Philosophy
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Looking for Theophrastus
Laura Beatty
Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher
Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?
Once, he...
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Featuring the Chinese text on the left and the English translation on the right, this...
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Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus
Signe Gjessing
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, often noted as the most important philosophical work of the 20th...
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The Hedgehog And The Fox
Isaiah Berlin
An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, with an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff.
The fox knows...
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The Web of Meaning
Jeremy Lent
Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
As our civilization careens...
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The Enlightenment
Ritchie Robertson
The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history,...
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Time of the Magicians
Wolfram Eilenberger
The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929
A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four...
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Metaphysical Animals
Clare Mac Cumhaill
How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
‘In philosophy, one must start from scratch –...
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On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
Finding Solace in Dark Times
As read on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’, a...
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The Fourfold Remedy
John Sellars
Epicurus and the Art of Happiness
What do we really need in order to live a...
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any...
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The Republic
Plato
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice, the...