BOOKS TO GUIDE NOVICE PHILOSOPHY STUDENTS
This list is aimed at curating those texts that will both challenge a novice researcher, and continually reward repeated encounters as you develop your philosophical interests.
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The analytic tradition arose partly as a rejection of Hegelian idealism in favor of what George Edward Moore (1873–1958) called…
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THE SOPHISTS
The Sophists were not a single school but a professional grouping of largely itinerant teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and legal…
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Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
$15.99
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Stillness Is the Key
$7.99
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Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World (The Stoic Virtues Series)
$28.00
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
$13.12
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Letters from a Stoic: Penguin Classics
$14.52
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Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
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Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
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The Aristotle Collection: Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Rhetoric, On Sense and the Sensible, On Memory and Reminiscence, On Sleep and Sleeplessness, On Dreams, On Prophesying by Dreams, On Longevity and Shortness of Life, On Youth and Old Age, & On Life and Death
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The Prince (Penguin Classics)
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Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theopolitical Problem (New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism)
$71.14 -
As a Man Thinketh
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
$7.56 -
Journal Like a Stoic: A 90-Day Stoicism Program to Live with Greater Acceptance, Less Judgment, and Deeper Intentionality (Includes Teachings of Marcus Aurelius)
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Critique of Pure Reason
$18.00 -
General Problem Theory: A Framework For Problem Solving In The Unknown (Pinnacle Quest)
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Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
$17.56 -
The Spell of the Sensuous
$46.00 -
De la vie heureuse (Sénèque): édition intégrale et annotée (French Edition)
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Logic: A Complete Introduction (Complete Introductions)
$15.89 -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1893-1913
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The Amazing Dr. Ransom’s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies
$23.99
Terms & Concepts
Bad faith
The refusal to accept responsibility for one’s freedom and, therefore, also for one’s choices. The term comes from the twentieth-century existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. https://youtube.com/shorts/U0965UIQpjU?feature=share
Absurdity
The sense, typically associated with existentialism, that existence in general (and life in particular) is meaningless and the universe indifferent, and therefore irrational. This sense arises from the conflict between…
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