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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 ...
This revisionist history traces an influential theory of practical reason from its origins in ancient Greece to its modern and contemporary permutations.
The Greek discovery ...
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Humans don't desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic - we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers ...
Philosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognising only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking ...
What does a person need, not just to survive, but to flourish? In this profound, searching book, Michael Ignatieff explores the many human needs that ...
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 ...
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed ...
When The Stone Reader?a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy series?first published, the world urgently needed insight ...
'This is a superb new translation that is remarkably accurate to Plato's very difficult Greek, yet clear and highly readable. The notes are more ...
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumatic.
Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always ...
The inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C.S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further ...
'Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions - for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?' - La Stampa
What lies at the ...
