The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud; W. D. Robson-Scott (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Psychology Ser.
In The Future of an Illusion, Freud's psychoanalysis of religion is the culmination of a lifelong thought pattern. Freud examines human nature and the role of religion in society, proclaiming that human instincts are destructive to civilization and must be restrained to maintain an orderly society. Reli ...Show more
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosop ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil
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Category: Philosophy
A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical, and spiritual treatiseOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time ...Show more
The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World by Susan Liautaud, Lisa Sweetingham
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Category: Philosophy
The essential guide for decision-making when ethics are on the edge. It's not your imagination. We're living in a time of moral decline. Publicly, government leaders are acting against the welfare of their citizens, companies are prioritising profits over our health and our safety, and technology poses ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrates and Plato and concluding with Friedrich Nietzsche, with twelve other prominent philosophers in betwee ...Show more
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein; Alexander Booth (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy
Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a succinct yet wide-ranging exploration of language and logic, science and mysticism, which has inspired generations of thinkers, artists and poets. In a s ...Show more
Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Philosophy | Series: American Library
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for sp ...Show more
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Henry David Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts-part social experiment, part spiritual quest-is an enduringly influential American classic.In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrica ...Show more
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
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Category: Philosophy
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simu ...Show more
Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff
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Category: Philosophy
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? For those who are unsatisfied by the answers of traditional religion, and equally by the lack of answers from atheism, Philip Goff opens up a path between the two. He argues for cosmic purpose: the idea that the universe is directed towards certain goals, ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon
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Category: Philosophy | Series: 50 Classics Ser.
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more