The Battle For God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
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Category: Philosophy
Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a ph ...Show more
The Traveller's Guide to Classical Philosophy by John Gaskin
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Category: Philosophy
This is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the foundation of Western thought and a unique companion for visitors to Greek and Roman sites. John Gaskin unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and society of the classical world still visible in to ...Show more
Into the Heart of Life by Tenzin Palmo
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Category: Religion
Hidden from the rest of the world, high in the Himalayan mountains, the people of Tibet developed a science of the mind over the centuries it took the West to build cars and planes. Forty years ago, Tenzin Palmo was one of the early Western women to meet the lamas coming out of Tibet and to study the Ti ...Show more
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi
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Category: Philosophy
Unruly, unpredictable, love is a maddening deity. He has us singing in the rain or tearing our hair out. Or duelling with his shadows, hate, jealousy and loss. This book tangles with the paradoxes of love through the span of our lives - from rapturous love to love in 'marriage', in the family and in fri ...Show more
How To Be Compassionate: A Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World by Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
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Category: Philosophy
The message of this book is as renowned as the Dalai Lama himself: that compassion is essential for individuals and for the world. When we think of His Holiness, we immediately think of the compassion he embodies, and to which he has devoted his entire life. He suggests we pay close attention to the ...Show more
Who Am I? And If So How Many? A Philosophical Journey by Richard David Precht
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Category: Philosophy
The international bestseller that takes you on a journey through your mind and gives you the answers to the big philosophical questions There are many books about philosophy, but Who Am I? And If So, How Many? is different from the rest. Never before has anyone introduced readers so expertly and, a ...Show more
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
Are you still the person who lived 15, 10 or five years ago? 15, 10 or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of 30 years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain constant over time and place, or is it something much more fragmented a ...Show more
Thinking of Answers - Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by A C Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
The essays in this book, drawn mainly from A. C. Grayling's columns in Prospect, the Dubliner and The Times, are in fact responses to questions set by editors and readers. If beauty existed only in the eye of the beholder, would that make it an unimportant quality? Are human rights political? Can ethics ...Show more
The Good Book - A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible. D ...Show more
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
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Category: Philosophy
An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries this framework came under relentless pressure as new ideas - from psychiatry ...Show more