Philosophy & the Self
Schools of thought on the self, the absurd, and what it means to be a person
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus · Essay
The Ego Tunnel
Thomas Metzinger · Book
Descartes' Error & How Emotions Are Made
Antonio Damasio & Lisa Feldman Barrett · Book
The Selfish Gene (and Memes)
Richard Dawkins · Book
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · Book
The Case Against Reality
Donald Hoffman · Book
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre · Essay
The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard · Book
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir · Book
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · Journal
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca · Letters
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu · Text
The Dhammapada
Buddhist canon (attrib. Siddhartha Gautama) · Text
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · Book
Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness
David Chalmers · Paper
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill · Essay
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant · Book
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle · Text
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke · Book
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes · Book
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume · Book
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes · Book
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls · Book
Panpsychism
Philip Goff · Philosophy
The Good Enough Mother
Donald Winnicott · Psychology
Romanticism vs. Classicism
Alain de Botton · Philosophy
The Porcupine Dilemma
Arthur Schopenhauer · Philosophy
Live the Questions
Rainer Maria Rilke · Letter
The Overview Effect
Frank White · Psychology
The People-First Approach
Haitham Al-Beik · Essay
Seven Stoic Principles to Simplify Life
Marcus Frick · Infographic
The Empty Boat
Zhuangzi (classical parable) · Parable