philosophies of Man," women, individualism, and more. A wonderful introduction to philosophy for the neophyte, and a joy for the experienced student.

Socrates Meets Marx

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Paul Johnson

Georgia

A Man for Our Times

“Spectacular . . . A delight to read.” —The Wall Street Journal From bestselling biographer and historian Paul Johnson, a brilliant portrait of Socrates, the founding father of philosophy In his highly acclaimed style, historian Paul Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of Socrates, who is often hailed as the most important thinker of all time. Johnson provides a compelling picture of Athens in the fifth century BCE, and of the people Socrates reciprocally delighted in, as well as many enlightening and intimate analyses of specific aspects of his personality. Enchantingly portraying "the sheer power of Socrates's mind, and its unique combination of steel, subtlety, and frivolity," Paul Johnson captures the vast and intriguing life of a man who did nothing less than supply the basic apparatus of the human mind.

Socrates

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Christopher Phillips

Dust jacket has minor wear on edges. Hardcover is like new. Clean and crisp pages.

Utah

Philosophy for a Passionate Heart

Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we're all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. Love here is not defined only or even primarily as eros, but in all its classic varietiesfrom love of family and love of neighbor to love of country, love of God, love of life, and love of wisdom. Phillips's explorations take us from New Orleans at Mardi Gras and the gambling dens of Las Vegas to the last evangelical revival presided over by Billy Graham. He talks with moms and dads about "parent love," with inmates of a maximum-security prison about "unconditional love," with Hurricane Katrina refugees and a family who took them in, and with Japanese seniors and schoolchildren in Hiroshima Peace Park. Throughout, he enriches his dialogues with commentary on the great philosophers of love from the ancients to Rumi to Ayn Rand and Anais Nin.

Socrates in Love

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Jostein Gaarder

Paulette Møller

Iowa

Discovering two thought-provoking philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher and begins to receive some equally unusual letters. Reprint.

Sophie's World

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The Father of Philosophy Analyzes the Father of Modern Philosophy's Discourse on Method

This is the 5th volume in the series of popular volumes by Peter Kreeft, in which the "Father of Philosophy," Socrates, cross-examines various other important philosophers and thinkers (in previous books he examined Marx, Sarte, Machiavelli, and Socrates himself.) Kreeft states that Socrates and Descartes are perhaps the two most important philosophers who have ever lived, because they are the two who made the most difference to all philosophy after them. These two fathers of philosophy stand at the beginning of the two basic philosophical options: the classical and the modern. Kreeft focuses on seven features that unite these two major philosophers and distinguish them from all others. So this dialog between Socrates and Descartes is a dialog between the fundamental stages in the history of philosophy, the history of consciousness, and the history of Western culture. Like his other works in this popular series, this book is profound and witty reading that makes for an entertaining and insightful exploration of modern philosophy. It will appeal to both the common reader as well as to those more philosophically inclined.

Socrates Meets Descartes

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California

Four Dialogues

Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: Euthyphro, exploring the concepts and aims of piety and religion; Apology, a defense of the integrity of Socrates' teachings; Crito, exploring Socrates' refusal to flee his death sentence; and Phaedo, in which Socrates embraces death and discusses the immortality of the soul.

The Trial and Death of Socrates

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James Fieser

Samuel Enoch Stumpf

Has some pages with a little water damage but it does not affect quality of the book

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A History of Philosophy

This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. It provides ample detail without complicating minutiae. The text covers all periods of philosophy, lists philosophers alphabetically and chronologically on the end-papers, and features an exceptional glossary of key concepts.

Socrates to Sartre and Beyond

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1965 Oxford, 28th printing. Shelf wear. Limited markings.

North Carolina

The Republic

Plato

G. M. A. Grube

John M. Cooper

Virginia

Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Presents translations of five dialogues from Plato, as well as additional notes on history and mythology.

Plato: Five Dialogues

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Hugh Tredennick

Some damage to cover, some discoloration.

Tennessee

The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety and a defence of the philosopher's life. In the Crito, while awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Last Days of Socrates

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Arizona

Straight Answers to Life's Tough Questions

The best-selling author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior draws on the timeless principles of spiritual growth to answer question about control and surrender, destiny and free will, metaphysics, priority setting, human sexuality, money and work, marriage, child-rearing, and simplifying life. Original. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Living on Purpose

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Louisiana

With notations #paperback #philosophy #socrates #greek

New Jersey

In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an "intellectual thriller."

The Trial of Socrates

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Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Death Scene from Phaedo

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography.

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with his fellow Athenians. It provides a complete portrait of the enigmatic philosopher. This collection includes six of Plato's dialogues focusing on the life of Socrates: 'Charmides', in which Socrates discusses the meaning of restraint; 'Symposium', depicting a contest of speeches and rhetoric over the subject of love; 'Euthyphro', in which Socrates and Euthyphro ponder the meaning of piety; 'Apology' which includes Socrates' defence from his trial; and 'Phaedo' which recounts the day of Socrates death. All parts come together to create a moving read for newly curious philosophy students and experienced intellectuals alike.

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Brew For Jefferson's

Democracy Cafe

Robert Rowland Smith

Breakfast with Socrates

W. H. Auden; Louis Kronenberger

The Viking Book of Aphorisms

Ryan Holiday

Conspiracy

Peter. Kreeft

Socrates Meets Marx

Paul Johnson

Socrates

Christopher Phillips

Socrates in Love

Jostein Gaarder; Paulette Møller

Sophie's World

Peter. Kreeft

Socrates Meets Descartes

Plató

The Trial and Death of Socrates

James Fieser; Samuel Enoch Stumpf

Socrates to Sartre and Beyond

Plato

The Republic

Plato; G. M. A. Grube; John M. Cooper

Plato: Five Dialogues

Jostein Gaarder; Paulette Møller

Sophie's World

Plato; Hugh Tredennick

The Last Days of Socrates

Plato; G. M. A. Grube; John M. Cooper

Plato: Five Dialogues

Paul Johnson

Socrates

Dan Millman

Living on Purpose

Plato; Hugh Tredennick

The Last Days of Socrates

I. F. Stone

The Trial of Socrates

Plato; G. M. A. Grube; John M. Cooper

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato

The Dialogues of Socrates

Plato; Hugh Tredennick

The Last Days of Socrates

Paul Johnson

Socrates