Motivation

For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared which decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur Hübscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotations in half a dozen languages, and Mr. Payne has provided a comprehensive index of 2,500 items. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher. (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

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

2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke 2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, though Clarke changed some elements of the story to align with the film version of 2001. (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

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits—just behind a Raman airlock door. (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

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind... or the beginning? (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

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the most intellectually stimulating works. Both heavily influenced by and critical of Plato's Republic and Laws, Politics represents the distillation of a lifetime of thought and observation. "Encyclopaedic knowledge has never, before or since, gone hand in hand with a logic so masculine or with speculation so profound," says H. W. C. Davis in his introduction. Students, teachers, and scholars will welcome this inexpensive new edition of the Benjamin Jowett translation, as will all readers interested in Greek thought, political theory, and depictions of the ideal state. (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

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the emerging sciences of logic and biology. His examination of the huge variety of living organisms - the enormous range of their behaviour, their powers and their perceptual sophistication - convinced him of the inadequacy both of a materialist reduction and of a Platonic sublimation of the soul. In De Anima, he sought to set out his theory of the soul as the ultimate reality of embodied form and produced both a masterpiece of philosophical insight and a psychology of perennially fascinating subtlety. Hugh Lawson-Tancred's masterly translation makes De Anima fully accessible to modern readers. In his introduction, he places Aristotle's theories at the heart of contemporary debates on the philosophy of life and being. (Sources: Goodreads/Amazon) Read more from this author in my new book: 🚀 250 Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person 📕 Hardback – Large Print | Available now at Amazon 🏷️ https://www.amazon.com/Quotes-That-Will-Better-Person/dp/B0DNZFB9HS/