Bust of Socrates

This is a list of some good books on popular philosophy that I recommend. For more information click one of the links below. (** Books that especially influenced me.)

• Mortimer Adler ~ Six Great Ideas **

• Mortimer Adler ~ Aristotle for Everybody **

• William Barrett ~ Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy **

• Susan Blackmore ~ The Meme Machine

• Kim Blessing & Paul Tudico ~ Movies and the Meaning of Life

• Alain De Botton ~ The Consolations of Philosophy

• Dennis Bradford ~ A Thinker’s Guide to Living Well **

• Stephen Cave ~ Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

• Francis Crick ~ Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul

• James Christian ~ Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering

• Frank Donoghue ~ The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the…

• Will Durant ~ The Pleasures of Philosophy **

• Will Durant ~ The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s … **

• Roger Ebert ~ Life Itself: A Memoir

• Owen Flanagan ~ The Problem Of The Soul: Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile …

• Erich Fromm ~ The Art of Loving **

• Christopher Hitchens ~ Mortality

• James Holt ~ Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story **

• Aldous Huxley ~ The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics

• Roman Krznaric ~ How Should We Live?: Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life

• Sonja Lyubomirsky ~ The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You …

• Thomas Nagel ~ What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

• Thomas Nagel ~ The View From Nowhere

• Thomas Nagel ~ Mortal Questions

• Jean Piaget ~ Insights and Illusions of Philosophy **

• Steven Pinker ~ The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

• Steven Pinker ~ How the Mind Works

• Richard Precht ~ Who Am I?: And If So, How Many?

• Carl Sagan ~ Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

• Schick & Vaughn ~ How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

• Roy Scranton ~Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a …

• Seneca ~ On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)

• Huston Smith ~ The World’s Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions **

• Andrew Stark – The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death

• George Vaillant ~ Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

• Alan Watts ~ The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are **

• Alan Watts ~ The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

• Robert Wright ~ Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and …

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