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Philosophy
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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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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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