Philosophy - General

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a prof...

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Published: Oct 2011

The Story of Philosophy: From Plato t...

Will Durant

The first volume of this engaging survey covers Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, and Rousseau. As well as offering historical context and a cogent explanation for each school of thought, Durant provides biographical...

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Published: Sep 2004

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainten...

Robert M. Pirsig

At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a lengthy motorcycle trip through America. But this is not a simple trip at all, for around every corner, through mountain and desert, wind and rain, and searing heat a...

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Published: Aug 2005

The Story of Philosophy: From Kant to...

Will Durant

From German idealism to American pragmatism, Volume Two examines the lives and ideas of Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, William James, and John Dewey....

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Published: Sep 2004

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

Jack Kornfield

An original audio adaptation of Jack Kornfield's newest book, this program reveals how the modern spiritual journey unfolds, and the difficulties of translating that freedom into daily life. One of the leading Buddhist teachers in the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction...

Edward Craig

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes througho...

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Published: Nov 2005

Cutting Through Fear

Tsultrim Allione

Within the ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism lies a meditation tradition for facing - and dissolving - our greatest fears and attachments in life. Now one of contemporary Buddhism's most experienced and respected teachers, Tsultri...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2005

Tao Te Ching Low Price

Lao Tzu

In 81 brief chapters, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from b...

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Published: Mar 2007

Taoist Healing Imagery

Ken Cohen

Ken Cohen's Taoist Healing Imagery is a collection of Taoist visualizations seldom taught outside China. This ancient system utilizes traditional Taoist imagery to build self-awareness, unity of mind and body, and - ultimately - enlig...

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Published: Oct 2005

Aristotle An Introduction

Hugh Griffith

In his introduction to Aristotle, Hugh Griffith follows the successful pattern established with his An Inroduction to Greek Philosophy: lively introductions explaining the background before generous sections of original text. The two ...

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Published: Feb 2008

Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert P...

Mark Richardson

In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that was the basis for 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' a book that has inspired generations with its searching personal and philosophical n...

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Published: Sep 2008

Aquinas: Selected Writings

Thomas Aquinas

Although a controversial figure in his own day, St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-74) forged a unique synthesis of faith and reason, of ancient philosophy and sacred scripture, which decisively influenced Dante and the whole subsequent Cath...

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Published: Jan 1999

How to Do Things with Words

J. L. Austin

2018 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Reprint of the First Edition. John L. Austin was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordina...

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Published: Oct 2018

Free Will

Sam Harris

A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievementâ...

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Published: Mar 2012

The Consolations of Philosophy

Alain de Botton

From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles.Solace for the bro...

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Published: Apr 2001

Best Things in Life

Peter Kreeft

What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and...

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Published: Jul 1984

Socrates in the City: Conversations o...

Eric Metaxas

[Read by the contributing authors] Following the extraordinary success of the New York Times bestseller Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas' latest book offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surround...

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Published: Oct 2011

Who Am I to Judge?: Responding to Rel...

Edward Sri

"Don't be so judgmental!""Why are Christians so intolerant?""Why can't we just coexist?"In an age in which preference has replaced morality, many people find it difficult to speak the truth, afraid of the...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Courage to Be

Paul Tillich

In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter...

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Published: Jul 2000

The Meaning of Happiness: The Quest f...

Alan Watts

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embr...

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Published: Jun 2017

How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: W...

Andy Andrews

Or, to be precise, 11,283,000 people. Andy Andrews believes that good answers come only from asking the right questions. Through the powerful, provocative question, "How do you kill eleven million people?"—the number of pe...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Duck That Won the Lottery: And 99...

Julian Baggini

From the author of the "hugely entertaining"(Publishers Weekly) The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, lessons in debunking the faulty arguments we hear every dayThis latest book from the pop philosophy author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eat...

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Published: Apr 2009

Montaigne: Essays

Michel de Montaigne

Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are s...

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Published: Jul 1993

The Virtue of Selfishness

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with th...

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Published: Nov 1964

The Doors of Perception and Heaven an...

Aldous Huxley

Two classic complete books -- The Doors of Perception (originally published in 1954) and Heaven and Hell (originally published in 1956) -- in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, explores, as only he can, th...

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Published: May 2004

The System of Objects (Radical Thinke...

Jean Baudrillard

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force – a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day....

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Published: Jan 2006

Awakening Compassion: Meditation Prac...

Pema Chodron

For more than eight hundred years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the principles of lojong (literally meaning "mind training") to transform difficulties into insights, and conflict into genuine communication. Awakening Compassi...

Abridged CD
Published: Sep 2003

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry I...

Matthew B. Crawford

Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society — the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: May 2009

Beyond Good and Evil (Naxos Complete ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Continuing where Thus Spoke Zarathustra left off, Nietzsches controversial work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the nineteenth century and one of the most controversial works of ideology ever...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2008

Status Anxiety

Alain De Botton

Alain de Botton turns his attention to the concept of status: what it is, why we need it, what we will do to get it. In his usual quirky and entertaining--but intelligent and provocative--fashion, de Botton finds insight in some unusu...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2006
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