In Praise of Idleness - A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy
New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive breathes new life into Bertrand Russell’s classic work, In Praise of Idleness, with a magical package that includes BTG’s new introduction, biographical afterword, historical notes, additional quotations and comic illustrations. This is the perfect ...Show more
Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour; Catherine Porter
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Category: Philosophy
Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated--a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a ...Show more
Free Will by Sam Harris
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Philosophy
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Philosophy
Is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? How can we still be in control of our lives? In this myth-shattering book, Daniel Dennett shows that free will does ...Show more
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.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 i ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
The History of Sexuality v.2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy | Series: History of Sexuality
Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.
Importance of Religion: Meaning ... by Gavin Flood
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Category: Philosophy
The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices* Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views ...Show more
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates by Daniel Klein, Thomas Cathcart
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Featuring Freud! Groucho Marx! Socrates! Lily Tomlin! Kierkegaard! Buddha! New Yorker cartoonists! Zombies! And of course, Heidegger! Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. Now they tur ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Philosophy
Part of the Hero Classics series "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." A collection of personal writings covering an array of topics. Marcus delves into spiritual reflections and exercises, which he developed as a leader, in his struggled to ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Philosophy
Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain they must have had ...Show more