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A Short Path Into Stoicism
Begin with Epictetus' Enchiridion, sit with Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, then read Pierre Hadot to understand what they were actually trying to do.
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READING LISTS
Where to begin.
Curated paths through the traditions, each with six to eight essential works and a short map of what you will find in each.
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The Existentialist Bookshelf
From Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling through Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus — a tradition that asks what it is to choose a life.
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How Should We Live?
Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and a handful of twentieth-century reformers who made ethics ask harder questions of itself.
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The Life We Share
A modern political reader: Arendt, Rawls, Berlin, and Anderson on freedom, institutions, and the quiet powers that shape us.
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