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Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to Mimesis - Paperback

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by Nidesh Lawtoo (Editor), Nidesh Lawtoo (Contribution by), Marina Garcia-Granero (Editor)Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it is now time to re-turn to the ancient, yet also modern and still contemporary realization that humans are mimetic creatures. In this second installment ...

The Negro In Our History (1922) - Hardcover

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by Carter G. Woodson (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9 x 6 I...

Early Modern Philosophy: An Inclusive Introduction with Readings - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Head (Editor), John Grey (Editor)For anyone in search of the philosophers who influenced one of the richest moments in Western intellectual history, this inclusive reader is the place to start.Early Modern Philosophy showcases an unrivalled range of thinkers. Through them, you are introduced to a selection of their texts that return important philosophical ideas and debates to our understanding of modern philosophy. Addressing a one-sided view of intellectual history that has pers...

Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas - Hardcover

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by Christopher D. Tirres (Author)A new perspective on spirituality and social change as seen through the work of six visionary thinkers In Liberating Spiritualities, Christopher D. Tirres offers an in-depth exploration of spirituality as a catalyst for social transformation, showcasing the profound insights of six distinguished twentieth-century liberation thinkers from across the Américas. This thought-provoking work examines the contributions of Marxist philosopher José Carlos Mariátegui, r...

Christian Ethics: A Guide for the Perplexed - Paperback

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by Victor Lee Austin (Author)Christian ethics is a most perplexing subject. This Guide takes the reader through the most fundamental issues surrounding the question of Ethics from a Christian perspective: Is ethics a meaningful topic of discourse and can there be such a thing as an ethical argument or ethical persuasion? What is the meaning of the adjective in "Christian Ethics"?Could right behavior be different for Christians than it is for others? Can we turn to the Bible for help? Does the...

The Possibility of Moral Community - Hardcover

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by James Lenman (Author)The Possibility of Moral Community defends the claim that there could be a moral community, a community of rational creatures somewhat like ourselves living together in ways informed and regulated by shared normative standards and understandings. These creatures aim to live together in this way and expect each other to conform to that shared aim. Those who fail to do so are deemed to have acted wrongly and held responsible for doing so. This possibility is not dependen...

Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas - Paperback

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The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom - Paperback

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by James B. Haile III (Author), Ytasha L. Womack (Foreword by)An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life. In a series of stories and essays, James B. Haile, III, traces how Black speculative fiction responds to enslavement, racism, colonialism, and capitalism and how it reveals a life beyond social an...

Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

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by Daniel Layman (Author)Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capitalist world as we know it today emerged largely during the industrial revolution. Four remarkable thinkers of the long nineteenth century, the Lockean radicals--Thomas Hodgskin, Lysander Spooner, John Bray, and Henry George--responded to the horrid and rampant economic injustices at the time by picking up the loose ends of...

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by K. P. Alexander (Author)A Raven in the Snow is a collection of poetry that tells the story about that earthly passage between the joined hands of beloved Life and beautiful Death. The essence of creation, (what is found, loved, and left), is translated onto the pages, through poetry and prose, as the collection chronicles what exists between a first and last breath. A Raven in the Snow is divided into three parts, ( The Cold of a Singing Sleep, The Path of Affection's Favour, and The Fligh...

Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self: Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. - Paperback

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by David R. Hawkins (Author)Author BiographySir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, spiritual lecturer, and mystic. He is the author of more than eight books, including the bestseller Power vs. Force, which has been translated into more than 17 languages. Scott Jeffrey is the author of numerous books, including Creativity Revealed: Discovering the Source of Inspiration. He is the authorized biographer for Dr. David R. Hawkins. ...

Economic Personalism: Property, Power and Justice for Every Person - Paperback

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by Michael D. Greaney (Author), Dawn K. Brohawn (Author)A Book That Could Change Your Thinking About Social and Economic Justice ForeverFor over 200 years people have been systematically stripped of their dignity as human persons, first by capitalism, then by socialism, as capital ownership became concentrated first in a private élite, then in a State bureaucracy. Forgotten was the demand that the dignity of every child, woman, and man be respected by equal access to the opportunity and means...

Professor Lundy's Guide to Rock Music Connoisseurship: Developing Defendable Aesthetic Judgment and Discovering the Most Worthwhile Music Experiences - Paperback

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by Duane Emerson Lundy (Author)This empirical and theoretical book should be of interest to anyone who dares to consider the contentious topic of measuring and justifying aesthetic value in music, as well as the issue of how experts compare to nonexperts in terms of aesthetic fluency, aesthetic sensitivity and aesthetic judgment in appraising music. The book should be both practical and personal for anyone who has a music collection and loves to see it grow continuously but wisely. What make...

Understanding Machine Understanding: Does AI Really Know What It Is Talking About? - Paperback

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by Ken Clements (Author)This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking exploration of the nature of machine understanding, its evaluation, and its implications. The book proposes a new framework, the Multifaceted Understanding Test Tool (MUTT), for assessing machine understanding across multiple dimensions, from language comprehension and logical reasoning to social intelligence and metacognition. Through a combination of philosophical analysis, technical exposition, and narrative thought expe...

I'll tell you a story ... Philosophy for children - Paperback

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by Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (Author), Olha Sukhomlynska (Compiled by), Alan L. Cockerill (Translator)I'll tell you a story ... Philosophy for children is a collection of approximately 800 of Vasyl Sukhomlynsky's ethical tales for children and his reflections on values education, compiled by his daughter, Professor Olha Sukhomlynska. The book has been translated from Ukrainian.The ethical tales in this collection were written to support the values education program at the combined primary and second...

When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse - Paperback

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by Norma Wong (Author)Spiritual and community lessons for embracing collective care, co-creating sustainable worlds, and responsibly meeting uncertain futures--a Zen and Indigenous take on building better, more balanced ways of being For readers of Hospicing Modernity, When Things Fall Apart, and Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet Talking story, weaving poetry, and offering wisdom at the intersections of strategy, politics, and spiritual activism, When No Thing Works is a visionary guide t...

Self-Esteem: A Tiny Book of Ideas - Paperback

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by Loran Joly (Author)Self-Esteem: Is good self-esteem perhaps the most important aspect in being as happy as possible?Dr. Nathaniel Branden, a late expert on self-esteem, thought so.This book is a very short summary of my ideas on self-esteem, after having read various books on the topic, and having pondered and written up notes for decades, on this topic.The author seeks to take the mystery out of this very vague term - self-esteem.He regards his self-esteem as having been very, very low, f...

A Natural Afterlife Discovered: The Newfound, Psychological Reality That Awaits Us at Death - Hardcover

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by Bryon Ehlmann (Author)THIS BOOK REVEALS an amazingly long-overlooked psychological reality that dawned on the author when he woke up from a dream and thought: "Suppose I had never woken up? Though others would know, how would I ever know it was over?" Based on cognitive science research and analysis, the author found that conscious-ness is not extinguished with death but, from a dying person's perspective, only imperceptibly "paused."Given this, from your perspective, you'll never lose you...

A Natural Afterlife Discovered: The Newfound, Psychological Reality That Awaits Us at Death - Paperback

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Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love - Paperback

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by Andrew Shaffer (Author)"Amazing stories Incredible quotes Sordid details This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love." -- Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General MotorsWhat do Ren Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have in common? That's right: they were all hopeless failures when it came to romance. Author Andrew Shaffer explores the paradox at the core of Western philosophical thought--that history's ...

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by Michael Weber (Author)Political theory, from antiquity to the present, has been divided over the relationship between the requirements of justice and the limitations of persons and institutions to meet those requirements. Some theorists hold that a theory of justice should be utopian or idealistic--that the derivation of the correct principles of justice should not take into account human and institutional limitations. Others insist on a realist or non-utopian view, according to which feas...

God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion - Paperback

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by Norbert Wiener (Author)The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it--cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc., the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues.The first point he considers is that of the machine which learns. While learning is a property almost exclusively ascribed to the self-conscious living system, a computer now exists which not on...

Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader - Paperback

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by Lydia Patton (Editor)Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader is a compact overview of the history and philosophy of science that aims to introduce students to the groundwork of the field, and to stimulate innovative research. The general introduction focuses on scientific theory change, assessment, discovery, and pursuit. Part I of the Reader begins with classic texts in the history of logical empiricism, including Reichenbach's discovery-justification distinction. With carefu...

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by Al Gini (Author)It isn't easy to be good. In fact, it's very, very difficult. Al Gini - at home both in philosophy and the corporate boardroom - speaks here in an engagingly direct voice about why we have so much trouble doing the right thing in life - at home, with family or strangers, and at work. Businesses struggle with ethical issues every day, and so do ordinary people. But a multinational corporation and a single thinking human being are bound together by the same dilemma: how to ch...

Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist - Paperback

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by Tara Smith (Author)Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that egoism�s instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand�s view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve his objective well-being: rationality, honesty, independence, justice, integrity, productiveness, and pride. Tara Smith examine...

Real Inner Secrets of Psychology and How to Use Creative Thought Power - Paperback

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by C. Alexander (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.51 x 11.02 x 8.28...

Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism - Hardcover

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by Andrew Feffer (Author)Founded in 1894 at a peak of social and industrial turmoil, the Chicago school of pragmatist philosophy is emblematic of the progressive spirit of early twentieth-century America. The Chicago pragmatists under the leadership of John Dewey pursued a close critique of the modern workplace, school, and neighborhood which provided a theoretical base for the progressive reform agenda. Andrew Feffer here provides a richly textured group portrait of Dewey and his colleagues ...

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by William Egginton (Author)William Egginton argues that the notion of the ethical cannot be understood outside of its relation to perversity--that is, the impulse to do what one knows and feels is wrong. The allure of the perverse, moreover, should not be understood as merely the necessary obverse of ethically motivated behavior; rather, from the perspective of a psychoanalytic understanding of the ethical, the two drives are structurally identical. This discovery leads the author to engagem...

Standing In The Light: My Life A A Pantheist - Paperback

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by Sharman Apt Russell (Author)"Everything is connected, and the web is holy." So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. Nature provides the inspiration for meditations on s...

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by Ray W. Lincoln (Author)Do you want to be an encourager? This book will start you on the right road to develop the art of encouragement.The art involves you, your words, your faith, your compassion, and God's power. All are woven together into a tapestry of effective love and care. Improve your skills and bless the lives of others. Even the professional counselor will benefit from a revision of his/her skills in this insightful introduction to the art. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x ...

The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus - Hardcover

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by Arthur Edward Waite (Author)The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus is a book written by Arthur Edward Waite. The book is a collection of the works of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician and alchemist who lived in the 16th century. Paracelsus was known for his unconventional approach to medicine and his belief in the power of alchemy. The book contains a variety of writings by Paracelsus on topics such as medicine, alchemy, and philosophy. The writings are presented in their original ...

The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought - Paperback

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by W. R. Inge (Author)The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought is a scholarly book written by W. R. Inge. The book explores the influence of Plato's philosophy on English religious thought from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Inge argues that Plato's ideas, particularly his concept of the Forms or Ideas, have played a significant role in shaping Christian theology and spirituality in England. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the relationship between Platonic and...