The Sorrows of Work by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Essay Bks.
Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. The temptation is often just to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there is a range of well-em ...Show more
How to Reform Capitalism by The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Essay Bks.
It is quite normal to feel frustrated and sorrowful about aspects of modern capitalism, but realistic hope of change can seem either utopian or demented. In fact, the way that capitalism works is inherently open to alteration and improvement. This is because the problems of capitalism are, in their esse ...Show more
Anthropology - Why It Matters by Tim Ingold
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Companions to Linguistics Series (CLNZ) Ser.
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collectiv ...Show more
Philosophy in 100 Quotes by Gareth Southwell
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Category: Philosophy
The story of philosophy through 100 wonderful quotes.
Great Thinkers School of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
Typically, great thinkers have been included in encyclopedic works on the basis of reputation and historic influence. The School of Life takes a different approach, focusing instead on the thinkers whose ideas are the most helpful to our lives now. This is a collection of sixty of the most important and ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy
There is widespread agreement that art is 'very important' - but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong have a firm belief ...Show more
The Thinking Woman by Julienne Van Loon
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Category: Philosophy
One of the age-old questions of philosophy is whatdoes it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience. Van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers -- Rosi Bra ...Show more
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
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Category: Philosophy
What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the comm ...Show more
Plato Phaedo by Peter Kalkavage (Editor); Ericino de Salema (Editor); Eva Brann (Editor); Phaedo Plato; G. M. A. Grube (Translator)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Focus Philosophical Library
This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending execution. Included is an introduction and glossary of key terms. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original te ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A C Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores some of the ...Show more
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
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Category: Philosophy
In today's world of cultural climate change, argues Jonathan Sacks, we have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and to government on the other. If the market rewards it, it must be OK - unless the law says not to. Yet while the markets have brought wealth to many and the state has done m ...Show more
Affairs by The School The School of Life
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Love Ser.
Our societies are remarkably confident on the matter: Affairs are terrible things and only fools, monsters and knaves would ever be involved in them. Those who are their victims deserve unending sympathy and access to a good lawyer. This stance may be clear, but it is not especially helpful or productiv ...Show more