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The must-read summary of Sam Harris’s book: “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”. This complete summary of “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason” by……続きを見る

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by……続きを見る

The figure of the intellectual looms large in modern history, and yet his or her social place has always been full of ambiguity and ironies. Between Utopia and Dystopia is a study of the movement th……続きを見る

It had been thought that theCleitophon was a spurious dialogue. Its brevity and the fact that Socrates does not respond to accusations from Cleitophon suggested to scholars that it was only a fragme……続きを見る

The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Dead……続きを見る

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy ……続きを見る

Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people. Steven Strong and Evan Strong continue in their investigation into the globa……続きを見る

Gadamer's Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on Gadamer's concept of 'play' as it is developed in his magnum opus Truth and Metho……続きを見る

At the end of the Second World War when the horror of the holocaust became known, Hannah Arendt committed herself to a work of remembrance and reflection. Intellectual integrity demanded that we com……続きを見る

This book concerns the nature of time and ordinary cases of persistence in Spinoza. The author argues for three major interpretive claims. First, that Spinoza is committed to an eternalist theory of……続きを見る

The Individual without Passions: Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond offers an innovative look at an extremely timely and important issueーindividualismーfrom the point of view of a……続きを見る

To become a counselor or psychotherapist, one must learn a confusing and conceptually disconnected array of theories, techniques, and ideologies. For instance, CBT, humanistic, and psychodynamic int……続きを見る

“Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the uniq……続きを見る

What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, soc……続きを見る

Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and ……続きを見る

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; I think, therefore I am), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method (1637 – wr……続きを見る

《論語》是一本以記錄春秋時思想家兼教育家孔子和其弟子及再傳弟子言行為主的匯編，又被简稱为論、語、傳、記，是儒家重要的經典之一。“论”读音为“轮”[1]，从字面上理解，《论语》即为言论的汇编。東漢班固的《漢……続きを見る

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to in……続きを見る

A compilation of quotations and proverbs from the most enlightened, intelligent, and forward thinkers in human history regarding the most important aspects of life.  Compiled and arranged to gi……続きを見る

(a5, 106 páginas) - Ao longo da história, a temática do amor tem sido difundida na cultura dos diferentes povos, em diferentes formas de expressão, sejam elas artísticas, literárias, científicas, mí……続きを見る

Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus’s Vision of Man demonstrates the influence that the philosophical and theological anthropology of Saint Thomas Aquinas had on Nicholas of Cusa’s (Cusanus) view of human ……続きを見る

(a5, 126 p.) - Ser (tudo) o que se pode ser” traduz-se no desenvolvimento da humanização e/ou da autonomia intelectual, estando estas fundamentadas, entre outras coisas, na capacidade do indivíduo d……続きを見る

(A5, 160 P.) - Não teremos aqui a pretensão de elucidar e nem tampouco querer explicar Nietzsche, uma vez que, pensamos que, o mesmo, por tão complexo e hermético que é, não pode ser traduzido. Pens……続きを見る

First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was break……続きを見る

This book represents one particular valid approach to being alive in the twenty first century. Written by a relatively typical human type brain of that time frame, it is informed by the work of many……続きを見る

A lifetime treasure, Revealing the Truth about Human Nature is a compendium of timeless wit and wisdom, bringing us face-to-face with our fundamentally creative, but generally overlooked quality. So……続きを見る

This book addresses, fundamentally, the challenges facing the world. It reveals in the most elemental, and straightforward way, the issue of “not thinking”. As I assisted in typing the work from the……続きを見る

Petrarcas Besteigung des Mont Ventoux, die Schilderung seiner Wanderung auf den Berg am 26. April 1336, gilt mit Recht als einer der wichtigsten Texte der Renaissance. Mit ihm beginnt ein neues Natu……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered, "How can I know what to believe?" You will find an answer to that question here: what it means to be a human being -- in other words, what you and I share in common. If we wi……続きを見る

The celebrated author of Theology of the Body Explained and Theology of the Body for Beginners offers compelling insights into Pope Benedict XVI’s profound teaching on human and divine love. The Lov……続きを見る