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Great Ideas: Tao Te Ching by TZU LAO
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Category: Classic Books | 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 Executioner by Joseph de Maistre
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murderous beasts who can only be controlled by the threat of overwhelming punishment. Terrifying and bizarre, "The Executioner" ...Show more
Great Ideas: The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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Category: Classic Books | 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: Classic Books | 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 Achieve True Greatness by Baldassare Castiglione
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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 the w ...Show more
How to Be a Stoic (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Epictetus; Seneca; Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classic Books | 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
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in "Human Happiness" are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have ...Show more
In Consolation to His Wife (Penguin "Great Ideas" Series) by Plutarch
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
From an intimate and moving letter to his grieving wife on the death of their daughter, to elegant writings on morality, happiness and the avoidance of anger, Plutarch's powerful words of consolation and inspiration still offer timeless wisdom and guidance today. Throughout history, some books have chan ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 2 | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Miracles and Idolatry (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Voltaire
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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