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The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers - Paperback

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by Ted Honderich (Editor)What better introduction to the world of philosophy than through the lives of its most prominent citizens. In The Philosophers, we are introduced to twenty-eight of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization, ranging from Aristotle and Plato to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Sartre. An illustrious team of scholars takes us on a concise and illuminating tour of some of the most brilliant minds and enduring ideas in history. Here is Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Pl...

The Sovereign Human Being: Carl Schmitt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Responsible Decision-Making - Hardcover

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by Valentin Jeutner (Author)Sovereign is who decides; and who decides is responsible. The book develops these two arguments by comparing Carl Schmitt's and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theories of sovereignty. Carl Schmitt was an influential jurist of Nazi Germany. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran priest hanged for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In many ways, the two men could not be more different. But they both struggled with the question of how to maintain order and how ...

Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Brogden (Editor), Christiane Frey (Editor)The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and culture From catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth's atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us of how the minutest of phenomena can have outsized effects. This notion is one that has preoccupied the European and Anglo-American cultural imaginary sin...

The Excuse-Less Life; 34 Inner-Laws for Living Above Distraction - Paperback

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by Undrai Fizer (Author)34 Inner-Laws or Spiritual Perspectives that will enable and empower individuals to conquer "purposeless energies, relationships, and fears" that attract justifiable excuses and distractions to Vision, Life, and Creative Imagination. Undrai Fizer compels us to "see ourselves beyond the status quo of commonness" and into a Miraculous world of BEING He challenges, as well as inspires the soul, to view itself as the Beauty that it is, while empowering us to Speak to Ours...

If I Were God: How I Would Have Done It - Paperback

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by Bob Maguire (Author)What if God decided to set the record straight?In His first-ever direct written communication to mankind, Almighty God Himself provides a hilariously insightful critique of the religious beliefs and practices of Earth's inhabitants. If I Were God: How I Would Have Done It will appeal to atheists, agnostics, and believers of all stripes, including religious philosophers, apologists, and others interested in the interplay of religious studies, sociology, and science.Narra...

The Gorgias of Plato (Revised Text, Exegetical Notes, New Translation) - Hardcover

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by Kenneth Quandt (Author)Fifth Century Athens, in its Golden Age, was at once the most powerful and the most democratic of the Greek city-states: this precarious combination called into being a new art, the art of oratory, whereby the wealth and prominence of a political career could be won by mere speech. Itinerant teachers of these new techniques of persuasion bedazzled up-and-coming men with the prospect of power and fame, and taught them for a significant fee. Of these the most dazzling ...

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by Jennifer K. Clark (Author)Why would anyone write a book about suffering? Earnest in her pursuit, Dr. Jennifer Clark draws upon her near 25 years of practice as a Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician to convince us otherwise. Clark adeptly navigates the ups and downs, the twists and turns, and the pitfalls and plateaus of human development, asking us to reimagine the pilgrimage of the human condition. With suffering as her compass, Clark takes us on a journey through the difficult ter...

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by Rabindranath Tagore (Author)Collected here are ten wonderful traditional Indian stories as told by Rabindranath Tagore. The language is rich and the narrative compelling. Tagore was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth Century and that lyrical quality comes through in all of his work. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 07, 2014

Atheistic Christianity: A Different Look at God - Paperback

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by Duwayne A. Carlson (Author)Is there a chance that many, if not most, including the faithful, don't truly understand God? In this fascinating analysis, Dr. Carlson examines a totally different way of looking at God as many of us know him.When it comes to religion-and more specifically, Christianity-"God" is a divisive issue. Either you're a believer who loves him, or an atheist (or other spiritual believer) who denounces his existence and hates him. Who is right? Which side got it correct? ...

Without Words: Mastering the Art of Being - Hardcover

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by Harvey Martin (Author)Who am I? This question leaves us without words. We've reached our threshold in the modern era. As we search for our soul, we must peel into the characters we play and the roles we've established to experience physical reality. From the narratives of our ancestors to the boom of technology, we are left with confusion, navigating the modern world at a speed the human species have yet encountered. Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Decemb...

Milieus of Minutiae: Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science - Paperback

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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Richard Francis Burton (Author), Stanley Lane-Poole (Author), Lady Isabel Burton (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 w...

Without Words: Mastering the Art of Being - Paperback

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The Word Untold: This Realm Of Lies - Paperback

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by Seeker Verity (Author)The Bible tells us the Devil would deceive the whole world; he has succeeded. The Devil has infiltrated the church and trickled in false teaching after false teaching for over a millennium. The 144,000, the true identity of Lucifer, God's real chosen people, and more have all been misinterpreted by the world. This book will shake off the chains the church has bound to the Bible and clear a path. Time grows short. If you don't want to hear the words, 'I never knew you'...

If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy: Essays on Ordinary Joy - Hardcover

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by Rhee Kun Hoo (Author), Suphil Lee Park (Translator)This endearing, giftable guidebook by Korean bestseller Dr. Rhee reflects on the wisdom he's learned during his life: how to forgive, persevere, and stop the rat race, plus the joys of living simply and the power of ordinary happiness. He explores his relationships with his wife, children, and grandchildren, and how to stay whole as your body naturally ages. If You're Going to Live to 100 is a meditation on aging contently and finding peac...

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by Cicero (Author), John Davie (Editor), Miriam T. Griffin (Editor)Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of Rome, and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC, only to return a year later to a city paralyzed by the domination of Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. Cicero, though a senior statesman, struggled to maintain his independence an...

In the Dark Places of Wisdom - Paperback

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by Peter Kingsley (Author)The author of Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic has unearthed a sensational, true story of a mystical and esoteric tradition that lies hidden at the roots of Western culture--and that gave rise to the world we live in. Number of Pages: 255 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN Publication Date: December 01, 1999

Backyard Politics: A Psychological Understanding of Today's Political and Social Divide - Paperback

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by Craig Wiener (Author) Number of Pages: 314 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 26, 2024

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by Harry G. Frankfurt (Author)A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or wh...

The Five Ages of Humanity - The Psychology of Human History: 60th Anniversary Special Hardcover Edition - Hardcover

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by Gerald Heard (Author), Thomas Armstrong (Foreword by), John Roger Barrie (Editor)60th Anniversary Special Hardcover Edition!The Five Ages of Humanity (a revised and retitled edition of The Five Ages of Man) is the 1964 masterwork by influential author, historian, and philosopher Gerald Heard (1889-1971). Heard explores many parallels between the historical development of human consciousness and the life of an individual. He maintains there are five stages through which human consciousness ...

Advice to Christian Philosophers: Reflections on the Past and Future of Christian Philosophy - Paperback

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by Alvin Plantinga (Author), Edward Feser (Author), William Lane Craig (Author) Number of Pages: 244 Dimensions: 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 14, 2024

Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose - Hardcover

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by Carey Seal (Author)The Roman philosopher Seneca addressed himself to the question of how we ought to live in letters and treatises that have engaged the attention of readers from his own day to the present. A committed, if critical and eccentric, adherent of Stoicism, he gives us a set of reflections on the good life that are rich both in philosophical subtlety and in vivid engagement with day-to-day life in ancient Rome. Philosophy and Community in Seneca's Prose proposes a new understand...

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by Giorgio Agamben (Author), Kevin Attell (Translator)A rare autobiographical glimpse into the life and influences of one of Europe's greatest living philosophers. This book's title, Self-Portrait in the Studio--a familiar iconographic subject in the history of painting--is intended to be taken literally: the book is a self-portrait, but one that comes into view for the reader only by way of patient scrutiny of the images, photographs, objects, and paintings present in the studios where the ...

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess - Hardcover

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by Becca Rothfeld (Author)A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture that is flatte...

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by Heinrich Robert Zimmer (Author), Joseph Campbell (Editor)The description for this book, Philosophies of India, will be forthcoming.Back Jacket"Indian philosophy was at the heart of Zimmer's interest in oriental studies, and this volume therefore represents his major contribution to our understanding of Asia. It is both the most complete and most intelligent account of this extraordinarily rich and complex philosophical tradition yet written."--"The New York Times Book Review" Number of Pag...

The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1: A Commentary - Hardcover

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by Paul Kalligas (Author)The first volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophy This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus-a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy. This volume covers the first three of the six Enneads, as well as Porphyry's Life of Plotinus, ...

What's the Point of Philosophy? - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)Travel down the road of wisdom to discover how to think about a series of philosophical problems, how to defend your opinions on them, and how to evaluate the opinions of others. Why is philosophy important? What's so great about it? Leap into the world of philosophy and discover questions about life, the universe, and human behavior that great thinkers have pondered throughout history, and which are still being asked today. Philosophical ideas affect our day-to-day lives in way...

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality - Hardcover

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by William Egginton (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe--the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind--and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world "[A] mind-expanding book. . . . Elegantly written." --The New York Times "A remarkable synthesis of the thoughts, ideas, and discoveries of three of the gr...

The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment - Hardcover

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by Herman Cappelen (Author)This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. If we don't know what the words 'democracy' and 'democratic' mean, then we don't know what democracy is. This book defends a radical view: these words mean nothing and should be abandoned. The argument for Abolitionism is simple: those terms are defecti...

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by C. P. Snow (Author), Stefan Collini (Introduction by)The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This 50th anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A Secon...

Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering - Hardcover

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by Herman Cappelen (Author)Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and how they can be improved. In all parts of philosophy there are philosophers who criticize the concepts we have and propose ways to improve them. Once one notices this about philosophy, it's easy to see that revisionist projects occur in a range of other intellectual disciplines and in ordinary life. That fact gives rise to a cluster of questions: How does t...

Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling - Paperback

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by C. Stephen Evans (Editor), Sylvia Walsh (Editor)In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In pondering these questions, Kierkegaard presents faith as a paradox that cannot be understood by re...