The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell's staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in this highly controversial text, which outlines his sh ...Show more
The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu by Lao Tzu; Brian Browne Walker (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Essential Wisdom Library
An enduring translation of a timeless work, now in a new edition.The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu is one of the most widely read and deeply cherished books in the world, a work many consider the wisest book ever written. In his introduction, translator Brian Browne Walker says, "It is less a book than a livi ...Show more
Parallel Thinking by Edward De Bono
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Category: Philosophy
Western thinking is failing because it was not designed to deal with change In this provocative masterpiece of creative thinking, Edward de Bono argues for a game-changing new way to think. For thousands of years we have followed the thinking system designed by the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and ...Show more
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
The Words to Say it by Marie Cardinal
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Category: Philosophy
THE WORDS TO SAY IT by Marie Cardinal, translated by Pat Goodheart, Van Vactor & Goodheart Publisher, is in the words of Bruno Bettelheim "the best account of a psychoanalysis as seen and experienced by the patient." It is the story of a healing, set against the events in Algeria. Taught in over sev ...Show more
The Meaning of Things - Applying Philosophy to Life by A C Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK. Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and uplifting. A life truly worth li ...Show more
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix
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Category: Philosophy
In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE Told through a series of beautifully crafted stories taken from nearly four ...Show more
101 Dilemmas for the Armchair Philosopher by Eric Chaline
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Category: Philosophy
In a democracy, should everyone--absolutely everyone--get a vote? Does it really matter if tigers become extinct? Why does murder carry a heavier penalty than attempted murder? If you don't like the socks your grandma gives you for Christmas, should you tell her so? Packed with moral dilemmas, thought ...Show more
Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems by Peter Cave
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Category: Philosophy
What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from the funny to the very serious indeed. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, fascinating insights and common ...Show more
Talking Philosophy:dialogues With Fifteen Leading Philosophers by Bryan Magee
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Category: Philosophy
This work consists of 15 dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. Moral philosophy, political philosophy, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science are all treated in depth by the thinkers whose work has shaped the fields.
I Ching by David Hinton
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Category: Philosophy
In a radically new translation and interpretation of the I Ching, David Hinton strips this ancient Chinese masterwork of the usual apparatus and discovers a deeply poetic and philosophical text. Teasing out an elegant vision of the cosmos as ever changing yet harmonious, Hinton reveals the seed from whi ...Show more