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Osho, one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of our time, presents The Sutra of 42 Chapters—a scripture compiled in the first century C.E by a Chinese emperor. Two thousand five hundred years have passed since Buddha delivered the sutras on which this series is based.

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.

It is time for us to learn a new way of thinking. The 21st century presents complex problems that require a wiser way of reasoning, one that recognises our current limitations, tolerates ambiguity and uncertainty, balances multiple perspectives, and bridges diverse areas of expertise. Whatever our age and experience, whether a NASA scientist or a school student, we will benefit from wielding our minds with insight, precision, social sensitivity and humility.ntial.   

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that...

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Nancy Kline describes how we can achieve this and presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings, solve business problems, create bold strategies, or build stronger relationships, this book offers you a new world of possibilities.

Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between 1931 and 1950. Written with a clear voice and a thoughtful perspective on the effects of science, economics, and politics in daily life, Einstein’s writings provide an intriguing view inside the mind of a genius addressing the philosophical challenges of the Depression, the Second World War, and more.

Brought to you by Penguin. We all feel it: something is seriously wrong. Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power. The heedless exploitation...

Many years before the current surge of interest in the Law of Attraction, author Prentice Mulford wrote what we talk about and think about is what we attract to ourselves in our lives. Prentice Mulford was instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy New Thought, along with other notable writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mulford's book, Thoughts are Things, served as a guide to this new belief system and is still popular today. He explained how, for example, people who talk about suffering eventually bring suffering to themselves in some form.

One of the greatest self-improvement books ever written and now available here in audio format. For anyone who wants an enriched life and an existence with meaning this is a must listen manuscript. Allen’s teachings make absolute sense: ‘A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts’.

ا الحقيقة؟ هل انتهى التاريخ؟

هل تفكر فيما أفكر فيه؟

هذه ليست سوى بعض الأسئلة التي يسعى آلان ستيفن إلى حلها

في هذه المقدمة الممتعة والخالية من التعقيدات عن الفلسفة.

من خال استكشاف الأفكار الفلسفية الرئيسية، سيساعدك هذا

الكتاب الإرشادي على:

• التعرف على المفاهيم الأساسية للفلسفة وأصولها

• اكتشاف كيف تطورت هذه المفاهيم عبر التاريخ

• فهم الألغاز الفلسفية الأكثر غموضًا وتوسعة للعقل

• التعرف ع ى المفكرين الرائدين الذين غ روا طريقة تفكيرنا

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نمتلك جميعًا عقولا، ولكن ما مفهوم العقل بالضبط؟ هل عقلك ومخك شيء واحد؟ وكيف يؤثر ما يحدث في عقلك على سلوكك؟ وهل من الممكن معرفة ما يحدث في عقول الآخرين؟ هل يمكنك التأكد مما يحدث في عقلك؟ وهل الأطفال يمتلكون وعيا؟ وماذا عن القطط؟ والسيارات ذاتية القيادة؟ تحاول فلسفة العقل الإجابة عن هذه الأسئلة وما يماثلها، الكشف عن هويتنا والطريقة الصحيحة للانسجام مع العالم من حولنا. في هذا الدليل المفيد للطلاب على نحو خاص، يقدم ماكليلاند الأفكار الرئيسية في فسلفة العقل، موضحًا سبب أهميتها ومذاهب الفلاسفة في الإجابة عن أسئلتها.

Un arsenal de autores y argumentos para defenderse de las ideas más estúpidas de nuestra época ¿Es racional sentirse orgulloso de tu país? ¿Es verdad que la izquierda tiene una mayor sensibilidad social que la derecha? ¿Cabe hablar de un ecologismo conservador? ¿Puede un católico...

Flanagan has firsthand knowledge of what it is like to be an addict. That experience informs this important and novel work. He pairs the sciences that study addiction with a sophisticated view of the consciousness-brain/body relation to make his core argument: that substance addictions comprise a heterogeneous set of "psychobiosocial" behavioral disorders. He explains that substance addictions do not have one set of causes, such as self-medication or social dislocation, and they do not have one neural profile, such as a dysfunction in dopamine system.

Les essais composant ce livre explorent six d’entre elles, à savoir la dignité humaine, l’intelligence, la liberté, le bonheur, la mort et la beauté.

Este volumen recoge las sorprendentes respuestas que philosophers separados por veinticinco siglos de historia nos ofrecen a cuestiones que siempre nos han interesado y que hoy están de más actualidad que nunca. Ninguno de estos grandes pensadores conocieron las redes sociales pero sus ideas permanecen flamantes y son tan lúcidas que merecerían ser viralizadas.

La resistencia íntima es un atento y profundo ensayo sobre la condición humana. Su autor nos descubre de qué modo el auténtico cuidado de uno mismo da luz y calor a los que están cerca, protegiéndoles y sirviéndoles de guía en el camino.

An Experiential Odyssey into Your Unexplored Human Capacities Have you ever felt that you are more than just a genetically programmed machine running in a meaningless universe? That your feelings, thoughts, and intentions might extend beyond the material domain? That compassion, connection, and...

Schapiro shows that familiar theories of inclination fail to provide compelling answers to these questions, as they make being inclined to perform an action either too similar or too dissimilar to the action itself. The moment of decision is your will at a crossroads. Feeling Like It provides a concise and accessible investigation of a new problem at the intersection of ethics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind. 

Vivimos en un mundo complejo, revuelto. Asediados por emergencias climáticas, tecnologías adictivas, políticas radicales, conflictos culturales, un consumo desbocado y noticias que nos aturden y confunden, necesitamos más que nunca detenernos a pensar. En este singular y valioso audiolibrolibro, la filósofa María Ángeles Quesada nos ilustra sobre una gran virtud, un tanto olvidada: la virtud de pensar. Aborda de manera directa y amena en qué consiste el pensamiento crítico y cómo impulsarlo y cultivarlo.

The Philosophy opens with the most human of questions—“What’s the point?”—and dares to follow it wherever it leads. This isn’t just another thought experiment or self-help book. It’s a rallying cry for those who feel the systems around us are broken, yet refuse to believe we are powerless to change them.