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  2. The Human Predicament - Wikipedia

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    The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions is a philosophy book by David Benatar, which makes a case for philosophical pessimism, published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

  3. Hayy ibn Yaqdhan - Wikipedia

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    The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, in the bosom of an antelope that raised him, feeding him with her milk. Ḥayy has just learned to walk and imitates the sounds of antelopes, birds, and other animals in his surroundings.

  4. The Bed of Procrustes - Wikipedia

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    The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is a philosophy book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb written in the aphoristic style. It was first released on November 30, 2010 by Random House. [1] An updated edition was released on October 26, 2016 that includes fifty percent more material than the 2010 edition. [1]

  5. List of philosophical fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Well-known example of a modern philosophical novel. Santayana, George: 1863–1952 Unamuno, Miguel de: 1864–1936 Pirandello, Luigi: 1867–1936 Maxim Gorky: 1868-1936 The Life of Klim Samgin; Proust, Marcel: 1871-1922 In Search of Lost Time; Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 Mann, Thomas: 1875-1955 The Magic Mountain; Hesse ...

  6. Stages on Life's Way - Wikipedia

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    The subtitle is A Recollection Related by William Afham. Paul Sponheim says in his introduction to Lowrie's translation that Afham means Byhim in Danish. The book is divided rather sharply into sections, this first being the equivalent of the first part of Either/Or and is equivalent with religiousness A. "Religiousness A is the dialectic of inward deepening; it is the relation to an eternal ...

  7. Socratic dialogue - Wikipedia

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    This philosophical questioning is known as the Socratic method. Strictly speaking, the term Socratic dialogue refers to works in which Socrates is a character. As a genre, however, other texts are included; Plato's Laws and Xenophon's Hiero are Socratic dialogues in which a wise man other than Socrates leads the discussion (the Athenian ...

  8. The Three Questions - Wikipedia

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    "The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.

  9. Philosophical fiction - Wikipedia

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    Philosophical fiction is any fiction that devotes a significant portion of its content to the sort of questions addressed by philosophy.It might explore any facet of the human condition, including the function and role of society, the nature and motivation of human acts, the purpose of life, ethics or morals, the role of art in human lives, the role of experience or reason in the development ...