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Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transform ...Show more
Fear And Trembling (Great Ideas) by Soren Kierkegaard
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in ...Show more
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in wh ...Show more
Great Ideas: Of The Abuse Of Words by John Locke
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, so ...Show more
Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
Great Ideas: Tao Te Ching by TZU LAO
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Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, the "Tao Te Ching" is a simple guidebook for virtue, encouraging peace, understanding and humility. Ranging from political advice to common wisdom, it has also served as an inspiration to artists across the ages and throughout the world. Throughout history ...Show more
Great Ideas: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the ...Show more
Great Ideas: Writings from the Zen Masters by PENGUIN GROUP AUSTRALIA
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Category: Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge every perception - and seek to bring all readers closer to enlightenment. Throughout history, some books hav ...Show more
How to Be a Stoic (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Epictetus; Seneca; Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisd ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 2
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Nature | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson�s writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the ...Show more