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Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

Leviathan: or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall

Thomas Hobbes

Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Kieran Setiya

Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

Miroslav Volf

Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

Ryan Holiday

Lying

Sam Harris

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Michel Foucault

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

Jordan B. Peterson

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

Kieran Setiya

Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

Joshua Greene

Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Jonathan Sacks

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

Of Grammatology

Jacques Derrida

On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

On the Genealogy of Morals: Challenging the Roots of Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How To Use It

Seneca

Philosophy Library

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control

A Little History of Philosophy

A Theory of Justice

A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Mor

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh