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
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (German: Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister) is a book by 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche), was published in 18 ...Show more
Republic by Plato .
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary ...Show more
What Should I Believe? by Dorothy Rowe
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Category: Philosophy
Suddenly, in the twenty-first century, religion has become a political power. It affects us all, whether we're religious or not. If we're not in danger of being blown up by a suicide bomber we've got leaders to whom God speaks, ordering them to start a war. We're beset by people who demand that we give ...Show more
On Equilibrium by John Ralston Saul
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In 'On Equlibrium', John Ralston Saul explains how our different qualities give us the intelligence, self-confidence and practical ability to think and act as responsible individuals. In this book he treats a number of fundamental questions about the human condition, such as 'What are ethics?' and 'What ...Show more
Your Chinese Horoscope: What the Year of the Horse Holds in Store for You: 2014 by Neil Somerville
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Category: Philosophy
The year 2014 is the Chinese Year of the Horse - what will this mean for you? This complete guide contains all the predictions you will need to take you into the year ahead - a lively fast-paced year favouring ideas, innovation and personal growth. The ancient art of Chinese astrology, which predates th ...Show more
Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums, and What They Tell You About Yourself by Jeremy Stangroom
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Category: Philosophy
Are you an authoritarian or a libertarian? Are we morally obliged to end the world? And just what's wrong with eating your cat? Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these, and many other questions. This unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to challeng ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind by Simone Weil; T. S. Eliot (Foreword by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a ...Show more
Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli; Paul Auster (Foreword by); Andrew Tanzi (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy
In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB. ...Show more
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Philosophy
Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize-finalist Michael Ignatieff.When someone we love dies, when we suffer loss ...Show more