Philosophy of Mind: the Basics by Amy Kind
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Basics Ser.
Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind. The author Amy Kind, a leading expert in the field, examines central issues concerning the nature of consciousness, thought, and emotion. The book addresses key q ...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
How to Grow Old - Ancient Wisdom for ... by Marcus Tullius Cicero; Philip Freeman (Introduction by, Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all-and why you might ...Show more
Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris?s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From bestselling author, neuroscientist, and "new atheist" Sam Harris, Waking Upis for the increasingly large number ...Show more
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics.In ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions — democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural canons, dra ...Show more
The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids by Bill Manley
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Category: Philosophy
Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings and twelve conclusions of The Teaching of Ptahhatp, vizier, or chief minister, to the Old Kingdom pharaoh ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in "Penguin Classics". Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, "The Communist Manifesto" is one of the most ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, o ...Show more
Phenomenology of Spirit by Hegel
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Galaxy Books
This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader understand this most difficult and most influential of Heg ...Show more
Politics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy
Aristotle examines government, politics and how societies are run - from households to city states - and establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld. A timeless study of politics and society by one of the all-time greatest thinkers. A student of Plato, Aristotle is consider ...Show more