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Philosophy
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Camus's essay on the absurd opens with the claim that there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, suicide: whether life is worth living. The absurd, for Camus,…
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Enneads
The collected treatises of Plotinus, arranged after his death by his student Porphyry into six groups of nine, hence the name, and prefaced with Porphyry's Life of Plotinus.…
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The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
Developed from Appiah's 2016 BBC Reith Lectures, the book examines the social identities that shape modern lives: creed, country, colour, class and culture, with an opening chapter on…
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The Upanishads (the principal Upanishads)
The Upanishads are the concluding portions of the Vedic literature, prose and verse texts later treated as the foundation of Vedanta. The oldest, the Bṛhadāraṇyaka and Chāndogya, are…
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Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique
A collection of Haslanger's essays on social construction, gender, race and the critique of social structures. Its best-known essay proposes 'ameliorative' definitions of gender and race: rather than…
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Nyāya Sūtra
The root text of the Nyāya school: five books of terse aphorisms that only make sense with commentary, above all that of Vātsyāyana. It opens by listing sixteen…
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The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
A narrative history of philosophy written for general readers by a former editor at The Economist. Gottlieb begins with the Milesian thinkers and the other Presocratics, including Pythagoras,…
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Mīmāṃsā Sūtra
The foundational text of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā, the school of Vedic exegesis, in twelve chapters of short aphorisms. It opens by announcing an inquiry into dharma and argues that…
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Classical Indian Philosophy
A volume of the History of Philosophy without any Gaps series, written by Adamson with the Indian philosophy specialist Jonardon Ganeri. In short chapters it moves from the…
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Sāṃkhya Kārikā
The oldest surviving systematic text of the Sāṃkhya school: about seventy verses that compress a whole metaphysics. It begins from the threefold suffering of life and the search…
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