How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide T.. by Plutarch; Jeffrey Beneker; Plutarch Plutarch
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous--and massive--Lives, including politicians and generals such as Pericles, Alexander the Gre ...Show more
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
Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace, i ...Show more
Social Warming by Charles Arthur
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Category: Philosophy
Nobody meant for this to happen.Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide.Twitter didn't want to be used to harass women.YouTube never planned to radicalise young men.But with billions of users, every time these platforms tweak their algorithms to generate more 'engagement', they bring unrest to pre ...Show more
Marx (The Great Philosophers) by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. M ...Show more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
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Category: Philosophy
In this highly anticipated new book, the bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation call for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Sam Harris discovered that ...Show more
On the Good Life by Cicero
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness. In essays th ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy
Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the Christian notion of the 'flesh' - a transformation that would define ...Show more
Meditations - The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius; Robin Waterfield (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome--and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely privat ...Show more
The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter by David Farrell Krell
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Category: Philosophy
Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is familiar, being the place where life ultimately began. ...Show more
Making the Heavens Speak - Religion As Poetry by Peter Sloterdijk; Robert P. Hughes (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing, even if thi ...Show more
How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An engaging new translation of a timeless masterpiece about coping with the death of a loved oneIn 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from complications of childbirth. But from the depths of despair, Cicero fought his way back. In an effort to cope ...Show more