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Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions - Volume II - Paperback

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by Jafe Arnold (Editor), Evgeny Nechkasov (Editor), Luca Siniscalco (Editor)An eventful century has passed since the writings, activities, and networks of Ren? Gu?non (1886-1951), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Julius Evola (1898-1974), and Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) initiated what has come to be known as Traditionalism. Within recent decades, unprecedented attention has been drawn to Traditionalism and Traditionalists, both historical and contemporary, in nearly all possibly categorizable...

The Science of Being as Being: Metaphysics Through Aristotle - Paperback

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by George Couvalis (Author)Unifying metaphysics by treating it as the science of being as being, this book illuminates questions in metaphysics by treating them as debates about the nature of various kinds of being. Aristotle's positions on metaphysical topics provide a starting point for the chapters as author George Couvalis explains, critiques, and builds on each with knowledge of modern science and its implications for metaphysics. Couvalis begins by explaining the claim that metaphysics ...

How to Eat: An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living - Hardcover

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by Claire Bubb (Commentaries by), Claire Bubb (Translator)A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors--all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested in food, offered highly prescriptive dietary advice, and develo...

The Question of the Aesthetic - Hardcover

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by George Levine (Editor)This book establishes an argument for deeper attention to the aesthetic qualities of literature, to the question of the relation between the aesthetic and more immediate, practical, and urgent social and political matters. It attempts to establish the intrinsic value of the aesthetic at the same time as it demonstrates that focus on the aesthetic does not preclude attention of the urgent questions with which works of art consistently engaged. It argues that attention ...

The Beautiful Language of the Heart - Paperback

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by Anamika (Author)I am totally delighted to introduce you to one of the most unique stories in the world. It's an inspiring example of what's possible in finding yourself ... so don't give up on anyone and don't give up on yourself. Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of YorkThe Beautiful Language of the Heart chronicles the powerful, transformational journey of Vaughn, a young man with nonspeaking autism. He emerges from years of isolation to discover his gifts and communicate in ways that transcend wo...

Kant's Philosophy: A Study for Educators - Paperback

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by James Scott Johnston (Author)James Scott Johnston's incisive study draws on a holistic reading of Kant: one that views him as developing and testing a complete system (theoretical, practical, historical and anthropological) with education as a vital component. As such, the book begins with an extensive overview of Kant's chief theoretical work (the Critique of Pure Reason), and from that overview distils crucial discussions (the role of practical reason; the claims of the third antinomy) f...

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by Alexander Dugin (Author)All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted.The world today finds itself on the brink of a post-political reality - one in which the values of liberalism ...

Existential Theology: An Introduction - Hardcover

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by Hue Woodson (Author)Existential Theology: An Introduction offers a formalized and comprehensive examination of the field of existential theology, in order to distinguish it as a unique field of study and view it as a measured synthesis of the concerns of Christian existentialism, Christian humanism, and Christian philosophy with the preoccupations of proper existentialism and a series of unfolding themes from Augustine to Kierkegaard. To do this, Existential Theology attends to the field t...

Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World - Paperback

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by Chih-Yu Shih (Author)Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author ...

Sapiens Rising: The View from 2100 - Paperback

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by Neil Freer (Author)A visionary work from a futuristic philosopher. Presents in great detail a positive, compelling view of the new human and new human society that goes beyond cultures, nations and civilizations; beyond democracy, socialism, communism and money; beyond competition under the illusion of limited resources; beyond the godspell Babel-factoring religions; beyond the old new age. Reveals how we will live as enlightened, generic humans having restored the true knowledge of our hi...

Kabbalah and Tarot of the Spirit: Black and White Edition with Personal Stories and Readings - Paperback

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by Pamela Eakins (Author)Welcome to Pacific Mystery School. Enter the Great Oracle. Embrace the Mysteries of Time, Space, Birth, Love, Death and Resurrection. Meet your Mystic Teachers, master the energies of Fire, Water, Wind and Earth, learn to wield the Ten Powers of the Tree of Life and pass through the Twenty-One Key Initiations. KABBALAH AND TAROT OF THE SPIRIT is the complementary and supplementary companion to The Lightning Papers: Ten Powers of Evolution, also by Pamela Eakins, as we...

Kabbalah and Tarot of the Spirit: Book One. The Minor Arcana and Daath - Paperback

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by Pamela Eakins (Author)Welcome to the Full Color Collector's Edition of KABBALAH AND TAROT OF THE SPIRIT: Books One, Two and Three. In this three-book series you will enter into the Great Oracle where you will encounter the Mysteries of Time, Space, Birth, Love, Death and Resurrection. You will meet your Mystic Teachers, master the energies of Fire, Water, Wind and Earth, and learn to wield the Ten Powers of the Tree of Life. Ultimately, you will pass through the Twenty-One Key Initiations....

The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One: From John Locke to Thomas Jefferson--The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Chattel Slavery in the UK and the Us - Paperback

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by George Walters-Sleyon (Author), John Witte (Foreword by)The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One is the first of two volumes. It explores the Transatlantic slave trade and its mutation into chattel slavery. Volume One focuses on the involvement of two prominent Enlightenment philosophers as the architects of the political, legal, economic, and philosophical justifications for the human trade in the United Kingdom and the United States: John Locke (1632-1704), a British philosopher and "Fath...

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture - Hardcover

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by Phoebe Boswell (Author)The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World captures and expands these lectures to illuminate our path toward this possible beautiful world. Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation) asserts that "for this decolonial future to become possible, the guiding force must no longer be capital but relations." Film curator J...

Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Peter Adamson (Author)Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, he offers an accessible, humorous, and detailed look at the emergence of philosophy with the Presocratics, the probing questions of Socrates, and the first full flowering of philosophy with the di...

Introduction to the World of Kabbalah - Paperback

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by Z'Ev Ben Shimon Halevi (Author)This book is an introduction to the Tradition. It outlines its origins in Biblical, mythological and metaphysical terms that explain why Existence came into being, according to Jewish mysticism. It also gives a brief history of Kabbalah which has gone under different names such as the Work of Creation, the Chariot Riders or simply 'Those who Know.' While the Bible is the prime source we see how the Tradition has absorbed outside esoteric influences so as to d...

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by Z'Ev Ben Shimon Halevi (Author)This book is about Kabbalistic working methods and the background to such effort. Here theory and practice are set out against everyday life and history, as well as outer and inner processes. Individual and group operations are examined. So too are various levels of experience and their dangers. Schools of the Soul and Spirit are defined according to the Kabbalistic view. Accounts of mystic techniques and the Path to travel are made accessible as well as how ...

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by Scott M. Williams (Author) Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.17 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2025

Kant and the Feeling of Life: Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment - Paperback

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by Jennifer Mensch (Editor), Joan Steigerwald (Contribution by), Rudolf a. Makkreel (Contribution by)Kant and the Feeling of Life positions Kant's concept of life as a guiding thread for understanding not only Kant's approach to aesthetics and teleology but the underlying unity of the Critique of Judgment itself. The "feeling of life," which Kant describes as affecting us in various ways-as animating, enlivening, and quickening the mind-lies at the heart of Kant's philosophical project, but i...

Kabbalah and Tarot of the Spirit: Book Three. The Major Arcana - Paperback

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The Moral Psychology of Hate - Paperback

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by Noell Birondo (Editor)Provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars.Author BiographyNoell Birondo is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He works primarily in moral philosophy and the history of ethics. His previous book is Virtue's Reasons: New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons (2017), which he coedited with S. Stewart Braun. He completed his Ph.D. at...

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by Diego E. Machuca (Author)This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types of disagreement-motivated skepticism in ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and general epistemology. In each case, it favors suspension of judgment as the seemingly appropriate response to the realization of disagreement. One main line of argument pursued in the Element is that, since in real-life disputes we have ...

Leisure: Its Rise, Fall, and Potential Rebirth - Paperback

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by Jacob T. Snyder (Author)Leisure is a genealogy of the concept of leisure, from its peak in the classical age to its inversion and fall in modern liberalism. The goal of this genealogy is to analyze models of leisure and to inquire into the potential future shape of it. In that process, Jacob T. Snyder asks: what was leisure in its peak form in the classical age? In such a form, how was leisure understood to be connected to human flourishing? Then, what happened to leisure? What was the arg...

Theories of Justice and Rights - Hardcover

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by J. L. MacKie (Author), Victor Moberger (Author), Jonas Olson (Author)John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues concerning justice. In a series of writings, Mackie built a case for a unique right-based approach to political philosophy, in part by delivering incisive critiques...

Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda - Paperback

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by Vivekananda Foundation (Author)The inspirational messages collected in this book, selected from the writings and talks of Swami Vivekananda, speak directly to the concerns of contemporary men and women who seek to live a spiritual life in the midst of everyday activities. At the same time, they form a concise introduction to Vedanta, the perennial philosophy of India.Author BiographyVivekananda (1863-1902) was the chief disciple of the great spiritual master Ramakrishna and founded the Ram...

God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction - Paperback

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by Dan Barker (Author), Richard Dawkins (Foreword by)Expanding on a concept from New York Times bestseller The God Delusion, former ordained minister and current atheist Dan Barker gives us a biblical play-by-play illustrating God's not-so-admirable qualities.Author BiographyDaniel Barker was a Christian preacher and minister for 19 years, before leaving Christianity in 1984. Today, he is the co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation with his wife, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and is the a...

Spiritual Technology: A Practical Guide to New Standard Systemology (for Solo-Pilots and Co-Pilots) - Hardcover

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by Joshua Free (Author)Reach Higher...Take Systemology to the Next LevelThis manual is a valuable companion for all Seekers applying New Standard Systemology techniques from the "Pathway to Ascension" Professional Course and the "Keys to the Kingdom" Advanced Training Course."Spiritual Technology" concisely organizes the most critical information necessary to expertly Solo-Pilot and Co-Pilot this applied philosophy.It contains the original training supplements for the Mardukite Academy of Sys...

The Complete Pathway to Ascension (Workbook Edition): New Standard Systemology Professional Course - Paperback

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by Joshua Free (Author)Chart Your Flight For Ascension...Then Let Your Spirit Fly!"Zero" to "Infinity" at Lightning-Fast Speed!Unlock your ultimate spiritual potential by removing the barriers to your true native state. Learn how to easily attain Self-Actualization and even help actualize others along the way. A greater appreciation and understanding of Spiritual Life and Existence awaits!Each progressive lesson provides simple exercises and techniques that directly apply our unique metahuman...

The Sāṃkhya System: Accounting for the Real - Paperback

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by Christopher Key Chapple (Editor)Explores the Sāṃkhya system and the delicate relationship it articulates between witness consciousness (Puruṣa) and manifest realities (Prakṛti), providing a path to freedom through knowledge.The Sāṃkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Sāṃkhya spans the fields of philosophy, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Although notably not theological, its key premises can be found in virtually all religious traditions that ori...

Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil - Paperback

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by Thomas Hobbes (Author) A cornerstone of modern western philosophy, addressing the role of man in government, society and religion In 1651, Hobbes published his work about the relationship between the government and the individual. More than four centuries old, this brilliant yet ruthless book analyzes not only the bases of government but also physical nature and the roles of man. Comparable to Plato's Republic in depth and insight, Leviathan includes two society-changing phenomena that...

The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain - Paperback

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by Tingyang Zhao (Author), Edmund Ryden (Translator)In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of China's historicity, explaining how the expansion of China was not due to the lures of expansionist behavior but to the offerings of the surrounding contenders as they were constantly being pulled into a whirlpool of growth and amalgamation. The peoples surrounding China on all four sides sought to win the greatest material benefits and greatest spir...

Compendium: Spiritual Care through Muslim Ethnographic Stories: Mind of the Modern Sufi - Paperback

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by Yunus Kumek (Author)This book can be a valuable supplementary text in the disciplines of psychology, counseling, anthropology, philosophy, and religion. The stories have been compiled and contemporized from ethnographic field work in different Muslim communities of New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Toronto, Istanbul, and Cairo. The short stories and anecdotes in this book can bring important and practical aspects of these teachings in our practical life. This book can be valuable for ...