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The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen
A study of how moral revolutions happen, built around historical case studies. Appiah notices that the arguments against many bad practices were well known long before the practices…
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The Passion of the Western Mind
A single-volume narrative of Western thought from ancient Greece to the late twentieth century, written for students and general readers. Tarnas tells the story in large movements. He…
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
A short book, subtitled A Message for an Age of Anxiety, arguing that the anxiety of modern life comes from the attempt to make life secure, and that…
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The Ethical Project
An ambitious naturalistic account of ethics as a human practice, developed over tens of thousands of years to solve problems of social life. It has three parts. The…
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The Daily Stoic
A book of daily readings in Stoic philosophy, with one short page for each day of the year, including 29 February. Each page gives a passage from a…
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The Prophet
A book of twenty-six prose poems written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and artist Kahlil Gibran, illustrated with his own drawings. Its frame story is simple. Almustafa,…
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
A book that combines a life of Marcus Aurelius with practical psychology, written by a cognitive-behavioural therapist who has long studied Stoicism. Robertson follows Marcus from his upbringing…
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Siddhartha
A short novel set in India in the time of the Buddha, telling the life of a young Brahmin who seeks enlightenment through his own experience rather than…
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The Courage to Be Disliked
A popular book of philosophy and psychology written as a dialogue, in the manner of Plato, between a philosopher and a troubled young man over five nights. The…
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Notes from Underground
A short novel in two parts, often read as the first existentialist novel. Its narrator, an unnamed retired civil servant of about forty in St Petersburg, addresses imagined…
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