Books like Socrates' way by Ronald Gross

A series of spiritual exercises for leading a meaningful life, 2,000 years old and still relevant today.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

Plato’s eloquent defense of Socrates, the *Apology*, presents the philosopher’s own account of his trial and the reasoning that guided his life, illustrating foundational ideas of Western thought.

A motivational guide for movie stars, focusing on their personal growth and life lessons.

Edited transcripts of eight Alan Watts lectures (1960‑1973) that weave Taoist thought into a dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophy, offering a concise introduction to his wit and wisdom.

A compilation of Ayn Rand's final essays that outline her Objectivist philosophy, addressing education, morality, censorship, and inflation as fundamental aspects of human life.

The author's guide to true happiness, revealing that it’s a duty, not a coincidence.

This well researched, painstakingly documented book provides detailed information on the right-wing evangelical organization (Oxford Group Movement) that gave birth to AA; the relation of AA and its program to the Oxford Group Movement; AA's similarities to and differences from religious cults; AA's remarkable ineffectiveness; and the alternatives to AA. The greatly expanded second edition includes a new chapter on AA's relationship to the treatment industry, and AA's remarkable influence in the media.

A medieval masterpiece by Boethius that blends prose and verse to explore fate, fortune, and the nature of happiness through a dramatic dialogue between the author and his philosophical muse.

"How is this history of philosophy different from all others? 1. It's neighter very long (like Copleston's twelve-volumet tome, which is a clear and hepful reference work but pretty dull reading) nor very short (like many skimpy one-volume summaries) just long enough. 2. It's available in separate volumes but eventually in one complete work (after the four volumes - Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Contemporary - are produced in paperbound editions, a one-volume clothbound will be published). 3. It focuses on the "big ideas" that have influenced present people and present times. 4. It includes relevant biographical data, proportionate to its importance for each thinker. 5. It is not just history but philosophy. Its aim is not merely to record facts (of life or opinion) but to stimulate philosophizing, controversy, argument. 6. It aims above all at understanding, at what the old logic called the "first act of the mind" rather than the third: the thing computers and many "analytic philosophers" cannot understand. 7. It uses ordinary language and logic, not academic jargon or symbolic logic. 8. It is commonsensical (and therefore is sympathetic to commonsense philosophers like Aristotle). 9. It is "existential" in that it sees philosophy as something to be lived and tested"--