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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...

Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār - Hardcover

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by Cyrus Ali Zargar (Author)A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets. Number of Pages: 234 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 01, 2024

Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of ʿaṭṭār - Paperback

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by Cyrus Ali Zargar (Author)A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.Religion of Love explores the life and work of the Persian Sufi poet and sage Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār. ʿAṭṭār changed the face of world literature, leaving his impact on all cultures that have valued Persian Sufi writings. Considered for the first time through the lens of religious studies, ʿAṭṭār's oeuvre offers much to contemporary readers. ʿAṭṭār's poems cast a light on the rel...

The Art of War: The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life - Paperback

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by Sun-Tzu (Author), John Minford (Translator), John Minford (Introduction by)The world's most famous military treatise, in an acclaimed translation by the award-winning translator of the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management strategies. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whethe...

Glossary of Life: A Path to Joy, Balance, and Peace - Hardcover

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by Manny Garcia (Author)Life sometimes appears to be random, cold, and cruel... and in our lowest moments, we experience feelings of loneliness and insignificance. For those taught to truly see, however, the electrifying truth of who we are and what life is really about is both known and experienced. Glossary of Life brings together profound teachings revealed from history's greatest books and most revered sages... but it simplifies, condenses, and retells those teachings in easy-to-understan...

Glossary of Life: A Path to Joy, Balance, and Peace - Paperback

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The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well - Paperback

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by Julian Baggini (Author)Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume's philosophy is grounded in an honest assessment of nature--human nature in particular. The Great Guide is an engaging and eye-opening account of how Hume's thought should serve...

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Martin Hammond (Editor), Martin Hammond (Translator)A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of...

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by Adam Briggle (Author), Carl Mitcham (Author)Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking, cogent argument and informed judgement. In this ...

Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Values and the Will of Life - Hardcover

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by Christopher Janaway (Author)This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will, Christian values, the affirmation or negation of life. Some of the essays concern Schopenhauer in his own right, focusing on his concept of will to life, an underlying drive which constitutes our in...

The Will to Nothingness: An Essay on Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morality - Hardcover

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by Reginster (Author)On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential book but it continues to puzzle, not least in its central claim: the invention of Christian morality is an act of revenge, and it is as such that it should arouse critical suspicion. In The Will to Nothingness, Bernard Reginster makes a fresh attempt at understanding this claim and its significance, inspired by Nietzsche's claim that moralities are 'signs' or 'symptoms' of the affective states of moral agents. T...

Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 - Hardcover

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by Frederick C. Beiser (Author)Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement called Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until 1920. Author Frederick C. Beiser focuses on its most prominent members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel. Lebensphilosophie appeared at a critical movement in Western culture; it was a response to several important cultural developments of the late 19th century: atheism, relativism, historicism and pessimism. The Leben...

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century - Paperback

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by Julia Jorati (Author)Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors--used philosophical ideas to advocate for a...

The Gateway to Prosperity System: From Mediocrity to Power and Beyond - Hardcover

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by Matthew M. Radmanesh (Author)Unlike most business guides, The Gateway to Prosperity System: From Mediocrity to Power and Beyond, the new book by Dr. Matthew M. Radmanesh, has undertaken the task of "breaking the code of any business" using proven fundamental principles that can improve any business' viability and longevity dramatically. Much like Dr. Radmanesh's Gateway to Understanding: Electrons to Waves and Beyond, which sets the foundation for understanding our physical universe, The G...

Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good - Hardcover

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by Marta Jimenez (Author)Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the role of shame in moral development. Despite shame's bad reputation as a potential obstacle to the development of moral autonomy, Jimenez argues that shame is for Aristotle the proto-virtue of those learning to be good, since it is the emotion that equips them with the seeds of virtue. Other emotions such as friendliness, righteous indignation, emulation, hope, and even spiritedness may play im...

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by James Norbury (Author)"Food for the soul."--CBS Mornings A thought-provoking journey of companionship, courage, tenderness, and tea. Big Panda and Tiny Dragon embark on a journey through the seasons of the year together. They get lost, as many of us do. But while lost, they discover many beautiful sights they'd never have found had they gone the right way. Told through a series of beautiful drawings and quiet, sometimes silly, conversations, the panda and the dragon explore the thoughts a...

A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings - Paperback

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by Michael Ruse (Author) Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.8 x 7.7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 20, 2021

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by Epictetus (Author)The Greek philosopher Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 CE in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. While still a slave, Epictetus was brought to Rome and sent by his master Epaphroditus to study under the Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus. Epictetus was eventually freed from slavery, although the exact date is unknown. Afterwards he turned to teaching, and established an influential school of Stoic philosophy. His main concerns were with personal freed...

Rational Polemics: Tackling the Ethical Dilemmas of Life - Paperback

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by Richard Todd Devens (Author)Rational Polemics: Tackling the Ethical Dilemmas of Life There's a whole host of beliefs that most people simply repeat without question. They are chanted so often as to have nearly lost all meaning, and are rarely challenged. Rational Polemics dares to expose the contradictions that are rife in many of these blindly accepted beliefs. The book endeavors to question all things - to expose the folly and hypocrisy of universally held beliefs, including accepted rel...

Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide - Paperback

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by Jonardon Ganeri (Author)Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tradition holds that we are self-illuminating beings casting light onto a world of shadows. And a disquieting set of dissenters has claimed that inwardness is merely an illusion--or, worse, a deceit. Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the worl...

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by Anil Gomes (Author)We are self-conscious creatures thrown into a world which is not of our making. What is the connection between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Descartes and Kant, in different ways and with different emphases, argued that self-conscious subjects such as us must be related to an objective world. Philosophers in the twentieth century were less ambitious: self-conscious subjects must only think or experience the world as objective. The Practica...

O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology - Paperback

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by Matt Hern (Author), Am Johal (Author)Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the sta...

Tantra: La Canci?n de Tilopa Mahamudra - Paperback

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by Dhamma Buddha (Author)Un best-seller de todos los tiempos, que parte del canto sagrado del maestro tibetano Tilopa para explicar en un lenguaje sencillo las percepciones m?sticas ocultas en el Tantra. Un cl?sico que explica el Tantra como m?todo de expansi?n de la conciencia humana. Number of Pages: 242 Dimensions: 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 24, 2024

Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism - Paperback

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by Thomas Nail (Author)Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and global climate change, people are again looking to the father of modern socialism for answers. As this book argues, every era since Marx's death has reinvented him to fit its needs. There is not one Marx forever and fo...

On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays - Paperback

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by Iris Marion Young (Author)Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subjectivity. The essays...

Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds - Hardcover

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by Eva Feder Kittay (Author)Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Ou...

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture - Hardcover

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by Jennifer T. Roberts (Author)A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common ...

The Art of War: The Definitive Translation of the Linyi Text - Paperback

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by Sun-Tzu (Author) The landmark translation, based on the "Linyi text" that predates all previous versions by 1,000 years."There is no doubt that J. H. Huang's new translation of Sun-tzu will be valuable to scholars of military art for many years to come. . . . An important work." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf"The Linyi verion of Sun-tzu provides a fresh new interpretation of Sun-tzu's classic works. As the oldest version yet discovered, it lays strong claim to the closet adherence of Sun...

Peace Freak: An uncompromising true-life account of the paths followed in search of peace... - Paperback

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by Michael L. Maddox (Author)The startling, true story of an earnest seeker, who wholeheartedly explored the hippie and peace movements, the drug culture, Transcendental Meditation, and the unseen, spiritual realm. The author pursued every lead in his quest to discover true inner peace and love. Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9.16 x 6.16 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2003

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity - Paperback

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by Nicklas Brendborg (Author)This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern humans living longer today than ever before, the public's understanding...

A World of Ideas: A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers - Paperback

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by Chris Rohmann (Author)THE THINKERS, THE THOUGHTS, AND THE THEORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. With A World of Ideas, you can get to the bottom of the big bang theory; find out where Freud's ideas were coming from, and where Einstein's might take us; demystify surrealism and structuralism, communism and capitalism. Prepared with the assistance of an academic board of leading scholars, this invaluable reference includes - Hundreds of entries, alphabetically arranged...

The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana: The Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conduct - Paperback

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by Vatsayana (Author), Santha Rama Rau (Foreword by), John W. Spellman (Introduction by)The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature.Written with frankness an...