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Maîtrisez votre stress quotidien grâce à la philosophie pratique et trouvez une sérénité durable face au monde moderne. Cette approche apaisante du développement personnel vous apprend à dissocier les événements bruts de vos propres jugements intérieurs. Que vous cherchiez un ancrage...

Diese philosophische Reise durch 3.000 Jahre Geistesgeschichte beleuchtet unsere tiefsten Fragen nach Wahrheit und Sinn. Perfekt für konzentriertes Zuhören auf dem täglichen Arbeitsweg oder für einen nachdenklichen Abendspaziergang. Die inspirierende Erzählung spannt einen weiten Bogen von...

古代エジプトの神秘的な叡智とヘルメス思想を紐解き、目に見える「現実」と内なる「意識」がどう結びついていたのかを浮き彫りにする、知覚の境界を広げる哲学的な探求。通勤の喧騒から離れた夜や深く自己と向き合...

A thought-provoking take on the common myths and misconceptions about one of the most popular philosophical movements, Stoicism Stoicism is one of the world’s most popular – and misunderstood – traditions. We all know what it means to be ‘stoical’: to have a stiff upper lip, to hide or...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For two thousand years, the name Epicurus has meant indulgence. The man lived on bread and water...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Porphyry's four-book case against eating animals, the ancient world's most complete argument for a bloodless table, translated fresh from the Greek...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Athens executed Socrates. This is what the world lost...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The surviving fragments of the laughing philosopher: atoms, chance, and how to stay cheerful in a hard world, fresh from the Greek...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Everything that survives of Heraclitus, the river, the fire, the hidden order of things, translated fresh from the Greek...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Charged with corrupting the young and dishonoring the gods, Socrates chose death over abandoning the examined life. Plato's four dialogues on the trial and death of the West's first philosopher, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, fresh from the Greek...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Almost everything we know about the ancient philosophers comes from one compiler, and he is the writer scholars trust least. All ten books, complete...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. How to live without fear. A clear, quote-driven introduction to the most misunderstood school of ancient thought, from Epicurus's Garden to Lucretius's Rome, and what it still offers anyone trying to live well now...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Everything that survives of the most slandered philosopher in history: the letters, the doctrines, the fragments. Pleasure, it turns out, meant something quieter than you've heard...

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The emperor who exiled him is dead and being made a god. Seneca writes the scene where the gods refuse to let him in...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Philosophy before it had prose: every surviving fragment of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles and Anaxagoras, translated fresh from the Greek, with the ancient life of each man...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The distilled common sense of antiquity, one line at a time — the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, the Delphic maxims, Cato's Distichs, and the Sentences of Publilius Syrus, gathered in one volume...

Life is not short, Seneca argues. We simply waste too much of it. In On the Shortness of Life, the Roman philosopher and statesman examines how people squander their most precious resource: time. With clarity and conviction, Seneca challenges the pursuit of wealth, status and distraction, urging readers instead to devote themselves to what truly matters. Combining sharp observation with practical wisdom, he shows how mindful living can free us from needless busyness and help us make better use of the years available to us.

A vivid and timely new translation of Plato’s Apology,in which Socrates defends his pursuit of truth, no matter the consequences Free speech is back at the center of political and cultural debate, amid intense arguments over censorship on campus, in government, and in everyday life. How to...

Giordano Bruno wurde 1548 zu Nola geboren. Er war ein Universalgelehrter, der an zahlreichen Universitäten Europas unterrichtet hat und immer wieder wurde er aufgrund seiner Ansichten von der katholischen Kirche verfolgt, verteufelt und schließlich am 17. Februar 1600 auf dem Campo dei Fiori in Rom verbrannt, nachdem er 7 Jahre von der Inquisition in deren Kerkern inhaftiert war. Nach seinem Verständnis ist sämtliche Materie und alles Leben inklusive der Seele ewiger Bestandteil einer ewigen Umwandlung. Seine philosophischen Gedanken hatten Einfluss auf u. a.