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
Either/Or by Soren Kirkegaard
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard's major works. The author plays devil's advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question the different alternatives. This book is written to provoke philosophical debate.
The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
A profound advocate for willpower and rational deliberation, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) believed that complete happiness and satisfaction are unobtainable. This essay from his final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), examines how to discover the highest possible degree of pleasure and success, ...Show more
Stoic Foundations - The Cornerstone Works of Stoicism by Marcus Aurelius; Seneca; Epictetus; Massimo Pigliucci (Introduction by)
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
An essential guide to the core texts of Stoic philosophy, featuring a new introduction from Massimo Pigliucci, author of How To Be A Stoic Stoicism is a philosophy, a worldview, and a transformational practice. Throughout the centuries everyone from kings and presidents to Silicone Valley entrepreneurs ...Show more
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
An elegant and intellectual work, "The Book of Tea" was written in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzo, a brilliant Japanese man with an early education in English. Through his intimate knowledge of Japanese aesthetics and ability to effectively communicate them to a Western audience, Okakura is able to discuss 'Tea ...Show more
Think Least of Death - Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's impo ...Show more
The Science of Being Human - Why We Behave, Think and Feel the Way We Do by Marty Jopson
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Offering a unique insight into human behaviour, this book explains why we behave the way we do and what happens when humans interact with the world and each other. Starting with evolutionary biology and what it physically means to be a human being, this book moves on to include a wide range of topics su ...Show more
The Book of Chinese Proverbs - Over 2000 Quotations of Wisdom & Wit by Gerd De Ley
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
Chinese culture is one of the oldest in history and the amount of wisdom collected during that time is bigger than the Great Wall of China. From Confucius to Laozi to Sun Tzu, numerous Chinese philosophers and their teachings have influenced Chinese culture, but permeated in many different parts of the ...Show more
Wittgenstein (The Great Philosophers) by Peter Hacker
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' WittgensteinWittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of 'the outer', of human behaviour, were equally distor ...Show more
Logic: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Siu-Fan Lee
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Complete Introductions Ser.
Understand Logic is a comprehensive introduction to this fascinating though sometimes challenging subject. As well as looking at logic in theoretical terms the book considers its everyday uses and demonstrates how it has genuine practical applications. It will take you step by step through the most diff ...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
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