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by Carleton Everett Knox (Author)In this thought-provoking collection of essays, Knox explores what it means to be human in a rapidly changing world. From the ethics of technology to the importance of compassion, The Human Touch offers insights into the challenges and opportunities of the modern age.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 Am...

Critique of Pure Reason, Tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn - Paperback

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by Immanuel Kant (Author)Considered one of the most important works of modern philosophy, Critique of Pure Reason offers a profound exploration of the nature of knowledge and perception. In this English-language translation by JMD Meiklejohn, Immanuel Kant's seminal work is made accessible to a wider audience. Illuminating and challenging, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of philosophy and the nature of human thought.This work has been selected by schola...

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay - Paperback

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by Immanuel Kant (Author), Mary Smith (Author)Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clea...

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Tr. by C.D. Yonge - Hardcover

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by Diogenes (Author)Explore the beliefs, ideas, and philosophical musings of some of the greatest thinkers of ancient Greece with this insightful and engaging volume. Compiled by the legendary philosopher Diogenes, this work offers detailed biographical information as well as in-depth analyses of the key tenets of various schools of thought. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of philosophy or the roots of contemporary thought.This work has been selected by scholars as being cult...

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by Andrew P. Peabody (Author)Marcus Tullius Cicero was one of the most important philosophers of the Roman Republic, known for his writings on ethics, politics, and rhetoric. In this collection of his ethical writings, including 'De Officiis', 'De Senectute', 'De Amicitia', and 'Scipio's Dream', Cicero explores a variety of ethical concepts and their practical applications. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in ancient philosophy or ethics.This work has been selected by scholars a...

Theism and Humanism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914 - Hardcover

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by Arthur James Balfour Earl of Balfour (Created by)In this series of lectures, Balfour seeks to explore the relationship between religion and humanism, arguing that both have their place in modern society. Drawing on philosophy, ethics, and history, he presents an erudite and thought-provoking study of the nature of faith and belief.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 "publi...

Analogy. A Study In Thomistic Metaphysics - Hardcover

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by James F. (James Francis) 1. Anderson (Created by)Dive into the fascinating world of Thomistic metaphysics with this in-depth study of analogy. Drawing on the work of philosopher Thomas Aquinas, James F. Anderson explores the nature of analogy and its role in philosophical and theological inquiry. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of philosophy and the ongoing quest to understand the nature of reality.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally im...

Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter; 1923 - Hardcover

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by Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell Bell (Created by)In this thrilling memoir, Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell Bell recounts his adventures as an elephant hunter in Africa in the early 20th century. From close encounters with elephants and lions to encounters with local tribes, Bell's story is a wild ride through a bygone era of African exploration.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 i...

Fundamental Principles Of The Metaphysic Of Morals - Paperback

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by Immanuel Kant (Author)"The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant, published in 1785. In this work, Kant aims to provide a foundation for moral philosophy by outlining the principles of moral reasoning. Kant argues that morality is not based on human desires or emotions, but on a rational understanding of what is universally good. He believes that moral principles should be based on reason alone, rather than on tradition or religious a...

The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom - Paperback

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by Don Miguel Ruiz (Author)The ancient Toltecs believed that life as we perceive it is a dream.We each live in our own personal dream, and all of our dreams come together to make the Dream of the Planet. Problems arise when we forget that the dream is just a dream and fall victim to believing that we have no control over it.The Mastery of Self takes the Toltec philosophy of the Dream of the Planet and the personal dream and explains how a person can: Wake up Liberate themselves from illusory...

Scanning and Sizing the Universe and Everything in It: Playing Scales - Paperback

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by Harold Toliver (Author)One of the faults in philosophy generally―even the philosophy of science―is ignoring the extended scale of the natural continuum and putting in its place something Anthropomorphic. This book suggests a means of keeping score that puts common situations, places, topography, and even home ground in the context of that continuum, the whole of atomic matter and its history. As shown here, the discrepancy between normal measurements and what actually exists is similar to ...

The Activist's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for a Modern Revolution - Paperback

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by William Martin (Author)" An] inspiration." -- Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review Change and anger are in the air. Looking for answers to today's wrenching challenges, William Martin turns to the Tao Te Ching and finds that while Taoism is known for its quiet, enigmatic wisdom, the Tao can also have the cleansing force of a rushing river. Through his interpretation of this ancient Chinese text, Martin elucidates revolutionary messages condemning power-seeking and greed. He empha...

A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage, and Wisdom in Any Moment - Paperback

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by Spring Washam (Author)With stories from south central LA to the jungles of Peru, A Fierce Heart offers deep and honest reflections on compassion and suffering by one of the country's most powerful mindfulness teachers. Spring Washam is a founder of the East Bay Meditation Center, the most diverse and accessible meditation center in the United States. In A Fierce Heart, she shares her contemporary, unique interpretation of the Buddha's 2,500-year-old teachings that get to the heart of mindf...

How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic - Hardcover

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by Sallust (Author), Josiah Osgood (Commentaries by), Josiah Osgood (Translator)An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its elected government. Backed by corrupt elites and poor, alienated Romans, he fled Rome while his associates plotted to burn the city and murder its leading politicians. ...

Contending for the Truth: A Biblical Look at Thirteen Contentious Doctrines - Hardcover

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by L. J. Anderson (Author)*Contending for the Truth is an example of the practical application of the theory laid out in Theology and Apologetics: An Examination of How and Where They Intersect*"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." - Psalm 119:105Dive into the complex and sometimes dangerous waters of Christian doctrine. Contending for the Truth deals with many of the doctrines that are either highly debated or are commonly held beliefs that do not hold up to scrutiny.In th...

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by Oliver Sacks (Author)"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." --Oliver Sacks No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wr...

Logic, Inductive and Deductive - Paperback

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by William Minto (Author)Logic, Inductive and Deductive, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear. Number of Pages: 250...

Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and Christian Antiquity - Paperback

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by James Miller (Author)'The interpretours of Plato, ' wrote Sir Thomas Elyot in The Governour (1531), 'do think that the wonderful and incomprehensible order of the celestial bodies, I mean sterres and planettes, and their motions harmonicall, gave to them that intensifly and by the deepe serche of raison beholde their coursis, in the sondrye diversities of number and tyme, a forme of imitation of a semblable motion, which they called daunsigne or sltation.' The image of the planets and star...

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by AVI Sion (Author)The Logic of Analogy is a study of the valid logical forms of qualitative and quantitative analogical argument, and the rules pertaining to them. It investigates equally valid conflicting arguments, statistics-based arguments and their utility in science, arguments from precedent used in law-making or law-application, and examines subsumption in analogical terms. Included for purposes of illustration is a large section on Talmudic use of analogical reasoning. Numb...

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by Karl Marx (Author)The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents. This political document explains the material conception of histor...

5 Lessons from Gabriel Marcel - Paperback

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by Oswald Sobrino (Author)Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was a French philosopher prominent in the twentieth century. He is still known as a Christian existentialist although he later rejected that label. His father was a non-practicing Catholic; his mother's family was Jewish. Since his mother died when Marcel was a very young child, his maternal aunt raised him--at some point she converted to a liberal form of Protestantism. From this eclectic background, Marcel himself eventually converted to ...

The Philosophy Of Spinoza Selected From His Chief Works - Paperback

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by Joseph Ratner (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 enough to be preserved, repro...

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by Plato (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 enough to be preserved, reproduced, a...

The Hibbert Lectures, 1888: The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church - Paperback

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by Edwin Hatch (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 enough to be preserved, reprodu...

The History of the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Its Metaphysical and Logical Formulations - Hardcover

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by Wilbur Marshall Urban (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 enough to be preserve...

Ocellus Lucanus: On The Nature Of The Universe. Taurus, The Platonic Philosoher, On The Eternity Of The World. Julius Firmicus Maternus - Paperback

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by Ocellus Lucanus (Author), Taurus Berytius (Author), Julius Firmicus Maternus (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 w...

A Study of the Ethics of Spinoza (Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata) - Hardcover

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by Harold H. 1868-1938 Joachim (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 enough to be pr...

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by William Wallace (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 enough to be preserved, rep...

De L'esprit, Or, Essays On the Mind, and Its Several Faculties - Paperback

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by Helvétius (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 enough to be preserved, reproduce...

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by 1836-1886 Ramakrishna (Author), Abhedânanda Swâmi (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 imp...

Logic, Or, The Art Of Thinking: In Which, Besides The Common, Are Contain'd Many Excellent New Rules, Very Profitable For Directing Of Reason ... - Paperback

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by Arnauld Antoine 1612-1694 (Author), Pierre Nicole (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 imp...

Passages From the Life of a Philosopher - Hardcover

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by Charles Babbage (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 enough to be preserved, rep...