Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as mysticism or mythology) by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned argument. The word philosophy is of Ancient Greek origin: φιλοσοφία (philosophía), meaning "love of wisdom."


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The Course of Love
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
The Art of Reading
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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained
Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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  • Fifteen Dogs
    The Argonauts
    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
    The Road to Character
    The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
    Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha
    The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You
    Quantum Night
    What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
    Free Will
    Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
    Rules for a Knight
    Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better
    My Gita
    The Just City (Thessaly, #1)
    The Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousThe Republic by PlatoThe Aeneid by Virgil
    Best Books of the Ancient World
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    Sophie's World by Jostein GaarderRepublic by PlatoFear and Trembling by Søren KierkegaardMartin Heidegger's Path of Thinking by Otto PöggelerMartin Heidegger by Rüdiger Safranski
    Best Philosophy Introductions
    114 books — 152 voters

    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter Boxset by J.K. RowlingThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    Best Women-authored Books
    3,588 books — 2,316 voters
    The Stranger by Albert CamusNotes from Underground by Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Trial by Franz KafkaNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
    Best Existential Fiction
    225 books — 438 voters

    The Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingAnimal Farm by George Orwell
    Works of Pure Genius
    303 books — 371 voters
    The Stranger by Albert CamusSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse1984 by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Best Philosophical Literature
    684 books — 2,099 voters

    The Republic
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    Sophie's World
    Beyond Good and Evil
    The Stranger
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    Meditations
    The Art of War
    Siddhartha
    Critique of Pure Reason
    The Communist Manifesto
    The Nicomachean Ethics
    Man's Search for Meaning
    The Alchemist
    Candide


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