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Philosophy
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The Questions of King Milinda
A Pāli text presenting conversations between King Milinda, usually identified with the Indo-Greek king Menander I, who ruled in north-western India in the second century BCE, and the…
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The Masnavi
A vast poem in six books and roughly twenty-five thousand rhyming couplets, composed in Persian by Rumi in Konya and, according to tradition, dictated to his disciple Ḥusām…
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Twenty Verses (with the Thirty Verses)
Two short verse works central to the Yogācāra school. The Twenty Verses, with Vasubandhu's own prose commentary, defend the thesis that what we experience is cognition only (vijñapti-mātra),…
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Remarks and Admonitions
One of Ibn Sīnā's last major works, a compressed summary of his philosophy written in a deliberately allusive style, its 'remarks' and 'admonitions' addressed to a reader able…
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The Way of the Bodhisattva
A verse guide to the bodhisattva path by Śāntideva, traditionally a monk at the monastic university of Nālandā. Its ten chapters move from praise of the awakening mind…
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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
Unusually for a text called a sutra, it records not the Buddha but a Chinese teacher, Huineng (638–713), honoured as the sixth patriarch of Chan. It opens with…
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The Concept of Law
Hart's book sets out to clarify the general framework of legal thought. He begins by criticising John Austin's theory that law consists of commands backed by threats issued…
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Handbook (Enchiridion)
A short manual of Stoic practice, compiled by Epictetus's student Arrian from the teaching recorded at greater length in the Discourses. Epictetus, born a slave, taught at Nicopolis…
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Death
Based on Kagan's popular undergraduate course at Yale, this book examines death in two parts. The first is metaphysical: whether we have souls, what the arguments are, including…
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Letters on Ethics (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
A collection of 124 letters, grouped in twenty books, written by Seneca in the last years of his life after he withdrew from the court of Nero, and…
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