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The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover - Paperback

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by Eric J. Silverman (Author)The Prudence of Love focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues related to love. Eric Silverman defends an account of love derived from the views of Thomas Aquinas and argues that love provides numerous psychological and relational benefits that increase the lover's happiness. Furthermore, he argues that love is beneficial according to all major contemporary accounts of happiness.Author BiographyEric J. Silverman is assis...

Max Stirner's Dialectical Egoism: A New Interpretation - Paperback

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by John F. Welsh (Author)This book interprets Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own as a critique of modernity and traces the basic elements of his dialectical egoism through the writings of Benjamin Tucker, James L. Walker, and Dora Marsden. Stirner's concept of 'ownness' is the basis of his critique of the dispossession and homogenization of individuals in modernity and is an important contribution to the research literature on libertarianism, dialectics, and post-modernism.Author BiographyJohn...

Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed - Paperback

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by Marlene Podritske (Editor), Peter Schwartz (Editor)Objectively Speaking: Ayn Rand Interviewed provides sharp insights on a vast range of cultural issues that are totally unique and original, yet instantly recognizable as Ayn Rand. The collection is philosophical and intellectual, yet accessible to the general public.Author BiographyMarlene Podritske is a freelance editor, writer, and designer. Peter Schwartz is author of The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America and ed...

The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx - Paperback

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by Raya Dunayevskaya (Author), Peter Hudis (Editor), Kevin B. Anderson (Editor)Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed. This extensive collection of writings on Hegel, Marx, and dialectics captures Dunayevskaya's central dictum that, contrary to the established views of H...

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Karl Marx (Author)In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx explains how under capitalism people rely on labor to live. In the past people could rely on Nature itself for their natural needs; in modern society if one wants to eat one must work: it is only through money that one may survive. Thus man becomes a slave to his wages. It is only through his work that he can find enough money to continue to live; but he doesn't simply live he actually o...

Obras Completas De Marco Tulio Cicerón ... - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author), Marcelino Menéndez Y Pelayo (Created by)Una colección completa de las obras del gran orador y filósofo romano, Marco Tulio Cicerón. Sus discursos y tratados abarcan desde la retórica y la política hasta la filosofía y la moral. Una obra esencial para cualquier persona interesada en la historia y la filosofía romana.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civiliza...

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Report copyright infringementby John Kevin Crowley (Author)The Final KeystoneBy: John Kevin CrowleyEvery case in the history of Jurisprudence involves three things: Trust, Betrayal, and Accountability. Through his education, studies, and observations and experiences, author John Kevin Crowley has learned the interconnection of history, law, philosophy, and religion with the human condition. How that relationship has played out in human history leading to present day is a focus of The Final Ke...

Tratado sobre los principios del conocimiento humano - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Julieta M. Steyr (Editor), Crotoxina Ediciones (Editor), George Berkeley (Author)En su obra m s importante, Berkeley se aplica a estudiar a fondo todos los sentidos humanos y a refutar a su colega empirista, John Locke. Entretanto, se ver n a trav s de sus p ginas diversas facetas sobre la filosof a propia de su autor, todo ello en una poca en la que los pensamientos de los fil sofos griegos iba quedando relegada ante el continuo avance del conocimiento cient ...

The Problems of Philosophy (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Bertrand Russell (Author)In The Problems of Philosophy early twentieth century philosopher Bertrand Russell, creates a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Russell guides the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, Ren? Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and others to lay the foundation for philosophical in...

Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter - A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition - Paperback

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by Peter Singer (Author)Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Eth...

Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts (Achieving Power by Understanding the Inner Workings of the Mind) - Hardcover

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by Kazumi Tabata (Author), Kaiichi Hasumi (Foreword by)Learn to harness your spiritual and mental energy to acquire the tools for survival and success in martial arts. In Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts, Kazumi Tabata, Grandmaster in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of Karate, offers his personal teachings as to how martial arts students can reach the point where time seems to slow down, quick movements are seen in slow motion, and the full potential of one's inner power ca...

First Awakening - A Spiritual Memoir - Paperback

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by John Roger Barrie (Author)In this true story, a teen overturns his car on Sunset Boulevard in front of a statue of Jesus. Three months later, his life is forever changed. One young man's mystical journey in the autumn of 1974 turned his world upside down. In this riveting narrative, John Roger Barrie recounts a ninety-day transformational spiritual experience. His fascinating quest, filled with inner discoveries, insights, and revelations, unfolds as he searches for his soul. Fifty years a...

Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life - Hardcover

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by Vitaliy Katsenelson (Author)Soul in the Game is a book of inspiring stories and hard-won lessons on how to live a meaningful life, crafted by investor and writer Vitaliy Katsenelson. Drawing from the lives of classical composers, ancient Stoics, and contemporary thinkers, Katsenelson weaves together a tapestry of practical wisdom that has helped him overcome his greatest challenges: in work, family, identity, health--and in dealing with success, failure, and more. Part autobiography, part ...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience - Paperback

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by John Bickle (Editor)The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience is a state-of-the-art collection of interdisciplinary research spanning philosophy (of science, mind, and ethics) and current neuroscience. Containing chapters written by some of the most prominent philosophers working in this area, and in some cases co-authored with neuroscientists, this volume reflects both the breadth and depth of current work in this exciting field. Topics include the nature of explanation in neuros...

The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology - Paperback

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by Jerry L. Walls (Editor)Eschatology is the study of the last things: death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world. Through centuries of Christian thoughtfrom the early Church fathers through the Middle Ages and the Reformationthese issues were of the utmost importance. In other religions, too, eschatological concerns were central. After the Enlightenment, though, many religious thinkers began to downplay the importance of eschatology which, in light of rationalism, came to be se...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology: Second Edition - Paperback

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by Leonie Huddy (Editor), David O. Sears (Editor), Jack S. Levy (Editor)Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and make foreign policy decisions. The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology gathers together a distinguished group of scholars from around the world to shed l...

The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas - Paperback

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by Brian Davies (Editor), Eleonore Stump (Editor)Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from a few pages to a few volumes. The present book is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and works. The next section c...

Morality and Epistemic Judgement: The Argument from Analogy - Hardcover

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by Christopher Cowie (Author)Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist, so they are all false. This is the moral error theory, a deeply troubling yet plausible view that is now one of the canonical positions in moral philosophy. The most compelling argument against it is the argument from analogy. According to this, the moral error theory should be rejected because it would seriously compromise our practice of making epistemic judgments-judgments about how we ought to ...

The Architectonic of Reason: Purposiveness and Systematic Unity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Hardcover

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by Lea Ypi (Author)The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together these questions converge on a fourth one, which is at the centre of philosophy as a whole: what is the human being? Lea Ypi suggests that the answer to this question is tied to a particular account of the unity of reason - one that stresses its purposive character. By focusing on...

Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology 1: Introducing Credences - Paperback

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by Michael G. Titelbaum (Author)Bayesian ideas have recently been applied across such diverse fields as philosophy, statistics, economics, psychology, artificial intelligence, and legal theory. Fundamentals of Bayesian Epistemology examines epistemologists' use of Bayesian probability mathematics to represent degrees of belief. Michael G. Titelbaum provides an accessible introduction to the key concepts and principles of the Bayesian formalism, enabling the reader both to follow epistemologic...

Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age - Paperback

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by A. C. Grayling (Author)"Magnanimity is in short supply," writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, "but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes the world a better place" And indeed Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age is itself a generous, insightful, wide-ranging, magnanimous inquiry into the philosophical and ethical questions that bear most strongly on the human condition. Containing nearly fifty linked commentaries on topics ranging from lov...

Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life - Paperback

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by Robert C. Solomon (Author), Fernando Flores (Joint Author)In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? And, most importantly, how can it be regained once it has been broken?Author BiographyRobert C. Solomon is the Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. His books inclu...

Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter - Hardcover

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by Anthony Rudd (Author)This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true and good, and may take us away from them. Rudd tries to show that this Platonic Challenge can be answered in its own terms: that painting is good because it does lead us to truth. What paintings can give us is ...

What Does It All Mean: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nagel (Author)In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems--knowledge of the world beyond our minds, knowledge of other minds, the mind-body problem, free will, the b...

Belief, Inference, and the Self-Conscious Mind - Hardcover

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by Eric Marcus (Author)It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation between one person's beliefs. Here, Eric Marcus argues that the unity of the rational mind--what makes it one mind--is what explains why, given what we already believe, we can't believe certain things and must believe c...

Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Catherine Wilson (Author)Kant's philosophy is usually treated according to 'internalist' textual methodology rather than contextually according to 'externalist' methodology. Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy presents transcendental idealism, the metaphysics of morals, and other Kantian innovations in philosophy as a reaction to 18th century developments in the life and human sciences. It interprets Kant's metaphysics as motivated by, on one hand, anxiety over the mo...

Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and Its Moral Metaphysics - Hardcover

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by Hallie Liberto (Author)This book is about permissive consent--the moral tool we use to give another person permission to do what would otherwise be forbidden. For instance, consent to enter my home gives you permission to do what would otherwise be trespass. This transformation is the very thing that philosophers identify as consent--which is why we call it a normative power. It is something individuals can do, by choice, to change the moral or legal world. But what human acts or attitudes...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science - Paperback

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by Paul Humphreys (Editor)This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general philosophy of science. Section II covers what are considered to be the...

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by Alex Broadbent (Author)Philosophy of Medicine asks two central questions about medicine: what is it, and what should we think of it? Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful. This book locates these developments within a larger framework, suggesting that much philosophical thinking about medicine contributes to answering one or bo...

Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't - Paperback

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by William B. Irvine (Author)Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others?In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships, and the science behind them. He examines not just memorable zingers, such as Eliza...

Anscombe's Intention: A Guide - Paperback

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by John Schwenkler (Author)Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of actions like the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devoutly Catholic Anscombe thought that these actions made Truman a murderer, and thus unworthy of the university's honor-but that this verdict depended on an und...

A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind - Paperback

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by Roy Sorensen (Author)Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. W...