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
What Kind of Creatures are We? by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy Ser.
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on al ...Show more
Civilization and its Discontents: Pocket Hardbacks by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee
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Category: Philosophy
Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives 'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water' Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, world renowned for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosoph ...Show more
Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
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Category: Philosophy
THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle an ...Show more
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Chinese Bound
One of the most influential books of all time gets a stunningly designed, dual-language edition, complete with a new translation, introduction, and editorial notes. No understanding of Chinese civilization is possible without a grasp of Taoism, the philosophy that shaped not just Chinese spirituality bu ...Show more
Cracking Philosophy by Martin Cohen
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Cracking Series
This guide covers the main schools of thought from the Ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucius and Lao Tzu, Ancient wisdom from Aristotle, Plato, Zeno and Pythagoras through to those most influential of philosophers studied the world over - Hegel, Marx, Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein to ...Show more
When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher by MARIE ROBERT
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Category: Philosophy
How can Kant comfort you when you get dumped via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger make you feel better when your dog dies? When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher explains how pearls of wisdom from the greatest Western philosophers can help us face and make li ...Show more
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner
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Category: Philosophy
A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Ac ...Show more
What Would Nietzsche Do? by Marcus Weeks
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Category: Philosophy
What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems. Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault leav ...Show more
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
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Category: Philosophy
"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world. Harris' search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of ou ...Show more
Psychology and Religion by Carl Gustav Jung
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Terry Lectures
Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, author of some of the most provocative hypotheses in modern psychology, describes what he regards as an authentic religious function in the unconscious mind. Using a wealth of material from ancient and medieval Gnostic, alchemistic, and occultistic literature, he discusses the reli ...Show more