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| All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
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Hubert Dreyfus & Sean Dorrance Kelly.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416596158. Daedalus Item Code: 32140 |
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| What constitutes human excellence? And what is the best way to live a life? These are questions that human beings have been asking since the beginning of time. Philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean ... (Read More)
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| The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
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Peter Trachtenberg.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316158794. Daedalus Item Code: 13766 |
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| What does it mean to suffer? What enables some people to emerge from tragedy while others are spiritually crushed by it? And why do so many Americans think of suffering as something that should ... (Read More)
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| Coffee with Aristotle
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Jonathan Barnes. Julian Barnes, foreword.
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| Publisher: Duncan Baird. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781844836109. Daedalus Item Code: 30871 |
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| Interviewer: "But some philosophers have been pretty skeptical about human pretensions to scientific knowledge, haven't they?" Aristotle: "'Perhaps we know nothing at all?' 'All knowledge is ... (Read More)
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| Coffee with Plato
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Donald R. Moor. Robert M. Pirsig, foreword.
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| Publisher: Duncan Baird. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781844835089. Daedalus Item Code: 30879 |
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| Interviewer: "To us Platonic love suggests some vaguely asexual or non-sexual affection. Is that really what you had in mind?" Plato: "Not at all. You mean what we called philia, something ... (Read More)
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| Confucius: A Throneless King
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Meher McArthur.
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| Publisher: Pegasus. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781605981178. Daedalus Item Code: 31176 |
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| One of the most important figures in Chinese history, Confucius is often overlooked outside his native country, even though his philosophical and ethical teachings have shaped world culture, and ... (Read More)
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| Confucius: Great Chinese Philosopher
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Anna Carew-Miller. Zhang Shi-ming, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841495. Daedalus Item Code: 30983 |
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| Born some 2500 years ago in China, Kong Qui—Confucius, as his name was Latinized—became a widely respected official in the province of Lu, and today is known around the world as one of the greatest ... (Read More)
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| The Consolation of Philosophy
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Boethius.
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| Publisher: Gateway. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780895268853. Daedalus Item Code: 31149 |
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| Written by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius while he was imprisoned and awaiting execution in 6th-century Lombardy, The Consolation of Philosophy is a dialogue between the author and the ... (Read More)
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| Driving with Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones
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Robert Rowland Smith.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439186879. Daedalus Item Code: 30897 |
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| In Breakfast with Socrates, Robert Rowland Smith brought philosophy down to earth by illuminating how human moments meet big ideas on a regular basis. Here Smith expands that "day in a life" ... (Read More)
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| The Elements of Natural Philosophy
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William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) & Peter Guthrie Tait.
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| Publisher: Prometheus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781573929844. Daedalus Item Code: 13062 |
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| In this 1873 abridgement of their Treatise on Natural Philosophy, Peter Tait and William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, intended their work to be accessible to students with a basic knowledge of ... (Read More)
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| The Inner Chapters: The Classic Taoist Text
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Chuang Tzu. Solala Towler, trans.
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| Publisher: Watkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781906787998. Daedalus Item Code: 30866 |
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| The writings of Chuang Tzu stand alongside the Tao Te Ching as foundational classics of Taoism. Dating to the 4th century BC, The Inner Chapter is full of fantastical tales—for example, ... (Read More)
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