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Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

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Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the worl...

A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.

A Season in Abyssinia

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'If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it', Paul Strathern writes, 'he is the last philosopher. In...

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Un primer acercamiento a la vida y obra de Confucio, cuyas enseñanzas acerca del gobierno y el de...

Aquinas's life and ideas presented in entertaining and accessible fashion--another title in our h...

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El brillante sistema metafisico de Spinoza no se deriva de la realidad ni de la experiencia. Part...

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