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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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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 ...

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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...

The Open Society and Its Enemies - Paperback

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by Karl R. Popper (Author)A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right. ...

The Society of the Spectacle - Paperback

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by Guy Debord (Author), Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord...

How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction - Hardcover

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by John Cassian (Author), Jamie Kreiner (Commentaries by), Jamie Kreiner (Translator)How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like one Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of distraction at bay. But rather than surrender to the meandering of their minds, they developed powerful strategi...

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by Alan Watts (Author)In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts ("the perfect guide for a course correction in life" --Deepak Chopra), explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as "one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world," and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift ...

Palestine 1492: A Report Back - Hardcover

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by Linda Quiquivix (Author) Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 0.94 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 03, 2024

Palestine 1492: A Report Back - Paperback

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by Linda Quiquivix (Author) Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 0.79 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 03, 2024

Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 - Paperback

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by Alasdair MacIntyre (Author)Edith Stein lived an unconventional life. Born into a devout Jewish family, she drifted into atheism in her mid teens, took up the study of philosophy, studied with Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, became a pioneer in the women's movement in Germany, a military nurse in World War I, converted from atheism to Catholic Christianity, became a Carmelite nun, was murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942, and canonized by Pope John Paul II.Author BiographyAl...

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings - Hardcover

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by Paul Reps (Compiled by), Nyogen Senzaki (Compiled by)"This book has been a steadfast portal through which millions in the West have peered to catch at the very least a glimpse of Zen mind at play in all its thought-shattering dialogue, humor, joy, and wisdom."--Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are Zen Flesh, Zen Bones offers a remarkable collection of primary sources which enable readers to experience the meaning of Zen directly for themselves. It includes: 101 Zen St...

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Mint Editions (Contribution by)In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche gives an impassioned analysis of Western religion, specifically Christianity, that confronts its authoritative view of humans and nature. Nietzsche introduces a counterargument that dismisses groupthink or herd mentality and emphasizes a person's "will to power." He demystifies past ideas, encouraging a bold alternative. An honest study of different ideologies and their influence on po...

Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader - Paperback

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by Brad Hooker (Author), Elinor Mason (Author), Dale E. Miller (Author)What determines whether an action is right or wrong? Morality, Rules, and Consequences: A Critical Reader explores for students and researchers the relationship between consequentialist theory and moral rules. Most of the chapters focus on rule consequentialism or on the distinction between act and rule versions of consequentialism. Contributors, among them the leading philosophers in the discipline, suggest ways of assess...

The Moral Psychology of Disgust - Paperback

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by Nina Strohminger (Editor), Victor Kumar (Editor)This book provides an introduction to the major findings, challenges and debates regarding disgust as a moral emotion, and brings together scholarship from multiple disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, anthropology and law.Author BiographyNina Strohminger is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Victor Kumar is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bost...

The Moral Psychology of Anger - Paperback

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by Myisha Cherry (Editor), Owen Flanagan (Editor)The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. The collection provides an inclusive view of anger from a variety of philosophical perspectives.Author BiographyMyisha Cherry is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Her other books include UnMuted: Conversations of Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice (2019). Her TEDx...

The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourning - Paperback

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by Alfred Frankowski (Author)This book explores the problematic relationship between reconciliation and the continuance of violence and oppression. Frankowski engages with contemporary issues in philosophy of race, African American philosophy, and critical race theory in connection with German idealism, psychoanalysis, critical theory, phenomenology, and post-structuralism.Author BiographyAlfred Frankowski is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and African and African American...

La Disciplina Marcará Tu Destino / Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control - Paperback

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by Ryan Holiday (Author)«Ryan Holiday ha traído las antiguas enseñanzas del estoicismo a millones de lectores, desde atletas y políticos hasta directores ejecutivos . -Good Morning America Un inspirador tributo al poder y la promesa de la autodisciplina; este es el segundo libro de la serie «Las 4 virtudes estoicas -Ryan Holiday, autor superventas de The New York Times. Para conquistar el mundo, uno debe conquistarse primero a sí mismo: las emociones, las acciones y los pensamientos. Eisenh...