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The Road to Character

David Brooks

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Simon Wiesenthal

The Symposium

Plato

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith

The Way of Zen

Alan Watts

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Alan Watts

The Wisdom of Life

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Walter Benjamin

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

Matthew B. Crawford

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

Arthur Schopenhauer

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Society of the Spectacle

Guy Debord

The Soul of the World: In Defense of a Sacred World

Roger Scruton

The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious

Robert Rosenkranz

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

The Sublime Object of Ideology

Slavoj Zizek

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

Simon Blackburn

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

Wolfram Eilenberger

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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