How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.74
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choos…
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1. Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
By: Daniel Klein
4.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypustravels to Greece with a suitcase full of phi… read more
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2. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment
By: Robert Wright
3.64
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditat… read more
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3. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By: William B. Irvine
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more
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4. How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , Philip Freeman
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Hardcover
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marble… read more
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5. Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
By: Orson Scott Card
3.89
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and s… read more
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6. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
By: William MacAskill
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Most of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem … read more
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7. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
By: Pema Chödrön , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness… read more
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8. Teach Yourself Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
By: Donald J. Robertson
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
This new guide to finding a happier way of life draws on the ancient wisdom of the stoics to reveal… read more
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9. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
By: Shane Parrish
4.21
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more
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"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
10. The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
By: Gladys McGarey
4.29
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian still-consulting doctor and the mother of holistic medicine, reve… read more
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- audiobook
11. Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
By: Scott Barry Kaufman
4.14
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A bold reimagining of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs--and new insights for realizing your full … read more
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12. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
By: Donald J. Robertson
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roma… read more
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13. The Practicing Stoic
By: Ward Farnsworth
4.35
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings … read more
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"If you would attain real freedom, you must be the slave of philosophy. Epicurus, quoted in Seneca, Epistles 8.7"-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic
"The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us."-Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic
14. Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
By: David Fideler
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher Se… read more
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15. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
By: Ryan Holiday
4.21
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more
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16. Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
By: Kieran Setiya
3.56
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle age How can you … read more
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"The way in which you relate to the activities that matter most to you is by trying to complete them and so expel them from your life. Your days are devoted to ending, one by one, the activities that …"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"In philosophers' terms, the shift in perspective is not temporal, but "epistemic": it has to do with knowledge. Emotionally, there is a fundamental difference between knowing that I will miss out on …"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"When the demands of life are pressing, too urgent to be ignored, it would be a mistake to devote all day to contemplation, reading Wordsworth, or playing golf. Being mortal, think of mortal things. Y…"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
"We can escape the self-destructive cycle of pursuit, resolution, and renewal, of attainments archived or unachieved. The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have…"-Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
17. How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
By: Massimo Pigliucci
3.74
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choos… read more
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18. How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
By: Catherine Wilson
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the a… read more
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"Although there are alternative perceptions, there are no alternative facts."-Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
"It is impossible to live pleasantly without living prudently, honourably and justly, and impossible to live prudently, honourably and justly without living pleasantly. ~ Epicurus"-Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
"The cry of the flesh: not to be hungry, not to be thirsty, not to be cold. For if someone has these things and is confident of having them in the future, he might contend even with Zeus for happiness…"-Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
"I ... do not even know what I should conceive the good to be, if I eliminate the pleasures of taste, and eliminate the pleasures of sex, and eliminate the pleasures of listening, and eliminate the pl…"-Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
19. Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
By: Edith Hall
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by … read more
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20. The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
By: Gordon Marino
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and other towering figures of existential… read more
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"We pay someone to mow our backyards and spend hours searching the internet to find the best deal for our next vacation. What’s our problem?"-Gordon Marino, The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
21. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
By: Jeffrey Rosen
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how… read more
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"If you had to sum it up in one sentence, the classical definition of the pursuit of happiness meant being a lifelong learner, with a commitment to practicing the daily habits that lead to character i…"-Jeffrey Rosen, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
