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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Philosophy for the previous several centuries had been primarily a classroom exercise. It had been about the pursuit of the good life—about truth and meaning—but for the student first and foremost. Almost all the philosophical schools—Cynic, Platonist, Aristotelian, Epicurean, even Stoicism—had tuned out the real world of social and political life.
Stephen Hanselman • Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
of happiness,
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
THE FIRST PREMISE of this book is that understanding our selves—our natures, capacities, and possibilities—is the hardest thing in the world and yet endlessly fascinating because it cannot be finally settled by empirical research.
Anthony A. Long • Greek Models of Mind and Self
He walked past strangers and cataloged their pain.
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
He made philosophy out of vertigo, voyeurism, shame, sadism, revolution, music and sex. Lots of sex.