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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • The Case against Death

    by Ingemar Patrick Linden ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension.Ingemar Patrick Linden’s central claim is that death is evil. In this first comprehensive refutation of the most common arguments in favor of human mortality, he writes passionately in favor of antiaging science and radical life extension. We may ... Read more

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  • Life Is Hard

    How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

    by Kieran Setiya ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST“Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better anyway.” —The New York Times Book Review**There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. ... Read more

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  • The Best Things in Life

    A Guide to What Really Matters

    by Thomas Hurka ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us now in the 21st century. Should we value family over career? How do we balance self-interest and serving others? What activities ... Read more

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  • The Evolving Self

    A Psychology for the Third Millennium

    by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    The renowned author of Flow shares a "wise, humane inquiry" into the evolution of consciousness—and how we can rewire our minds for contemporary life ( Publishers Weekly).In Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's bestselling Flow, he introduced readers to a radical new theory of happiness. Now in The Evolving Self—his breakthrough sequel—he demonstrates how we can understand and overcome our evolutionary ... Read more

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  • The Stone Reader

    Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    A timeless volume to be read and treasured, The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy.Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted ... Read more

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  • The Good-Enough Life

    by Avram Alpert ...
    How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all.Avram ... Read more

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  • Limits

    Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

    by Giorgos Kallis ...
    Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ... Read more

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  • The Good Life Method

    Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning

    by Meghan Sullivan, Paul Blaschko ...
    Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and HappinessFor seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. University of Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have shepherded thousands of students on the journey to faith and happiness in their blockbuster undergraduate course God and the Good Life.Now they invite us into ... Read more

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  • Question Everything

    A Stone Reader

    Edited by Peter Catapano, Simon Critchley ...
    An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers.When The Stone Reader—a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times’ award-winning philosophy column—first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr

    by Ivan Illich, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.More than any other thinker of the twentieth century, Ivan Illich has challenged institutional bureaucracies and provided a strong voice for small communities. In this lecture, he reflects on Kohr's efforts to lay a foundation for an alternate to ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Fear

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred shop windows. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. In A Philosophy of Fear, Lars Svendsen explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion, as he investigates how and why fear has ... Read more

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  • Against Fairness

    by Stephen T. Asma ...
    "Mr. Asma offers a rightly critical diagnosis of our obsession with egalitarianism." — The Wall Street JournalIn our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philosopher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through ... Read more

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