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A Short History of Truth - Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily each can become the ...Show more
Babette's Feast by Julian Baggini
24.99 AUD
Category: Film Theatre | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes o and mouths o of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that wa ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
29.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
How the World Thinks: Global/Philosophy by Julian Baggini
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
22.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The Godless Gospel - Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Do Jesus's teachings add up to a coherent moral system, still relevant today? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks.
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosop ...Show more
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini
22.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consi ...Show more
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini
27.99 AUD
Category: Food Cooking Wine
How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consi ...Show more
Without God, is Everything Permitted?: The 20 Big Questions in Ethics by Julian Baggini
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights? Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really tough 'right vs right' dilemmas, where each side ...Show more
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