Reading List for Being Human

Last Updated: 2021-11-24

In preparation for writing Being Human, I am slowly reading a long list of books...

• Annas - The Morality of Happiness
• Berne - Games People Play
• Berne - Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
• Bok - Exploring Happiness
• Bowne - Personalism
• Bradley - Well-Being
• Brightman - Persons and Values
• Buber - I and Thou
• Cassam - Self-Knowledge for Humans
• Charron - On Wisdom
• Cohen - Logic-Based Therapy and Everyday Emotions
• Cohen - New Rational Therapy
• [x] Cohen - What Would Aristotle Do?
• Crosby - The Selfhood of the Human Person
• Crosby - Personalist Papers
• Diener - Happiness
• Doris - Lack of Character
• Finnis - Natural Law and Natural Rights
• Flanagan - Varieties of Moral Personality
• Fletcher - The Philosophy of Well-Being
• Flewelling - Creative Personality
• Flewelling - The Person
• Foot - Natural Goodness
• [x] Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning
• [x] Gawande - Being Mortal
• Gibson - An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development
• Gibson - The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems
• Gibson - The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
• Gibson - Reasons for Realism
• Gilbert - Stumbling on Happiness
• Griffin - Well-Being
• Hart - The Person and the Common Life
• Hart - Who One Is
• Hayborn - Happiness
• Hayborn - The Pursuit of Unhappiness
• Hurka - The Best Things in Life
• Hurka - Perfectionism
• Knudson - The Philosophy of Personalism
• Kohak - The Embers and the Stars
• Jourard - Healthy Personality
• Jourard - The Transparent Self
• [x] Karamanolis and Politis - The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy
• Koestenbaum - New Image of the Person
• Kupperman - Character
• [x] Lahav - Stepping Out of Plato’s Cave
• [x] Lahav et al. - Essays in Philosophical Counseling
• Layard - Happiness
• LeBar - The Value of Living Well
• [x] LeBon - Wise Therapy
• MacIntyre - Dependent Rational Animals
• Macmurray - Persons in Relation
• Macmurray - The Self as Agent
• Maritain - Integral Humanism
• Maslow - Toward a Psychology of Being
• Maslow - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
• Maslow - Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences
• May - The Courage to Create
• May - My Quest for Beauty
• May - Man’s Search for Himself
• Mill - On Liberty
• Montaigne - Essays
• Mounier - A Personalist Manifesto
• Nettle - Happiness
• [x] Nettle - Personality
• Noë - Action in Perception
• Nussbaum - The Therapy of Desire
• Parfit - Reasons and Persons
• Pigliucci - Answers for Aristotle
• [x] Raabe - Philosophical Counseling
• Rasmussen and Den Uyl - Norms of Liberty
• Rasmussen and Den Uyl - The Perfectionist Turn
• Raz - The Morality of Freedom
• Ricard - Happiness
• Rochelle - Doing Philosophy
• Russell - Happiness for Humans
• Ryan and Deci - Self-Determination Theory
• Schuster - Philosopher's Autobiography
• [x] Schuster - Philosophy Practice
• Scruton - On Human Nature
• Seligman - Authentic Happiness
• Seligman - Flourish
• Smith - The Power of Meaning
• Sokolowski - Moral Action
• [x] Sokolowski - Phenomenology of the Human Person
• Solomon - The Passions
• Soloman - Not Passion’s Slave
• Spader - Scheler’s Ethical Personalism
• Steiner - Scripts People Live
• Sumner - Welfare, Happiness, and Ethics
• Taylor - A Secular Age
• Taylor - Sources of the Self
• Telfer - Happiness
• Tiberius - The Reflective Life
• Tillich - The Courage to Be
• Waterman - The Best Within Us
• White - A Brief History of Happiness
• Whiting - First, Second, and Other Selves
• Whiting - Thinking and Acting Together
• Whiting - Body and Soul
• Wojtyla - The Acting Person
• Yalom - short stories and novels

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