50 Books like A Book Forged in Hell

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

by Ernst Cassirer • 1932

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

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💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚖️ Natural Law Theory

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment Summary

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment 94%

The Enlightenment remade reason: not a storehouse of truths, but a way of discovering them.

by Ernst Cassirer 1932

4.11

258 ratings

💡 Intellectual History 🌅 Enlightenment Studies 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚖️ Natural Law Theory

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine • 1794

God's word is the universe, not a book. Everything else is hearsay passed off as revelation.

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🏛️ Deism 📜 Religious Criticism 💡 Enlightenment Philosophy 📖 Biblical Criticism 🔭 Natural Theology

The Age of Reason 93%

God's word is the universe, not a book. Everything else is hearsay passed off as revelation.

by Thomas Paine 1794

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9k+ ratings

🏛️ Deism 📜 Religious Criticism 💡 Enlightenment Philosophy 📖 Biblical Criticism 🔭 Natural Theology

The Great Agnostic

by Susan Jacoby • 2013

The man who drew thousands to hear him speak: why America forgot Robert Ingersoll.

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🏛️ American History 📚 Intellectual History 🙏 Religious Criticism 🔬 Reason And Science 🗽 American Freethought

The Great Agnostic 93%

The man who drew thousands to hear him speak: why America forgot Robert Ingersoll.

by Susan Jacoby 2013

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720 ratings

🏛️ American History 📚 Intellectual History 🙏 Religious Criticism 🔬 Reason And Science 🗽 American Freethought

Humanly Possible

by Sarah Bakewell • 2023

Humanism's 700-year bet: that reason and kindness, not gods or ideologies, will save us.

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📜 Intellectual History 🏛️ Renaissance Humanism 🌍 Secular Humanism 💡 Freethought 🎓 Enlightenment Thought

Humanly Possible 93%

Humanism's 700-year bet: that reason and kindness, not gods or ideologies, will save us.

by Sarah Bakewell 2023

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2k+ ratings

📜 Intellectual History 🏛️ Renaissance Humanism 🌍 Secular Humanism 💡 Freethought 🎓 Enlightenment Thought

Ethics

by Baruch Spinoza • 1677

God and nature are one; free will, an illusion. Freedom is grasping the causes that move you.

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📐 Rationalist Philosophy 🌌 Pantheism 🔗 Determinism 🧘 Mind-Body Problem 🎭 Philosophy Of Emotions

Ethics 93%

God and nature are one; free will, an illusion. Freedom is grasping the causes that move you.

by Baruch Spinoza 1677

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22k+ ratings

📐 Rationalist Philosophy 🌌 Pantheism 🔗 Determinism 🧘 Mind-Body Problem 🎭 Philosophy Of Emotions

Buddhism

by Damien Keown • 1996

Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?

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📖 Introductory Buddhism ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🛕 Theravada Buddhism 🪷 Mahayana Buddhism 🧘 Meditation Practice

Buddhism 92%

Buddhism has no god, no bible, no pope. What holds its many traditions together?

by Damien Keown 1996

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3k+ ratings

📖 Introductory Buddhism ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy 🛕 Theravada Buddhism 🪷 Mahayana Buddhism 🧘 Meditation Practice

The Myth of the State

by Ernst Cassirer • 1946

The Greeks fought myth with reason. The modern state perfected it as a weapon.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Ideas ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🏰 State And Sovereignty 🎭 Myth And Politics

The Myth of the State 92%

The Greeks fought myth with reason. The modern state perfected it as a weapon.

by Ernst Cassirer 1946

3.90

209 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Ideas ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🏰 State And Sovereignty 🎭 Myth And Politics

Free Speech

by Jacob Mchangama • 2022

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Free Speech 92%

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

by Jacob Mchangama 2022

4.18

500 ratings

📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

The Stillborn God

by Mark Lilla • 2007

Politics broke from God only recently, and Weimar nearly put them back together.

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⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Secularization 🇩🇪 German Philosophy ✝️ Christian Thought 💡 Enlightenment Critique

The Stillborn God 92%

Politics broke from God only recently, and Weimar nearly put them back together.

by Mark Lilla 2007

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289 ratings

⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Secularization 🇩🇪 German Philosophy ✝️ Christian Thought 💡 Enlightenment Critique

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

by George Berkeley • 1988

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

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📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📚 Epistemology

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous Summary

Principles of Human Knowledge / Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous 92%

Tables vanish when you look away, but God keeps watching. A bishop's case against matter.

by George Berkeley 1988

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1k+ ratings

📜 Early Modern Philosophy 🇬🇧 British Empiricism 💡 Idealism 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 📚 Epistemology

Soul Machine

by George Makari • 2015

Science couldn't find the soul. So early modern Europe invented the mind to take its place.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🧪 History Of Psychology 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⛪ Secularization

Soul Machine 92%

Science couldn't find the soul. So early modern Europe invented the mind to take its place.

by George Makari 2015

3.82

157 ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 🧪 History Of Psychology 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⛪ Secularization

The Theological Origins of Modernity

by Michael Allen Gillespie • 2008

The modern world is a theological argument that left the church and took over everything.

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📜 Intellectual History ⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Medieval Philosophy 🤔 Faith And Reason 📖 Scholasticism

The Theological Origins of Modernity Summary

The Theological Origins of Modernity 92%

The modern world is a theological argument that left the church and took over everything.

by Michael Allen Gillespie 2008

4.23

270 ratings

📜 Intellectual History ⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Medieval Philosophy 🤔 Faith And Reason 📖 Scholasticism

The Great Debate

by Yuval Levin • 2013

Burke and Paine split over human nature and justice. Their argument became right and left.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ⚖️ Left Vs Right 🔄 Reform Vs Revolution 🕯️ Modern Conservatism

The Great Debate 92%

Burke and Paine split over human nature and justice. Their argument became right and left.

by Yuval Levin 2013

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History ⚖️ Left Vs Right 🔄 Reform Vs Revolution 🕯️ Modern Conservatism

10 Books That Screwed Up the World

by Benjamin Wiker • 2008

Fifteen books rejected God and morality, then the 20th century drowned in blood.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛪ Critique Of Secularism ⚠️ Dangerous Ideas 🔗 Totalitarianism Origins

10 Books That Screwed Up the World Summary

10 Books That Screwed Up the World 92%

Fifteen books rejected God and morality, then the 20th century drowned in blood.

by Benjamin Wiker 2008

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1k+ ratings

🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛪ Critique Of Secularism ⚠️ Dangerous Ideas 🔗 Totalitarianism Origins

The End of Faith

by Sam Harris • 2004

Religious moderates make faith immune to criticism, and extremists exploit that immunity.

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📖 New Atheism 💥 Religious Violence 🔴 Islam And Modernity 🧭 Secular Ethics ⚖️ Faith Vs Reason

The End of Faith 91%

Religious moderates make faith immune to criticism, and extremists exploit that immunity.

by Sam Harris 2004

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📖 New Atheism 💥 Religious Violence 🔴 Islam And Modernity 🧭 Secular Ethics ⚖️ Faith Vs Reason

God Is Not Great

by Christopher Hitchens • 2007

The case against God: holy books authored by humans, moral codes that fail their own standards.

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🧠 New Atheism 🌍 Secular Humanism 🔍 Religious Critique 📜 Textual Criticism 🔒 Sexual Repression

God Is Not Great 91%

The case against God: holy books authored by humans, moral codes that fail their own standards.

by Christopher Hitchens 2007

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113k+ ratings

🧠 New Atheism 🌍 Secular Humanism 🔍 Religious Critique 📜 Textual Criticism 🔒 Sexual Repression

Liberty in the Age of Terror

by A.C. Grayling • 2009

The West answered terrorism by curtailing the very liberties it claimed to protect.

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🛡️ Civil Liberties 💣 War On Terror 💬 Free Speech 👁️ Surveillance State 🎭 Identity Politics

Liberty in the Age of Terror 91%

The West answered terrorism by curtailing the very liberties it claimed to protect.

by A.C. Grayling 2009

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143 ratings

🛡️ Civil Liberties 💣 War On Terror 💬 Free Speech 👁️ Surveillance State 🎭 Identity Politics

Cynicism

by Ansgar Allen • 2014

Cynicism once meant tearing everything down. Now it just means giving up.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🗳️ Political Philosophy 💬 Social Critique 🔄 Value Subversion

Cynicism 91%

Cynicism once meant tearing everything down. Now it just means giving up.

by Ansgar Allen 2014

3.71

146 ratings

🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🗳️ Political Philosophy 💬 Social Critique 🔄 Value Subversion

The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant • 1991

Philosophy's greatest minds, from Plato to Dewey, on the one question science cannot answer.

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📜 History Of Philosophy 🧭 Introductory Philosophy 🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 💡 The Enlightenment 🧪 Modern Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy 91%

Philosophy's greatest minds, from Plato to Dewey, on the one question science cannot answer.

by Will Durant 1991

4.15

18k+ ratings

📜 History Of Philosophy 🧭 Introductory Philosophy 🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 💡 The Enlightenment 🧪 Modern Philosophy

The Lost History of Liberalism

by Helena Rosenblatt • 2018

Liberalism was born as duty and generosity. The individual-rights version is only seventy years old.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 📜 Political Theory 🫂 Civic Virtue 🗽 Liberal Tradition 🏟️ Civic Republicanism

The Lost History of Liberalism 91%

Liberalism was born as duty and generosity. The individual-rights version is only seventy years old.

by Helena Rosenblatt 2018

4.04

448 ratings

🏛️ Intellectual History 📜 Political Theory 🫂 Civic Virtue 🗽 Liberal Tradition 🏟️ Civic Republicanism

Intellectuals

by Paul Johnson • 2007

Rousseau, Marx, Sartre: they loved humanity. Their wives, children, and friends knew the truth.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism 🎭 Moral Hypocrisy 🚫 Totalitarianism 📜 Ideological Critique

Intellectuals 91%

Rousseau, Marx, Sartre: they loved humanity. Their wives, children, and friends knew the truth.

by Paul Johnson 2007

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism 🎭 Moral Hypocrisy 🚫 Totalitarianism 📜 Ideological Critique

The Crisis of the Modern World

by René Guénon • 1927

Modernity is a spiritual dark age, and the West's greatest achievements are its diagnostic symptoms.

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🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 🔄 Cyclical History 🧘 Eastern Metaphysics 🕯️ Contemplation And Action

The Crisis of the Modern World 91%

Modernity is a spiritual dark age, and the West's greatest achievements are its diagnostic symptoms.

by René Guénon 1927

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2k+ ratings

🕉️ Perennial Philosophy 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 🔄 Cyclical History 🧘 Eastern Metaphysics 🕯️ Contemplation And Action

Fearless

by Max Lucado • 2009

Ten philosophers, ten arguments that still govern how we think about truth, justice, and ourselves.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 🗳️ Political Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer 💡 History Of Ideas ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

Fearless 91%

Ten philosophers, ten arguments that still govern how we think about truth, justice, and ourselves.

by Max Lucado 2009

4.16

13k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Philosophy 🗳️ Political Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer 💡 History Of Ideas ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

The Consequences of Ideas

by R.C. Sproul • 1988

Philosophy's stark choice: Kant's closed door or Aquinas's open one. Fallout, from Thales to Sartre.

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📜 History Of Philosophy ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🤝 Faith And Reason 🌍 Worldview Analysis 🏛️ Western Thought

The Consequences of Ideas 91%

Philosophy's stark choice: Kant's closed door or Aquinas's open one. Fallout, from Thales to Sartre.

by R.C. Sproul 1988

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2k+ ratings

📜 History Of Philosophy ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🤝 Faith And Reason 🌍 Worldview Analysis 🏛️ Western Thought

The Great Guide

by Julian Baggini • 2021

The philosopher who said reason is only passion's servant also had a recipe for a good life.

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🧭 Practical Philosophy 🔍 Empiricism ❤️ Emotional Reasoning 🌿 The Good Life 🕯️ Death Acceptance

The Great Guide 91%

The philosopher who said reason is only passion's servant also had a recipe for a good life.

by Julian Baggini 2021

3.86

197 ratings

🧭 Practical Philosophy 🔍 Empiricism ❤️ Emotional Reasoning 🌿 The Good Life 🕯️ Death Acceptance

The Quest for a Moral Compass

by Kenan Malik • 2014

Every civilization searched for right and wrong. None of them arrived at the same place.

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🧭 Moral Philosophy 💡 History Of Ideas 🏛️ Virtue Ethics ⛪ Religious Morality 🌐 Secular Ethics

The Quest for a Moral Compass 91%

Every civilization searched for right and wrong. None of them arrived at the same place.

by Kenan Malik 2014

4.14

530 ratings

🧭 Moral Philosophy 💡 History Of Ideas 🏛️ Virtue Ethics ⛪ Religious Morality 🌐 Secular Ethics

From Fatwa to Jihad

by Kenan Malik • 2009

The Rushdie affair tore the multicultural consensus apart, moving Islam's fault line into Europe.

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🗣️ Free Speech Debates 🕌 Political Islam 🌍 Multiculturalism Critique 🏷️ Identity Politics ✊ Anti-Racism

From Fatwa to Jihad 91%

The Rushdie affair tore the multicultural consensus apart, moving Islam's fault line into Europe.

by Kenan Malik 2009

4.03

285 ratings

🗣️ Free Speech Debates 🕌 Political Islam 🌍 Multiculturalism Critique 🏷️ Identity Politics ✊ Anti-Racism

The Visionaries

by Wolfram Eilenberger • 2020

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

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👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

The Visionaries 91%

Four women, one war, and the year their philosophies of freedom were forged in darkness.

by Wolfram Eilenberger 2020

3.91

1k+ ratings

👥 Group Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🖤 Existentialism ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🗽 Radical Individualism

Free Speech And Why It Matters

by Andrew Doyle • 2021

The argument for free speech when offense is treated as violence and platforms police every word.

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🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🚫 Cancel Culture 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Hate Speech Laws 🔕 Censorship

Free Speech And Why It Matters 91%

The argument for free speech when offense is treated as violence and platforms police every word.

by Andrew Doyle 2021

4.23

1k+ ratings

🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🚫 Cancel Culture 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Hate Speech Laws 🔕 Censorship

Modern Times

by Paul Johnson • 1983

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

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📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

Modern Times 91%

Einstein and Freud dismantled the old moral universe. Into the void stepped the totalitarians.

by Paul Johnson 1983

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📅 Modern History 💡 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political History ⚖️ Moral Relativism 🚫 Totalitarianism

Panentheism

by John W. Cooper • 2006

Western thought's rival God contains the world instead of transcending it, from Plato to today.

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💡 History Of Ideas 📚 Philosophical Theology 🌊 Process Theology 🌍 Divine Immanence 🧠 German Idealism

Panentheism 91%

Western thought's rival God contains the world instead of transcending it, from Plato to today.

by John W. Cooper 2006

4.23

48 ratings

💡 History Of Ideas 📚 Philosophical Theology 🌊 Process Theology 🌍 Divine Immanence 🧠 German Idealism

Why Men Fight

by Bertrand Russell • 1916

War, bad schools, and hollow religion share a root: mistaking control for growth.

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📜 Political Philosophy 🏙️ Social Criticism 🧑‍🏫 Educational Reform 🌍 Nationalism Critique ⛪ Religion And Society

Why Men Fight 91%

War, bad schools, and hollow religion share a root: mistaking control for growth.

by Bertrand Russell 1916

3.96

251 ratings

📜 Political Philosophy 🏙️ Social Criticism 🧑‍🏫 Educational Reform 🌍 Nationalism Critique ⛪ Religion And Society

Aristotle

by John Sellars • 2023

An ancient toolkit for thought: why Aristotle's logic, ethics, and politics never went out of style.

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🧠 Logic And Reasoning 🌌 Metaphysics 🗳️ Political Philosophy

Aristotle 91%

An ancient toolkit for thought: why Aristotle's logic, ethics, and politics never went out of style.

by John Sellars 2023

3.95

232 ratings

🏛️ Greek Philosophy ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🧠 Logic And Reasoning 🌌 Metaphysics 🗳️ Political Philosophy

Liberty for All

by Andrew T. Walker • 2021

Only God judges souls, so the state cannot punish unbelief. That logic grounds real pluralism.

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141

🏛️ Political Theology 🕊️ Religious Liberty ⚖️ Christian Ethics 🌐 Religious Pluralism 🏙️ Secularism

Liberty for All 90%

Only God judges souls, so the state cannot punish unbelief. That logic grounds real pluralism.

by Andrew T. Walker 2021

3.92

141 ratings

🏛️ Political Theology 🕊️ Religious Liberty ⚖️ Christian Ethics 🌐 Religious Pluralism 🏙️ Secularism

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

by Rawls • 2007

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy Summary

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy 90%

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

by Rawls 2007

4.15

289 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

Main Currents Of Marxism

by Leszek Kołakowski • 2005

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

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📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

Main Currents Of Marxism 90%

Marxism's own contradictions made authoritarianism inevitable, not an aberration.

by Leszek Kołakowski 2005

4.25

455 ratings

📖 Intellectual History ⚒️ Marxist Theory 🔍 Critique Of Ideology 🚩 Party Vanguardism 🏭 Historical Materialism

Jag är Zlatan

by Zlatan Ibrahimović • 2011

How the West thought: ten ideas from Plato to Rawls that still shape everything we believe.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer ⚖️ Political Philosophy 🧠 Epistemology 🎯 Virtue Ethics

Jag är Zlatan 90%

How the West thought: ten ideas from Plato to Rawls that still shape everything we believe.

by Zlatan Ibrahimović 2011

3.86

19k+ ratings

🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer ⚖️ Political Philosophy 🧠 Epistemology 🎯 Virtue Ethics

God

by Dan Barker • 2016

Twenty million dead in a flood, children dashed on rocks: the Bible's God, read plainly.

3.90

838

📖 Biblical Criticism ⚡ Divine Violence 📚 Bible As Literature 🧠 New Atheism 💡 Freethought

God 90%

Twenty million dead in a flood, children dashed on rocks: the Bible's God, read plainly.

by Dan Barker 2016

3.90

838 ratings

📖 Biblical Criticism ⚡ Divine Violence 📚 Bible As Literature 🧠 New Atheism 💡 Freethought

维特根斯坦传：天才之为责任

by 英] 瑞·蒙克

His philosophy solved logic. His life proved logic was never his real subject.

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🧠 Philosophical Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🏛️ Viennese Modernism 💬 Limits Of Language 🛋️ Philosophy As Therapy

维特根斯坦传：天才之为责任 90%

His philosophy solved logic. His life proved logic was never his real subject.

by 英] 瑞·蒙克

4.68

19 ratings

🧠 Philosophical Biography 📖 Intellectual History 🏛️ Viennese Modernism 💬 Limits Of Language 🛋️ Philosophy As Therapy

At the Existentialist Café

by Sarah Bakewell • 2016

The existentialists built a philosophy from cafés, war, and each other's complicated lives.

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🖤 Existentialism 🔍 Phenomenology 🇫🇷 French Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🎭 Meaning In Absurdity

At the Existentialist Café 90%

The existentialists built a philosophy from cafés, war, and each other's complicated lives.

by Sarah Bakewell 2016

4.24

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🖤 Existentialism 🔍 Phenomenology 🇫🇷 French Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🎭 Meaning In Absurdity

The First Jewish Environmentalist

by Yuval Jobani • 2023

Called Zionism back to the land, literally: labor as prayer, veganism as sacred duty.

🧠 Jewish Philosophy 🌱 Environmental Philosophy ✡️ Zionist Thought 📜 Secular Theology 🧤 Labor And Spirituality

The First Jewish Environmentalist Summary

The First Jewish Environmentalist 90%

Called Zionism back to the land, literally: labor as prayer, veganism as sacred duty.

by Yuval Jobani 2023

🧠 Jewish Philosophy 🌱 Environmental Philosophy ✡️ Zionist Thought 📜 Secular Theology 🧤 Labor And Spirituality

The Spirit of Spinoza

by Neal Grossman • 2014

Spinoza's monism isn't abstract. Applied to the mind, it heals anxiety and dissolves fear of death.

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🌀 Spinozism 🛋️ Philosophical Therapy 🌍 Pantheism 😌 Emotional Regulation 🧘 Mind-Body Unity

The Spirit of Spinoza 90%

Spinoza's monism isn't abstract. Applied to the mind, it heals anxiety and dissolves fear of death.

by Neal Grossman 2014

4.42

62 ratings

🌀 Spinozism 🛋️ Philosophical Therapy 🌍 Pantheism 😌 Emotional Regulation 🧘 Mind-Body Unity

The Passion of the Western Mind

by Richard Tarnas • 1991

Western thought is a single dramatic story, from ancient archetypes to postmodern doubt.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🌍 Worldview Shifts ⛪ Faith And Reason 🏰 Western Civilization

The Passion of the Western Mind 90%

Western thought is a single dramatic story, from ancient archetypes to postmodern doubt.

by Richard Tarnas 1991

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Western Philosophy 🌍 Worldview Shifts ⛪ Faith And Reason 🏰 Western Civilization

Per la pace perpetua

by Immanuel Kant • 1795

A Dutch inn sign with a cemetery: Kant's starting point for a plan to end war.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🌐 International Relations 📜 Kantian Ethics 🌍 Cosmopolitanism 🕊️ Peace Theory

Per la pace perpetua 90%

A Dutch inn sign with a cemetery: Kant's starting point for a plan to end war.

by Immanuel Kant 1795

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🌐 International Relations 📜 Kantian Ethics 🌍 Cosmopolitanism 🕊️ Peace Theory

The Philosophy of History

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • 1831

History's chaos is an illusion: a hidden reason channels our passions toward a single goal.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 📜 German Idealism 🧠 Hegelianism 🎯 Historical Teleology 🔄 Dialectical Progression

The Philosophy of History 90%

History's chaos is an illusion: a hidden reason channels our passions toward a single goal.

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1831

3.82

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 📜 German Idealism 🧠 Hegelianism 🎯 Historical Teleology 🔄 Dialectical Progression

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

by David Hume • 1748

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

3.94

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🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Summary

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 90%

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

by David Hume 1748

3.94

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🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

We Are Free to Change the World

by Lyndsey Stonebridge • 2024

A philosopher who survived statelessness saw the patterns behind totalitarianism, and they are back.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛓️ Authoritarianism ⚖️ Judgment And Morality 🧳 Statelessness 🤔 Existentialism

We Are Free to Change the World 90%

A philosopher who survived statelessness saw the patterns behind totalitarianism, and they are back.

by Lyndsey Stonebridge 2024

4.16

469 ratings

🏛️ Political Philosophy ⛓️ Authoritarianism ⚖️ Judgment And Morality 🧳 Statelessness 🤔 Existentialism

The Idea of the Holy

by Rudolf Otto • 1917

Before religion was rules or reason, it was an encounter with something terrifying and magnetic.

4.03

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