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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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Date: 06/14/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is ...
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Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction
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Date: 05/28/18 02:41 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Is philosophy dead? Some philosophers have declared it to be so, and judging by some of the mental acrobatics now fashionable in postmodernist circles a reasonable person might have to agree. Though recognizing the moribund state ...
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More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Additional Hunches in Bunches
81 days
Date: 04/04/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
More Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Additional Hunches in Bunches by Jacob M. HeldEnglish | April 1st, 2018 | ASIN: B079C6RM8L, ISBN: 1538101335 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 3.21 MB Dr. Seuss and Philosophy delighted thousands of readers by demonstrating the insights of these children's classics through ...
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Reasoning from Faith: Fundamental Theology in Merold Westphal's Philosophy of Religion
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Date: 03/27/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Merold Westphal is considered to be one of the preeminent Continental philosophers of religion. His articulation of faith as the task of a lifetime has become a touchstone in contemporary debates concerning faith's relationship to reason. As Justin Sands explores his philosophy, he illu...
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Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy
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Date: 03/06/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was unquestionably one of the most celebrated and reviled French thinkers of the last thirty years. Outside France, his influence in comparative literature circles, through deconstruction and other ideas, has been so profound that his personal role as a leader of...
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Ethics appears early in the life of a culture. It is not the creation of philosophers. Many philosophers today think that their job is to take the ethics of their society in hand, analyse it into parts, purge the bad ideas, and organize the good into a systematic moral theory. The philosoph...
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Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nation...
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A Philosophy of Intellectual Property (Applied Legal Philosophy)
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Date: 02/20/18 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Are intellectual property rights like other property rights? More and more of the world's knowledge and information is under the control of intellectual property owners. What are the justifications for this? What are the implications for power and for ...
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The Philosophy of Science and Engineering Design
150 days
Date: 01/25/18 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This book discusses the relationship between the philosophy of science and philosophy of engineering, and demonstrates how philosophers of engineering design as well as design researchers can benefit from the conceptual toolkit that the philosophy of science has to offer. In this regard, it...
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The Modern Scholar: Philosophy and the Law: How Judges Reason [Audiobook]
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Date: 01/11/18 02:42 in : E-Books & Audio Books Audio Books
Do judges deduce their decisions from legal rules and principles, or do they decide cases based on what is fair given the facts at hand? The latter view, held by Legal Realists, serves as the starting point for Professor Stephen Mathis's eye-opening look at how judges reason. In this co...
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It's Just a Feeling The Philosophy of Desirism
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Date: 12/23/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Joel Marks, "It's Just a Feeling: The Philosophy of Desirism" 2013 | pages: 107 | ISBN: 1483947610 | EPUB | 0,2 mb Written in an engaging style for the general reader, It's Just a Feeling addresses the fundamental question of ethics: "How shall I live?" The answer it offers is: "In accordan...
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Arrested Development and Philosophy [Audiobook]
184 days
Date: 12/22/17 02:41 in : E-Books & Audio Books Audio Books
A smart philosophical look at the cult hit television show Arrested Development.Arrested Development earned six Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, critical acclaim, and a loyal cult following - and then it was canceled. Fortunately, this book steps into the void left by the show's prema...
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The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for ...
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Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy
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Date: 12/18/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear...
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Towards a Philosophy of Narco Violence in Mexico
193 days
Date: 12/13/17 02:42 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War. It examines questions such as the culture of human sacrifice, the religious principles that sanction egregious violence and most importantly the society's complex response...
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Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
218 days
Date: 11/18/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations-Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River-have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the Uni...
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Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox is an extraordinary foray into what Apple has convinced us is the soundtrack of our lives.How does music come to inhabit us, to possess and haunt us? What does it mean that a piece of music can insert itself-Szendy's term for this, borrowed from German,...
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Judaism as Philosophy Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence
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Date: 10/09/17 02:40 in : E-Books & Audio Books
Howard Kreisel, "Judaism as Philosophy: Studies in Maimonides and the Medieval Jewish Philosophers of Provence" 2015 | ISBN-10: 1618111795 | 500 pages | PDF | 4 MB In this volume, Howard Kreisel revisits some of his most important essays, many of them appearing here in English for the fi...
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Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that Feyerabend spent many years working on a philosophy of nature that was intended to comprise thr...
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Antiochus of Ascalon was one of the seminal philosophers of ...
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Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, ...
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Peirce's Twenty-eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation: Rhetoric, Interpretation and Hexadic Semiosis (Blo
282 days
Date: 09/15/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
The major principles and systems of C. S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a ...
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Russell's Unknown Logicism: A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics
284 days
Date: 09/13/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics , meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner o...
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In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is ...
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The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life
287 days
Date: 09/10/17 02:39 in : E-Books & Audio Books
As important to Chinese civilization as the Bible is to Western culture, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the oldest treasures of world ...
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