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Phaedo

Plato

Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations

Jules Evans

Politics

Aristotle

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk

Elizabeth Anderson

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Steven Pinker

Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.

Ryan Holiday

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Jenny Odell

Self-Reliance: Philosophy)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Alain de Botton

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

Matthew B. Crawford

Simulacra and Simulation: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Jean Baudrillard

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Irvin D. Yalom

Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton

Stillness Is the Key

Ryan Holiday

Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge

Larissa MacFarquhar

Summa Theologica

Thomas Aquinas

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic

Musonius Rufus

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