Philosophy

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by James Wilberding (Editor)Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which governs it and binds it together. This suggestion, once so wide-spread, may strike many of us today as strange and antiquated--in fact, there are few other concepts that, on their face, so capture the sheer distance between us and our philosophical inheritance. But the idea of a world soul has held so strong a grip upon philosophers' imaginations for ...

Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers - Hardcover

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by Nancy Sherman (Author)Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries--guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged-elude conventional treatment. Georgetown philosophy professor Nancy Sherman turns her focus to these moral injuries in Afterwar. She argues that psychology and medicine alone are inadequate to help with many of the most painful qu...

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series - Paperback

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by G. I. Gurdjieff (Author)A landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one's daily life With Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to "destroy, mercilessly . . . the beliefs and views about everything existing in the world." This novel beautifully brings to life the visions of humanity for which Gurdjieff has become esteemed. Beelzebub, a man of worldly (and other-worldly) wisdom, shares with his grandson the anecdotes, perso...

Fatal Strategies, New Edition - Paperback

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by Jean Baudrillard (Author), Dominic Pettman (Introduction by)An early work in which Baudrillard became Baudrillard.When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the postmodern world it endeavored to describe. Arguing against the predetermined outcomes of dialectical thought with his renowned...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2: Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Arthur Schopenhauer (Author)Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-K...

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by Baltasar Gracián (Author), Joseph Jacobs (Translator)Back JacketThink with the few and speak with the many, "Friends are a second existence," and "Be able to forget" are among this volume's 300 thought-provoking maxims on politics, professional life, and personal development. Published in 1637, it was an instant success throughout Europe. The Jesuit author's timeless advice, focusing on honesty and kindness, remains ever popular. A perfect browsing book of mental and spiritual refreshment,...

How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible - Hardcover

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by David Hollander (Author)A thought-provoking exploration of how basketball--and the values rooted in the game--can solve today's most pressing issues, from the professor behind the popular New York University course NBA and WNBA superstars, Hall of Fame players, coaches, and leading cultural figures have all dropped by New York University Professor David Hollander's course "How Basketball Can Save the World" course to debate and give insights on how the underlying principles of the game can...

Cicero: Political Philosophy - Paperback

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by Malcolm Schofield (Author)This book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC) is well known as a major player in the turbulent politics of the last three decades of the Roman Republic. But he was a political thinker, too, influential for many centuries in the Western intellectual and cultural tradit...

There Is No Other: The Way to Harmony and Wholeness

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Report copyright infringementby Ram Dass (Author), Parvati Markus (Author), Parvati Markus (Introduction by)An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features newly gathered teachings to abandon the idea there is an "other," bridging differences and cherishing our lives in the world, from beloved spiritual leader Ram Dass.With the world seeming to teeter between democracy and authoritarianism, between humanitarianism and individualism, Ram Dass's teachi...

Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Rossi (Author)"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Aviator and the Showman"[A] strange and captivating account... Rossi excels at exposing the bunk pseudoscience at the heart of eugenicists' mystical fascination with r...

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Report copyright infringementby Hanna Wise Heiting (Author)Hanna Wise Heiting's My Problems With Empathy is a poetic-philosophical dance that burrows deeply into the mind of the moment. Each moment is a universe, a pearl, Hanna Wise Heiting's My Problems With Empathy is a poetic-philosophical dance that burrows deeply into the mind of the moment. Each moment is a universe, a pearl, a microcosm that Heiting explores through the medium of words. Yet, in her hands, words become images, and image...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Lincoln Cook (Author)Keith Lincoln Cook's essay centres on his diagram of the monad: a circular diagram, showing the relationship between external stimuli, the intellect and the emotions. Although everyone should be able to freely respond to the vast amount of external stimuli collected by the senses, many people will block off their responses, collecting the stimuli in the band of intellect and thereby preventing it from reaching the emotions. These peop...

Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices

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Report copyright infringementby Ann E. Kaplan (Editor) Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9.23 x 6.02 IN Publication Date: November 17, 1988

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by Alan Watts (Author)Drawing on ancient and modern sources, "a lucid discussion of Taoism and the Chinese language [that's] profound, reflective, and enlightening." --Boston Globe According to Deepak Chopra, "Watts was a spiritual polymatch, the first and possibly greatest." Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watt...

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by B. F. Skinner (Author)The basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent.Front JacketThe basic book about the controversial philosophy known as behaviorism, written by its leading exponent. Bibliography, index.Author BiographyB.F. SKINNER presented a formulation of operant behavior and a method for its investigation that are basic to the analysis of behavior now practiced in hundreds of laboratories throughout the world. For this work, D...

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Hardcover

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Walter Kaufmann (Translator)Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient...

Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View - Paperback

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by Richard Tarnas (Author)" This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEHere are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Fr...

Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 - Paperback

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by Nick Land (Author), Robin MacKay (Introduction by), Ray Brassier (Introduction by)A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as "rabid nihilism," "mad black deleuzianism," and "cybergothic," developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of "continental philosophy" --a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. Ho...

The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of "things aid" and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's ow...

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by Hannah Arendt (Author)Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt's life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, "Some Questions of Moral Philosophy," in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral "truths" as standards to judge what we are capable of doing and examines anew our ability to...

God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him. - Paperback

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), R. Kevin Hill (Translator), Michael A. Scarpitti (Translator)Grounded in his famous notion that "God is dead," a selection from Nietzsche's most personal book, The Joyous Science Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies. Throughout history, some books have changed th...

The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Peter L. Berger (Author), Thomas Luckmann (Author)Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construction" into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological subdicipline that, since Max Scheler, has been known as the sociology of knowledge.Front JacketThis book reformulates the soc...

Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions (Treatise on Mind and Society) - Paperback

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by Paul Thagard (Author)How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with major social sciences (social psychology, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, and history) and professions (medicine, law, education, engineering, and business). Social change emerges from interacting social and mental mechanisms. Many economists and political scientists assume that individuals make rational choices...

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by Joe Hyams (Author)"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum. Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyams reveals to you how the daily application of Zen principles not only developed his physical expertise but gave him the mental discipline to control his personal problems-self-imag...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between - Paperback

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by Robert Thurman (Author)The most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers The so-called "Tibetan Book of the Dead" has been renowned for centuries as a cornerstone of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western world for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying--an...

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by Lao Tzu (Author), Gia-Fu Feng (Translator), Jane English (Translator)The most accessible and authoritative modern English translation of this esoteric but infinitely practical bestselling book. "No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu's simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many meanings intended." --Alan WattsFor nearly two generations, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English's bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the...

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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...

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others - Paperback

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by Walter Kaufmann (Editor)One of the foremost resources on existentialism from renowned philosopher, poet, and Nietzsche translator Walter Kaufmann--a must-read for philosophers, both armchair and professional. Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann.Author Biograph...

Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life - Hardcover

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works, including "The American Scholar" ("our intellectual Declaration of Independence," as Oliver Wendell Holmes called it), "The Divinity School Address," considered...

AI is much more than Technology: Reflections on Artificial Intelligence - (Thought-Provoking Quotes, Essays & Articles)

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Report copyright infringementby Murat Durmus (Author)In a world where artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, it's easy to focus on the technology and its capabilities. But there's so much more to AI than just machines and algorithms. This book, "AI is Much More Than Technology," explores the philosophical and ethical implications of AI and its impact on society and our humanity. Through a collection of thought-provoking quotes, essays, and articles, you'll be challenged to think deeply...

Steering AI: How can we give artificial intelligence a purpose?

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Report copyright infringementby Maurice N'Diaye (Author)"I fully share Maurice N'Diaye's view that the AI revolution has the potential to be a tremendous accelerator for the common good." Xavier NielAround 300 billion dollars will be invested in AI worldwide in 2025, almost twice as much as in 2023. With such huge investments, how can we not question AI? For what purposes will we use-or not use- this technological revolution? In what areas and for what challenges will it really be able to hel...

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by John Sellars (Author)To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very different and distant time: Stoicism. Today, more than 100,000 people are members of online communities for modern Stoics, and there are annual conferences, meet-ups, and workshops for those aspiring to walk the Stoic path. But what is Stoicism, and what makes it resonate so p...