The Philosopher, the Dog and the Wedding - The Story of the Infamous Female Philosopher Hipparchia by Barbara Stok
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Category: Philosophy
It is the 4th century BC in Greece. Hipparchia is about to marry the rich son of a family friend when she meets Crates. As the marriage approaches, Hipparchia becomes more and more captivated by the views and way of life of this strange philosopher who lives like a wanderer. Gradually she starts to real ...Show more
The Good Place and Philosophy by William Irwin (Series edited by); Kimberly S. Engels (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical ...Show more
Poetics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Poeticsby Aristotleely, Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, Song. Two of the parts constitute the medium of imitation, one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man; in fact, every play cont ...Show more
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
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Category: Philosophy
'Weaves together the biographies and the developing thought of the four philosophers with great bravura and wit' (Sunday Telegraph)The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs away his inheritance, seeking spiritual clarity. Mar ...Show more
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
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Category: Philosophy
What do we really need in order to live a happy life? Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: pleasure. All we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word 'Epicurean' with the enjoyment of fine food and wine and decadent self-indulge ...Show more
I Think, Therefore I Am: All the Philosophy You Need to Know by Lesley Levene
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Category: Philosophy | Series: I Used to Know That ...
Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And ...Show more
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person by The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Essay Bks.
We are all desperate, of course, to marry the right person. But none of us ever quite does. The fault isn't entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we're liable to meet is going to be rather wrong, in some fascinating way or another, because this is simply what all humans happ ...Show more
Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
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Category: Philosophy
Overturning the illusion that individuals are merely 'egos' contained within their bodies who are seperate from the rest of the universe, Alan Watts draws on the Vedanta religion in order to explain how a person's identity makes them the centre of the universe.
What Kind of Creatures are We? by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy Ser.
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on al ...Show more
Utopia by Thomas More; China Miéville (Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Five-hundred-year anniversary edition of More's Utopia, with writing from major science fiction writers Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men an ...Show more
Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Modern Library Classics
An edition of Emerson's writings in trade paper format, with an introduction by the poet Mary Oliver.
War by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Vices and Virtues
For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive, they also seem unavoidable. In this original and deeply considered book, A. C. Grayling examines, tests, and challenges the concept of war. He proposes that ...Show more