John Kaag
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What does it mean to search for ourselves? Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two real and philosophical journeys--the first made by John Kaag when he is an introspective young man of nineteen, the other eighteen years later, in radially different circumstances, when Kaag is now a husband and father, his wife and small child in tow. Both times, Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils-Maria, where Nietzsche wrote his landmark...
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"A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William James. William James--psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker--is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose ideas not only change how people think, but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked "is life worth living?"...