A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luth ...Show more
Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Concise edition) by ISAAC NEWTON
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Foundations Ser.
Newton's bold masterwork helped shaped the cultural landscape of the world today. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader. The Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy is one of the most important scientific works ever to have been written and has had a profound impact o ...Show more
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
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Category: Philosophy
A timely critique investigating how four women philosophers persevered in a field that often suppressed and disregarded the insights of female thinkers. As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange wor ...Show more
Philosophy for Everyone: Understand How Philosophers Have Helped Us to Tackle the Big Mysteries of Life by Clive Gifford
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Category: Philosophy
Understand how philosophers have helped us to tackle the big mysteries of life - from why we are here to how we know if something is really true. This step-by-step journey introduces the most influencial philosophers from history, making their ideas accessible to young readers everywhere.
The Failures of Philosophy - A Historical Essay by Stephen Gaukroger
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Category: Philosophy
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy--and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy has a ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...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
How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first ce ...Show more
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
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Category: Philosophy
SUM shows us forty wonderfully imagined possibilities of life beyond death. In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence. In another, your creators are a species of dim-witted creatures who built us to figure out what they could not. In a different ver ...Show more
What Would Plato Think? 200+ Philosophical Questions That Could Change Your Life by D.E. Wittkower
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Category: Philosophy
Get one step closer to solving the uncertainties in your life with this guided journal and philosophy overview, What Would Plato Think? Inside What Would Plato Think?, you'll find the basics of philosophy, written in an easy, digestible way we can all understand, along with questions to help you apply t ...Show more
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful by Dean Rickles
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Category: Philosophy
Why life's shortness--more than anything else--is what makes it meaningful Death might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death through an afterlife or in some other way? On the contrary, Dean Rickles argues, life without death wou ...Show more
Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Category: Philosophy
"Dr. Durant's outline includes not only lucid explanations of the great philosophies, but the careers of the philosophers and interpretations based upon the two-fold view, together with a host of good tales and merry quips by and about famous scholars from Socrates to Professor John Dewey."