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For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato ...
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Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback
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'No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.' - Marcus Aurelius
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