Confidence in 40 Images: The Art of self-belief
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Category: Philosophy
An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between success and failure often comes down to an ingredient that we are seldom directly taught about and may forget to focus on: confidence. What makes one life chee ...Show more
Self-Knowledge in 40 Images
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Category: Philosophy
A visual journey to inspire and guide you through the inward exploration of the self. When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he responded, 'To know ourselves.' The advice has never been bettered. Without self-knowledge, all other efforts ...Show more
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses by Søren Kierkegaard
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Category: Philosophy
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Soren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world ...Show more
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Histories Ser.
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging b ...Show more
Discourses and Selected Writings by EPICTETUS
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Category: Philosophy
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ide ...Show more
Fear and Trembling - A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Philosophy
This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a founding document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for these perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for gen ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
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Category: Philosophy
A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it. 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather it seems that at some point cats ...Show more
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer
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Category: Philosophy
"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this compelling new volume. "If we can detach ourselves fr ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
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Category: Philosophy
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Sextus Empiricus
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgment Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched in ...Show more
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
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Category: Philosophy
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into thes ...Show more