The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage by Ryan Holiday
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Category: Philosophy
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for bil ...Show more
Western Philosophy Made Easy by Dennis Waite
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Category: Philosophy
Charting the history of Western thought from Socrates to Sartre, from Epicureans to Existentialists, Western Philosophy Made Easy offers a short, readable historical summary of aspects of Western philosophy and key philosophers from Ancient Greece to the modern day, with the emphasis on topics of direct ...Show more
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Philosophy
What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are our values converging or diverging? In particular, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the questions that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in searc ...Show more
Enlightenment Now - The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker
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Category: Philosophy
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred and irrationality. Yet, as Steven Pinker shows, if you follow the trendlines, you discover that o ...Show more
Humankind - A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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Category: Philosophy
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford'Made me see h ...Show more
Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga by Julius Evola
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Category: Philosophy
No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress, which together with its corollary notion of the superiority of modern civilization, has created its own “positive” alibis by falsifying history, by insinuating harmful myths in people’s minds, and by proclaiming itself sovereign at the crossroads of the pleb ...Show more
Man & His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
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Category: Philosophy
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating book. Here, Jung examines the full world of the unconscious, who ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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A Guide to the Good Life - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
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Category: Philosophy
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, a ...Show more
Simply Philosophy: Facts Made Fast by DK
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Category: Philosophy
Understanding philosophy has never been easier. Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Philosophy is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Artfully simple, it covers more than 90 key philosophical ideas, organiz ...Show more
Big Panda and Tiny Dragon: The beautifully illustrated novel about friendship and hope by James Norbury
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Category: Philosophy
The charming, illustrated story of two friends, who travel through the seasons sharing the lessons they learn on their way; the perfect gift to uplift and inspire your loved ones. 'We're lost again,' said Big Panda 'When I'm lost,' said Tiny Dragon, 'I find it helps to go back to the beginning and try t ...Show more