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Socioeconomic And Philosophical Observations

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Report copyright infringementby Keshav Sadashiv Sapru (Author)Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance highlights the danger of unconditionally accepting intolerant views, which, if unchecked, could destroy the very fabric of a tolerant society. This principle extends beyond tolerance itself and can be seen in a broader paradox within Liberalism. As faith in progress-a cornerstone of Liberal thought-diminishes, particularly in parts of the West, stagnation may follow. The erosion of this belief ris...

Discourse on Metaphysics: a Translation From the French Based on the Diplomatic Edition;

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Report copyright infringementby Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr Leibniz (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 ...

Educational complex in the discipline 'Philosophy' for students with Russian language of instruction

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Report copyright infringementby G a Tokhtasunova (Author), F Yuldasheva (Author)It is said that the most significant area of spiritual activity is education. Developing general competence to plan and carry out one's own professional and personal development is the goal of the "Philosophy" discipline. The discipline's content addresses a wide range of topics, including the philosophical challenges of nature and society, the place of man in the universe, the meaning of life and the purpose of h...

Placeness and the Performative Production of Space

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Report copyright infringementby Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic (Author), María José Martínez Sánchez (Author)How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance to urban space. Marrying theory with a series of international case studies of performance practice and interviews with practitioners, this interdiscipl...

Kant's Reason: The Unity of Reason and the Limits of Comprehension in Kant - Hardcover

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by Karl Schafer (Author)Kant's Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant's conception of reason and its philosophical significance. Karl Schafer argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or "comprehension"). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and practical rationality, without reducing eithe...

The Art of Quiet Influence: Timeless Wisdom for Leading Without Authority - Paperback

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by Jocelyn Davis (Author)Anyone can be a quiet influencer. But not everyone knows how. "A tremendous and relevant read!" -Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust Drawing on the enduring wisdom of the Buddha, Confucius, Rumi, Gandhi and others, The Art of Quiet Influence shows anyone, not just bosses, how to use influence without authority, a key mindfulness principle, to get things done at work and in life. Through the classic wi...

Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning: To Follow a Rule Blindly - Hardcover

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by Alexander Miller (Author)Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning develops a new, non-reductionist, response to the sceptical argument about meaning famously developed in Saul Kripke's book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy, it begins by outlining an intuitive notion of following a rule, explaining its relationship to the notions of linguistic meaning and intentional content. It then gives an outline and development of Kripke'...

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by Benedict De Spinoza (Author), Edwin Curley (Translator), Stuart Hampshire (Introduction by)A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the masterpieces of Enlightenment-era philosophy. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical ...

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Larzer Ziff (Editor), Larzer Ziff (Introduction by)An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than o...

Leadership for the Soul: A Guide for Personal Transformation and Collective Evolution

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Report copyright infringementby Tanya Yamanaka (Author) Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 14, 2026

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: 50th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Shunryu Suzuki (Author)Named one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century (Spirituality & Practice) A 50th Anniversary edition of the bestselling Zen classic on meditation, maintaining a curious and open mind, and living with simplicity."In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous open...

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by Roger Scruton (Author)Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a vision of man as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. Ostracized by the Jewish community in Amsterddam to which he was born, Spinoza developed a political philosophy that set out to justify the secular state ruled by a liberal constitution, and a metaphysics ...

Magic Carpet Flying: The Ride of Your Life

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela Ryan (Author)Magic Carpet Flying traces psychologist Pamela Ryan's journey through her life's adventures, from the rapture of achievement to the personal anguish of loss. Drawing on childhood lessons in rural Australia and later work in the Australian outback, Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world where she travelled to help others tackle the darkness of mental illness, suicide, and large-scale tragedy arising from terrorist attacks and natural disa...

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob Feis (Author)Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He was able to combine serious intellectual writing with casual anecdotes and autobiography. Montaigne had an influence on many writers including Shakespeare. Montaigne analyzed the world through his own judgment, which makes him very accessible to the modern reader. Fies ...

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Ferguson Smith (Author)For most of his life Martin Ferguson Smith (born 1940) has been closely engaged with the teachings of the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BC). Epicurus adopted and adapted the atomic theory developed by Democritus, but regarded scientific knowledge as subservient to the moral end, which is pleasure, specifically absence of pain in the body and absence of trouble in the mind.Martin has a particular interest in two of Epicurus' f...

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Report copyright infringementby Amjad Jaber (Author)Are you faking it?How many times have you taken a shortcut, or thought about taking one because you were tired of spinning in the same place?Working harder.Trying more.Still not getting clearer or closer to what you believe matters.Here's the truth.Most people are not failing.They are constantly drifting.No Shortcuts: What It Really Takes is not motivation.It is a code.This book is for people who carry responsibility and want a way forward t...

Contact With Beings of Light: The Amazing true Story of Dorothy

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Guttilla (Author)Contact With Beings of Light is truly an amazing tale of Dorothy Wilkinson-Izatt. Using an ordinary 8 mm movie camera she has filmed hundreds of sequences of unexplained, yet authenticated, pictures of UFO's, ETs, and anamolies. Dorothy Izatt is without peer anywhere on record in the world, even when compared to today's tabloid media with its endless loops of bizarre video footage from various places and people. Aside from the fact that e...

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Report copyright infringementby Thich Nhat Hanh (Author), Phap Luu (Author), Jeanne Fries (Illustrator)#1 Bestseller in Eastern Philosophy#1 Bestseller in Zen Spirituality Every moment is a moment of rebirth. In this profound short book, Thich Nhat Hanh offers clear, accessible reflections on the nature of reincarnation--which he calls "continuation." Our thoughts, speech, and actions are our true continuation. Shaped by how we live and what we consume, they carry us forward into the future--...

The First Book of Maccabees: The Epic Struggle for Faith and Freedom (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Jewish Historian) (Author), Tim Zengerink (Translator)What does it take to fight for what you believe in?The First Book of Maccabees tells the riveting true story of how the Jewish people rose up against the mighty Seleucid Empire to reclaim their faith and freedom. Spanning several decades, this historical and theological masterpiece details the rise of Mattathias and his sons, their heroic battles, and the miraculous rededication of the Temple in J...

How Do You Know What's Right?: Thinking, Deciding, and Persuading

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Report copyright infringementby Cliff Stromberg (Author)Issues of morality and values are among the most important questions we face-and the answers we give are central to our identity. They can also determine whether personal relationships flourish or fracture, whether teams at work cohere or collapse, and how we are perceived by our community. But moral- and value-laden questions often confound us, causing needless confusion or acrimony. In How Do You Know What's Right?, Cliff Stromberg off...

Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God - Hardcover

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by Henry T. Blackaby (Author), Richard Blackaby (Author), Claude V. King (Author)When you open this book, you'll find that you aren't just reading. No, you are being remade, reoriented, restored from the frustration of what you may have known as stale religion. Captured not by a concept but by your Creator, reborn in relationship. Here's the Experiencing God that has already impacted millions of people. Only it's bigger, and better, and ready to lead you again--or for the very first time--in...

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Report copyright infringementby Ryan Holiday (Author)The ideal gift for both newcomers to Stoic philosophy and seasoned practitioners seeking to strengthen their understanding, this boxed set brings together Ryan Holiday's #1 New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues Series--Courage Is Calling, Discipline Is Destiny, Right Thing, Right Now, and Wisdom Takes Work--in a beautiful and enduring collection. Through his bestselling books, Ryan Holiday has introduced millions of readers around the wo...

Freedom: The End of the Human Condition - Paperback

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by Jeremy Griffith (Author)The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we re entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our good and evil -afflicted human condition. WELL, ASTONISHING AS IT IS, THIS BOOK BY AUSTRALIAN BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH PRESENTS THE 11TH HOUR BREAKTHROUGH BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION...

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by Toni Morrison (Author), Ta-Nehisi Coates (Foreword by)America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bea...

Hephaestus Reloaded / Efesto Reloaded: Composed for 10 Hands / Composizione per 10 mani

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Berg (Author), Vladimir D'Amora (Author), Alessandro De Francesco (Author)This bilingual (English/Italian) publication, whose five authors are from Greece, Italy, and the US, invokes as its first inspiration the myth of Hephaestus who embodied a twofold entity: both handicapped and technically capable. The myth of Hephaestus has been passed across the centuries as an ancient metaphor signifying the idea of becoming-world, in which any distinction between t...

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Report copyright infringementby Yair Meshoulam (Author), Fuerstenow Lily (Contribution by), Harrison-Broninski Keith (Contribution by)An art book colliding art and poetry on the theme of Cosmos and Chaos by the artist Yair Meshoulam. The topic is expanded by articles from friends to creativity, music, society and science Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.24 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: May 30, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Fernando (Author), Lee Ching Lim (Author), Ruben Pang (Artist)The Gleaming Man is a conversation between the texts of Jeremy Fernando, the paintings of Ruben Pang, and the poems of Lim Lee Ching. Among other things, it is an attempt to meditate on the question of how different forms of work can speak with each other without speaking over -- or, even worse, speaking for -- an other. For, if art is the transformation of something that is brought forth thro...

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Report copyright infringementby Donia Zhang (Translator)As one of the greatest masterpieces in Chinese history, Dao De Jing is a philosophical work by Laozi (Li Er, c.571‒471 BCE) published in the 4th century BCE. It contains 81 chapters/verses whose essence is on moral philosophy and ideal ways for humans to be in harmony with nature, self-cultivation, governing the country, deploying military forces, among other things. Although some of the ideas are only historically relevant at the time w...

The School and Society & The Child and the Curriculum (Polis & Praxis Education Series)

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Report copyright infringementby John Dewey (Author)Reclaim the democratic purpose of education with the foundational texts of the progressive movement.Over a century ago, John Dewey identified a critical disconnect between rigid classroom routines and the dynamic needs of a functioning democracy. As modern educators navigate the pressures of standardized testing, digital distraction, and ongoing curriculum debates, Dewey's writings offer a vital, enduring framework for meaningful classroom re...

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by Neville (Author)A beautiful edition of one of the twentieth century's most powerful and intriguing works on how to use the manifesting powers of your mind. Features the bonus book, Awakened Imagination.Here is a signature volume of one of the most quietly impactful and radical works ever written on the creative potentialities of human thought, The Power of Awareness. In this book, author Neville presents a concise, unforgettable statement of his core philosophy: that the world around you i...

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (Author)A Treatise On Gymnastics is a book written by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in 1828. The book is a comprehensive guide to the practice of gymnastics, covering everything from the basic principles of physical exercise to more advanced techniques and training methods. Jahn was a German educator and father of the gymnastics movement, and his book is considered a seminal work in the field of physical education.The book is divided into several ...

Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World

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Report copyright infringementby Sir Isaac Newton (Author), Andrew Motte (Author)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1686 Edition. Number of Pages: 718 Dimensions: 1.44 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2014