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How ought we to live? What is it to flourish as a human being? How should we best approach death? We all think about these ...
'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of ...
What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?
Can we ...
'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions ...
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The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity.
"Some things are up to us and some are not."
Epictetus was ...
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be ...
An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author ...
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life?
How should I live my life? What values shall ...
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity.
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers ...
Five hundred years after his death, Niccolo Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican ...
Isaiah Berlin was one of the great thinkers and most electrifying speakers of his time. A magnetic public intellectual and beacon of liberal philosophy, he ...
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin ...