Resources
Books
The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt
Learning From Experience by Wilfred Bion
Moral Reality by Paul Bloomfield
Morality and Self Interest by Paul Bloomfield
The Communication of Emotion by Ross Buck
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda
Descartes Error: Emotion Reason and the Human Brain by Anthony Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Anthony Damasio
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by Anthony Damasio
The Moral Psychology of Virtues by Nicolas Dent
Experience and Nature by John Dewey
Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey
Moral Heuristics and Consequentialism by Julia Driver and Don Loeb
In Moral Psychology: The Cognitive Science of Morality Volume 2, Edited by Walter Sinnott Armstrong
Emotion in the Human Face by Paul Ekman
The Life Cycle Completed by Erik Erikson
Identity and the Life Cycle by Erik Erikson
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Escape From Freedom by Erik Fromm
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner
Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment by Allan Gibbard
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Focus: The Hidden Driver Of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
Social Intuitionists Answer Six Questions About Moral Psychology by Jonathan Haidt and Fredrik Bjorklund in Moral Psychology Volume 2 The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity. Editor Walter Sinnott- Armstrong. 2008 MIT Press.
Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion by Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
This book is a classic in the search for self awareness literature.
Demian by Herman Hesse
On Virtue Ethics by Rosalind Hursthouse
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of Mystics, East and West by Aldous Huxley
Human Emotions by Carroll Izard
Psychology of Human Emotions by Carroll Izard
Varieties of religious experience by William James
The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Contextual Intelligence by Tarun Khanna in Harvard Business Review, September 2104
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution by Tarun Khanna
Rorty’s Humanistic Pragmatism: Philosophy Democratized by Konstantin Kolenda
Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
Passion and Reason: Making Sense of Our Emotions by Richard Lazarus
The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life by Joseph LeDoux
Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Anxiety by Joseph LeDoux
The Self and Motivational Systems: Towards a Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique by Joseph Lichetenberg
Morality and Moral Theory: A reappraisal and Reaffirmation by Robert Louden
Long-Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Seven Story Mountain – Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Thomas Merton
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
A Thomas Merton Reader by Thomas Merton
Montaigne Essays by Michel de Montaigne
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (2010-10-19)
Emotions in Early Development by Robert Plutchik
The Emotions by Robert Plutchik
Brain and Perception: Holonomy and Structure in Figural by Karl Pribram
The Form Within: My Point of View by Karl Pribram
When Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy by John Rawls
Anscombe’s Moral Philosophy by Ducnan Richter
Consequences of pragmatism: essays, 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty, 1982
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
The Rorty Reader by Richard Rorty
The Psychobiology of Mind Body Healing by Ernest Rossi
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Philosophy by Jerome Schneewind
The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
Contexts of Being: The Intersubjective Foundations of Psychological Life by Robert Stolorow
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Case Sunstein
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Logos: Thinkers and Knowledge
Order out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine
Chaos and Complexity in Psychology: The Theory of Nonlinear Systems Dynamics by Steven Guastello, Editor
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
The Moral Psychology Handbook by John Doris
A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manuel for Teachers by Helen Schucman
Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentary by Ralph Alan Dale
Profiles in Courage by J. F. Kennedy
A History of American Law by Lawrence Friedman
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Gestalt Therapy by Gordon Wheeler
Lawrence Kohlberg an Introduction by Detlef Garz
Below are two well researched biographies of Thomas More, each with a distinctly different perspective.
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, 1999
Thomas More, a Biography by Richard Marius, 1985
Steven Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Logos: Resources
- Paul Baltes
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- PD Ouspensky
- Peter Kingsley
- Colin Wilson
- Sigmund Freud
- Lucius Seneca
- Vaclav Havel
- Gerd Gigerenzer
- Robert Pirsig
- Huston Smith
- Robert Kegan
- Marcel Proust
- Peter Gollwitzer
- Charles Taylor
- Albert Bandura
- Martin Seligman
- Carl Jung
- Carol Dweck
- Carol Gilligan
- Benedict Carey
- Isaiah Berlin
- Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived
- John McWhorter
- The Education of Henry Adams
- Thich Nhat Hahn
- Harold Bloom