Philosophy for Beginners: Where to start with the big questions

The best doors into philosophy: short, clear, life-changing books — the Stoics, a Platonic dialogue or two, and Emerson’s essays.

In this collection

• Fragments
• The Enchiridion
• The Last Words of Marcus
• The Sayings of Macus Aurelius
• Speech to the Army on the News of the Revolt of Cassius
• The Meditations
• Speech Sent to the Senate
• The Republic
• Menexenus
• Lesser Hippias
• Eryxias
• Critias
• Charmides
• Lysis
• Laches
• Protagoras
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