Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty by Sarah Firth
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Category: Graphic Novels
A delicious mix of daily life, science, philosophy, pop culture, daydreams and irreverent humour, Eventually Everything Connects is a work of graphic non-fiction that is comforting, confronting and mind-expanding in equal measure. WTF is going on? How can I find joy in these precarious times? Is my s ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
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Category: Philosophy
A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it. 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather it seems that at some point cats ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
" What is art's purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and - above all else - therapeutic for their viewer ...Show more
Quest for a Moral Compass: History/Ethic by Kenan Malik
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
The story of the global search for moral truths In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great philosophe ...Show more
Utopia (Hardcover) by Thomas More; Dominic Baker-Smith (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478-1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and ...Show more
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
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Category: Philosophy
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as G ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c. ...Show more
The Sickness Unto Death: A New Translation by S¿ren Kierkegaard
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Category: Philosophy
The "greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine" (Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling and The Concept of Anxiety. Yet only The Sickness unto Death condenses his most essential ideas--on aesthetics, ethics, and ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more
Analects by Confucius
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Category: Philosophy
One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation The book that the Chinese have returned to repeatedly for reflection, renewal, and validation of their own views, "The Analects" was compiled by the disciples of Confucius, China's earliest teacher and moral thinker, fro ...Show more