13 best-selling philosophy books like Existence and the Existent by Jacques Maritain

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Existence and the Existent

By: Jacques Maritain

3.98

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

English, French (translation)

"The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth."

-Jacques Maritain, Existence and the Existent

"The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth."

-Jacques Maritain, Existence and the Existent

"Even for the most superficial persons, it is true that from the moment when they say I, the whole unfolding of their states of consciousness and their operations, their musings, memories, and acts, is subsumed by a virtual and ineffable knowledge, a vital and existential knowledge of the totality immanent in each of its parts, and immersed, without their troubling to become aware of it, in the diffuse glow, the unique freshness, the maternal connivance as it were, which emanates from subjectivity. Subjectivity is not known, it is felt as a propitious and enveloping night."

-Jacques Maritain, Existence and the Existent

"Even for the most superficial persons, it is true that from the moment when they say I, the whole unfolding of their states of consciousness and their operations, their musings, memories, and acts, is subsumed by a virtual and ineffable knowledge, a vital and existential knowledge of the totality immanent in each of its parts, and immersed, without their troubling to become aware of it, in the diffuse glow, the unique freshness, the maternal connivance as it were, which emanates from subjectivity. Subjectivity is not known, it is felt as a propitious and enveloping night."

-Jacques Maritain, Existence and the Existent

If you liked the philosophy plot in Existence and the Existent by Jacques Maritain , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, Donald A. Cress

1. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.76

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that… read more

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  • philosophy
"The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake."

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"c'est une vérité très certaine que, lorsqu'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de discerner les plus vraies opinions, nous devons suivre les plus probables partie 3, para 3)"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds rev…"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

"Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were …"

-René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

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2. 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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  • philosophy
"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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3. I and Thou

By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
"All real living is meeting."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."

-Martin Buber, I and Thou

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4. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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5. The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more

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"Are you still there, Axl?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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6. Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke , Crawford Brough Macpherson , C.B. MacPherson

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

The Second Treatiseis one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the mos… read more

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  • philosophy
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7. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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8. Meno

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy

9. Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues

By: Alasdair MacIntyre

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

To flourish, humans need to develop virtues of independent thought and acknowledged social dependen… read more

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10. 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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  • philosophy
"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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11. 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
"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

12. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

By: David Hume

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish e… read more

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13. The Autobiography of St. Ignatius

By: Ignatius of Loyola , None

3.80

Format: None pages,

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14. The Secret Of The Rosary

By: Louis de Montfort , None

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Canon William says of De Montfort's book, The Secret of the Rosary- "It goes far beyond mere resear… read more

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15. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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16. He Leadeth Me

By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty , Walter Ciszek

4.63

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging… read more

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  • theology
"Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasi…"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

"La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de qu…"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

"Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de …"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

"Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por v…"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

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17. 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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  • philosophy
"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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18. 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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19. Why Liberalism Failed

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more

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  • philosophy
"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"

-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed

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20. The Art of Living: The Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love

By: Edward Sri

4.43

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In this new book by bestselling author, Edward Sri, we discover the close connection between growin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • theology
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21. Existence and the Existent

By: Jacques Maritain

3.98

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

English, French (translation) read more

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"Even for the most superficial persons, it is true that from the moment when they say I, the whole unfolding of their states of consciousness and their operations, their musings, memories, and acts, i…"

-Jacques Maritain, Existence and the Existent

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