15 Best philosophy books like La filosofia antica. Profilo critico-storico by Franco Trabattoni

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La filosofia antica. Profilo critico-storico

By: Franco Trabattoni

3.46

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

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1. The Little Virtues

By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg

4.10

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more

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"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

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2. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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  • philosophy
"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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4. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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  • philosophy
"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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5. Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

By: Samir Okasha

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can sci… read more

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"It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science."

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

"The failure of Popper's demarcation criterion throws up an important question. Is it actually possible to find some common feature shared by all the things we call 'science...'? It may be that they s…"

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

"The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only inte…"

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

"From a philosophical point of view, Leibniz's most interesting argument was that absolute space conflicted with what he called the principle of the identity of indiscernibles (PII). PII says that if …"

-Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

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6. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

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7. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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8. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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9. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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  • philosophy
"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

10. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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11. On the Shortness of Life

By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more

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12. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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13. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

14. I'm Not Scared

By: Niccolò Ammaniti , Jonathan Hunt

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In this immensely powerful, lyrical and skillfully narrated novel, set in southern Italy, nine year… read more

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15. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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16. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"¿Me ha parecido una suerte que me tuvieran por muerto? Pues bien: estoy muerto de verdad. ¿Muerto? Peor que muerto me lo ha recordado don Anselmo: los muertos ya no tienen que morirse, y yo sí, yo es…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

17. Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited

By: Christopher Hitchens , Aldous Huxley

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's visio… read more

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18. The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

By: Thomas S. Kuhn

4.00

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has… read more

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19. We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more

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20. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

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21. A Confession

By: Leo Tolstoy

4.10

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more

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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"

-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

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22. 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

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

-Plato, The Republic

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23. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

24. Apologie de Socrate/Criton

By: Plato , Luc Brisson

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

On accuse Socrate de corrompre, par son art du dialogue, la jeunesse athenienne. On lui reproche de… read more

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25. Niente di vero

By: Veronica Raimo

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more

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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

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26. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Filosofia della scienza

By: Giovanni Boniolo

3.25

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

"Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza" recita un celebre verso da… read more

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  • philosophy
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28. La filosofia antica. Profilo critico-storico

By: Franco Trabattoni

3.46

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

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29. Storia della filosofia morale

By: Gianfranco Mormino

3.90

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Il volume descrive come i massimi filosofi dell'Occidente abbiano affrontato il problema di rendere… read more

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30. Modelli di filosofia politica

By: Stefano Petrucciani

3.74

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

O volume constitui uma sintética introdução à filosofia política, apresentada por meio de seus conc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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31. La filosofia moderna. Il Seicento e il Settecento

By: Giuseppe Cambiano

3.00

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Un profilo di storia della filosofia sui due secoli che vanno dalle grandi scoperte scientifiche di… read more

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Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg

4.10

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

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Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

Samir Okasha

3.93

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3.50

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