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Short Philosophical Novels for Busy Readers
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items No matter how occupied anyone is, a time should be spent for leisure and for knowledge. If you have that to spare, then the best way to fill it is for a quick read in expanding your horizons for deliberation. 📖
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50-89 pages
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90-129 pages
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130-200 pages
50-89 pages
Approximately 50 to 80 pages.
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Modernism: The argument that total transparency becomes a destructive force—one utilized by an iron-fisted society.
The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han, Paperback
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Stoicism: A book concentrating on the examination of life and problems, along with the fleeting speed of it due to the wasted pursuit of triviality.
On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Paperback
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Determinism and Existentialism: The transformation of a traveling salesman who turns into an insect-like creature. A ridiculous context, but with the deeper theme of alienation within modern life and its capability to dehumanize.
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Paperback
90-129 pages
Approximately 90 to 129 pages
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Existentialism and Essentialism: The exploration of what it means to 'be', and to be that being, the purpose behind it, and the definition that makes it.
Being and Essence: The Thomistic Doctrine on the ... - Barnes & Noble
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Materialism and Idealism: Separated into three sections, we are shown a discussion and argument between two philosophies about the nature of reality.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley ...
130-200 pages
Approximately 130 to 200 pages or so.
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Absurdism: Through the eyes of a French Algerian man, "The Stranger" displays the complexity and judgment of human apathy and indifference, and the weight of that lacking conventionality to the world.
The Stranger by Albert Camus, Paperback
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Pragmatism: A deep dive of Wittgenstein's viewpoint of certainty and doubt through a series of notes, with certain propositions and arguments provided.
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paperback
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Theodicy: A novel mainly focusing on the touchy question against the higher power of the universe, "How does evil exist in a world created by a righteous God?"
The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis, Paperback
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Existentialism and Realism: One of the more famed philosophical books with the intent to needle and dig at man's deepest thoughts, played through the eyes of a young man too self-aware to feel belonging in his own existence.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Paperback
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Modernism: The simple argument of obsessive work, and the virtue of balancing diligent performance with necessary relaxation.
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell, Paperback
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Existentialism and Determinism: A straightforward introspection on the ambiguity of being human, and that being human is being inherently human with the dualism of determinism and free will.
The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone de Beauvoir
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Existentialism and Absurdism: The title is relative to the themes the short elaborates on—a reference to the ceaseless human suffering the myth represents, acknowledged in this form of philosophy.
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, Paperback
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Existentialism: An unknown narrator, a bitter misanthropic man who lives alone in Russia. A short that's complicated and requires hefty understanding
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Paperback