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The Screwtape Letters

de C. S. Lewis ...

"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis is a thought-provoking and satirical novel that takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, who is a junior tempter. The letters serve as a guide on how to corrupt and lead a human soul away from virtue and towards damnation. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the novel explores the nature of good and ... Leer más

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"The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis is a thought-provoking and satirical novel that takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, who is a junior tempter. The letters serve as a guide on how to corrupt and lead a human soul away from virtue and towards damnation. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the novel explores the nature of good and
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The Practicing Stoic

A Philosophical User's Manual

de Ward Farnsworth ...

“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.”—The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease ... Leer más

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“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read—it’s a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.”—The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease
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The Unnecessary Science

A Critical Analysis of Natural Law Theory

de 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 ... Leer más

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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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The Fear Factor

How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between

de Abigail Marsh ...

In this "compelling scientific detective story," a leading neuroscientist looks for the nature of human kindness in the brains of heroes and psychopaths (Wall Street Journal).At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available to get what she wanted, and, she didn't care about the ... Leer más

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In this "compelling scientific detective story," a leading neuroscientist looks for the nature of human kindness in the brains of heroes and psychopaths (Wall Street Journal).At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in exchange for gifts. She used the tools she had available to get what she wanted, and, she didn't care about the
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Gangstalking and Psychic Possession

Servants Of The Master Builders Of Illusion

de Eliza Parr ...

Gangstalking destroys the lives of millions. Why then is it allowed to exist?As a tool of the elite, using other worldly entities, mind control and technolology, it protects the illusion controlled by the Master Builders and allows the Serpent within everybody's subconscious to control them by concepts and impressions, a necessary device linked to corporate profits.The original instigators of ... Leer más

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Gangstalking destroys the lives of millions. Why then is it allowed to exist?As a tool of the elite, using other worldly entities, mind control and technolology, it protects the illusion controlled by the Master Builders and allows the Serpent within everybody's subconscious to control them by concepts and impressions, a necessary device linked to corporate profits.The original instigators of
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Plato: The Complete Works

de Plato ...

Traducido por Benjamin Jowett ...

Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.Plato's dialogues have been used (and are still used) to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His ... Leer más

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Plato was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was an essential figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition, and he founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.Plato's dialogues have been used (and are still used) to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion and mathematics. His
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Five Lectures on Formal Axiology

de Robert S. Hartman ...

During the final decade or so of his life, Hartman frequently delivered a series of lectures in which he outlined the need for a scientific theory of human values, the theoretical requirements demanded of an effective value theory, and his rationale behind the development of the particular value theory he developed, which he named formal axiology. He named these lectures, collectively, Five ... Leer más

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During the final decade or so of his life, Hartman frequently delivered a series of lectures in which he outlined the need for a scientific theory of human values, the theoretical requirements demanded of an effective value theory, and his rationale behind the development of the particular value theory he developed, which he named formal axiology. He named these lectures, collectively, Five
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The Uses of Pessimism

And the Danger of False Hope

de Roger Scruton ...

Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his ... Leer más

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Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his
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Beyond Good and Evil

de Friedrich Nietzsche ...

At this point in Friedrich Nietzsche's life, as it is reflected on "Beyond Good and Evil", he viewed certain types of philosophy as counterproductive, such as universalism, or the idea that some specific truths could be applied across all ages, to all people, in all societies. Instead, he believed that it depends on the time, situation, and perspective to figure out when personal sacrifice is ... Leer más

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At this point in Friedrich Nietzsche's life, as it is reflected on "Beyond Good and Evil", he viewed certain types of philosophy as counterproductive, such as universalism, or the idea that some specific truths could be applied across all ages, to all people, in all societies. Instead, he believed that it depends on the time, situation, and perspective to figure out when personal sacrifice is
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Living with the Devil

A Meditation on Good and Evil

de Stephen Batchelor ...

Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evilIn the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction of Kafka, and the findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology to examine who we really are, and ... Leer más

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Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evilIn the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction of Kafka, and the findings of modern physics and evolutionary biology to examine who we really are, and
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The Masterworks of Western Philosophy

de Various ...

Series series Civitas Library Classics
These masterworks contain ideas and ideals that have shaped the West and impacted the rest of the world. The very brilliance of the Classical and Western tradition cannot be set apart from its radically innovative methodology. Veering away from all other cultures, which were subsumed in the will of the gods and bound by immemorial custom, the Classical Greek thinkers and their medieval and modern ... Leer más

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These masterworks contain ideas and ideals that have shaped the West and impacted the rest of the world. The very brilliance of the Classical and Western tradition cannot be set apart from its radically innovative methodology. Veering away from all other cultures, which were subsumed in the will of the gods and bound by immemorial custom, the Classical Greek thinkers and their medieval and modern
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Moral Vices and Virtues: An Ethics of Mutual Aid: Character, Cooperation, and the Moral Cost of Hierarchy

de Mason Carter ...

Moral Vices and Virtues: An Ethics of Mutual Aid offers a radical rethinking of ethics grounded in evolutionary biology, cooperation, and anarchist social theory. Drawing on the work of Peter Kropotkin and Murray Bookchin, this book argues that morality does not arise from command, law, or hierarchy, but from mutual aid—the everyday practices through which human beings live together without ... Leer más

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Moral Vices and Virtues: An Ethics of Mutual Aid offers a radical rethinking of ethics grounded in evolutionary biology, cooperation, and anarchist social theory. Drawing on the work of Peter Kropotkin and Murray Bookchin, this book argues that morality does not arise from command, law, or hierarchy, but from mutual aid—the everyday practices through which human beings live together without
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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants

An Introduction to Ethics

de Ruwen Ogien ...

Traducido por Martin Thom ...

Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this ... Leer más

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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as sophisticated as the moral outlook of the world's most gifted philosophers. By drawing on this
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The Songs of Bilitis

de Pierre Louys ...

The Songs of Bilitis Pierre Louys - "First published in Paris in 1894, this purports to be translations of poems by a woman named Bilitis, a contemporary and acquaintance of Sappho. This caused a sensation, not only because finding an intact cache of poems from a completely unknown Greek poet circa 600 B.C. would be a miracle, but because of its open and sensitive exploration of lesbian eroticism. ... Leer más

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The Songs of Bilitis Pierre Louys - "First published in Paris in 1894, this purports to be translations of poems by a woman named Bilitis, a contemporary and acquaintance of Sappho. This caused a sensation, not only because finding an intact cache of poems from a completely unknown Greek poet circa 600 B.C. would be a miracle, but because of its open and sensitive exploration of lesbian eroticism.
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

de Sam Harris ...

Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris ... Leer más

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Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris
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On The Jews & Their Lies

de Martin Luther ...

"In Part XII of Martin Luther’s On the Jews & Their Lies, the Reformer writes, “Some may think that I am saying too much. I am not saying too much, but too little!” I am certain, however, that most modern readers would agree that he has indeed said too much. And Luther’s having said so much is, in part, the reason that this volume is so seldom published. Originally published under the German ... Leer más

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"In Part XII of Martin Luther’s On the Jews & Their Lies, the Reformer writes, “Some may think that I am saying too much. I am not saying too much, but too little!” I am certain, however, that most modern readers would agree that he has indeed said too much. And Luther’s having said so much is, in part, the reason that this volume is so seldom published. Originally published under the German
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What We Owe the Future

de William MacAskill ...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, a renowned philosopher puts forth the case for longtermismThe fate of the world – and the future – is in our hands. Now with a new foreword, What We Owe the Future argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time’s key moral priority. It’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We must ensure that ... Leer más

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In this instant New York Times bestseller, a renowned philosopher puts forth the case for longtermismThe fate of the world – and the future – is in our hands. Now with a new foreword, What We Owe the Future argues for longtermism: that positively influencing the distant future is our time’s key moral priority. It’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert a pandemic. We must ensure that
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The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten

100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

de Julian Baggini ...

In this captivating collection of philosophical puzzles, Julian Baggini serves up a mental feast that will leave you craving more.The perfect gift for lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from ... Leer más

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In this captivating collection of philosophical puzzles, Julian Baggini serves up a mental feast that will leave you craving more.The perfect gift for lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from
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How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed

Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

de Rushworth M. Kidder ...

This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.“A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.”—Jimmy CarterAn essential guide to ethical action updated for our challenging times, How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder offers practical tools for ethical ... Leer más

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This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.“A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.”—Jimmy CarterAn essential guide to ethical action updated for our challenging times, How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder offers practical tools for ethical
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GOD is HERE

Finding God in the Pain of a Broken World

de John W. Nichols ...

FREE Audiobook and Workbook/Journal inside and on GodAndYouAndMe.com/God-Is-Here-Free-StuffOur world can be cruel-we experience a mixture of health and sickness, hope and fear, peace and discord, wealth and poverty, love and hate. In the aftermath of tragedy, people ask, "If God is good and cares for me, why does He allow suffering? Where is justice for evil? Where is healing for my loved ones? ... Leer más

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FREE Audiobook and Workbook/Journal inside and on GodAndYouAndMe.com/God-Is-Here-Free-StuffOur world can be cruel-we experience a mixture of health and sickness, hope and fear, peace and discord, wealth and poverty, love and hate. In the aftermath of tragedy, people ask, "If God is good and cares for me, why does He allow suffering? Where is justice for evil? Where is healing for my loved ones?
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Common Sense

de Thomas Paine ...

Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. Written by famed political theorist Thomas Paine, this pamphlet boldly challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy to rule over the American colonists. By using plain language and a reasoned style, Paine chose ... Leer más

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Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. Written by famed political theorist Thomas Paine, this pamphlet boldly challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy to rule over the American colonists. By using plain language and a reasoned style, Paine chose
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Delighting in God

de AW Tozer, Digital Fire ...

‘Delighting in God’ by AW Tozer, an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor, offers understanding towards your life's purpose by better understanding God. It is the message Tozer intended to be the follow-up to “The Knowledge of the Holy.” He demonstrates how the attributes of God, those things God has revealed about himself, are a way to understand the Christian ... Leer más

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‘Delighting in God’ by AW Tozer, an American Christian pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor, offers understanding towards your life's purpose by better understanding God. It is the message Tozer intended to be the follow-up to “The Knowledge of the Holy.” He demonstrates how the attributes of God, those things God has revealed about himself, are a way to understand the Christian
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The Heart of Man

Its Genius for Good and Evil

de Erich Fromm ...

The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving discusses the nature of evil and humanity's capacity for it.Originally published in 1964, The Heart of Man was influenced by turbulent times. Average Americans were suffering from different forms of evil, including a rise in juvenile delinquency. On a grander scale, the threat of nuclear war loomed over ... Leer más

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The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving discusses the nature of evil and humanity's capacity for it.Originally published in 1964, The Heart of Man was influenced by turbulent times. Average Americans were suffering from different forms of evil, including a rise in juvenile delinquency. On a grander scale, the threat of nuclear war loomed over
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The Road To Armageddon - A Free Spiritual Guide

de Chuck Facas ...

Official transcript from the documentary.The Road to Armageddon examines the universal concept of the Apocalypse on an intensely personal and spiritual level, not as the end of the world but as the end of you: your body, your mind and, if you're not careful, your soul.The film puts the viewer on the front lines of the eternal battle between good and evil, combining academic interviews with ... Leer más

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Official transcript from the documentary.The Road to Armageddon examines the universal concept of the Apocalypse on an intensely personal and spiritual level, not as the end of the world but as the end of you: your body, your mind and, if you're not careful, your soul.The film puts the viewer on the front lines of the eternal battle between good and evil, combining academic interviews with
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