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Aristotle
by Thomas C. Brickhouse
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Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology.
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Aristotle in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
by Mark Stone
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Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought.
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Baruch Spinoza
by Thomas Cook
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A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza was excommunicated because of the unorthodox view he took of God.
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Bertrand Russell and A. N. Whitehead
by Paul Kuntz
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Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead co-authored a seminal work in logic entitled Principia Mathematica.
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Classics of Western Philosophy: Volume 1
by Plato
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Average Rating:    (3.9 Stars)
Classics of Western Philosophy is a collection of major philosophical works of the Western World. This chronological anthology features key excerpts from ancient, medieval, & modern philosophers.
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century.
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David Hume
by Nicholas Capaldi
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David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience.
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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René Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life.
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Descartes, Bacon, and Modern Philosophy
by Jeffrey Tlumak
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These two great seventeenth-century philosophers aimed to break free of oppressive traditions. Free scientific inquiry led them to skeptically question everything, though they also tried to reconcile science with religious faith.
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Duns Scotus and Medieval Christian Philosophy
by Ralph McInerny
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The Roman Empire became Christian in 323 AD; about two centuries later, the rest of Europe began to convert. Medieval culture blurred the line between the sacred and the secular.
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The Enchiridion
by Epictetus
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The Enchiridion (or "Handbook") is a classic philosophical text that collects Epictetus' core ethical teachings.
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Epicurus and Lucretius
by Sherwin T. Wine
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Secularism has its roots in the world of the Greeks. The arrival of philosophy in Athens was accompanied by a deep skepticism concerning the Greek gods and Greek mythology.
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Essential Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau
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"'What are you doing now?' he asked. 'Do you keep a journal?' So I make my first entry today." With these words, in response to prodding from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau embarked on a writing enterprise--his "Journal"
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For The New Intellectual
by Ayn Rand
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This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion" that they create.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
by Richard Schacht
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Nietzsche condemned nearly all of the religious and philosophical thought of his day to blunt terms (e.g., God is dead).
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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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In García Márquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of García Márquez’s life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man’s struggle to understand his place in the world.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
by John E. Smith
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Friedrich Hegel developed a profound and influential synthesis of all prior knowledge.
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Great Speeches in History
by Socrates
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From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln - here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches...
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man.
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger…
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Hume in 90 Minutes
by Paul Strathern
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In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hume’s life and ideas and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world.
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Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial. What should we teach young people about religion?
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Immanuel Kant
by A.J. Mandt
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Immanuel Kant's "transcendental" philosophy transcends the question of "what" we know to ask "how" we know it.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
by John Compton
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Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, is perhaps the best known advocate of existentialism. In this view, no external authority gives life meaning: mankind is radically free and responsible.
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