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A First Taste of Philosophy
Enter philosophy through accessible histories, everyday dilemmas, essays, and different accounts of what it means to live well.
Books in this collection
Sophie's World
Sophie’s World follows a girl’s introduction to philosophy, from wonder and myth through science, religion, ethics, and existentialism, while a mystery unsettles the boundary between reality and fiction. It asks how to think and live when inherited answers are incomplete, connecting personal freedom with cosmic wonder.
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant’s selective history follows major philosophers from Socrates and Plato to James and Dewey, asking how reason, desire, science, faith, freedom, and social order relate. It shows how competing answers can clarify personal conduct and public institutions while exposing the limits of knowledge.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton follows Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche to ask how philosophy can steady us against unpopularity, frustrated desire, anxiety, bodily shame, cultural judgment, romantic pain, and hardship. The book offers a practical map for questioning inherited beliefs, recalibrating expectations, and turning difficulty into clearer, more durable forms of life.
