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The final published book by Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941), La pensée et le mouvant (translated here as The Creative Mind), is a masterly autobiography of his philosophical method. Through essays and lectures written between 1903 and 1923, Bergson retraces how and why he became a philosopher, and crafts a fascinating critique of philosophy itself. Until it leaves its false paths, he demonstrates, philosophy will...
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Blending together the most cutting-edge research and stories from habitats all over the world, a molecular biologist explores what nature has to teach us about aging, revealing life spans we cannot imagine and physiological gifts that feel closer to magic than reality
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First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" has since been referred to as one of the most significant books in the history of philosophy. Hume, a Scottish philosopher, claimed that he was attempting to discuss moral issues with a methodical reasoning, and proceeded to do so in this foundational text. Divided into three large sections, Hume begins his work with a discussion of human understanding,...
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In 1781, Immanuel Kant published his first and most famous work, the "Critique of Pure Reason". To the German philosopher's dismay, the work was at first poorly received and largely misunderstood by his readers. As a result, two years later Kant produced his "Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics that will be Able to Present Itself as a Science" to serve as an introduction to the "Critique". He restated the main ideas of his philosophy in what Schopenhauer,...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "The motive which inspires Aristotle throughout the Metaphysics is the wish to acquire that form of knowledge which is most worthy of the name of wisdom." - W. D. Ross
Many of the great and perennial problems in philosophy are to be found in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Aristotle thought that wonder at the world around us, and at the "world beyond physics" was the beginning...
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The objective for the 21st century philosophy "consieosophy" is to awaken the thinking mind of society and the world. The human race is now living on the dawn of a new age of intelligence which is replacing the need for human intelligence. Consieosophy will be humanity's only hope for the restoring of human intellect and every property that it consist of.
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Acompáñenos a un viaje fabuloso con Edgar Cayce, quien fuera el psíquico más famoso del mundo. Remóntese a un pasado hace mucho tiempo en el olvido, preservado en los registros akásicos. Siga los fascinantes pasos de su propia alma en evolución. Descubra de dónde vino y a dónde irá y por qué está hoy en la tierra. Desplácese a lo largo del proceso espiritual de la creación hasta el puro principio del tiempo de los hombres. Visite los...
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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...
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An original metaphysical proposal building on classical and contemporary sources.
In Centering and Extending, Steven G. Smith retrieves and refashions some of the best ideas of classical and early modern metaphysics to support insight into the natures of mental and material beings and their relations. Avoiding what he critiques as distortive paths of idealism, materialism, repressive monism, and overly permissive pluralism, Smith builds his framework...
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'Richard Rorty: una alternativa a la metafísica occidental' de José Antonio García-Lorente es principalmente una reconstrucción atenta y cuidadosa de la filosofía de Richard Rorty y, en particular, de su crítica a la verdad y a la metafísica. Pero la intención del libro no es sólo histórica, o sea, expositiva, sino filosófica, es decir, crítica. Se trata de una crítica que definiría de tipo clásico, porque según la costumbre de la...
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Your Numbers Your Journey will inspire you to create new things in your life. It cleverly shows you how to reveal your destiny and master your emotions to become a more balanced person. It will guide you to become a problem solver and critically think your way to ascension. As Socrates said to "Know Thyself", this book takes you along an eye opening journey of how the celestial bodies and numbers are built into your DNA, the Universe and everything...
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One of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exercised enormous influence on the philosophy of Herder, Feuerbach, and Hegel as well as on the writings of Schiller and Goethe. Two of Leibniz's most studied and often quoted works appear in this volume: Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology. Published in 1686, the Discourse on Metaphysics consists of Leibniz's expansion of a letter to his theologian friend...
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This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities.
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Publicado en 1877 por Julius Bahnsen, uno de los principales representantes de la escuela pesimista alemana del siglo XIX," Lo trágico como ley del mundo y el humor como forma estética de lo metafísico" manifiesta el original modo de filosofar de Bahnsen, expuesto en su peculiar estilo literario, caracterizado por una amarga ironía y un corrosivo humorismo. En él presenta "in nuce" su estética, y los rasgos fundamentales de su «pesimismo de...
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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...
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A timely and long-overdue work that in one convenient volume collects and analyzes the Edgar Cayce readings related to the cosmos, in the light of both modern astronomical and cosmological knowledge and the most recent discoveries in these fascinating fields. Complete with some of the latest and most spectacular images in full color from the Hubble Space Telescope superb 'Heritage' collection, this intriguing book will show that Edgar Cayce, the 'sleeping...
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The Path To An Illuminated Awakening is a guide book for the aspiring Jiva or incarnated being who is searching for meaning in life and an understanding of how to achieve integration with the Paramatma or Spirit. Based on Teachings gleaned from his previous book "Perceptions of Truth, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", Raj Agni re-contextualizes, reframes and reorganizes this ancient insight into a pathway for the western disciple, providing understanding...
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