Philosophy Book Summaries

Future Stories

David Christian

Future Stories

What's Next?

The Why Café

John P. Strelecky

The Why Café

A Story About the Meaning of Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain de Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life

Valuable Insights Into Living Your Best Life

Win Every Argument

Mehdi Hasan

Win Every Argument

The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Critique of Pure Reason

A groundbreaking and influential philosophy classic about the limits of human reason

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

The Book of Five Rings

A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword

The Wisdom of Insecurity

Alan Watts

The Wisdom of Insecurity

A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Great Thinkers

The School of Life, Alain de Botton (series editor)

Great Thinkers

Simple Tools from Sixty Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today

The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant

The Story of Philosophy

The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Time of the Magicians

Wolfram Eilenberger

Time of the Magicians

Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

Humanly Possible

Sarah Bakewell

Humanly Possible

Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

The iconic political text on how to balance authority, society and individuality

Living Presence

Kabir Edmund Helminski

Living Presence

A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir

The Ethics of Ambiguity

A foundational text of existentialist philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

An influential existentialist essay about living your life with greater passion and freedom

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

The Bible Recap

A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

How to Live a Good Life

ed. Massimo Pigliucci, Skye C. Cleary and Daniel A. Kaufman

How to Live a Good Life

A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy

Sovereign Self

Acharya Shunya

Sovereign Self

Claim Your Inner Joy and Freedom with the Empowering Wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Baltasar Gracián y Morales

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

A Pocket Oracle

The Way of Zen

Alan W. Watts

The Way of Zen

The history and core principles of the Eastern philosophy of Zen

The Power Of Meaning

Emily Esfahani Smith

The Power Of Meaning

Crafting a Life That Matters

The Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle

The Art of Rhetoric

Uncover Persuasion and the Principles Behind Oratorical Skill

Knowledge

Jennifer Nagel

Knowledge

A Very Short Introduction

Philosophy for Life

Jules Evans

Philosophy for Life

And Other Dangerous Situations

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

On the Shortness of Life

Life Is Long If You Know How To Use It

How to Have Impossible Conversations

Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay

How to Have Impossible Conversations

A Very Practical Guide

On Having No Head

Douglas Harding

On Having No Head

Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious