Biographies of Philosophers

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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers 4.15 avg rating — 17,693 ratings
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Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil 3.87 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
by: Ray Monk
4.15 avg rating — 6,565 ratings
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist 4.24 avg rating — 7,512 ratings
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Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend
Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend 4.23 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Arthur Schopenhauer: de woelige jaren van de filosofie
Arthur Schopenhauer: de woelige jaren van de filosofie 4.24 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Nietzsche: Een biografie van zijn denken
Nietzsche: Een biografie van zijn denken 4.10 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom 3.89 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius 4.15 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant
The Cambridge Companion to Kant 3.98 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books)
Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books) 4.43 avg rating — 745 ratings
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Kant: A Biography
Kant: A Biography 4.23 avg rating — 197 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson 3.94 avg rating — 28,832 ratings
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Ecce Homo
Ecce Homo 3.81 avg rating — 19,210 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,272 ratings
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Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity 3.94 avg rating — 834 ratings
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The Worldly Philosophers
The Worldly Philosophers 4.16 avg rating — 8,759 ratings
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The Prince
The Prince 3.84 avg rating — 371,434 ratings
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Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds
Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds
by: Plato
4.01 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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Plato
Plato
by: T.W. Lumb
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius 3.70 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther 3.64 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Thomas Paine and the Promise of America
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America 3.91 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,883 ratings
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Hegel: A Biography
Hegel: A Biography 4.31 avg rating — 150 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Socrates
The Cambridge Companion to Socrates 4.25 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography 4.13 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Autobiography
Autobiography 4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life 4.01 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought
Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Nietzsche, Volumes One and Two
Nietzsche, Volumes One and Two 4.29 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche 3.80 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Descartes: A Biography
Descartes: A Biography 3.95 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Spinoza: A Life
Spinoza: A Life 4.15 avg rating — 457 ratings
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The Life of David Hume
The Life of David Hume really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Locke: A Biography
Locke: A Biography 3.87 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas
The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas 3.36 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography
The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography 4.15 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther 3.88 avg rating — 6,665 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes 3.90 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study
Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard 3.94 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking
Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind 4.39 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide
Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide 3.76 avg rating — 1,701 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,923 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
The Trial and Death of Socrates
by: Plato
4.12 avg rating — 44,777 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle 3.99 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives 4.16 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Great Philosophers
The Great Philosophers 3.70 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Yours for Health: The Life and Times of Herbert m Shelton
Yours for Health: The Life and Times of Herbert m Shelton it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard 3.74 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Plato
The Cambridge Companion to Plato 3.95 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Aristotle
Aristotle 3.65 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World 4.32 avg rating — 296 ratings
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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.11 avg rating — 722 ratings
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Arendt and Heidegger
Arendt and Heidegger really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Boethius
Boethius 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Boethius
The Cambridge Companion to Boethius 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Story of My Misfortunes
The Story of My Misfortunes 3.60 avg rating — 591 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Sartre
The Cambridge Companion to Sartre really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Abelard: A Medieval Life
Abelard: A Medieval Life 3.95 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography
Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography 3.87 avg rating — 403 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Abelard
The Cambridge Companion to Abelard 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Tête-à-Tête: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Tête-à-Tête: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre 4.15 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther
The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Montaigne
Montaigne 4.02 avg rating — 2,680 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne
The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Blaise Pascal ou le génie français
Blaise Pascal ou le génie français 3.96 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire
The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau
The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton 4.13 avg rating — 327 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Newton
The Cambridge Companion to Newton 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Locke
The Cambridge Companion to Locke 3.85 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Hume
The Cambridge Companion to Hume 3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind
Crowded with Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind 3.44 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Passionate Minds
Passionate Minds 4.10 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
80.
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
by: Plutarch
4.10 avg rating — 5,998 ratings
80.
Marx's Kapital for Beginners
Marx's Kapital for Beginners 4.06 avg rating — 785 ratings
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The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World 3.99 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius 4.22 avg rating — 363 ratings
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Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography
Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Life of Adam Smith
Life of Adam Smith
by: John Rae
3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Vom "Günstling"‘ zum "Urfeind"‘ der Juden: Die antisemitische Nietzsche-Rezeption in Deutschland bis zum Ende des Nationalsozialismus
Vom "Günstling"‘ zum "Urfeind"‘ der Juden: Die antisemitische Nietzsche-Rezeption in Deutschland bis zum Ende des Nationalsozialismus 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Plato for Beginners
Plato for Beginners 3.45 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger 3.95 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography
Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography 4.34 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy for Beginners
Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy for Beginners 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Insights and Illusions of Philosophy
Insights and Illusions of Philosophy 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Derrida: A Biography
Derrida: A Biography 4.07 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Introducing Kierkegaard
Introducing Kierkegaard 3.90 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein 4.34 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,749 ratings
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Einstein Lived Here
Einstein Lived Here 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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