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How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship - Hardcover

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by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Philip Freeman (Translator), Philip Freeman (Introduction by)A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, which is one of the greatest ever written on the subject, the famous Roman politician and philosopher...

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by Aristotle (Author), Adam Beresford (Translator)A new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time A Penguin Classic Aristotle's classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Reacting against Plato's absolutism, Aristotle insisted that there are no definitive moral standards and that ethical philosophy must be based on human nature and experience. Treating such topics...

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by Sun-Tzu (Author), Peter Harris (Translator)A new translation of the ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired by military and business strategists--with an introduction that provides sweeping historical context, and notes featuring contemporary commentary on Sun Tzu's wisdom over the centuries. For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has provided leaders with essential tactical and management advice. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchsto...

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Report copyright infringementby Russell Bertrand (Author) 'The Problems of Philosophy' is a 1912 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which he attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. It was Russel's venture to succinctly summarize problems in the subject of philosophy that prompted discussion among philosophers. In addition to espousing his own philosophies, Russel uses this book to introduce the philosophical principles from other famous philoso...

The Painted Porch: The Wisdom of the Ancient Stoa - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lab Maharaj (Author)Title: The Painted PorchThe Wisdom of the Ancient Stoa The ancients Stoics offered us a message of resilience and self control in the face of opposition. The book explores the history and philosophy of Stoics from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius. It offers a glimpse into the traditions of ancient Rome and the virtues of stoicism that is still applicable in modern times. The book is a reflection of the ancient Stoics and their contribution to philoso...

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Report copyright infringementby Johann Gottlieb Fichte (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 i...

Philosophical Writings: Vol. 2A: Studies a la Fichte - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Amrine (Translator), Novalis /Friedrich Von Hardenberg (Author)This first volume of Novalis Studies a la Fichte are not about Fichte, but rather original thought-exercises after Fichte's manner. Thus these studies, not intended for publication, were a kind of propaedeutic. Although not globally rigorous - they do not attempt to offer a single, coherent argument - they are locally highly rigorous. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensio...

Ideas para una historia universal en clave cosmopolita y otros escritos sobre Filosofia de la Historia - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Immanuel Kant (Author)Estudio preliminar de Roberto Rodr guez Aramayo. Traducci n de Concha Rold n Panadero y Roberto Rodr guez Aramayo. Colecci n Cl sicos del Pensamiento. 3a edici n. Se recogen aqu los trabajos fundamentales de Kant sobre Filosof a de la Historia, entre lo que cabe destacar por su relevancia tem tica las Ideas para una historia universal en clave cosmopolita (1784), que presta su t tulo a este volumen. Number of Pages: 86 ...

No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering - Paperback

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by Thich Nhat Hanh (Author)The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from it or cover it up by consuming. We find something to eat or turn on the television. But unless we're able to face our suffering, we can't be present and available to life, and happiness...

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by John Locke (Author)John Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority except by the consent of the people. When rulers became tyrants and act against the common good, then the people have the right of revolution against them. Writing against the backdrop of Charles II's savage purge of the Whig movement, Locke set out to attack the fabric of th...

Cosmología Egipcia: El Universo Animado - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Moustafa Gadalla (Author)Cubre la aplicabilidad de los conceptos cosmológicos egipcias para nuestra comprensión moderna de la naturaleza del universo, la creación, la ciencia y la filosofía.Esta edición examina la aplicabilidad de los conceptos cosmológicos egipcios para nuestra comprensión moderna de la naturaleza del universo, creación, ciencia y filosofía. La cosmología egipcia es humanista, coherente, integral, coherente, lógica, analítica y racional. Descu...

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author)A 19th-century philosopher who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality, Nietzsche has inspired leading figures in all walks of cultural life. This compendium of aphorisms and prose poems marks the advent of his mature philosophy. The Dawn of Day represents an essential guide to understanding his later, better-known works.The clear, calm and intimate style of this aphoristic book seems to invite a p...

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Paperback

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by Elaine Scarry (Author)Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, doc...

Natural Deduction: the Logical Basis of Axiom Systems - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Mueller Anderson (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 impo...

A Philosophy of Man: [essays] - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Schaff (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 enou...

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Report copyright infringementby H. K. (Harold Kinross) 1903-1977 Hunt (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, th...

A Practical Guide To Integral Yoga - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sri Aurobindo and the Mother (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 this w...

Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy Mary 1904- Emmet (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 i...

Mental Acts: Their Content and Their Objects - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby P. T. (Peter Thomas) 1916-2013 Geach (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, tha...

A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard. Throughout His Ordered Masks - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Yibing Zhang (Author), Huiming He (Translator) Number of Pages: 496 Dimensions: 1.11 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 15, 2014

The Subjective Dimension of Marxist Historical Dialectics - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Zhang Yibing (Author), Cem Kizilcec (Editor)Marxian theory of quasi-naturalness and object-enslavement about the phenomena coming forth in a definite historical period of human social development, which is pointed out by this book, is a significant content of the logical subject dimension of historical dialectics in Marxist scientific view of history, but for quite a long time this important scientific and critical discourse of Marx has always been overlooked. ...

Twentieth Century Philosophy; Living Schools of Thought - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Dagobert D. (Dagobert David) Runes (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 ...

A History of the Michael Beem Family. - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nelson Clifford 1895- Beem (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...

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for Its Survival - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Dunt (Author)'A tour de force.' - THE SECRET BARRISTER'Urgent and engaging .' - NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST'A phenomenal history from a truly big mind.' - DAVID SCHNEIDER, WRITER'Required reading for anyone interested in politics and philosophy.' - PROSPECTIn this groundbreaking new book, political journalist Ian Dunt tells the story of liberalism from its birth in the fight against absolute monarchy to the modern-day resistance against the new populism....

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being - Paperback

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by Simone Weil (Author), Ros Schwartz (Translator), Kate Kirkpatrick (Introduction by)French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cultural and spiritual sense, to their environment A Penguin Classic One of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by André Gide as "the patron saint of all outsiders" and by Albert Camus as "the only great spirit of our ti...

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), Peter Baehr (Introduction by)A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting refl...

Modifying Our Genes: Theology, Science and

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by Alexander Massmann (Author)If our bodies could do more things, would our lives be better? Genome editing is a rapidly developing technology that can modify human genes. It can cure heritable diseases, but we could even make certain genetic "improvements" to healthy people. Should we change human embryos genetically to achieve such goals?Bringing together a leading molecular biologist and a Christian ethicist, Modifying Our Genes responds to the need for solid information and helpful orient...

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, Conspicuous Consumption, Fashion and Traditions (Hardcover) - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Thorstein Veblen (Author)Thorstein Veblen's groundbreaking treatise upon the evolution of the affluent classes of society traces the development of conspicuous consumption from the feudal Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. Beginning with the end of the Dark Ages, Veblen examines the evolution of the hierarchical social structures. How they incrementally evolved and influenced the overall picture of human society is discussed. Veblen believed that the h...

A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers - Paperback

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by Helen Schucman (Author)A Course in Miracles is the acclaimed spiritual guide that teaches the way to universal love and peace is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The "miracles" of the title refers to shifts in perception from fear to love, which fosters the healing and sanctification of relationships. Although expressed in terms of traditional Christianity, this life-changing work constitutes nonsectarian, universal spiritual teachings. The three-part approach begins with an exp...

The Little Book of Sanuk: The Thai Secret to a More Joyful Life - Hardcover

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by Karen Sinotok (Author) We all need a little more sanuk in our lives Sanuk is a Thai concept that can loosely be translated as meaning 'fun'. Though sanuk is in fact much more than that; it's about achieving pleasure and joy in all aspects of life. For Thai people, if it's not sanuk, it's not worth doing.Thai people believe that it's the little things that add up to a joyful life. Whether it's raising happy kids, enjoying a quick chat with your neighbour or having a laugh with friends, they...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Price (Author) Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 11 IN Publication Date: May 09, 2024

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice T. Jr. Watson (Author) Number of Pages: 238 Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 09, 2023