The Flame of Reason - Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century by Christer Sturmark; Douglas Hofstadter (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy
A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds.'Truly a book for our time' Steven Pinker 'In Sweden's public square, Christer Sturmark has done as much as anyone to uphold reason and humane critical thinking' Richard Dawkins 'As lu ...Show more
A Short Philosophy of Birds by Philippe J. Dubois; Élise Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy
The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creatures There is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will help you spread your wings and soar. We often need the help from those smaller than us. Having spent a li ...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
The Tao of Pooh & the Te of Piglet by WINNIE-THE-POOH
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Winnie the Pooh
"It's hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal." Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be useful in the adventure before us." Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102 | Reading Level: very good
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
This is It: Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience by Alan Watts
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Category: Philosophy
'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraThe spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from the ordinaryThis remarkable collection of essays from pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts offer a challenging and comprehensive insight into 'cosmic conscious ...Show more
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consi ...Show more
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Daniel;Cathcart Klein
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Category: Philosophy
Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart take philosophy to task with flair a ...Show more
On Confidence (The School of Life) by School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Essay Bks.
We spend vast amounts of time acquiring confidence in narrow technical fields: quadratic equations or bioengineering; economics or pole vaulting. But we overlook the primordial need to acquire a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us across a range of tasks: speaking to stranger ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's ...Show more
The Red Book: A Reader's Edition by C. G. Jung
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Category: Philosophy
A portable edition of the famous Red Book text and essay. The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung’s later works. It was here that he developed his principal theories of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation that would tra ...Show more
Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience by Chri Peter; Hauskeller Sjostedt-Hughes
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Category: Philosophy
What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosoph ...Show more