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The First Party    by Alfonso Borello
Price: $1.99 USD. 3680 words. Published on January 19, 2013. .

A quorum of influential thinkers set stage for a memorable drinking party circa 380 B.C. Between arguments and a garden variety of layers of wisdom the genesis of platonic love is revealed.
Fundamental Aristotle: A Practical Guide to the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics    by Michael Ziccardi
Price: $1.99 USD. 23110 words. Published on February 23, 2013. .

This book is one in a series that has been extracted in its entirety from M. James Ziccardi’s "Fundamentals of Western Philosophy". It is intended to serve as a primer for students of the moral and political ideas of Aristotle.
Fundamental Aristotle: A Practical Guide to the Physics    by Michael Ziccardi
Price: $2.99 USD. 32320 words. Published on February 28, 2013. .

Aristotle’s "Physics" remains one of the most influential works in all of Western Philosophy. For more than a thousand years it had stood as a pillar to all philosophical and scientific thought. In "Fundamental Aristotle: A Practical Guide to the Physics", M. James Ziccardi presents all of the essential ideas presented in the work in an easy to follow format.
Aramanthes' Wall    by G. W Hilton
Price: $9.99 USD. 254210 words. Published on March 6, 2013. .

A political scandal uncovers a society dating back to the beginnings of democracy - one very different to what we know. Thus begins the unravelling of the strands that have bound western society together for centuries. As politicians and the powerful interests controlling them vanish forever, nobody is quite sure where this pure democracy will ultimately lead.
Fundamentals of Western Philosophy    by Michael Ziccardi
Price: $4.99 USD. 141260 words. Published on March 8, 2013. .

This work includes detailed examinations of the ideas put forth by such influential thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
The State of American Thought: Ensnared in a fallacious liberal-conservative dichotomy    by Ethan Sewall
Price: $6.99 USD. 205510 words. Published on March 28, 2013. .

The State of American Thought is a theoretical framework of American culture followed by a narrative of the preliminary platform of The Ecumenical Humanist International Political Party. The goal of the book is to help Americans and people around the world eliminate man-made sufferings through engagement in ecumenical humanist behavioral, cultural and political revolutions.
Plato - Phaedo    by Plato
Price: $0.99 USD. 44590 words. Published by academynet on May 3, 2013. .

Plato's Phaedo (Greek: Φαίδων, Phaidōn) is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days, following Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito.
Plato - Apology    by Plato
Price: $0.99 USD. 17670 words. Published by academynet on May 4, 2013. .

The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel". "Apology" here has its earlier meaning of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions.
Plato - Euthyphro    by Plato
Price: $0.99 USD. 9420 words. Published by academynet on May 5, 2013. .

Socrates encounters Euthyphro outside the court of Athens. Socrates has been called to court on charges of impiety by Meletus, and Euthyphro has come to prosecute his own father for having unintentionally killed a murderous hired hand. Socrates flatters Euthyphro, suggesting that Euthyphro must be a great expert in religious matters if he is willing to prosecute his own father...
Plato - Charmides    by Plato
Price: $0.99 USD. 14530 words. Published by academynet on May 6, 2013. .

The Charmides (Ancient Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance", "self-control", or "restraint"....