Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics, and the Modern Experience
By: Robert H. Kane
3.93
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
What are true human values? What is worthy of our highest honor and love? What purposes should orde…
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1. Soul and the City: Art, Literature, and Urban Living
By: Arnold Weinstein
3.70
Format: 7 pages, Audio Cassette
Course Lecture Titles 1. The City as Container, the Artist as Mapmaker 2. Lost in Space 3. The… read more
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2. Intellectuals and Society
By: Thomas Sowell
4.29
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very diff… read more
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"What is called “social"-Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
"Intellect is not wisdom."-Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
"To suggest that “society"-Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
"The phrase “Why die for Danzig?"-Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Society
3. What I Believe
By: Bertrand Russell
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell… read more
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4. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosop… read more
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5. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
By: Charles R. Morris
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visi… read more
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6. The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within
By: Mari Ruti
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
The Singularity of Beingpresents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irrep… read more
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7. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more
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8. Redefining Reality:The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
By: Steven Gimbel
3.66
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
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9. Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation
By: Dennis Dalton
3.51
Format: None pages,
Course Lecture Titles 1. Freedom in the Ancient World 2. The Advent of Freedom in the Modern World … read more
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10. Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
By: Anthony Robbins , Tony Robbins , Frederick L. Covan
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Pow… read more
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11. What Kind of Creatures Are We?
By: Noam Chomsky
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of… read more
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12. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
By: Sam Harris
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion… read more
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13. Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
By: Kathleen Marie Higgins , Robert C. Solomon
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Unbound
Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedric… read more
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14. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"To treat someone else as an end [as opposed to a mean] is to offer them what I take to be good reasons for acting in one way rather than another, but to leave it to them to evaluate those reasons."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
15. Death Comes for the Archbishop
By: Willa Cather
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more
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16. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
By: Seth Godin
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed Wall Street Journal and Business Week Bestseller. You're either a Purple Cow or you'r… read more
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17. The Denial of Death
By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen
4.32
Format: 80 pages,
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more
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18. Living with the Devil
By: Stephen Batchelor
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil In the national best… read more
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19. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more
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20. No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life (Great Courses, #437)
By: Robert C. Solomon
3.85
Format: 208 pages,
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21. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
22. 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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23. Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics, and the Modern Experience
By: Robert H. Kane
3.93
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
What are true human values? What is worthy of our highest honor and love? What purposes should orde… read more
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24. The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self
By: Leo Damrosch
3.99
Format: None pages, Audio Cassette
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25. Early Humans: Ice, Stone, and Survival
By: Suzanne Pilaar Birch
3.89
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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26. The Meaning of Life - Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions
By: Jay L. Garfield
4.41
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The Meaning of Perspectives from the World's Great Intellectual Traditions is an invigorating way … read more
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27. Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
By: Eric Schmidt
3.99
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business … read more
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28. The Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions
By: Robert C. Solomon
3.85
Format: 12 pages, Audio Cassette
This 24-lecture course attempts to understand our emotions--how they provide insight and meaning--a… read more
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29. George Orwell: A Sage for All Seasons
By: Michael Shelden
4.36
Format: 11 pages, Audiobook
In George Orwell: A Sage for All Seasons, join Orwell’s authorized biographer, Professor Michael Sh… read more
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30. The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas
By: Lawrence E. Cahoone
4.38
Format: 19 pages, Audible Audio
Publisher's Summary Without even realizing it, we all use the fruits of political philosophy. Fr… read more
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