Yearly Archives: 2025

The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 365 Quotes To Help Get You Through 2025 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJ57DG8

When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years: Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 365 Quotes To Help Get You Through 2025 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJ57DG8

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel. Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars. But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 365 Quotes To Help Get You Through 2025 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJ57DG8

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue', for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle's work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters. J. A. K. Thomson's translation has been revised by Hugh Tredennick, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Jonathan Barnes. This edition also includes an updated list for further reading and a new chronology of Aristotle's life and works. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 365 Quotes To Help Get You Through 2025 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJ57DG8