What Am I Doing With My Life? by LAW, STEPHEN
7.96 USD
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Category: Philosophy
Life philosophy based on Google searches Have I found 'the one'?Am I a psychopath?Should I be allowed to say whatever I want? Millions of people ask Google all sorts of questions, everything from the big and small. Responding to the biggest, existential questions asked online and using the wisdom of ...Show more
A Treatise of Human Nature : Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature, and a vigorous attack upon the princip ...Show more
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Philosophy
'Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious' Observer'Enthralling' Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. This is Daniel C ...Show more
Trouble in Paradise - From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Philosophy
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Žižek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a ...Show more
Islam by Malise Ruthven
4.73 USD
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
Islam dominates the news, often in stories filled with images of violence. Yet these disturbing images are at odds with a faith that most adherents--who now number over a billion worldwide--would regard as no less pacific than Buddhism or Christianity. Indeed, the word Islam in Arabic means "self-surren ...Show more
The Confessions by St Augustine
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high ...Show more
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)
5.51 USD
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f ...Show more
Dream of Reason .. Greeks to Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
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Category: Philosophy
Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites ...Show more
Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
4.90 USD
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Category: Philosophy
What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons i ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
4.90 USD
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...Show more
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
6.74 USD
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations--an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds--from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with t ...Show more
The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy by Thomas Mautner (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy
Stimulating and authoritative, The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy is the ideal reference work for anyone with an interest in the subject. Laid out simply for ease of use and put in straightforward language are definitions of terms from akrasia to zetetic. What do philosophers mean by absolute and prim ...Show more