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by Lao-Tse (Author)The Tao Te Ching is a spiritual, inspirational poem that guides through life, helping us to live within each moment and find the beauty that is all around each of us. Simple, beautiful, and life changing. The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy (D ojia) and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 03, 2018

Bible of Bibles: A Source Book of Religions Demonstrating the Unity of the Sacred Books of the World - Paperback

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by Frank L. Riley (Author)The Bible of Bibles: A Source Book of Religions Demonstrating the Unity of the Sacred Books of the World by Frank L. Riley is a comprehensive guide to the sacred texts of various religions around the world. The book aims to demonstrate the unity of these texts and the common themes and messages that they share. The book is organized into chapters that cover major religions, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and more. Within each chapter, the...

The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? - Hardcover

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by Deborah Stone (Author)Politics has become a synonym for all that is dirty, corrupt, dishonest, compromising, and wrong. For many people, politics seems not only remote from their daily lives but abhorrent to their personal values. Outside of the rare inspirational politician or social movement, politics is a wasteland of apathy and disinterest. It wasn't always this way. For Americans who came of age shortly after World War II, politics was a field of dreams. Democracy promised to cure th...

A Theologico-Political Treatise, and a Political Treatise - Hardcover

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by Benedict de Spinoza (Author), R. H. M. Elwes (Translator)An early voice calling for reason as the ruler of the human mind, and a man with, at best, a Deistic outlook on religion, Spinoza is perhaps the first truly modern philosopher. He is certainly the first modern critic of the Bible. His devoted adherents include many great names of 19th-century literature: Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, and George Eliot were deeply swayed by his writing; in the 20th century, Albert Einstein claimed Spinoz...

On the Improvement of Understanding - Paperback

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by Benedictus de Spinoza (Author), de Benedict Spinoza (Author)After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, ...

The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose - Paperback

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by Alain Badiou (Author), Emily Apter (Translator), Bruno Bosteels (Introduction by)"In this collection of essays, Alain Badiou revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the "age of the poets," from Holderlin to Celan. D...

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by Richard T. Wallis (Author), R. Wallis (Author)'Wallis's book has all the virtues which one could require in a popular account of a difficult, ancient, or unfamiliar kind of philosophy. It is as clear as the subject matter admits, genuinely comprehensive, well documented ... and very well balanced.' A.H. Armstrong, Classical Review Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8.52 x 5.46 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1998

My Religion - What I Believe - Hardcover

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by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author)'My Confession' is Tolstoy's chronicle of his journey to faith; his account of how he moved from despair to the possibility of living; from unhappy existence to 'the glow and strength of life'. It describes his spiritual and philosophical struggles up until he leaves the Orthodox Church, convinced that humans discover truth not by faith, but by reason. The story begins when at the age of 50, Tolstoy is in crisis. Having found no peace in art, science or phi...

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Hardcover

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by David Hume (Author)David Hume penned this enquiry in the 1700s, anticipating many of the arguments of skeptics, empiricists, and atheists by centuries. His arguments against miracles and whether or not human testimony provides sufficient evidence for belief in them are raised to the present day, although it must be said that if they are still being raised, they may not be the proverbial 'nail in the coffin' for religion (and Christianity in particular) that skeptical philosophers believe. ...

The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato's Philebus - Paperback

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by Plato (Author), Seth Benardete (Translator)In The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth Benardete focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato's most challenging and complex dialogues, the Philebus. Traditionally the Philebus is interpreted as affirming the doctrine that the good resides in thought and mind rather than in pleasure or the body. Benardete challenges this view, arguing that Socrates vindicates the life of the mind over the life of pleasure not by sep...

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by Ayn Rand (Author), Leonard Peikoff (Introduction by)This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed ...

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by Paul Cartledge (Author)Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democratic ...

Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark - Hardcover

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by Alva No? (Author)Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity. Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today's shorter attention spans. But for the true fan, baseball is always compelling to watch -and intellectually fascinating. It's superficially slow-pace is an opportunity to partici...

Epistemic Ruptures, Insurgent Philosophy - Paperback

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by A. Shahid Stover (Author)What happens when philosophy refuses to limit the horizon of emancipatory thought to the academic systematization of specialized knowledge? Brimming with literary originality, polemic depth and a startling range of philosophical insight, Epistemic Ruptures, Insurgent Philosophy is a powerful work of existential liberation critique that compels the reader towards a discursive reckoning with philosophy, intellectual engagement and the Black radical imagination.A. Sha...

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by David Rakoff (Author)In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don't Get Too Comfortable makes an inspired case for always assuming the worst--because then you'll never be disappointed. Whether he's taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or dealing with personal tragedy, Rakoff's sharp observations and humorist's flair for the absurd will have you positively reveling in the untapped power of negativity.Author B...

Social Ontology of Whoness: Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy - Paperback

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by Michael Eldred (Author)How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how they sociate as whos...

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by Aquinas Saint Thomas (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserv...

Indian Serpent-Lore Or The Nagas In Hindu Legend And Art - Paperback

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by Ph. D. J. Ph. Vogel (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserve...

The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity - Hardcover

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by Galen Watts (Author)Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. But what does 'spirituality' actually mean? And what does this recent 'spiritual turn' reveal about the nature of twenty-first century liberal democracies? Secularization theorists argue that spirituality lacks institutional support and a shared tradition, thereby evincing religious decline. Meanwhile, critical commentators contend that the spiritual turn embodies all of the i...

Space, Time and Einstein: An Introduction - Paperback

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by J. B. Kennedy (Author)An introduction to Space, time and Einstein, one of the most popular fields in philosophy. It considers the theories of the ancient Greek philosophers, Zeno, Euclid and Parmenides alongside the ideas of Newton, Leibniz and Kant as well as the giants of twentieth-century physics, Einstein and Lorentz. Number of Pages: 254 Dimensions: 0.54 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: January 31, 2003

Alexander Bogdanov and the Politics of Knowledge After the October Revolution - Hardcover

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by Maria Chehonadskih (Author)Back JacketIn this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environme...

The Living Philosophy of Edith Stein - Paperback

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by Peter Tyler (Author)Studying with Husserl in G?ttingen, becoming a Carmelite nun, and finally meeting her death in Auschwitz, the multifaceted life of Edith Stein (1891-1942) is well known. But what about her writing? Have the different aspects of her scholarship received sufficient attention? Peter Tyler thinks not, and by drawing on previously untranslated and neglected sources, he reveals how Stein's work lies at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and theology. Bringing Stein int...

Sentimental Empiricism: Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France - Paperback

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by Davide Panagia (Author)Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of "French theory." Panagia's book first shows what was missed in the reception of this literature in the Anglophone academy by attending to how France's pedagogical milieu plays out ch...

Philosophy for Non-Philosophers - Paperback

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by Louis Althusser (Author), G. M. Goshgarian (Translator)In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of Althusser's own ideas, and presents a sy...

The One and the Many: A Defense of Theistic Religion - Paperback

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by Robert Bolton (Author)This book is an uncompromising response to an issue that confronts all shades of religious belief-from the simplest to the most sophisticated-because even for followers of non-dualistic Vedanta, the possibility of believing in a false God becomes greater, not less, as religion becomes more metaphysical. This is a challenge to the usual belief that religion must necessarily be more pure the more inward it is, and the reasons for this are presented with clarity. At the ...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 63 - Hardcover

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by Rachana Kamtekar (Editor)Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. "'Have you seen the latest OSAP?' is what scholars of ancient philosophy say to each other when they meet in corridors or on coffee breaks. Whether you work on Plato or Aristotle, on Presocratics or sophis...

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by Simon Critchley (Author)A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time. Why mysticism? It has been called "experience in its most intense form," and in his new book the philosopher Simon Critchley poses a simple question to the reader: Wouldn't you like to taste this intensity? Wouldn't you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of al...

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by Robert Bolton (Author)"For a long time now, religion in the West has been polarized between a democratic kind of faith meant for simple believers, and divine mysteries so high that hardly anyone can claim to know much about them. The vital connecting link between them, that of metaphysical religion, is all but lost..." (From the Introduction.) There are many books that seek to answer the fundamental questions of life: Who am I? Does life have a purpose? How should I live? Dr Bolton's book ...

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by Robert Bolton (Author)BLURB for Self and Spirit What is the basis and purpose of esoteric religion, and what is the self? Self and Spirit answers these questions in depth and in a way true to the spirit of traditional wisdom. This book illuminates from a new angle the Non-Dualistic conceptions that have become influential through the work of many modern traditionalists, including Ren Gu non and Frithjof Schuon, whose influence is evident in Dr. Bolton's treatment of religion and tradition...

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by Robert Bolton (Author)Is free will a reality, or is it just a popular belief which science has discredited? This is an issue which many people regard with mixed feelings. We nearly always think the will is free to create actions all of its own in cases where someone else is in the wrong. But when we are in the wrong it is all too easy to believe in things which conflict with such freedom or even exclude it. On the other hand, our own beliefs appear to us to be spontaneous, whereas beliefs ...

Religion in the Modern World: Including Correspondence with Thomas Merton - Paperback

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by Christopher James Northbourne (Author), Lord Northbourne (Author), Thomas Merton (Author)Lord Northbourne (1896-1982), born Walter Ernest Christopher James, Fourth Baron Northbourne of Kent, England, was an agriculturist, educator, translator, and writer on both agriculture and comparative religion. Educated at Oxford, he was for many years Provost of Wye College, the agricultural college of London University. In 2022, Angelico Press republished Lord Northbourne's influential book Look to ...

Open and Relational Theology and Its Social and Political Implications - Paperback

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by Jonathan Foster (Editor), Thomas Jay Oord (Editor), Mouhanad Khorchide (Editor)With its emphasis on relation over substance and possibility over predetermined endings, open and relational theology provides a way forward for both Muslims and Christians. This way, as "Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives" posits, aligns beautifully with important and ancient thinking from both traditions. Our world desperately needs "people...