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Contemplation, as Aristotle put it, is the perfect happiness: allow yourself entry then into the nirvana that is our selection of Philosophy, from the classics of existentialism to those yet to find their place as a thinking person’s staple.

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Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
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The Daily Stoic
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Ryan Holiday
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Meditations for Mortals
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Oliver Burkeman
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Monsters
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Claire Dederer
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You Don't Have To Have A Dream
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You Don't Have To Have A Dream
Tim Minchin
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12 Rules for Life
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Jordan B. Peterson
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The Creative Act
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The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
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Four Thousand Weeks
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Oliver Burkeman
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On Leadership
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On Leadership
Tony Blair
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A Therapeutic Journey
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Alain de Botton
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Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
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Humankind
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Humankind
Rutger Bregman
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The Prince
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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On Freedom
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On Freedom
Timothy Snyder
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How the World Thinks
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How the World Thinks
Julian Baggini
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The Daily Laws
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The Daily Laws
Robert Greene
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The New Leviathans
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John Gray
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365 Lessons from the Stoics
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365 Lessons from the Stoics
Andrea Kirk Assaf
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We Who Wrestle With God
We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine (Hardback)
Jordan B. Peterson
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From the fall of mankind to the Tower of Babel and beyond, the psychologist and bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life analyses the stories of the Bible and asks what these foundational tales tell us about society and the individual.
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality
Thomas Piketty
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The Art of Danish Living
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Meik Wiking
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How the World Eats
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How the World Eats
Julian Baggini
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The Happiness of Dogs
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Mark Rowlands
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Right Thing, Right Now
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Right Thing, Right Now
Ryan Holiday
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
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Judith Butler
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History for Tomorrow
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History for Tomorrow
Roman Krznaric
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The Invention of Good and Evil
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The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
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The Rigor of Angels
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The Rigor of Angels
William Egginton
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In My Time of Dying
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In My Time of Dying
Sebastian Junger
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Everyday Stoicism
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Everyday Stoicism
Gareth Southwell
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All the Rage
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All the Rage
Josh Cohen
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Survival is a Promise
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Myths, Muses and Mortals
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William Furley
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Animals, Robots, Gods
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Animals, Robots, Gods
Webb Keane
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What Are Children For?
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What Are Children For?
Anastasia Berg
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A Programme of Absolute Disorder
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Françoise Vergès
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Albert Camus
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Existentialism and Humanism
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Analects
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Confucius
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Ethics
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Critique of Pure Reason
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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Fear and Trembling
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Søren Kierkegaard
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Discourses and Selected Writings
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Epictetus
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Intention
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G. E. M. Anscombe
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After Virtue
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After Virtue
Alasdair MacIntyre
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Essays and Aphorisms
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The Republic
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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Ikigai
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Meditations
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The Little Book of Hygge
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The Japanese Myths
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Mythology
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Mythos
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Big Ideas for Curious Minds
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Your Spiritual Almanac
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Joey Hulin
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Feline Philosophy
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John Gray
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Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome
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Philip Matyszak
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Storyland (children's edition)
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Amy Jeffs
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How to Stay Sane
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Philippa Perry
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The Lunar Year
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The Lunar Year
Alison Davies
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How to Win an Argument
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My Hygge Home
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The Daily Stoic
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The Righteous Mind
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The Consolations of Philosophy
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Think
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At The Existentialist Café
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The Meaning of Things
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How to Live
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Doing Good Better
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How the French Think
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Why We Drive
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The Dream of Reason
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Anthony Gottlieb
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The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten
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A Philosophy of Walking
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A Little History of Philosophy
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Big Ideas for Curious Minds
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History of Western Philosophy
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Philosophy in Minutes
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Philosophy in Minutes
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The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
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30-Second Philosophies
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Introducing Philosophy
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The Dream of Reason
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Great Thinkers
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Big Ideas in Brief
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Philosophy in 40 ideas
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The Philosophy Book
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1001 Ideas that Changed the Way We Think
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1001 Ideas that Changed the Way We Think
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50 Philosophy Classics
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The Myth Of Sisyphus
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Albert Camus
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Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius
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On the Shortness of Life
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On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
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The Social Contract
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The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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How To Be a Stoic
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How To Be a Stoic
Epictetus
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What Is Existentialism?
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What Is Existentialism?
Simone de Beauvoir
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Of Human Freedom
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Of Human Freedom
Epictetus
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Reflections on the Guillotine
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Reflections on the Guillotine
Albert Camus
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Being Happy
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Being Happy
Epicurus
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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
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On Liberty
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
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Man Alone with Himself
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Man Alone with Himself
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Power of Words
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The Power of Words
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Aristotle
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Meditations
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Nietzsche
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Ethics
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Existentialism
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Aristotle
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Philosophy in the Islamic World
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Thinking and Reasoning
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Philosophical Method
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Heidegger
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French Philosophy
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Ethics: A Very Short Introduction
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Introducing Philosophy
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Introducing Political Philosophy
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Introducing Plato
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Introducing Existentialism
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Introducing Ethics
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Introducing Logic
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Introducing Aristotle
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Introducing Descartes
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Introducing Rousseau
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Introducing Postmodernism
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Introducing Derrida
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Introducing Levi-Strauss
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Introducing Kant
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Introducing Kant
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Introducing Slavoj Zizek
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