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As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovere …
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In this beautifully written personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis reflects on the fundamental fact of existence: that it is finite. Inspired by E. M. Forster’s thought that ‘Death des …
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First published in 1886, Beyond Good and Evil was created at a time of huge political upheaval. Subtitled ‘Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future’, Freidrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece attacked philosophe …
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The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations on campaign in Pannonia between 170 and 180. Day by day Aurelius wrote down personal thoughts and observations as a source for his own guidance and …
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A launch title in Atlantic’s ‘The Universal Library’ series, each volume of which presents a key work of philosophy accompanied by a new introduction: this is old wisdom for modern times.
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In The Varieties of Religious Experience William James applied scientific method to a field that had previously been treated as theoretical, abstract philosophy. James explored the psychology of perso …
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What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thin …
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The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-explo …
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Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.
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The work of the great philosophers of the past is well known. From Aristotle and Plato to Kant and Wittgenstein, the answers to life’s biggest questions have been discussed and debated endlessly. But, …
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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect …
A short, sharp and entertaining survey of the development of all aspects of the Western philosophical tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present day.
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The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is ‘the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It’s not about computers. It’s not about what …
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‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …
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Tzvetan Todorov argues that although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living i …
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