https://pithybooks.com/tags/philosophy/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “philosophy”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/atlas-shrugged/ https://pithybooks.com/books/atlas-shrugged/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Railroads strain under rules as Dagny fights to keep trains running and find a missing inventor. https://pithybooks.com/books/greenlights/ https://pithybooks.com/books/greenlights/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood. https://pithybooks.com/books/scythe/ https://pithybooks.com/books/scythe/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Citra and Rowan become apprentice scythes who must glean one another. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-karamazov-brothers/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-karamazov-brothers/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-name-of-the-rose/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-name-of-the-rose/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-prince/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-prince/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-three-body-problem/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-three-body-problem/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A physicist meets a secret from the Cultural Revolution and a game that models a dying alien sky. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-trial/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-trial/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave. https://pithybooks.com/books/war-and-peace/ https://pithybooks.com/books/war-and-peace/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars. https://pithybooks.com/books/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/ https://pithybooks.com/books/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means. https://pithybooks.com/books/mere-christianity/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mere-christianity/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT C. S. Lewis builds a plain case for Christian belief from morals, faith, and habit. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-four-agreements/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-four-agreements/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Don Miguel Ruiz offers four Toltec agreements for personal freedom: impeccable word, detachment, curiosity, and effort. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-screwtape-letters/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-screwtape-letters/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-art-of-war/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-art-of-war/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting: laying plans, knowing ground, using spies, and why the best victory costs least, in the classic Giles translation. https://pithybooks.com/books/interview-with-the-vampire/ https://pithybooks.com/books/interview-with-the-vampire/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris. https://pithybooks.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mans-search-for-meaning/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it. https://pithybooks.com/books/siddhartha/ https://pithybooks.com/books/siddhartha/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A Brahmin son leaves home to find peace beyond teachers and rules. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-shack/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-shack/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After his daughter's murder, Mack gets a note to return to the shack and spends a weekend questioning God. https://pithybooks.com/books/when-breath-becomes-air/ https://pithybooks.com/books/when-breath-becomes-air/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.