Conversations with Galileo: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts by William Shea
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
When Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the skies, he ushered in a scientific revolution- the Moon turned out to be covered with mountains and craters, stars popped out of nowhere, and four satellites were found to be orbiting Jupiter. His discovery of the phases of Venus in 1610 forever shattered ...Show more
Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. Today his name is echoed as that of a 'great man' alongside Plato, Montaigne and Shakespeare. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having con ...Show more
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality by Anthony Aguirre
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe? Through more than fifty Koans -- pleasingly paradoxical vignettes following the ancient Zen tradition -- leading physicist Anthony Aguirre takes the reader across the world from Japan to Italy ...Show more
Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...Show more
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Shambhala Classics Ser.
This influential spiritual classic offers a presentation of Buddhist teachings accessible to seekers of any faith. Tibetan meditation master Chgyam Trungpa presents an overview of the spiritual path and warns of common mistakes along that path. He describes the problem he calls 'spiritual materialism' - ...Show more
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem - he has a nose of stupendous size and believes she will never see past it to return his feelings. So when he discovers that the handsome b ...Show more
Dark Interval by Rainer Maria Rilke; Ulrich Baer (Translator)
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time. Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound visi ...Show more
Democracy In America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months a ...Show more
Denialism: Dangers of Ignoring Science.. by Michael Specter
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
There is so much confusing and conflicting information about the world in which we live that the truth can be impossible to find. The rise of modern scepticism against fake news ' is to be celebrated, but this cultural shift has led to a world where opinion is as valuable as fact. The existence of clima ...Show more
Dialogues and Letters by Seneca
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to Helvia he strives to offer solace to his mother, fo ...Show more
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by RENE DESCARTES, René Descartes
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty. Drawing on his own work in geometry, optics, astronomy a ...Show more
Discourses and Selected Writings by EPICTETUS
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ide ...Show more