"Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the line, the smallest imaginable objects in nature? Can the universe be divided into infinitely smaller units in the same way the universe is ever-expanding? Alan Lightman explores these questions in his characteristic accessible and lyrical prose, considering the igniting element behind consciousness, the origin of life, the anatomy...

Since its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger's provocative book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger's own development after Being and Time. This fifth, enlarged edition includes marginal notations made by Heidegger in his personal copy of the book and four new appendices-Heidegger's postpublication notes...

In his preface to Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche says this: "With [Thus Spoke Zarathustra] I have given mankind the greatest present that has ever been made to it so far. This book, with a voice bridging centuries, is not only the highest book there is, the book that is truly characterized by the air of the heights-the whole fact of man lies beneath it at a tremendous distance-it is also the deepest, born out of the innermost wealth of truth, an inexhaustible...

Addendum: Unorthodox, Ontological Analogy Concerning Existence and Reality, is meant as an introduction to metaphysics; a word coined my Aristotle to express a reality other than the physical. We begin with a focus on consciousness, followed by an emphasis on ancient Greek wisdom. At times we will wander in rivulets to other topics along the way. The scope of this treatises is, as said and introduction to the ancient metaphysical wisdoms, but also...

Metaphysics for Health and Success in Life isa handbook of Metaphysical techniques toimprove the quality of your life.The historic psychic knowledge is updated into simpleeasy to understand terms. Also included arebackground scientific theories showing how mysticalmethods are based in science. This book is a trueblending of Metaphysical and Scientific thought. Themysticism of future prediction, healing and using thesubtle energies about us have been...

Esta introducción al Nuevo Pensamiento de Franz Rosenzweig parte del análisis de su obra principal: La Estrella de la Redención, con el fin de animar al lector a sumergirse en este nuevo horizonte filosófico. Lejos de quedar reducida a los márgenes académicos, la filosofía se presenta aquí como una tarea, como una responsabilidad que cada individuo puede e incluso debe asumir. La actitud filosófica nos permite orientar nuestra mirada de forma...

Part 1, Human Experience, examines the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth. Part 2, The Arts in Culture, reverently explores the role of the Beautiful in human culture, with sections...

El filósofo griego Aristóteles es considerado, al igual que Platón (de quien fue discípulo), pionero y padre de la filosofía occidental. Por lo sistemático de sus estudios, el rigor con el que los llevaba a cabo y la diversidad de los campos que abarcó, se considera también uno de los primeros investigadores científicos dentro del concepto moderno del término. Puede afirmarse que sus ideas han influenciado el pensamiento intelectual en occidente...

According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon of vagueness, and the relation between metaphysics and ordinary language.