The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
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Category: Philosophy
Discover the most important ideas in philosophy and the individuals behind them Get to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe. Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers in a clear and simple way, The Philo ...Show more
How to Be - Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is justice? How can I be myself?How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five ...Show more
The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion (Collins Classics) by Epictetus
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Ep ...Show more
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger
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Category: Philosophy
An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Be ...Show more
How to Flourish An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully a ...Show more
How to Do the Right Thing by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve-that we’ve been misjudged, short-changed, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that ...Show more
Wisdom from the Ancients by SWAIN, SIMON
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Category: Philosophy
A compilation of ancient wisdom sourced from ancient and medieval philosophers. Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Many of these wise observations originated from the philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome ...Show more
The Republic (Hero Classics) by Plato
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess (Bendis, the Thracian Artemis.); and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the procession of the inha ...Show more
The Art of War (Hero Classics) by Sun Tzu
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
Although there are many classic treatises on the subject, it may be said that no greater work on the subject of military theory exists than Sun Tzu's "The Art of War." It is certainly one of the oldest known books on the subject having been written some 2500 years ago. Sun Tzu, a Chinese general, milita ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
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Category: Philosophy | Series: How to Think Ser.
How ought we to live? What is it to flourish as a human being? How should we best approach death? We all think about these questions at one time or another, and, as Socrates famously said, 'the unexamined life is not worth living'. In showing how the great philosophers of human history reasoned and what ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more
Descartes - The Renewal of Philosophy by Steven Nadler
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A critical biography of René Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes set the intellectual agenda for seventeenth-century philosophy, mathematics, natural science, and beyond. In this critical bi ...Show more