How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
Either/Or by Soren Kirkegaard
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard's major works. The author plays devil's advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question the different alternatives. This book is written to provoke philosophical debate.
The Meaning of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy
To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary mortals cannot make much progress. In truth, it is for all of us to wonder about, define and work towards a more meaningful existence. Thi ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Philosophy
Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain they must have had ...Show more
Meditations: The Philosophy Classic by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most powerful and influential man in the ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things that Matter (A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition) by Peter Singer
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Category: Philosophy
A revised edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, featuring 37 new essays.A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays.Free speech and fake news, stopping Putin, pandemic ethics, climate change, extreme poverty, abortion, euthanasia, sports d ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
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Category: Philosophy
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more
Seeing Like a State - How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Veritas Paperbacks Ser.
"Illuminating and beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit."--New Yorker "A magisterial critique of top-down social planning."--Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times "One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been publish ...Show more
Mind and Body (The School of Life) by The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy
A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and ...Show more
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by leaders and great thinkers alike. Never intended for publication, Med ...Show more
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
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Category: Philosophy
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and fru ...Show more
What Would Keynes Do?: How the greatest economists would solve your everyday problems by Tejvan Pettinger
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Category: Philosophy
Have you ever wondered what Adam Smith would have to say about you playing the lottery? Or whether Jeremy Bentham could cure your hangover (through economics)? Ever pondered over what Milton Friedman might get you for Christmas? By comparing and contrasting what the greatest economists of all time woul ...Show more