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"Do you want to make a lot of money or do you want to work for justice? Do you want to run marathons or sing in a choir? Do you want to have children or travel the world? The things we care about in life - families, friendships, jobs, health, moral ideals, hobbies - tend to conflict with each other. Unresolvable conflicts make our lives worse, because they prevent us from doing what matters to us. Worse still, we don't always know what we really want,...
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De Gruyter
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English
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The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today`s research about the emotionality of the mind. The analyses of the works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and many other thinkers collected in this volume offer new insights into the diversity and significance of philosophical reflections...
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Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Kierkegaard's psychological thought has always been acknowledged as very rich-Reinhold Niebuhr hailed him as the greatest psychologist of the soul since Augustine-and has had a major influence on Heidegger, Sartre, and existential psychoanalysis. Nevertheless, his accomplishment has not always been fully appreciated, in part because it is so scattered across his works. As Vincent McCarthy demonstrates in Kierkegaard as Psychologist, Kierkegaard was...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. When Principia Ethica appeared, in 1903, it became something of a sacred text for the Cambridge-educated elite who formed the core of the Bloomsbury Group. In a letter of October 11, 1903, Strachey confesses to Moore that he is "carried away" by Principia, which inaugurates, for him, "the beginning of the Age of Reason." Moore's critique of convention, his caustic...
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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[2011]
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Español
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To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting. The Philosophy Book changes all that. With the use of powerful and easy to follow images, succinct quotations, and explanations that are easily understandable, this book cuts through any misunderstandings to demystify the subject.
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W.W. Norton and Company
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[2023]
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First edition.
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"Novel in its form, the Discourses consists of short conversations between elders and young people on how to achieve a meaningful and morally sound life. The Aztecs had a metaphysical tradition but no concept of "being." They considered the mind an embodied force, present not just in the brain but throughout the body. Their core values relied on collective responsibility and group wisdom, not individual thought and action, orienting life around one's...
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"Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it's hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these fundamental questions lie beyond our powers of comprehension. We can be certain...
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A disciple of Kant and a significant factor in shaping Nietzsche's thinking, Arthur Schopenhauer worked from the foundation that all knowledge derives from our experience of the world, but that our experience is necessarily subjective and formed by our own intellect and biases: reality, therefore, is but an extension of our own will. In this essay, translated by THOMAS BAILEY SAUNDERS (1860-1928) and first published in English in the 1890s, Schopenhauer...
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First published in 1789, Jeremy Bentham's best-known work remains a classic of modern philosophy and jurisprudence. Its definitions of the foundations of utilitarian philosophy and its groundbreaking studies of crime and punishment retain their relevance to modern issues of moral and political philosophy, economics, and legal theory. Based on the assumption that individuals seek pleasure and avoid pain, Bentham's utilitarian perspective forms a guide...
10) Haunted Houses
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ABDO Publishing Company
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2023
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English
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This title focuses on haunted houses and gives information related to current paranormal locations, theories, and place in popular culture. This hi-lo title is complete with colorful and spooky photographs, simple text, glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Fly! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.
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Bill Rayburn
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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The damage caused by abusing alcohol is unassailable and well-documented. The author posits a counter-balancing viewpoint, saluting the celebratory aspect of drinking, its role as a social lubricant, and how one can live, love and indeed thrive, while drinking it all in. --Provided by publisher.
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Editorial Kairos
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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This four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese way of the warrior, is one of the primary sources on the tenets of Bushido, a way of thought that remains fascinating to the modern world, East and West. Bushido has played a major role in shaping the behavior of the modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals, as well as in shaping the modern Martial Arts within Japan and...
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World Wisdom
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2022
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English
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We all wish to know whence we have come and whither we are going. In these conversations of a solitary man with the mountains, the stars, the animals, the plants-in a word, with his brothers and sisters on this earth-we learn about the meaning of death. The mighty book of Nature begins to speak and to answer our anxious questions in great images and analogies. In the spirit of the great German mystics, the author Hans Kury seeks answers to such questions...
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John Hunt Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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This book offers critical engagements with four objects from the nineteenth century: The ruins of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham and the dinosaurs that remain, the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum and the short novel by H.G. Wells, The Time Machine. These provide very, different forms of encounter, but are, bound by the shadow, of the Great Exhibition of 1851. This immense spectacle helped forge our understanding...
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Gathering Wave Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"Based on teachings known as the Ageless Wisdom, this meditation illuminates the eternal quest for spiritual truth in the context of today's time of crisis and paradox. Through easily accessible language and words of recognized poets, sages, and philosophers, this handbook makes clear the nature of the soul, the stages of spiritual growth, and where humanity stands along the evolutionary arc. This survey elucidates the challenges of the path that...
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Awa Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"A provocative sequel to The Torchlight List, this book examines the answers that thinkers throughout the ages-from Plato in ancient Greece to contemporary psychologists and scientists-have proposed for life's great questions: Do human beings have free will? Is a good society possible? Is patriotism ethical? and Can modern science penetrate the mind? Exploring the moral ideals, attitudes, and religious beliefs that affect everyday life, this account...
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De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Over the past years global justice has established itself as one of the new and most promising frontiers of political theory. Sovereign Justice collects valuable contributions from scholars of both continental and analytic tradition, and aims to investigate into the relationship between global justice and the nation state. It deals with the moral relevance of national boundaries and cosmopolitanism, and takes into account the most influential traditions...
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Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Montaigne's Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle's Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociablea "brought down from the heavens to the street, where it might be engaged in by a wider audience....
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Editorial Kairos
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Based on the premise that a universal and cumulative wisdom that emphasizes personal transformation forms the basis of our cultural inheritance, this book offers an introduction to the pillars of that universal wisdom. Among its spokespeople, this book highlights figures such as Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrating how this universal wisdom serves as the basis for all world religions, philosophical movements, and modern...
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Axios Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Axios's Essence of . . . Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Goethe: " [In his] Ethics ... , I found the serenity to calm my passions...." This new edition makes Spinoza's own words understandable by everyone.
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