7 must-read religion books like Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues by Michael Sugrue

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Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues

By: Michael Sugrue

4.21

Format: 12 pages, Audio CD

Socrates was driven by a love for truth so great that he suffered death rather than give up his sea…

If you liked the religion plot in Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues by Michael Sugrue , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Higgs Boson and Beyond

By: Sean Carroll

4.12

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins The discovery of the Higgs boson is a triumph of modern physics. The h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. Great World Religions: Hinduism

By: Mark W. Muesse

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Audio Cassette

AUDIO CASSETTE COURSE. read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Hindu tradition speaks of four “goods"

-Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism

"Śiva is both the creator and destroyer of the universe, movement and tranquility, light and darkness, male and female, celibate and promiscuous. These paradoxes serve to symbolize the limitlessness a…"

-Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism

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3. Hitch 22: A Memoir

By: Christopher Hitchens

4.02

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States … read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Cheap booze is a false economy."

-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

" Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."

-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."

-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."

-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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4. The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained

By: Michael E. Wysession

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Audible Audio

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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5. Crito

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

5.00

Format: 160 pages, paper

Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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6. Phaedo

By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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7. An Introduction to Greek Philosophy (Great Courses #4477)

By: David Roochnik

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Audio CD

24 lectures | 30 minutes per lecture The first philosophers in Western history--the ancient Greeks-… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. Greek Tragedy

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.61

Format: 192 pages,

Two-and-a-half thousand years after they were written, ancient Greek Dramas such as Eumenides, Oedi… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Iliad of Homer (The Great Courses, #301)

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Audio CD

When John Keats first read Chapman's translation of the epics of "deep-brow'd Homer," he was so ove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. The Odyssey of Homer (Great Courses, #302)

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.04

Format: None pages,

Keats compared discovering Homer to "finding a new planet." What is it in Homer's great works--and … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Protagoras

By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

13. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)

By: Bob Brier

0.00

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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14. Augustine: Philosopher and Saint

By: Phillip Cary

4.25

Format: None pages,

Long before he was declared a saint by the Church, Augustine gained profound influence as both a Ch… read more

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15. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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16. Gorgias

By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more

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17. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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18. The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis (Great Courses, #297)

By: Louis A. Markos

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Audio CD

In these lectures you will cover Lewis's spiritual autobiography and other creative works, as well … read more

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19. The Peloponnesian War

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.14

Format: 18 pages, Audio CD

Course Lecture Titles 1. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War 2. The Greek Way of War 3. Spart… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

By: Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

Distilled to its essence, the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy known as Stoicism is a philosophy of p… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. Dante's Divine Comedy

By: William R. Cook

4.33

Format: None pages, Audio CD

12 Audio CDs with Course Outline Booklet read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.81

Format: 18 pages, Audible Audio

Where do we come from? How did our ancestors settle this planet? How did the great historic civiliz… read more

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  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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23. Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

By: David Christian

4.09

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

** A 2018 GoodReads Choice Award Nominee in the History & Biography category** A captivating his… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Деякі види настільки зневажають мозок, що ставляться до нього, як до одноразової розкоші. В одного виду морських слимаків замолоду є якийсь невеликий мозок. Вони користуються ним, поки плавають по мо…"

-David Christian, Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

"In the past two hundred years, human numbers grew to over seven billion, and our species began to transform the oceans, the land, and the air. Human-built roads, canals, and railways snaked across th…"

-David Christian, Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

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24. 36 Books That Changed the World

By: Andrew R. Wilson

3.66

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Certain works of literature, history, science, philosophy, political theory and religion offer powe… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues

By: Michael Sugrue

4.21

Format: 12 pages, Audio CD

Socrates was driven by a love for truth so great that he suffered death rather than give up his sea… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

By: Don Lincoln

4.11

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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27. Creation Stories of the Ancient World

By: Joseph Lam

3.90

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

Length: 4 hours and 57 minutes Creation stories, found within many ancient cultures, are traditi… read more

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  • history
  • ancient history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Plato's Republic

By: David Roochnik

4.23

Format: None pages, Nook

More than 2,000 years later, Plato's Republic remains astonishingly relevant to our everyday lives.… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Ethics of Aristotle

By: Joseph W. Kosterski

3.81

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

What is happiness? What is moral excellence? How can you attain them? Can either be taught? For … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Masters Of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, And Aristotle

By: Robert C. Bartlett

4.02

Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio

For more than two millennia, philosophers have grappled with life's most profound and "eternal" que… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. Welcome to Your Toddler's Brain

By: Lise Eliot

3.83

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The brain is a marvelous and complex organ that takes decades to fully mature, and no stage in that… read more

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The Higgs Boson and Beyond

Sean Carroll

4.12

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3.84

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4.02

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3.93

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Robert Garland

4.30

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Think like a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World

Massimo Pigliucci

3.98

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Ryan Holiday

4.04

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