Author: Belshaw, Christopher Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 10 Good Questions about Life and Death makes us think again about some of the most important issues we ever have to face.Addresses the fundamental questions that many of us ask about life and death.Wr...
Description: 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and pol...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and pol...
Author: Benson, Arthur Christopher Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: There surely may come a time for each of us, if we have lived with any animation or interest, if we have had any constant or even fitful desire to penetrate and grasp the significance of the strange a...
Author: Nadler, Steven Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by th...
Author: Johnston, David Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Brief History of Justice traces the development of the idea of justice from the ancient world until the present day, with special attention to the emergence of the modern idea of social justice. An ...
Author: Row, T. Subba Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These very lectures are conspicuous for the fact of having created between Mr. Subba Row and Madame Blavatsky a difference of opinion regarding the Koshas or principles of which the human being is for...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage ...
Description: The book is considered to be one of the greatest classics in philosophy. It provokes one into thinking about the truths and realities of life. The author has presented his philosophy that all sufferin...
Author: Stock, St. George Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This in...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A topic ignored in mainstream scientific inquiry for decades, wisdom is beginning to return to the place of reverence that it held in ancient schools of intellectual study. A Handbook of Wisdom explor...
Author: Reger, Jim Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a book of thoughts. I've always been intrigued by thoughts. And now, in my mid-sixties, after a few successful careers, watching my kids grow into adults and having celebrated my 40th wedding...
Author: Hall MD., Ralph Arthur Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Believe it or not, everyone has a personal philosophy. To some extent, everyone explores all the things philosophy explores. A life with a positive, uplifting philosophy will bring forth a life worth ...
Author: Chakravartty,Anjan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists ...
Author: Gaut, Berys Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Philosophy of Cinematic Art is a systematic study of cinema as an art form, showing how the medium conditions fundamental features of cinematic artworks. It discusses the status of cinema as an art ...
Author: James, William Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our age is growing philosophical again, 3. Change of tone since 1860, 4. Empiricism and Rationalism defined, 7. The process of Philosophizing: Philosophers choose some part of the world to interpret t...
Author: Wellman,Christopher Heath Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination offers an unapologetic defense of the right to secede. Christopher Heath Wellman argues that any group has a moral right to secede as l...
Author: Slavet, Eliza Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual fou...
Author: Milton, John Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A brilliant discourse by one of the most influential and prominent English poets. Originally published in 1659, it is an excellent example of Milton's powerful rhetoric. He has expressed his views on ...
Author: Hume, David Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Treatise of Human Nature, first published between 1739 and 1740, is a philosophical text by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. The work contains three books: "Of the Understanding", "Of the Passio...
Author: Faber, George Stanley Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format. Thousands of historical titles are now readily available to the public. Because of the original condition of many of these historical ma...
Author: Berkeley, George Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Principles, published when the author was only twenty-six, is the most systematic of all of Berkeley's expositions of his theory of knowledge: it was the direct outgrowth of the Essay Towards a Ne...
Author: Thoreau, Henry Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An extraordinary masterpiece based on a river voyage taken by Thoreau and his older brother from Concord. In his river trip he meditated over history, science, literature, education, philosophy, relig...
Author: N/A Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Race matters in both national and international politics. Starting from this perspective, African American Perspectives on Political Science presents original essays from leading African American poli...
Author: Wall, James Kirk Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ask yourself the big questions, keep an open mind, and learn from some of the greatest thinkers of all time with Agnosticism. Famous martial artist Bruce Lee didn't believe that anyone should be indo...
Author: Hult,Raymond A. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A retired FBI special agent and converted agnostic uses his investigative instincts to probe the most bothersome doctrines of Christianity.
Author: Ferreira, Keith N. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: All of My Violet eGoddesses Are My Wives is a book about philosophy, which the author believes is the key to educating the masses of the world. Keith N. Ferreira is a self-taught Trinidad & Tobago bor...
Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The following work of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has attracted great attention throughout Europe, where it is universally regarded as a sound, philosophical, impartial, and remarkably clear and distinct view o...
Author: Souvestre, Émile Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: No one succeeds in obtaining a prominent place in literature, or in surrounding himself with a faithful and steady circle of admirers drawn from the fickle masses of the public, unless he possesses or...
Author: Foster,John Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every person is utterly unique and irreplaceable. Human differentiation is as staggering as the trillions of stars in the universe. There will never be another person exactly like you.
Author: Locke, John Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" is one of the initial texts regarding Western philosophy. Its contributions to the philosophy of space and time, matter and power have influenced...
Author: Dryden, John Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A superb piece of literary criticism by Dryden written during the Plague of 1666 and first published in 1668. The essay is a discourse between 4 speakers including Dryden himself. They discuss the nec...
Author: Spillane, Robert Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "An Eye for an I: Living Philosophy" by Robert Spillane deals with philosophy and philosophers. Presenting a complex thinking based on the view that "I" is more than just a pronoun, he delves on vario...
Author: Gupta, Bina Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India's philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and...
Author: Gupta, Bina Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India's philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and...
Author: Priest,Graham Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. ...
Author: Russell, Bertrand Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By examining the way we acquire knowledge of the world around us, Russell explores what separates scientific knowledge from our 'seeming' consciousness, and in doing so, significantly advances the dis...
Author: Redding,Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examines the possibilities for the rehabilitation of Hegelian thought within current analytic philosophy. From its inception, the analytic tradition has in general accepted Bertrand Russell's hostile ...
Author: Beerbohm, Max Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct...
Description: It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but o...
Author: Jeffery, Ben Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Michel Houellebecq, author of five novels including Atomised and Platform, has become possibly the world’s most famous literary pessimist. His work declares that life is painful and disappointin...
Author: Wells, H. G. Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought is a 1902 book by author H. G. Wells, the "Father of Science Fiction." It is proposed in this book to p...
Author: Wells, H. G. Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought is a 1902 book by author H. G. Wells, the "Father of Science Fiction." It is proposed in this book to p...
Author: Tansson, H. Alan Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Antidisestablishmentarianitially Speaking rises above the mess we've made of our world, a world at the end of our nose. Page after page, this glorious compendium of essays provides wholehearted laught...
Author: N/A Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The debate over foundationalism, the viewpoint that there exists some secure foundation upon which to build a system of knowledge, appears to have been resolved and the antifoundationalists have at le...
Author: Plato Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This historically renowned oration was presented by Socrates in his own defense after he had been formally accused of corrupting the youth of Athens. It is not an apology in the traditional sense of e...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work we find considerable disagreement over what might s...
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