How to Be Good - What Socrates Can Teach Us about the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci
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Category: Philosophy
What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings?Can we help others do the same?Can we get our leaders to care that humanity prospers, not just economically, but als ...Show more
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful by Dean Rickles
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Category: Philosophy
Why life's shortness--more than anything else--is what makes it meaningful Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death wou ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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Category: Philosophy
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
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
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
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Category: Philosophy
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Philosophy
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers, their routes and the act of walking itself.
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
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La ...Show more
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Who Am I? (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy
One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we're asked directly to describe ourselves, our minds tend to go blank. We can't just sum ourselves up. We need prompts and suggestions and more detailed enquiries that help tease out and organize our picture of ourselv ...Show more
How to Give - An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving by Seneca; James S. Romm (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do--but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral ...Show more