Of Human Freedom
9 best books like Of Human Freedom (Epictetus): The Travels, Civilization and Its Discontents, On the Shortness of Life, Letters from a Stoic, The First Ten Books (Penguin Great Ideas), Meditations on First Philosophy, Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, Why I Am So Wise, Γκιακ
| Author | Marco Polo |
| ISBN | 0140440577 |
Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which...
Civilization and Its Discontents
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0393301583 |
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0143036327 |
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.
Throughout history, some books have changed the...
| Author | Seneca |
| ISBN | 0140442103 |
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome...
| Author | Confucius |
| ISBN | 0141023805 |
Perhaps the most widely read thinker of all time, Confucius transformed Chinese philosophy with his belief that the greatest goal in life was pursuit of 'The Way': a search for virtue not as a means to rewards in this world or the next, but as the pinnacle of human existence.
Throughout history,...
Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872201929 |
Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0802136141 |
The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0143036343 |
This is my first Nietzsche. I've already learned a lot.
1. Everyone assume N is German, but he considers himself a Pole.
2. N hated German culture. I guess the Nazis missed this book. N also thought Wagner’s best work was more French than German—a unique insight, to say the least.
3. N...
| Author | Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος |
Οι ήρωες αυτών των διηγημάτων, στρατιώτες που πολέμησαν στη μικρασιατική εκστρατεία, έρχονται αντιμέτωποι με τους ρόλους που τους επιβάλλουν οι παραδοσιακοί...
