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The Miracle of Mindfulness: Gift Edition - Hardcover

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by Thich Nhat Hanh (Author)A new gift edition of the classic guide to meditation and mindfulness, featuring archival photography and beautiful calligraphy by Thich Nhat Hanh The Miracle of Mindfulness is a classic guide to meditation that has introduced generations of readers to the life-changing beauty of mindful awareness. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness. From washing the dishes to answering the phone...

The Multiple States of the Being - Paperback

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by Rene Guenon (Author), James Richard Wetmore (Editor), Henry Fohr (Translator)Study of the ontological hierarchy of the states of being as taught in the traditional metaphyscial doctrines of East and West. Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9.04 x 6.04 IN Publication Date: April 01, 2002

Initiation and Spiritual Realization - Paperback

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by Rene Guenon (Author), Henry Fohr (Translator), James Richard Wetmore (Foreword by)The present volume is a companion volume to Guenon Perspectives on Initiation, in which Guenon carefully defined the nature of initiation and of the organizations qualified to transmit it. In Initiation and Spiritual Realization he adds many details on related subjects, including various inner and outer obstacles the aspirant may face, the need for attachment to a traditional exoterism, the role of the spirit...

Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power - Paperback

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by Rene Guenon (Author), Henry Fohr (Translator), James Richard Wetmore (Editor)Deals with the normal relationship between the spiritual and the temporal powers implied in a healthy traditional civilization, that is, the supremacy of knowledge over action, of the sacerdotal over the royal caste. Touching first on India and the medieval West, Guenon then illustrates his point by citing quarrels over investiture and disputes of certain French kingswith the papacy as evidence of a deviation in C...

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by Rene Guenon (Author), Henry Fohr (Translator), James Richard Wetmore (Editor) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.04 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 16, 2001

Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta - Paperback

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by Rene Guenon (Author), Richard C. Nicholson (Translator), James Richard Wetmore (Editor)A study of the constitution and development of the human being from the metaphysical point of view, with special reference to Vedantic doctrine. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.47 x 9.04 x 6.12 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2001

Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future - Paperback

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Walter Kaufmann (Translator)One of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century--Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy. In nine parts the book is designed to give the reader a comprehensive idea of Nietzsche's thought and style: they span "The Prejudices of Philsophers," "The Free Spirit," religion, morals, scholarship, "Our Virtues," "Peoples and Fatherlands," and "What Is Noble," as well as epigrams and a concluding poem. This...

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.Front JacketPerhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordina...

Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult ind...

Beyond Moral Fundamentalism: Toward a Pragmatic Pluralism - Hardcover

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by Steven Fesmire (Author)While complex global problems cry out for solutions devised with moral sensitivity and responsibility, a more common mentality tends to prevail, one that assumes those going the right way ("us") are endangered by others ("them") going the wrong way. Philosopher Steven Fesmire calls this approach "moral fundamentalism," the idea that only we have access to the right diagnosis and prescription to our problems. Moral fundamentalism causes us to oversimplify, neglect bro...

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by Alexandra Plakias (Author)Awkwardness offers an account of the psychology and philosophical significance of a ubiquitous social phenomenon. Our aversion to awkwardness mirrors our desire for inclusion. This explains its power to influence and silence us: as social creatures, we don't want to mark ourselves as outsiders. As a result, our fear of awkwardness inhibits critique and conversation, acting as an impediment to moral and social progress. Even the act of describing people as "awkward...

The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments - Paperback

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by Epictetus (Author), Robin Waterfield (Editor), Robin Waterfield (Translator)The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. "Some things are up to us and some are not." Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a philosophy teacher. After being expelled from Rome, he spent the rest of his life living and teaching in Greece. He is now considered the most important expon...

On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication - Paperback

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), David Bromwich (Introduction by)More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians lie? What is the relationship between political lies and self-delusion? And how much organized deceit can a democracy endure before it ceases to function? Fift...

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by Jack Kevorkian (Author)The inventor of the controversial "suicide machine" outlines his startling views on planned death and its potential impact on organ harvesting and medical experimentation in this graphic and well-argued commentary. Photographs. Number of Pages: 270 Dimensions: 1.05 x 9.3 x 6.28 IN Publication Date: September 01, 1991

Propositions: Ontology and Logic - Hardcover

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by Robert Stalnaker (Author)In the third volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, distinguished philosopher Robert Stalnaker here offers a defense of an ontology of propositions, and of some logical resources for representing them. He offers an austere formulation of a theory of propositions in a first-order extensional logic, but then uses the commitments of this theory to justify an enrichment to modal logic as an appropriate framework for regimented languages that are construct...

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by Thomas Paine (Author)Thomas Paine, defender of freedom, independence, and rational common sense during America's turbulent revolutionary period, offers insights into religion which ring sharply true more than two centuries later. This unabridged edition of The Age of Reason sets forth Paine's provocative observations on the place of religion in society.Author BiographyTHOMAS PAINE was born in Thetford, England, on January 29, 1737. He was forced to leave school early to enter his father's ...

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author)Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has been proclaimed the seminal figure of modern philosophy as well as one of the most creative and critically influential geniuses in the history of secular thought. "Writing in blood" and "philosophizing with a hammer," Nietzsche scathingly criticized modern civilization's basic ideas, beliefs, and values, and boldly proclaimed that "God is dead," thereby fathering atheistic existentialism. Thus Spake Zarathustra is Niet...

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by Ernest Renan (Author)In this classic work, renowned rationalist and scholar of religion Ernest Renan is the first biographer of Jesus to present him as entirely human. Renan describes Jesus as a popular religious leader and self-proclaimed Messiah who increasingly advocated the overthrow of Roman rule and the establishment of a theocracy. To support his apocalyptic vision, Renan's Jesus was not above using trickery and deception, as in the raising of Lazarus. The impression left by Jesus o...

Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey - Hardcover

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by George Orwell (Author), John Carey (Introduction by), John Carey (Selected by)A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the da...

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by Immanuel Kant (Author), Marcus Weigelt (Translator), Marcus Weigelt (Editor)The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowledge to experience. Published here in a lucid reworking of Max M ller's classic translation, the Critique is a profoun...

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics - Paperback

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by Georg Wilhelm Friedr Hegel (Author), Bernard Bosanquet (Translator), Michael Inwood (Editor)No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced complicating - and ultimately disabling - questions. Christianity, with its code of unworldliness, h...

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by Amie Thomasson (Author)Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy. Such claims are traditionally thought of as aiming to describe a special kind of modal fact or property, or perhaps facts about other possible worlds. But that assumption leads to difficult ontological, epistemological, and methodological puzzles. Should we accept that there are modal facts or properties, or other possible worlds? If...

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...

Basic Writings of Nietzsche PB - Paperback

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Peter Gay (Introduction by), Walter Kaufmann (Translator)Introduction by Peter GayTranslated and edited by Walter Kaufmann Commentary by Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Gilles Deleuze One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond...

The Question Concerning Technology: And Other Essays - Paperback

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by Martin Heidegger (Author)As relevant now as ever before, this accessible collection is an essential landmark in the philosophy of science from "one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century" (New York Times).The advent of machine technology has given rise to some of the deepest problems of modern thought. Featuring the celebrated essay "The Question Concerning Technology," this prescient volume contains Martin Heidegger's groundbreaking investigation into the pervasive "enfram...

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint - Paperback

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our aut...

Philosophy of Religion: An Examination of the Arguments for the Existence of God, and the Problem of Evil - Paperback

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by Charles Craig Lantz (Author)This brief and concise handbook will explore the subject matter of "Philosophy of Religion." The philosopher of religion asks "why?" The philosopher seeks understanding about people's beliefs. Traditionally, Philosophy of Religion is that branch of philosophy that attempts to examine religious beliefs or religious presuppositions. Philosophers of religion may ask this question: Is a belief in God rational? Can this belief be justified by reason? The focal point ...

Cultivating Virtue in the University - Paperback

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by Jonathan Brant (Author) Dimensions: 1 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 22, 2025

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by Lao-Tzu (Author), Stephen Mitchell (Translator), Stephen Mitchell (Foreword by)In a widely praised translation, Stephen Mitchell provides an accessible understanding of a classic guide for living, now in an attractive, pocket-size trim designed to fit in a purse, briefcase, backpack, or pocket. "The English, as 'fluid as meling ice, ' is a joy to read throughout."--New Republic. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.4 x 5 x 3.5 IN Publication Date: October 27, 1992

How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life - Hardcover

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by Epictetus (Author), Anthony Long (Translator), Anthony Long (Introduction by)A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophy Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long--one of the world's leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its remarkable contem...

How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go - Hardcover

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by Jay L. Garfield (Commentaries by), Jay L. Garfield (Translator), Maria Heim (Commentaries by)Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion--and why giving it up can free us from suffering From self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that th...

The Basic Works of Aristotle - Paperback

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by Aristotle (Author), Richard McKeon (Editor), C. D. C. Reeve (Introduction by)Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon's The Basic Works of Aristotle--constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years--has long been considere...