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Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems

10 best books like Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems (John Keats): On Bullshit, Critique of Pure Reason, Ethics, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, A History of Western Philosophy, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, On the Genealogy of Morals, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, Ode to the West Wind, Letters and Sayings of Epicurus

On Bullshit
AuthorHarry G. Frankfurt
ISBN0691122946
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon...
Critique of Pure Reason
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521657296
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1781), 856 pp. 2nd (B) ed: 1787. [A-edition (Ak. 4:5-252); B-edition (Ak. 3:2-552)]. “Critique of Pure Reason.” Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (Macmillan 1929). Translated by Werner Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett 1996). Translated by Paul...
Ethics
AuthorBaruch Spinoza
ISBN0140435719
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521626951
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
A History of Western Philosophy
AuthorBertrand Russell
ISBN0671201581
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
AuthorWill Durant
ISBN0671739166
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...
On the Genealogy of Morals
AuthorFriedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of...
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
AuthorBlake Snyder
ISBN1932907009
This book is often hyped as the bible of screenwriting, but I would take it a step further and call it the definitive go-to for all storytelling. Trade secrets are fully revealed and once you read them you can't watch a movie without seeing the formula scroll right in front of your eyes. Exactly--to the...
Ode to the West Wind
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0946497079
Read in The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2

I've quite enjoyed some of Shelley's shorter poetry and I'd been itching to read this. It's a really lovely poem, with very strong themes of nature, mortality, and revolution and change. If you are new to poetry or unfamiliar with...
Letters and Sayings of Epicurus
AuthorEpicurus
ISBN0760763283
Throughout the ages Epicurus has been both idealized and anathematized. As an atheist materialist philosopher he was an offense to religious thinkers. Many of his influential admirers, like Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Jefferson, had to keep their Epicurean leanings a secret. On the other hand, the...
The Blue and Brown Books
AuthorLudwig Wittgenstein
ISBN0061312118
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the most important & influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft...
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
AuthorWilliam James
ISBN0486282708
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842–1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception of that influential philosophy. For James, this meant an emphasis on "radical empiricism" and...
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