Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...Show more
On The Shortness of Life by Seneca
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman. He is best known for his dramatic plays and philosophical works that include some of the most important writings on stoicism. On the Shortness of Life was written in his later years as a letter to his brother. This age-old wisdom is as applicable to u ...Show more
Marx (The Great Philosophers) by Terry Eagleton
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. M ...Show more
Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature by Michel Foucault
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose ...Show more
Hope: Moments of Inspiration in a Challenging World by Tim Costello
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
In a world that is full of dramatic and soul-searching events, Tim Costello reveals the stories of hope he has encounted in the most dramatic of circumstances. A book that reminds us all that there are so many that suffer yet still find hope. Hope can be found in the smallest of moments. A book to savou ...Show more
When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher by MARIE ROBERT
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
How can Kant comfort you when you get dumped via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger make you feel better when your dog dies? When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher explains how pearls of wisdom from the greatest Western philosophers can help us face and make li ...Show more
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Introducing... S.
'Lucid, witty and exact.' New Statesman. Linguist Noam Chomsky maintains that the human brain has an innate language faculty, and that part of this biological endowment is a 'universal grammar', a theory of principles common to all languages. Thus, all human languages and the ways in which children lear ...Show more
Turing (The Great Philosophers) by Andrew Hodges
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing. Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war computer, but also gave an entirely new approach to the p ...Show more
Rationality - What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: very good
A user's guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues th ...Show more
Simply Philosophy: Facts Made Fast by DK
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Understanding philosophy has never been easier. Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Philosophy is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Artfully simple, it covers more than 90 key philosophical ideas, organiz ...Show more
How the World Thinks: Global/Philosophy by Julian Baggini
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
Ethics in the Real World: 87 Brief Essays by Peter Singer
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether ...Show more