We are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of hist ory—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.
These men and women were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success came from timeless philosophical principles laid down by a Roman emperor who struggled to articulate a method for excellence in any and all situations.
This book reveals that formula for the first time—and shows us how we can turn our own adversity into advantage.

《生活的艺术》以格言体汇集了他一生的思想精华，以精辟而又通俗的语言，向人们传授生活的真谛和幸福的真义。书中处处闪烁着作者独到的智慧，相信这本小册子能让读者在当今这个混沌的环境中找到正确的生活秩序。爱比克泰德，一位介于古希腊古典哲学与基督教哲学之间的过渡性人物，一位身为奴隶后在亚里士多德影响下成为斯多葛学派的重要代表人物，一位对圣奥古斯丁产生过重要影响、并经由这位坎特布雷首位总主教将自己的许多思想渗透到基督教义中的哲人，一位让马库斯·奥勒留钦佩有加、并深深影响过这位古罗马国王创作出名著《沉思录》的教书匠，一生倡导依照自然律生活，即依照自然秩序过一种自制的生活。他训导人们追求理想的幸福，崇尚真正的自由。朴实地为家庭和社会服务，而非去操纵自然或控制人类。他将这种学说发展成一门指引生活的哲学。

戴维•布鲁克斯在本书中用令人意想不到的角度深入剖析我们的日常生活。作者提出了“双峰模式”，我们每个人都在攀登人生的两座山。如果说第一座山是关乎构建自我和定义自我的，那么第二座山则是关乎摆脱自我和舍弃自我的。如果说第一座山是关乎获取的，那么第二座山则是关乎奉献的。如果第一座山是精英式的独自攀登，那第二座山则是置身于有需要的人之间，并与他们手携手同行。
作者认为，如何判断你是处在第一座山还是第二座山的关键是，你的终极诉求何在？是外在之物，还是自身名利？攀登第二座山的方式，不同于攀登第一座山的方式。征服第一座山后，辨认第二座山的峰顶，然后朝它前进。你已被你的第二座山征服了。你屈服于某些召唤，你竭尽所能，回应召唤，解决面临的问题或不公正。在第一座山上，你雄心勃勃，高瞻远瞩。到第二座山上时，你已倾向于亲密、无私和奉献。第二座山上的人，过着更宏大的生活，激活了内心深处，并承担了更广泛的责任。
作者基于此，提出了本书的两个目的，以期能为读者有更多的帮助。
第一个目的是展示个人是如何从第一座山转进到第二座山的，并详尽、细致地逐步展示更深刻、更快乐的生活。包括我们应该怎样超越自我，并致力于更伟大的事业。
第二个目的是展示社会是如何从第一座山转进到第二座山的。我们的社会正遭受着一场团结危机。我们生活在一种个人主义的文化之中。自我与社会、个人与群体之间总是存在着紧张的关系。我们能做的是重新寻求平衡，建立一种文化，并引导人们走向自我价值的实现与承诺。

《幸福之路》中，罗素不依任何高深的学说，而是把一些经由他自己的经验和观察证实过的通情达理的意见归纳起来，制作出一张献给读者的方子，希望无数感到郁闷的男男女女，能够在此找到他们的病案和逃避之法，能够凭着适当的努力变得幸福。该书晓畅明白，历来为广大读者所喜爱，国内也曾有多个译本刊行。傅雷先生的精湛翻译更是为这本书增添了光彩。

在《中国哲学史大纲》这本著作中，胡适对我国古代哲学做了系统的梳理，重点论述了老子、孔子、庄子、墨子等人或流派的哲学思想，阐释了中国哲学史的发展脉络和流变。它是我国历史上第一部具有科学精神的中国哲学史。一出版，即引起轰动，多次重印，至今仍然有很重要的影响、是研究中国古代哲学史的经典著作。

A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus’s insights and advice—on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others—have made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style.
In Gregory Hays’s new translation—the first in a generation—Marcus’s thoughts speak with a new immediacy: never before have they been so directly and powerfully presented.

存在主义是现代西方哲学中影响极大、流行极广、风行一时的哲学流派。其主要代表人物就是法国哲学家萨特。本书由两篇构成：《存在主义是一种人道主义》和《今天的希望：与萨特的谈话》。前者发表于1946年，后一篇发表于1980年去世前不久，其中萨特一再强调，他的存在主义本质上是一种对人生充满希望的乐观主义哲学。

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, the <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Ranging from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they cover such diverse topics as the nature of moral virtue, human rationality, divine providence, and Marcus' own emotions. But while the <i>Meditations</i> were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, in developing his beliefs Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection of extended meditations and short aphorisms that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers through the centuries.

《生活的艺术:让内心获得幸福、快乐与宁静》是格言的形式，虽然简短，却皆为爱比克泰德一生的思想精华。这些富有哲理的文字不仅闪烁着作者独到的智慧，而且这种智慧还能够传达给千万人，尤其是能够帮助时下不知如何找寻幸福、营造快乐、归于宁静的人得以真正收获幸福、快乐与宁静。

《爱比克泰德论说集》最老版本是CodeLz．Bodleianus Graecorum Miscellarigorum 251(S)，于11、12世纪之交编辑而成，所有后世版本(MSS)都是在此基础上修订完善而成的。1525年，Victor Trincavelli“据此印刷出版了第一个《论说集》印刷本(威尼斯本)。但他依据的原始手本错误百出，故几乎毫无文本考证价值。第一本真正具有学术价值的本子由Jacob Shegk在1554年(Basel版)完成。Shegk是图宾根(Tubingen)著名医学教授，与Trin—cavelli的本子相比，他审订的希腊文本虽在文字上并无多大改变，但由于他采用的拉丁文本非常可靠，所以得以对希腊文本数百处谬误予以校正。1560年，Hieronymus woIf(Basel版)在他的基础上进一步修订，附加翻译和点评。他所校订的这个本子在爱氏思想研究史上具有里程碑意义，但由于种种原因在当时的学术界未能产生应有影响，人们普遍阅读的仍然是Shegk校订的Trin—cavelli本。

In Philosophy for Polar Explorers, Erling Kagge, renowned explorer and acclaimed author of Silence and Walking, provides a thoughtful and eloquent meditation on adventure and discovery.
Erling Kagge is one of the world's most accomplished explorers. He was the first to conquer all three poles on foot, by climbing Mount Everest and walking to the North and South Poles. In this thought-provoking and inspiring book, he uses the wisdom and expertise he has gained on his travels to reflect on life, nature, and humanity. Simple things like getting up early and accepting failure can make a difference, whether battling an arctic storm or stuck in traffic. And practices such as cultivating optimism and being open-minded when pursuing goals can benefit our lives enormously, wherever our paths may take us.
Punctuated with lyrical stories from his own experience and travels, Philosophy for Polar Explorers invites us to treat life like a grand exploration and illuminates the possibilities that await us when we do.

As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.
What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we?
In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.
Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness--allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.

《理想国》又译作《国家篇》、《共和国》等，与柏拉图大多数著作一样以苏格拉底为主角用对话体写成，共分10卷，其篇幅之长仅次于《法律篇》，一般认为属于柏拉图中期的作品。这部“哲学大全”不仅是柏拉图对自己此前哲学思想的概括和总结，而且是当时各门学科的综合，它探讨了哲学、政治、伦理道德、教育、文艺等等各方面的问题，以理念论为基础，建立了一个系统的理想国家方案

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite.”
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end.
What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives?
Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed. Along the way, Carse finds new ways of understanding everything, from how an actress portrays a role to how we engage in sex, from the nature of evil to the nature of science. Finite games, he shows, may offer wealth and status, power and glory, but infinite games offer something far more subtle and far grander.
Carse has written a book rich in insight and aphorism. Already an international literary event, Finite and Infinite Games is certain to be argued about and celebrated for years to come. Reading it is the first step in learning to play the infinite game.

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats―and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world.
In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy.
Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.

To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very different and distant time: Stoicism. Today, more than 100,000 people are members of online communities for modern Stoics, and there are annual conferences, meet-ups, and workshops for those aspiring to walk the Stoic path. But what is Stoicism, and what makes it resonate so powerfully today?
As John Sellars shows in The Pocket Stoic, the popular image of the isolated and unfeeling Stoic hardly does justice to the rich vein of thought that we find in the work of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, the three great Roman Stoics. Their works are recognized classics, and for good reason—they speak to some of the perennial issues that face anyone trying to navigate their way through life. These writings, fundamentally, are about how to live—how to understand your place in the world, how to cope when things don’t go well, how to manage your emotions, how to behave toward others, and finally, how to live a good life. To be a Stoic is to recognize that much of the suffering in your life is due to the way you think about things, and that you have the ability to train your mind to look at the world in a new way—to recognize what you can and cannot control and to turn adversity into opportunity.
Concise and accessible, The Pocket Stoic provides a welcome introduction to the lives and thought of the key Stoics. It is also a perfect guide to help you start incorporating the practice of Stoicism into your everyday approach to life.

Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all―and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was.
Filled with timeless wisdom and practical guidance, Cicero's brief, charming classic―written in 44 BC and originally titled On Old Age―has delighted and inspired readers, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Jefferson, for more than two thousand years. Presented here in a lively new translation with an informative new introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, the book directly addresses the greatest fears of growing older and persuasively argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated―or altogether mistaken.
Montaigne said Cicero's book "gives one an appetite for growing old." The American founding father John Adams read it repeatedly in his later years. And today its lessons are more relevant than ever in a world obsessed with the futile pursuit of youth.

As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS Forget the world that came before. The author of American Vertigo serves up an incisive look at how COVID-19 reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society. With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy interrogates the many meanings and metaphors we have assigned to the pandemic-and what they tell us about ourselves. Drawing on the philosophical tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Lacan and Foucault, Levy asks uncomfortable questions about reality and mythology: he rejects the idea that the virus is a warning from nature, the inevitable result of global capitalism; he questions the heroic status of doctors, asking us to think critically about the loci of authority and power; he challenges the panicked polarization that dominates online discourse. Lucid, incisive, and always original, Levy takes a bird's-eye view of the most consequential historical event of our time and proposes a way to defend human society from threats to our collective future.

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, 'we have no theory'. Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. He argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshit need not be untrue at all. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.