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Have you only got 36 minutes left on your lunch break? Then why not take the opportunity to slurp down some philosophical knowledge for dessert? Glyn Hughes has taken some of the most famous texts of the world’s greatest philosophers and squashed them into time-friendly versions just ripe for the reading on Squashed Philosophers.

The texts are meant to be read in one sitting, and Mr. Hughes has designated an amount of time that should be spent on each. The idea is that you can take away just the essential ideas from each text rather than sit through the often archaic language which so often makes up a bulk of these books. There’s a great bit of content here, with philosophers ranging from Plato to Popper, and some of the greats have several of their texts squashed here, including my personal favorite, Walden.

This could present itself as a great way to get students to understand just how far we’ve come as thinkers, and how the world of today reflects societies of the past. Assign students a philosopher or let them pick their own, and use these condensed ideas to get them jump started in thinking of how it applies to their own lives. –JEREMY S. GRIFFIN

Squashed Philosophers