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The Philosopher's Path

Plato asks what is good, true, and beautiful. Aristotle systematises it. The Stoics learn to live with it. Augustine Christianises it. Machiavelli politicises it. Montaigne doubts it. Pascal wagers. Rousseau and Kant rebuild from the ground up. Schopenhauer says it's all suffering. Kierkegaard says choose. Nietzsche says create. Wittgenstein says we can't even talk about it properly, then changes his mind about how. Beauvoir, Arendt, and Sontag bring it into the twentieth century and insist it answer for itself.

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    The ApologyPlato (-399)
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    The RepublicPlato (-375)
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    The SymposiumPlato (-385)
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    Nicomachean EthicsAristotle (350)
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    MeditationsMarcus Aurelius (180)
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    The EnchiridionEpictetus (135)
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    Letters to LuciliusSeneca (65)
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    The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius (524)
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    ConfessionsSaint Augustine (400)
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    The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli (1532)
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    EssaysMichel de Montaigne (1580)
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    PenséesBlaise Pascal (1670)
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    The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
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    Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant (1781)
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    The World as Will and RepresentationArthur Schopenhauer (1818)
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    Either/OrSøren Kierkegaard (1843)
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    Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard (1843)
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    The Sickness Unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard (1849)
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    The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche (1882)
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    Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche (1883)
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    The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche (1872)
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    Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein (1921)
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    Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein (1953)
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    The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir (1949)
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    Eichmann in JerusalemHannah Arendt (1963)
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    Against InterpretationSusan Sontag (1966)