Rashad Marecki: Nietzsche.
Dorine Nurre: Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Fritz Hawkey: no actual, contemporary Western philosophy has to do with that. look up any analytic phil book. too many to name. here's a paper that demonstrates what i mean. http://books.google.com/books?id=S4t5qNYRTXQC&pg=P...ayn rand doesn't even qualify, although i understand why some people refer to rand....Show more
Emeline Albracht: Philosophy is based on the existential experience of man. Where we came from and what we are are part of the equation. Therefore it becomes hard to imagine that any book of philosophy that is worth anything at all would not have this question as an inherent part of the philosophy itself at some level. A good philosophy that doesn't start with this question usually ends with it. It is an inherent part of the existential question itself. Without the question there is no need or purpose at all the philosophy. I guess you have to take it! or leave it unless you want to explore political philosophies which are really just dogma and I am thinking that you may have to drop the hopes for something thought provoking....Show more
Hunter Beech: Try searching Tillich. Great stuff.
Omar Phipps: You'll probably enjoy anything by Ayn Rand.Her novels are very entertaining as well as written for a philosophical purpose. They are:Atlas ShruggedThe FountainheadAnthemWe The LivingI would recommend starting with Anthem.She's also written several nonfiction books about straight philosophy. A few of them are:The Virtue of SelfishnessCapitalism: The Unknown IdealThe Romantic ManifestoThe Voice of ReasonNietzsche, Franz Kafka, and Dosteovsky are some other non-spiritual philosophical writers....Show more
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