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The journey of thousand miles begins with a single step - Laozi In Legacy: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Minds Phil takes the philosophical approa...

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In Pursuit of the Beautiful Soul by Justine Kolata offers a revolutionary solution to overcoming the soullessness of modern life. The book explores...

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Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits...

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely r...

Rudolf Steiner demonstrates that there are twelve main philosophical standpoints, and that the future of philosophy rests not upon defending one an...

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Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary ...

A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classicjust in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, T...

The philosophy of the blues From B.B. King to Billie Holiday, Blues music not only sounds good, but has an almost universal appeal in its reflecti...

A crystal-clear, scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will, challenging what many scientists and scientifically minded philos...

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radicall...

Arguing with People brings developments from the field of Argumentation Theory to bear on critical thinking in a clear and accessible way. This boo...

Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj iek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible phil...

Notes on the Art of Life is Haim Shapira's version of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book  a discursive and intensely personal collection of thoughts on lif...

Some days arrive with questions so vast we feel like strangers on earth. Other times our joy makes us feel entirely at home in ourselves. So where ...

Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philoso...

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Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For A...

A collection of meditations in the Stoic tradition. Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure provides access to the ruminations, practices, and a...

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Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidd...

By the mercy of God I am a Christian, by my deeds a great sinner, by calling a homeless wanderer of the lowliest origins, roaming from place to pla...

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic c...

Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it ...

A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur perso...

Are human lives ultimately meaningless? Is our inevitable death bad? Would immortality be better? Should we hasten our deaths by taking our own liv...

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Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as th...