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Madness: A Philosophical Exploration - Paperback

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by Justin Garson (Author)Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as nature intended. In this paradigm, the role of the healer is simply to find the dysfunction and fix it. This remains the dominant perspective in global psychiatry today. In Madness: A Philosophical Exploration, philosophe...

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by Tina Prima Knaps (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2024

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by Tina Prima Knaps (Author) Number of Pages: 198 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 10, 2024

Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) - Paperback

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by Michael Ruse (Author)Over the last decade, "New Atheists" such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have pushed the issue of atheism to the forefront of public discussion. Yet very few of the ensuing debates and discussions have managed to provide a full and objective treatment of the subject. Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know provides a balanced look at the topic, considering atheism historically, philosophically, theologically, sociologically and psychologically. W...

The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle - Paperback

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by Richard H. Popkin (Author)This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of Europea...

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Hardcover

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by Charlie Mackesy (Author)Charlie Mackesy's beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an Academy Award(R) winning animated short film, now available to stream on Apple TV+#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - USA TODAY BESTSELLER"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse is not only a thought-provoking, discussion-worthy story, the book itself is an object of art."- Elizabeth Egan, The New York TimesFrom British illustrator, artist, and ...

Second Treatise on Government - Paperback

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by John Locke (Author)John Locke was one of the greatest Enlightenment thinkers. His contribution to our contemporary understanding of governemnt-via his Social Contract theory-can hardly be underestimated. His insight into human nature underscores the important role of government in providing a balance between personal liberties and ensuring the common good. Alacrity Press is proud to make this work of classic political theory, Second Treatise of Government by John Locke available to modern ...

Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist - Paperback

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by Slavoj Zizek (Author)If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within? Slavoj Zizek has long been a commentator on, and critic of, Christian theology. His preoccupation with Badiou's concept of 'the event' alongside the Pauline thought of the New Testament has led to a decidedly theological turn in his thinking. Drawing on traditions and subjects as broad as Buddhist thought, dialectical materialism, political subjectivity, quantum p...

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by Seneca (Author), Elaine Fantham (Author)Seneca's letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca's personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Stoic philosophers, Seneca here guides Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. He advises his friend on how to do without what is superfluous, whether in terms of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. T...

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by Red Pine (Translator), Lao Tzu (Author)Revised and re-translated, Red Pine's best-selling and authoritative translation of Taoteching is now--vitally--available once again. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9 x 6.3 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2009

Numbers and You: A Numerology Guide for Everyday Living - Paperback

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by Lloyd Strayhorn (Author)Harness the power of numbers Numerology has been around since the sixth century B.C. and has been used throughout the ages to reveal the secrets of personality . . . to determine the numerical vibrations surrounding different aspects of life . . . and to select the key numbers in your life that will lead to happiness and prosperity. If you can count on your fingers, you can use this ancient system to discover: - What is the purpose of your life? - Which day is your...

The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas - Paperback

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by Umberto Eco (Author), Hugh Bredin (Translator)The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classical world, Aquinas transformed or modified these...

Evil: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Luke Russell (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word 'evil'. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures his victims is no...

Perception: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Brian Rogers (Author)Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behavior as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world. In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, as well as desc...

Becoming Well in the Real World - Paperback

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by George Link Spaeth (Author)George Link Spaeth, a leading world expert in the treatment of glaucoma, reflects on a half-century of curing patients suffering from problems of vision and concludes that many of the most pressing problems affecting society today stem from our inability to see and react to daily life in realistic terms. As a result, many of us live in a perpetual state of dysfunction. As the author explains: "Our capacity to destroy has overwhelmed our ability to protect. Our ca...

The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists - Paperback

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by Robin Waterfield (Editor), Robin Waterfield (Translator)Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the world should be comprehensible. But their enterprise was by no means limited to this proto-scientific task. Through, for instance, Heraclitus' enigmatic sayings, the poetry of Parmenides and Empedocles, and Zeno's paradoxes, the Western wor...

The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and Incompleteness - Paperback

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by Hal Prince (Author)The Annotated Gödel offers a guided tour of Kurt Gödel's 1931 article on incompleteness, which demonstrated unexpected limits to the power of many logical systems. Today we call these results Gödel's First and Second Incompleteness Theorems. The book includes the complete article in a new English translation, interleaved with commentary that guides the reader through Gödel's work, step by step.The commentary concentrates on Gödel's exposition. It describes what he is doi...

The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and Incompleteness - Hardcover

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by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (Author), Erik Pema Kunsang (Translator), Marcia Binder Schmidt (Compiled by)Rainbow Painting is saturated with direct, pithy instruction, the very quintessence of the Buddhist Spiritual approach. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche speaks from experience, expressing what he himself has undergone, instructing us in the way we should train in a complete and unmistaken manner. We come to understand that to become enlightened we must experience what was always present within us. The u...

Kriya Yoga: Continuing the Lineage of Enlightenment - Paperback

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by Ryan Kurczak (Author)Meditation routines, Ayurvedic lifestyle recommendations, and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are included in this work to encourage Self-realization and inner tranquility. Skillful meditation, healthy living, and realization of our Eternal Self are the practices of Kriya Yoga, and it is through our own consistent practice of Patanjali's methods that the lineage of enlightenment continues.Ryan Kurczak was initiated and authorized to teach Kriya Yoga by Roy E...

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by Shiv Mathur (Author)This book is about the social ills the society is inflicted with. The social ills are so wide spread and have got deeply entrenched in the psyche of the humans that it does not seem to be curable. The spread or the social decadence is so wide spread that it is nothing less than a pandemic. The society seems to be terminally ill. Irony is that this is not really known to most of us. The mental health issues are well known and the extent of its spread is also getting acce...

The Open Society and Its Enemies - Paperback

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by Karl Popper (Author), Vaclav Havel (Preface by), E. H. Gombrich (Foreword by) 'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.'- Karl Popper, from the PrefaceWritten in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945...

The Sutra of Hui-Neng, Dream Conversations, Kensho: The Heart of Zen, Rational Zen, Zen and the Art of Insight - Paperback

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by Thomas Cleary (Author)Volume Three of Classics of Buddhism and Zen contains translations of works by the key figures of Zen, including the Japanese master Dogen; Chinul, the twelfth-century Korean master; and Hakuin, founder of the Rinzai school. Also included are selections from the Prajnaparamita, or "Perfection of Wisdom" sutras, a key source of the Zen tradition. The volume includes: The Sutra of Hui-neng: Grand Master of Zen Hui-neng was the sixth patriarch of Chinese Zen. His tea...

The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Paperback

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by Anthony Kenny (Author)Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of the great ideas and intellectual systems that shaped modern thought. Kenny introduces us to some of the world's most original and influential thinkers and helps us gain an understanding of their famous works. The great mi...

The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World - Paperback

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by Susan Liautaud (Author), Lisa Sweetingham (Contribution by)The essential guide for ethical decision-making today, The Power of Ethics offers "ethical decision-making not in a nebulous philosophical space, but at the point where the rubber meets the road" (Michael Schur, producer and creator of The Good Place). It's not your imagination: we're living in a time of moral decline. Publicly, we're bombarded with reports of government leaders acting against the welfare of their constituents, com...

A History of Existential Psychology: Introduction to Existential Psychology Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Zolt?n Kőv?ry (Author)The first in a two-part set, this book takes a deep dive into the history and theory of existential psychology.Beginning with a discussion of the "existentialism and psychology problem," the book presents the philosophical and historical roots of existential psychology. It introduces the most important philosophical schools in the development of existentialism and their creators, such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as the literary roots of ex...

What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? - Paperback

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by Gary Kemp (Author)Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of language has been expanded to two chapters and now cover crucial emergent areas of study such as slurs, conceptual engineering, and experimental philosophy.Author BiographyGary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has authored or edited various books and articles in the philosophy of lan...

The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments - Paperback

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by Michael T. Stuart (Editor), Yiftach Fehige (Editor), James Robert Brown (Editor)Thought experiments lie at the very heart of the study of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era. They play an important role in many other subjects including physics, economics, psychology and cognitive science. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an outstanding reference source to this multi-faceted subject.Author BiographyMichael T. Stuart is a fellow of the Centre for Philosophy ...

The Zen Way of Recovery: An Illuminated Path Out of the Darkness of Addiction - Paperback

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by Laura Burges (Author)An accessible, compassionate guide to Buddhist principles and practices that can help support recovery from addictions and addictive behaviors--written by an experienced lay teacher with long-term recovery. For anyone struggling with addiction, Buddhism offers powerful, grounding wisdom and tools to help support recovery. In The Zen Way of Recovery, Laura Burges shares her experience as a dedicated Zen practitioner who came to terms with her own addiction to alcohol an...

The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures - Paperback

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by Oliver O'Donovan (Author)The capstone lectures of esteemed ethicist Oliver O'Donovan What is the future of ethics? Oliver O'Donovan addresses a discipline in crisis in The Disappearance of Ethics. Based on the 2021 Gifford Lectures, this book contends that contemporary ethics has lost its object (good), frontier (time), and agent (person). O'Donovan traces the development of these concepts from Greek philosophy through early Christianity, the Enlightenment, and into the modern era. Eng...

The 36 Deadly Bubishi Points: The Science and Techniques of Pressure Point Fighting - Defend Yourself Against Pressure Point Attacks! - Paperback

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by Rand Cardwell (Author), Patrick McCarthy (Foreword by)Learn how to target the weaknesses of an attacker and effectively exploit them in order to defend yourself! The 36 Deadly Bubishi Points explains the pressure point techniques found in the Bubishi, the ancient "Bible of Karate," and how recognizing them allows you to defend yourself against such attacks. This book closely examines these vital points and the science behind them, and the author fills a gap in general understanding of how...

The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now - Paperback

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by Thich Nhat Hanh (Author)In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh----one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today----reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer life's deepest questions and experience the happiness and freedom we desire. Thich Nhat Hanh presents, for the first tim...