Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits by Jen Martin
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Why can’t I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I’m missing out? Why can’t I remember why I walked into this room? In Why Am I Like This?, Dr. Jen Martin delves into the science behind our strangest thoughts and habits, from why smells make us homesick to why we stick our tongues out when we’r ...Show more
Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
"Dr. Durant's outline includes not only lucid explanations of the great philosophies, but the careers of the philosophers and interpretations based upon the two-fold view, together with a host of good tales and merry quips by and about famous scholars from Socrates to Professor John Dewey."
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Shambhala Library
One of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture, The Book of Five Rings analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. Written by the renowned Japanese warrior Miyamoto Musashi in 1 ...Show more
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
This edition has a NEW introduction by PAULO COELHO. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and mo ...Show more
The Politics by Aristotle
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
Meditations (Chartwell Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
The classic collection of writings by second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, now distinctively packaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. A compendium of ruminations and reflections by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to th ...Show more
The Great Philosophers: Socrates by Anthony Gottlieb
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'If you put me to death,' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.'So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His word ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections of previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skeptici ...Show more