Beal University Library - GE 330 - Introduction to Philosophy

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Buddhism for Beginners by Thubten Chodron
Call Number: 294 3 c545b
ISBN: 1559391537
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
This user’s guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions—beginning with “What is the essence of the Buddha’s teachings?”—and provides simple answers in plain English.
Man's Search for Meaning (OLD EDITION/OUT of PRINT) by Viktor E. Frankl; Harold S. Kushner (Foreword by); William J. Winslade (Afterword by)
Call Number: 131 c 1
ISBN: 9780807014295
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Call Number: 109 r961h
ISBN: 9781416554776
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers throughout the ages - from Plato and Aristotle through to Spinoza, Kant and the 20th century.

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Coming to Our Senses by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Call Number: 158 12 k11c
ISBN: 0786867566
Publication Date: 2005-01-05
Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindfulness, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Now, with Coming to Our Senses, he provides the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing.
Challenges of an Aging Society by Rachel A. Pruchno (Editor); Michaela Smyer (Editor); Rachel Pruchno; Michael A. Smyer (Editor)
Call Number: 174 29897 p971c
ISBN: 9780801886485
Publication Date: 2007-09-10
In this important and timely collection, some of the best minds in gerontology and bioethics―including Nancy Dubler, Rick Moody, Andrew Achenbaum, Robert Hudson, and Robert Binstock―explore the ethical, social, and political challenges of an aging society. A unique combination of disciplines and perspectives―from economics to nursing, psychology to theology―this valuable synthesis of theory and practice provides frameworks and analyses for considering the ethical issues of both individual and societal aging.
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Call Number: 892 g447
ISBN: 0394404289
Publication Date: 1923-09-12
Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau; Walter Harding (Foreword by); Scot Miller (Photographer); Don Henley (Introduction by)
Call Number: 818 309 t488w
ISBN: 0395720427
Publication Date: 1995-09-19
Henry David Thoreau's 1854 classic work, Walden, a reflection on the simplicity and beauty of a life in nature. Walden recounts Thoreau's experiences over a two year, two month, and two day period in which he lived by himself in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, located in an isolated stretch of woodland outside Concord, Massachusetts. In Walden, Thoreau marries the physical with the transcendent -- intermixing precise scientific observations of the flora and fauna he encounters and changes in the pond itself with poetic and metaphorical musings on nature.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
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Philosophy for Any Life
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As Man Thinketh
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