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
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton, The School of Life
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Reading Level: good-very good
What does it mean to live wisely and well in the twenty-first century? And how should we go about doing it? These are the most important questions to ask ourselves and the ones we most often avoid dealing with. This insightful, witty and generous book reveals one simple answer to the question of a good ...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
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
Utopia (Hardcover) by Thomas More; Dominic Baker-Smith (Translator)
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
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Category: PHILOSOPHY | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange; Natasha Lehrer (Translator)
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Category: PHILOSOPHY
The feminist book they tried to ban in France Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.) But what if mistrusting men, disliking men - and yes, maybe even h ...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