Philosophy

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by John Stuart Mill (Author)John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection ...

The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic - Paperback

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by Andrea Gouveia (Editor), Andrea Gouveia (Translator), Peter Kropotkin (Author)Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin 1842 - February 8, 1921) was a Russian activist, scientist, and philosopher, who advocated anarchism.Born into an aristocratic land-owning family, he attended a military school and later served as an officer in Siberia, where he participated in several geological expeditions. He was imprisoned for his activism in 1874 and managed to escape two years later. He spent the next 41 y...

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by Elizabeth Hughes (Translator), Jacques Maritain (Author), Michael Cuddihy (Translator)At eighty-five, Jacques Maritain, the most distinguished Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, has written what he offers as his last book, and it turns out to be a shocker. The ""peasant,"" as Maritain calls himself in the title, is a man who calls a spade a spade; and a storm of controversy descended immediately on the book's publication in France, as both Right and Left reeled from the force o...

Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿAttar - Paperback

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by Cyrus Ali Zargar (Author)A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din Aār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.Religion of Love explores the life and work of the Persian Sufi poet and sage Farīd al-Dīn Aār. Aār changed the face of world literature, leaving his impact on all cultures that have valued Persian Sufi writings. Considered for the first time through the lens of religious studies, Aār's oeuvre offers much to contemporary readers. Aār's poems cast a light on the relationship betwe...

Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices - Paperback

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by Adam Chalom (Author), Jodi Kornfeld (Editor)Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, Contemporary Humanistic Judaism collects the movement's most important texts for the first time and answers the oft-raised question, "How can you be Jewish and celebrate Judaism if you don't believe in God?" with new vision.Part 1 ("Beliefs and Ethics") examines core positive beliefs--in human agency, social progress, ethics with...

Surya-Siddhanta: A Text Book Of Hindu Astronomy - Hardcover

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by Ebenezer Burgess (Author)Surya-Siddhanta: A Text Book Of Hindu Astronomy by Ebenezer Burgess is a comprehensive guide to the ancient Hindu system of astronomy. The book explores the principles and practices of Hindu astronomy and provides detailed information on the calculation of planetary positions, eclipses, and other astronomical events. The author draws on the Surya-Siddhanta, an ancient Hindu text that is considered to be one of the most important sources of knowledge on Hindu astron...

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by Wewer Keohane (Author), Wewer Keohane (Introduction by), Wewer Keohane (Illustrator)Swami Paramarthanada of Chennai, South India, disciple of Swami Dayananda and India's preeminent living teacher of traditional Vedanta gives a step-by-step path for the Self Inquirer. It is based on talks he delivered to his devotees. Also included is a Sanskrit Glossary, the Vedanta Invocation, the Gayatri Mantra and a pronunciation guide compiled by Wewer Keohane, Ph.D., a student of Vedanta and author of...

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by David Svoboda (Author)The quest for unity and multiplicity is one of the most important concerns in the history of human thought and has been of unceasing interest since the birth of the history of philosophy to the present day. The same holds true of the writings of St Thomas Aquinas, and this work is devoted to his ideas. Since the problem of unity and multitude is closely linked to many other key metaphysical issues, such as the doctrine of transcendental concepts, the mode of compositi...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Paperback

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author)Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and compos...

Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis: Only the Splendour of Light - Hardcover

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by Simon Hewitt (Author)This book is the first treatment at length of negative, or apophatic, theology within the analytic tradition. Apophatic theology holds that there is a significant sense in which we cannot say what God is. Important negative theological elements are present in a host of Christian thinkers, from Gregory of Nyssa to Aquinas, and yet apophaticism is neglected in philosophical theology as practiced within the analytic tradition. By contrast, Hewitt shows how apophatic theol...

Dhammapada: Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists - Paperback

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by Anonymous (Author), F. Max Muller (Author)Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. Each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. The book presents the de...

The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. - Paperback

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by M. de (Jean-Puget) Ca 160 La Serre (Created by), T. (Thomas) B. 1605 or 6. Cary (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 ...

Bernadette and Her Lady of Glory - Paperback

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by Valentine Long (Author)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 preserved, reprod...

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by Herbert Charles 1912- Brown (Author)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 pres...

Letters, Lectures And Address Of Charles Edward Garman: A Memorial Volume, Prepared With The Coöperation Of The Class Of 1884, Amherst College - Paperback

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by Charles Edward Garman (Author), Eliza Miner Garman (Created by), Amherst College Class of 1884 (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.Schol...

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by Benjamin Jowett (Author), Aristotle Aristotle (Author), H. W. Carless 1874-1928 Davis (Author)One of the most influential works in Western political thought, Aristotle's Politics offers a detailed analysis of the nature of the state, the role of the citizen, and the principles of good governance. This edition, translated by Benjamin Jowett and H. W. Carless Davis, provides a clear and accessible introduction to this important text, making it an essential resource for students of political ...

Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation - Paperback

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by Upton Sinclair (Author)"A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, . . . in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief." ―Upton Sinclair, Mammonart Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1925) by Upton Sinclair consists mainly of critiques of many great artists from Homer to Mark Twain and from Michelangelo to Jack London. It is one in a series of six books the author wrote analyzing American institutions from a ...

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by J. V. Langmead Casserley (Author)Can faith and reason coexist? Casserley tackles this perennial question in this insightful exploration of the relationship between Christianity and philosophy. Drawing on thinkers ranging from St. Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre, this book offers a nuanced and engaging perspective on this important subject.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 ...

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by Edwin Abbott (Author)Flatland is uniquely both a social critique and a primer on multi-dimensional geometry. Written in two parts in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott, an English mathematician and theologian, it tells the story of a square living in Flatland: a two-dimensional realm. After a dream of a restrictive one-dimensional existence and the difficulties this poses, he is visited by a sphere from a three-dimensional space who wishes to enlighten him into the ways of "Upward, yet not Northward....

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by Alan Greeley Misenheimer (Author)US forces have been engaged around the globe since World War II, and "endless" war has become the backdrop of American life. This militarized status quo is rife with contradiction. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war, yet the executive branch routinely acts alone to dispatch forces and launch attacks. The norms of republican self-governance stipulate alignment between popular will and public policy, yet our post-9/11 wars in Afghani...

Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Paperback

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by Robert Pippin (Editor), Adrian del Caro (Translator)Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the eternal return of the same. This edition offers a new translation by Adrian Del Caro which restores the original versi...

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), Donna J. Haraway (Introduction by), Lee Bul (Illustrator)In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the pr...

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen - Hardcover

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by David Brooks (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know...

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control - Hardcover

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by Ryan Holiday (Author)The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it. To master anything, one must first master themselves-one's emotions, one's thoughts, one's actions. Eisenhower famously s...

Out of Sight, Into Mind: The History and Philosophy of Yogic Perception - Hardcover

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by Jed Forman (Author)Most Indian and Tibetan religious traditions have some theory of yogic perception--a profound type of sentience afforded by meditative practice. And most consider it the bedrock of their religious authority, the primary means by which one gains spiritual insight. Disagreements about what yogis perceive abound, however, spanning many philosophical topics, including epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, and language. Out of Sight, Into Mind is a groundbreaking exploration...

Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity - Hardcover

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by Todd McGowan (Author)Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more--more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice--is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now...

The Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates - Paperback

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by L. Syd M. Johnson (Author), Andrew Fenton (Author), Mary Lee Jensvold (Author)The Three Pillars (Harmonization, Replacement, and Justice) describe an ethical path forward and away from the use of nonhuman primates in harmful research and scientific use. Conducting nonhuman primate research in an ethical way that acknowledges their moral importance requires satisfying more rigorous guidelines and regulations modeled on those that apply to similarly vulnerable human subjects, especially chil...

Sobre La Clemencia / On Leniency - Hardcover

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by S?neca (Author), Pere Ginard (Illustrator)Dedicado a Ner?n a comienzos de su reinado, este tratado constituye una loa a su personalidad, pero tambi?n una muestra del camino ideal para el buen gobernante, aquel que pudo seguir el emperador cuando todav?a admit?a consejo. "Sobre la clemencia" nos habla del valor y el ejercicio de la virtud, pero sobre todo es uno de los primeros y m?s preciados «espejos de pr?ncipes de nuestra literatura. Dedicated to Nero at the beginning of his reign, thi...

Ethical Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity - Hardcover

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by David Copp (Author)We all have ethical beliefs. We may believe, for example, that torture is wrong, that compassion is a virtue, and that it is rational to promote what one values. These beliefs are normative; they concern what we ought or ought not to do, or what is valuable or worthy of our choosing, or what a society must try to guarantee. The problem of normativity is to explain what the normativity of these beliefs comes to. What is it for an ethical claim, an ethical judgment, or an ...

Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience: Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today - Hardcover

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by Stefano Marino (Editor), Elena Romagnoli (Editor)Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding of Gadamer's thinking in the context of current aesthetic debates.Hans-Georg Gadamer was one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. As a philosopher trained in phenomenology, he established philosophical hermeneutics a...

Return to the Eternal Abode: Sufi Dialogues with Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Hardcover

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by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Author), Amira El-Zein (Author)Thought-provoking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary conversations on Sufism with one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religion, and comparative studies.Return to the Eternal Abode is a series of in-depth discussions between Amira El-Zein and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religious, and comparative studies. Each of the six chapters addresses a central theme at the heart of Sufism: cre...

Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values - Paperback

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by Thomas H. Brobjer (Author) Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025