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ANSCOMBE G E M
An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus

VG VG- wear and short tear to DW, feps removed, top edge dusty.

$30 C/B [PP 44]

Hutchinson University Library 1959 hardcover, 179pp.


ARISTOTLE trsl J A K Thomson
The Ethics of Aristotle The Nichomachean Ethics translated.

VG small area of surface wear bottom edge of cover.

$8 A/A [Item# 267 PP]

Penguin Classics 1963 paperback, 320pp. Ancient Greek philosophy.


BACON Francis edited G W Kitchin
The Advancement of Learning

VG

$8 C/B [PP 31]

Heron Press nd gilt decorated leatherette, xii 246pp



BENNETT J G  The Dramatic Universe Volume One; The Foundations of Natural Philosophy
VG- rubbed to edges $30 C/C Hodder 1956 first edition cloth 8vo, xlii 534pp. A systematic philosophy by the disciple of Gurdjieff [#1156 philosophy]

BRONOWSKI Jacob  The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
VG VG faint fade to spine titling $15 C/B Yale University Press 1978 first edition hardcover, xiii 146pp. 'traces the evolutionary stages of the cognitive and linguistic capacities' ISBN 0300021925 [# 1242 philosophy]
BRUNTON Paul
Indian Philosophy and Modern Culture

G dw chipped with loss, foxed throughout

$15 B/A [PP 1]

Rider nd 7th impression slight book, cloth , 48pp foxed throughout otherwise no faults. Indian Monism and Western thought + Indian Idealist Metaphysics


BRUNTON Paul
Indian Philosophy and Modern Culture

G foxed prelims.

$10 B/A [Item# 35 PP]

Rider nd 7th impression slight book, cloth , 48pp. Indian Monism and Western thought + Indian Idealist Metaphysics.


CHARLESWORTH M J
Philosophy of Religion; the Historic Approaches

VG VG minor edge chip

$15 C/B [PP 8]

MacMillan 1972 FIRST EDITION hardcover xiv 216pp philosophy as religion / philosophy as the handmaid of religion / philosophy as making room for faith / philosophy and the analysis of religious language. covers Plato and Platonists, Augustine, Aquinas, Ghazzali,Pascal, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein etc. ISBN 333028627


CHATTOPADHYAYA Debiprasad
What is Living and What is Dead in Indian Philosophy

VG- ex library with bookplate and cancellations etc. includes stamp to upper board.

$30 C/C [PP 55]

Peoples Publishing House Delhi 1977 second edition, cloth, xvi 656pp. Includes Methodology / Idealism / Antithesis of Idealism. Hindu philosophy.



COOKE Bill  Heathen in Godzone Seventy Years of Rationalism in New Zealand
FN $30 C/C NZARH 1998 first edition soft cover, 240pp. PRESENTATION COPY to Professor Bernard Howard, signed on title page by author and with a presentation letter slipped in at front. A history of the New Zealand Rationalist Association and movement. ISBN 0473053926 [#1229 philosophy]
DAVIES Brian
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

VG name blacked out to first page, faint marginal pencil lining.

$9 B/A [PP 43]

Oxford University 1987 paperback, x 144pp. Basic introductory material. ISBN 0192891456


DE CHARDIN Teilhard
The Phenomenon of Man

VG VG light foxing to closed edges, name stamp to fep.

$15 C/C [PP 57]

Collins 1965 revised edition hardcover, 320pp. The author tries to combine Christian theology with Evolutionary theory.


DESCARTES Rene translated by CRESS Donald A
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

VG-FN

$8 B/B [PP 12]

Hackett 1980 softcover, xvi 100pp includes bibliography, new but storage wear to spines. ISBN 0915144840


DESCARTES Rene translated by CRESS Donald A
Discourse on Method

VG rubbed wrappers

$6 B/$5 international [PP 13]

Hackett 1982 stapled wrappers, xiii 42pp, new but storage wear to covers.Includes preface and bibliography. ISBN 0915144832


FLYNN James R
Humanism and Ideology an Aristotelian view

VG VG sunned and price clipped DW, name label to fep, neat pencil underlining and faint foxing

$15 C/B [PP 20]

Routledge Kegan Paul 1973 first edition hardcover, 192pp, some emphasis on Jefferson and James; Hobbes and Modern Natural Right; von Right and the Naturalistic Fallacy. ISBN 0710074425



FULLER R Buckminster  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
VG- rubbed edges $15 B/A Clarion 1970 first soft cover edition 144pp. SBN 671207830 [# 790 philosophy]
HICKEY J S
Summula Philosophiae Scholasticae in usum Adolescentum Volumen II Cosmologia et Psychologia.

VG name to fep and title,pencil notes in text, pen inscription to blank half of final page.

$10 C/C [PP 60]

M H Gill 1920 cloth, viii 480pp. Editio Quinta recognita et adaucta. Text in Latin, footnotes English. Scholastic philosophy (Catholic).


HOWARD V A
Artistry, the work of artists

VG+ VG

$10 C/B [PP 16]

Hackett 1982 first edition cloth, 212pp. Art, Craft, and Skill; In Search of Nature's Way of Singing; Languages of Craft; Craft, Creativity and Imagination; Practice and the Vision of Mastery. ISBN 0915145065 art theory philosophy


HUSSERL Edmund (translated ALSTON & NAKHNIKIAN)
The Idea of Phenomenology

VG- some marginal and underlining throughout in pen.

$35 B/ B [PP 38]

Martinus Nijhoff 1964 first edition cloth, xxii 60pp.


JASPERS Karl trsl Stanley Godman
Reason and Anti-Reason in our time

VG G DW chipped with some loss.

$15 B/B [Item# 89 PP]

SCM Press 1953 1/4 cloth, 96pp. Analyses the claims of psycho-analysis and Marxism to be reasonable philosophies and then expounds his own view of the nature of reason, deals with Nietzsche, Marx etc.



KIERKEGAARD Soren trsl Hannay  Fear and Trembling VG+ $8 A/A Penguin 1985 first edition paperback, first translated thus, 158pp Christian religious philosophy / psychology. ISBN 0140444491 [PB#144 philos]
LAWRENCE & O'CONNOR
Readings in Existential Phenomenology

VG- G- minor amount of underlining, DW heavily chipped to edges and worn with some tears, name to fep.

$20 C/C [PP 39]

Prentice Hall 1967 first edition cloth large 4to, xi 411pp selected readings.



MARCUSE Herbert  Eros and Civilization A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
G+ aged, name whited out to inside cover. $7 C/B Vintage paperback 1962 1st thus 256pp. Psychoanalysis, repression, civilization, aesthetics, sexuality, eros, thanatos. [Item# 92 PP]

MARCUSE Herbert  Eros and Civilization A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
VG covers curled, edges browning from age $9 A/B Abacus 1972 paperback, 192pp. New introduction by author. [# 1040 philosophy]
MORE G E
Principia Ethica

G+ pen underlining, soiled wrappers, name stamp to fep.

$10 C/B [Item# 90 PP]

Cambridge University 1966 softcover xxvii 232pp


MORE Thomas
Utopia / A Dialogue of Comfort

VG

$8 C/B [PP 32]

Heron Press nd gilt decorated leatherette, xix 428pp


PANDEYA Ramchandra
Indian Studies in Philosophy

VG- ex library with bookplate and cancellations etc. includes stamp to upper board.

$15 C/B [PP 56]

Motilal Banarsidass 1977 first edition cloth, xi 229pp. Includes Buddhist and Jaina, Madhyamika, Syadvada.


PLATO translated by A D LINDSAY
The Republic

VG

$8 C/B [PP 30]

Heron Press nd gilt decorated leatherette, xl 325pp


QUINE W V & ULLIAN J S
The Web of Belief second edition

VG light crease to cover

$15 B/B [PP 14]

McGraw Hill 1978 softcover, vi 147pp the philosophical basis and investigation of belief...how beliefs are arrived at etc.(Secons copy available has been contact sealed and with name to second page facing title). ISBN 0075536099



RAND Ayn  The New Left The Anti-Industrial Revolution
VG $8 A/A Signet 1975 second revised edition paperback, 239pp. Includes 'The Age of Envy'. ( objectivism ) ISBN 0451095510225 [PB#29 philosophy]

RAND Ayn  The New Left The Anti-Industrial Revolution
VG $8 A/A Signet 1975 second revised edition paperback, 239pp. Includes 'The Age of Envy' ISBN 0451095510225 [PB# 498 philosophy]

RUSSELL Bertrand  Mysticism and Logic Pelican A270 first
VG faintly foxed edges and spine $10 A/A Penguin Pelican 1953 first thus edition paperback, sewn sheets, 220pp [PB# 497 philosophy]
TAYLOR Richard
Metaphysics (second edition)

G+ rubbed covers, some pencil notation.

$8 B/B [PP 51]

Prentice Hall (Foundations of philosophy series) 1974 second revised edition, xvii 133pp. Intorduction to metaphysics including theories of deity etc. ISBN 0135784689


THAYER H S editor
Pragmatism, the classic writings

VG- worn wraps

$12 C/C [PP 17]

Hackett 1982 softcover, 383pp. Selections from C S Peirce, William James, Clarence Irving Lewis, John Dewey, G H Mead. ISBN 0915145375



THIELICKE Helmut  Nihilism, Its origin and nature- with a christian answer ed. Ruth Nanda Anshen
VG VG price clipped DW light spotting $15 C/B RKP 1962 1st edn hardcover part of the Religious Perspectives series. Studies the influence of Nihilism in modern psychiatry, medicine, law and politics [# 1062 philosophy]
TOULMIN Stephen
The Philosophy of Science an introduction

VG top of half title trimmed, owners details to final page

$8 B/B [PP 24]

Hutchinson University Library 1967 softcover, 160pp



VOLTAIRE  Philosophical Dictionary VG+ name to first page $8 C/B Penguin Classics paperback 400pp ISBN 014044257X [PB# 345 philos]
WILBER Ken
The Collected Works of Ken Wilber vol 4

VG VG one page minor damage to fore edge margin

$60 C/D [PP 2]

Shambhala 1999 FIRST EDITION thus hardcover ix 742pp includes Integral Psychology / Transformations of Consciousness / Selected Essays, psychology, philosophy. ISBN 1570625042


WILBER Ken
The Marriage of Sense and Soul, Integrating Science and Religion

VG bookplate to first page

$15 B/B [PP 4]

Broadway 1999 softcover xii 225pp survey of the past , present and future attempts at reconciling science and religion,covers Romanticism, Idealism and postmodernism. ISBN 0767903439 psychology


WILBER Ken
The Essential Ken Wilber an introductory reader

VG bookplate to half title, binding opens flat at centre

$15 B/B [PP 5]

Shambhala 1998 FIRST EDITION softcover viii 199pp introductory sampler with excerpts from his most popular works. ISBN 1570623791 psychology


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