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Books like Three guineas
Loved Three guineas by Virginia Woolf? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from philosophy, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
Philosophy worth reading takes hard questions seriously without making them harder than they need to be. This list spans -380–1991 and includes 2 marked as essential reading in philosophy.
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Sophie's World
A teenager receives mysterious lessons that walk through the whole history of Western philosophy; a story and a course in one.
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The Republic
Socrates argues with Athenian citizens about the nature of justice, the ideal city-state, the philosopher-king, the allegory of the cave, and the forms. Plato's dialogue is the foundational text of Western political philosophy and one of the most influential works of thought ever written.
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Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Why life worth living despite its apparent absurdity; the essay that frames absurdism.
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A History of Western Philosophy
Twenty-five centuries of ideas, opinionated and surprisingly entertaining; a famous one-volume tour.
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The Second Sex
The foundational analysis of how 'woman' has been defined as other; a cornerstone of feminist thought.
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Principles of internal medicine
This book is a treatise on all disorders & treatments in medicine. It is an authoritative & exhaustive book..basically a Bible for students of medicine. Each topic is authored by an expert in the fiel
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha.
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Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.
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Democracy and Education
Publisher description: John Dewey (1859-1952) believed that learning was active and schooling unnecessarily long and restrictive. His idea was that children came to school to do things and live in a c