Philosophy + Religion
TALKING CURE: AN ESSAY ON THE CIVILIZING POWER OF CONVERSATION
Written by Cohen, Paula Marantz
An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our troubled society.
HOW TO DO THE RIGHT THING: AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO TREATING PEOPLE FAIRLY
Written by Seneca
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others--and ourselves--more fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deserve--that we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that we've treated them just as unfairly.
HOW TO FLOURISH: AN ANCIENT GUIDE TO LIVING WELL
Written by Aristotle
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing.
NEW TESTAMENT: A TRANSLATION
Written by Hart, David Bentley
The second edition of David Bentley Hart's critically acclaimed New Testament translation David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a "remarkable feat" and as a "strange, disconcerting, radical version of a strange, disconcerting manifesto of profoundly radical values." In this second edition, which includes a powerful new preface and
BEING JAIN: ART AND CULTURE OF AN INDIAN RELIGION
A visual primer on the art and culture of the Jains, and their legacy today
HOW TO THINK LIKE A PHILOSOPHER: TWELVE KEY PRINCIPLES FOR MORE HUMANE, BALANCED, AND RATIONAL THINKING
Written by Baggini, Julian
An invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini. By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to a better future. But how should we respond instead?
ROME AS A GUIDE TO THE GOOD LIFE: A PHILOSOPHICAL GRAND TOUR
Written by Samuelson, Scott
A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the vita beata--the good life.
VISIONARIES: ARENDT, BEAUVOIR, RAND, WEIL, AND THE POWER OF PHILOSOPHY IN DARK TIMES
Written by Eilenberger, Wolfram
A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty.
OPEN JUDAISM: A GUIDE FOR BELIEVERS, ATHEISTS, AND AGNOSTICS
Written by Schwartz, Barry L
Open Judaism offers a big-tent welcome to all Jews and Judaism. It is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a deeply pluralistic and inclusive Judaism, and a dynamic exploration of the remarkable array of thought within Judaism today. In honest, engaging language Barry L.
ARS VITAE: THE FATE OF INWARDNESS AND THE RETURN OF THE ANCIENT ARTS OF LIVING
Written by Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth
Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life.
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