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"Balancing acts," writes Adam Phillips, "are entertaining because they are risky, but there are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it." In these exhilarating ……続きを見る

Montaigne - Les Essais Ce livre numérique présente une Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne édités en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différents chapit……続きを見る

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and political – and reactions against humanism have contribu……続きを見る

The Freethought Resource Guide is a first-stop directory to carefully vetted, selected, arranged, recommended, and synopsized references to a wide variety of items that are of the highest quality, ……続きを見る

In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly wo……続きを見る

Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassador……続きを見る

The unified field explanation of history What are we, and how does that affect what we believe and how we act - as individuals and nations? "Why" ties together religion, psychology and politics. Som……続きを見る

From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin……続きを見る

Omar Khayyám (1048–1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime. Later, a body of quatrains became attached to his name, although not ……続きを見る

**A playful, profound book that is not only a testament to one man's efforts to be deemed more human than a computer, but also a rollicking exploration of what it means to be human in the first plac……続きを見る

“Great art discovers for us who we are,” writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories b……続きを見る

From the Preface: Since the 1970s I have pursued three separate but overlapping and sometimes simultaneous careers: (1) philosopher / writer / teacher / historian of the long nineteenth century, 178……続きを見る

Un regard circulaire sur le monde moderne nous interpelle: l'homme n'est-il donc fait que pour répéter ses erreurs? Et si sa capacité à vivre des expériences, à raconter des histoire, pouvait l'aide……続きを見る

The esteemed psychologist and thinker John Dewey headed for previously unexplored philosophical territory with this influential work. Written shortly after World War I, it embodies Dewey's system of……続きを見る

It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood. Usually, globalization is equated with the expansion of econom……続きを見る

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, conte……続きを見る

Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient ……続きを見る

FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manuall……続きを見る

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential……続きを見る

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mi……続きを見る

Any Questions? is a philosophical and inspirational book. It is unorthodox in style, perhaps even unique, though it is similar in content to some classic works like the Meditations of Marcus Aureliu……続きを見る

L’objectif de ce livre est de faire naître chez le lecteur le désir de se mettre en chemin sur la voie de l’éveil ; par la découverte des trois piliers initiatiques du monde occidental, par une prés……続きを見る

About The Humanist Approach to Grief and Grieving The Humanist Approach to Grief and Grieving by Jennifer Hancock is the resource that non-religious individuals experiencing grief need. This book pr……続きを見る

The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to the……続きを見る

While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Solovievs place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approac……続きを見る

Knowledge plays an important role in making a human life happy and peaceful. In the absence of knowledge, the man would spend an unhappy life even if surrounded by all the pleasures of the world. “H……続きを見る

This book is not about the medical, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, statistical, or even theological aspects of suicide. It does not investigate the pathology of why some people kill thems……続きを見る

Eloge de la folie Erasme, humaniste et théologien néerlandais (1469-1536) Traduction par G. Lejeal. Bureaux de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1899. Ce livre numérique présente "Eloge de la folie", de Er……続きを見る

‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The Times What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of ev……続きを見る

The must-read summary of Rodney Stark's book: "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success". This complete summary of "The Victory of Reason" by Rodney St……続きを見る