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Fear and Trembling

by Soren Kierkegaard ...

Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century. In FEAR AND TREMBLING, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had ... Read more

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Søren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century. In FEAR AND TREMBLING, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had
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Finite and Infinite Games

by James Carse ...

“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are ... Read more

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“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are
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Moral, Believing Animals

Human Personhood and Culture

by Christian Smith ...

What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings ... Read more

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What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings
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Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

by Immanuel Kant ...

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. ... Read more

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Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.
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How to Think Impossibly

About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

by Jeffrey J. Kripal ...

A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human.From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is ... Read more

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A mind-bending invitation to experience the impossible as fundamentally human.From precognitive dreams and telepathic visions to near-death experiences, UFO encounters, and beyond, so-called impossible phenomena are not supposed to happen. But they do happen—all the time. Jeffrey J. Kripal asserts that the impossible is a function not of reality but of our everchanging assumptions about what is
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Are You an Illusion?

by Mary Midgley ...

Series series Routledge Classics
In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there’s much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today’s science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich variety of our ... Read more

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In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there’s much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells. Exploring the remarkable gap that has opened up between our understanding of our sense of self and today’s science, Midgley argues powerfully and persuasively that the rich variety of our
... Read more
The Unnecessary Science

A Critical Analysis of Natural Law Theory

by Gunther Laird ...

The Unnecessary Science is a necessary contribution to the debate over natural law theory in contemporary moral, metaphysical, and legal contexts. The intellectual foundations of natural law theory were laid by Aristotle, expanded by Thomas Aquinas, and refined by modern proponents such as Edward Feser. It is with all three of these thinkers that Gunther Laird takes issue.This book is a meticulous ... Read more

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The Unnecessary Science is a necessary contribution to the debate over natural law theory in contemporary moral, metaphysical, and legal contexts. The intellectual foundations of natural law theory were laid by Aristotle, expanded by Thomas Aquinas, and refined by modern proponents such as Edward Feser. It is with all three of these thinkers that Gunther Laird takes issue.This book is a meticulous
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Transconsciousness

by Steve Madison ...

Are you one of the few individuals capable of understanding and attaining Transconsciousness? Dante, Hegel and Philip K. Dick were pioneers in this field. Can you join the greats? ... Read more

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Are you one of the few individuals capable of understanding and attaining Transconsciousness? Dante, Hegel and Philip K. Dick were pioneers in this field. Can you join the greats?
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Schopenhauer

A Very Short Introduction

by Christopher Janaway ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will - a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind ... Read more

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Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will - a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind
... Read more
The New Mechanical Philosophy

by Stuart Glennan ...

The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science--one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing on an expanding literature on mechanisms in physical, life, and social sciences, Stuart Glennan offers an account of the nature of ... Read more

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The New Mechanical Philosophy argues for a new image of nature and of science--one that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, and that casts the work of science as an effort to discover and understand those mechanisms. Drawing on an expanding literature on mechanisms in physical, life, and social sciences, Stuart Glennan offers an account of the nature of
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Stories of an alchemist

The extraordinary childhood years of the founder of Damanhur in 33 tales

by Oberto Airaudi ...

These stories are evidently, all together, a Book of Alchemy that I hope is also a bit amusing: a new way to teach, perhaps, in life. In the manifestation of natural powers, in the excesses during their use during the formation and growth of everyone, many forces, subtle and not, show up suddenly and equally quickly disappear, in order to be replaced by other experiences still. The extraordinary ... Read more

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These stories are evidently, all together, a Book of Alchemy that I hope is also a bit amusing: a new way to teach, perhaps, in life. In the manifestation of natural powers, in the excesses during their use during the formation and growth of everyone, many forces, subtle and not, show up suddenly and equally quickly disappear, in order to be replaced by other experiences still. The extraordinary
... Read more
The Secret History of the Universe

How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World

by Mark Booth ...

“Mythology and ancient esoteric beliefs are finally found in cutting-edge science.”—Rick Rubin, bestselling author of The Creative ActFrom the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Includes beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.Human beings have a deep-rooted ... Read more

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“Mythology and ancient esoteric beliefs are finally found in cutting-edge science.”—Rick Rubin, bestselling author of The Creative ActFrom the author of the global bestseller The Secret History of the World comes an epic new history of the relationship between spiritual belief and cutting-edge science. Includes beautiful black-and-white illustrations throughout.Human beings have a deep-rooted
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Irreducible

Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature

by Federico Faggin ...

Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of ... Read more

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Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of
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Religious Atheism

Twelve Philosophical Apostles

by Erik Meganck ...

Series series SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Lyotard, Derrida. Why were these twelve so-called atheist heavyweights unable to wipe God off the table once and for all? Perhaps they did not intend to. Perhaps their atheism was directed at something other than God and religion. In ... Read more

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Calls into question the traditional polarity of theism and atheism.Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Lyotard, Derrida. Why were these twelve so-called atheist heavyweights unable to wipe God off the table once and for all? Perhaps they did not intend to. Perhaps their atheism was directed at something other than God and religion. In
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Life, Death, and Meaning

Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W.D Joske, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Kaufman, John Leslie, Michaelis Michael, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, George Pitcher, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, David Schmidtz, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Richard Taylor, Bruce N. Waller, Bernard Williams, Christine Overall, Peter Caldwell, James Lenman, Steven Luper ...

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a ... Read more

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Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a
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Dreamtimes and Thoughtforms

Cosmogenesis from the Big Bang to Octopus and Crow Intelligence to UFOs

by Richard Grossinger ...

• Examines animal intelligences within a greater evolutionary context, detailing in particular the remarkable intelligence of crows and octopuses• Looks at the Australian Aborigine Dreamtime as an attempt to understand the combined geological and geomantic landscape• Investigates a range of ideas as they relate to the intersections of consciousness and reality, including reincarnation, past-life ... Read more

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• Examines animal intelligences within a greater evolutionary context, detailing in particular the remarkable intelligence of crows and octopuses• Looks at the Australian Aborigine Dreamtime as an attempt to understand the combined geological and geomantic landscape• Investigates a range of ideas as they relate to the intersections of consciousness and reality, including reincarnation, past-life
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The Queen Returns: Blueprint for a New Earth

by Akasha Rose ...

What if the future of humanity is not waiting to be invented—but remembered?For years, Akasha Rose carried a vivid vision of cities two or three centuries in the future: luminous communities surrounded by living fields of coherence, with crystalline waterways, food forests, beautiful technologies and no separation between body, Earth and spirit.Then a trail began to reveal itself.Through dreams, ... Read more

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What if the future of humanity is not waiting to be invented—but remembered?For years, Akasha Rose carried a vivid vision of cities two or three centuries in the future: luminous communities surrounded by living fields of coherence, with crystalline waterways, food forests, beautiful technologies and no separation between body, Earth and spirit.Then a trail began to reveal itself.Through dreams,
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The Infinite Book

A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

by John D. Barrow ...

For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen ... Read more

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For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen
... Read more
The Quest of Rose: The Cosmic Keys of Our Future Becoming

Future Humans Trilogy, #1

by Anneloes Smitsman, Jean Houston ...

Series Book 1 - Future Humans Trilogy
The Quest of Rose is a Winner of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the category of Personal Growth, and the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman, Ph.D. and Jean Houston, Ph.D. Written as an allegory, The Quest of Rose guides you through an experiential transformation journey that weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what's happening in... ... Read more

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The Quest of Rose is a Winner of the 2022 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the category of Personal Growth, and the first book of the Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman, Ph.D. and Jean Houston, Ph.D. Written as an allegory, The Quest of Rose guides you through an experiential transformation journey that weaves together real-life events that are at the forefront of what's happening in...
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Return of the Avatars: The Cosmic Architect Tools of Our Future Becoming

Future Humans Trilogy, #2

by Anneloes Smitsman, Jean Houston ...

Series Book 2 - Future Humans Trilogy
Return of the Avatars is a Gold Winner of the prestigious 2023 Nautilus Book Awards for books that invite imaginative storytelling that evolve human capacities and visionary positive futures. It is the second book of the Future Humans Trilogy by Dr. Anneloes Smitsman and Dr. Jean Houston, leading pioneers in the fields of human development, consciousness research, and systems sciences. Join the ... Read more

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Return of the Avatars is a Gold Winner of the prestigious 2023 Nautilus Book Awards for books that invite imaginative storytelling that evolve human capacities and visionary positive futures. It is the second book of the Future Humans Trilogy by Dr. Anneloes Smitsman and Dr. Jean Houston, leading pioneers in the fields of human development, consciousness research, and systems sciences. Join the
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The Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant ...

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential philosophy books of all times. Kant's influence on modern perception of reason cannot be over estimated. Here Kant redefines reason and gives us the tools to understand reason on two levels: the empirical and the metaphysical. ... Read more

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The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential philosophy books of all times. Kant's influence on modern perception of reason cannot be over estimated. Here Kant redefines reason and gives us the tools to understand reason on two levels: the empirical and the metaphysical.
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The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics

Making Sense of Things

by A. W. Moore ...

Series series The Evolution of Modern Philosophy
This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in ... Read more

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This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in
... Read more
Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism

by Joseph Carew ...

This book is an original investigation into Slavoj Žižek's return to German Idealism in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As is well known, Žižek creates productive friction between these traditions by isolating their mutually compatible notions of the death drive, paving the way for Žižek's highly original model of the subject. Joseph Carew systematizes the stark metaphysical consequences of ... Read more

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This book is an original investigation into Slavoj Žižek's return to German Idealism in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis. As is well known, Žižek creates productive friction between these traditions by isolating their mutually compatible notions of the death drive, paving the way for Žižek's highly original model of the subject. Joseph Carew systematizes the stark metaphysical consequences of
... Read more
Neofinalism

Translated by Alyosha Ruyer ...

by Raymond Ruyer ...

Series series Posthumanities
Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post–World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer’s magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science ... Read more

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Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post–World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer’s magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science
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