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Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the worlds most brilliant thinkers to offer t...

In the late 13th century, this quiet reflective Dominican scholar concentrated his work o...

The golden age of Chinese philosophy dates from the birth of Confucius (551 BC) until Chi...

Pragmatism is a uniquely American philosophy that tries to integrate the life of the mind...

Though Socrates left no written works, there were many ancient accounts of his life and h...

The Stoics and Epicureans date from the Hellenistic period (ca. 323 BC 31 BC), and both ...

Voltaire and Rousseau offered opposing viewpoints on the major intellectual movement of t...

The 20th century English philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead will be...

Twentiethcentury European philosophy has grown out of two movements: existentialism (emph...

With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for ever...

Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled f...

This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an ...

Before Kant, philosophers had debated for centuries whether knowledge is derived from exp...

Nietzsche condemned nearly all of the religious and philosophical thought of his day to b...

Sartre's existentialism faces the evil in human existence and sees that humans are respon...

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named ...

In Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hegels life an...

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Fear and Trembling is a philosophical work by Soren Kierkegaard, published in 1843. ...

Aurelius Augustinus was a key figure in the transition from classical antiquity to the Mi...

A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza sought a life of "supreme and unending happin...

David Hume sought to create a comprehensive "science of man" in order to understand human...

Hegel created a vast speculative and idealistic philosophy, where truth is found not in t...

Rene' Descartes (15961650), the father of modern rationalism, abandoned traditional paths...

India has perhaps the oldest living philosophical tradition in the world. Its philosophie...

Simone de Beauvoir is best known for her association with the French Existentialist movem...

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Kierkegaard wasnt really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many p...

For Kierkegaard, truth is a subjective reality which we must live, not simply something t...

John Dewey wants philosophy to rise above old tired disputes to address new, more vital q...

In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Au...

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations...

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In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Humes life and ...

In Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aquin...

In Confucius in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Confuciuss...

In Heidegger in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Heideggers...

Remarkably relevant, beautifully written, and filled with wit and wisdom, these three ess...

Leo Tolstoy's "A Confession" is a brutally sincere reflection on life, morality, and the ...

Dallas Willard was a personal mentor and inspiration to hundreds of pastors, philosophers...

In the folklore of Eastern European Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to res...

What One Man Said to Another is a series of conversations between friends. It is also a s...

If we accept Wittgensteins word for it, Paul Strathern writes, he is the last philosopher...

Ren Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to char...

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In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Schopen...

The recent philosophic literature that revives the case for theism does not ordinarily ta...

New York City journalist Al Guart is known for breaking stories for the New York Post, wh...

This book is a chronicle of a personal search for spiritual enlightenment. John Mucai sta...