13 must-read philosophy books like Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic by D.C. Schindler

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Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic

By: D.C. Schindler

4.76

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center o…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic by D.C. Schindler , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Religion and Nothingness (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture) (Volume 1)

By: Keiji Nishitani , Jan Van Bragt

4.24

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

In Religion and Nothingness the leading representative of the Kyoto School of Philosophy lays the f… read more

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3. The Courage to Be

By: Paul Tillich , Peter J. Gomes

4.09

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of… read more

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"Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge."

-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

"Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being."

-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

"Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute."

-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

"Reasoning as a limited cognitive function, detached from the personal center, never could create courage. One cannot remove anxiety by arguing it away."

-Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

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4. Timaeus

By: Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeusis prese… read more

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5. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

6. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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7. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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8. The Sovereignty of Good

By: Iris Murdoch

4.19

Format: 384 pages,

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9. On Bullshit

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more

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10. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more

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11. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

By: James P. Carse

3.51

Format: None pages,

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12. What Is Ancient Philosophy?

By: Pierre Hadot , Michael Chase

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A magisterial mappa mundiof the terrain that Pierre Hadothas so productively worked for decades, th… read more

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13. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

By: None

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their c… read more

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14. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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15. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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16. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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17. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

By: Iain McGilchrist

4.80

Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover

Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more

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"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

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18. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic

By: D.C. Schindler

4.76

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center o… read more

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19. Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition (Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 17)

By: Eric D. Perl

4.49

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Eric D. Perl, Loyola Marymount University In Thinking Being, Eric Perl articulates central ideas… read more

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  • metaphysics
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20. Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

By: Gary Lachman

4.29

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experienc… read more

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21. Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

By: Eric D. Perl

4.56

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

The work of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite stands at a cusp in the history of it is at once Helle… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

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Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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