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Introduction: What Is Philosophy?

Know Yourself with Socrates

Learn to Say What's on Your Mind with Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's Hard to Know What We Really Want with Simone de Beauvoir

When Someone Is Angry Maybe It's Not You Who Is Responsible with Ibn Sina

People Are Unhappy Not Mean with Zera Yacob

Don't Expect Too Much with Seneca

Maybe You Are Just Tired with Matsuo Basho

What Is Normal Isn't Normal with Albert Camus

No One Knows...with René Descartes

Politeness Matters with Confucius

Why We Procrastinate with Hypatia of Alexandria

Why It's Hard to Know What You Want to Do with Your Life with Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good Things Are (Unexpectedly) Hard with Friedrich Nietzsche

Weakness of Strength Theory with Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kintsugi with Buddha

The Need to Teach Rather than Nag with Immanuel Kant

The Mind-Body Problem with Jean-Paul Sartre

Why You Feel Lonely with Michel de Montaigne

The Meaning of Life with Aristotle

Why We Hate Cheap Things with Mary Wollstonecraft

The News Doesn't Always Tell the Whole Story with Jacques Derrida

Art Is Advertising for What We Really Need with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Why Do Some People Get Paid More than Others? with Adam Smith

What's Fair? with John Rawls

Shyness: How to Overcome It with Maimonides

Why Grown-up Life Is Hard with... Philosophy

List of Thinkers