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What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. Richard Swinburne comes to the defense of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences, we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new.

A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race “A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review Throughout its history America has been torn in two by...

L'intento principale a cui quest'opera risponde è quello di ricordare la figura di un grande storico della filosofia: Valerio Verra (1928-2001). E come onorarne meglio la memoria se non mettendo a disposizione del lettore due sue conferenze dedicate l'una al tema per il quale molto probabilmente viene più spesso ricordato cioè l'idealismo tedesco l'altra alla concezione filosofica che della storia ebbe l'Occidente cristiano?

When Ralph Waldo Emerson published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United States was still reeling from the effects of a calamitous financial collapse four years earlier. His positive vision for the power of individualism and personal responsibility was issued in a climate of panic and uncertainty, at a time when the values of society and humanity were shifting. Emerson’s call to independence remains as relevant and energizing as ever.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.

Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan's theory of das Ding, the disquieting, inaccessible dimension of fellow human beings. This notion of an unfathomable excess, originally encountered in the figure of the mother, led Lacan to break with Freud's formulation of the Oedipus complex and underlies Lacan's distinctive conception of unconscious dynamics. Leaning on this account, Boothby shows how our sense of the sacred arises from our relation to what we do not know.

O clássico de Henry David Thoreau, publicado em 1854: um manifesto a favor da natureza e da liberdade. Edição especial, com ilustrações de Deco Farkas, prefácio de Joyce Carol Oates e nota biográfica escrita por Virginia Woolf. Inclui o ensaio "Sobre o dever da desobediência civil". Em conflito com as mudanças trazidas pela Revolução Industrial – na sociedade, na cultura e na relação do homem com o trabalho e a natureza – e inspirado pela filosofia oriental do confucionismo.

Pocos clásicos están tan vivos, tienen tanto que decirnos, como Michel de Montaigne, autor de los Ensayos. De su mano, este libro intenta dar respuesta a una pregunta que a todos nos concierne: ¿cómo vivir, felizmente, una vida humana?

In his book Pragmatism, William James attacked the transcendental, rationalist tradition in philosophy and tried to clear the ground for the doctrine he called radical empiricism. The book caused an uproar; it was greeted with praise, hostility, and ridicule. Determined to clarify the pragmatic conception of truth, James collected nine essays he had written on this subject before he wrote Pragmatism and six written later in response to criticisms of that volume by Bertrand Russell and others. He published the collection under the title "The Meaning of Truth" in 1909, the year before his death.

David Hume (1711-1776) remains one of the most stimulating and entertaining writers in the English essay tradition. Though primarily known for long-form writings, he was adept at taking one subject and looking at it in a more concise but accessible manner.

This collection includes two of Emerson’s essays: History and Intellect. Emerson wrote most of his essays to be presented as lectures first, and later revised them for print. The essay History explores the nature and importance of historical understanding. Emerson holds that history is not simply a jumble of events and facts, but rather a living and dynamic force that can inspire and guide human action. In his essay Intellect, Emerson notes that the intellectual power of humans separates them from all other living beings on earth.

Is moral philosophy more foundational than political theory? It is often assumed to be. David Schmidtz argues that the reverse is true: the question of how to live in a community is more fundamental than questions about how to live. This book questions whether we are getting to the foundations of human morality when we ignore contingent features of communities in which political animals live.

Pragmatism, America's homegrown philosophy, has been a major intellectual movement for over a century. Unlike its rivals, it reaches well beyond the confines of philosophy into concerns and disciplines as diverse as religion, politics, science, and culture. In this concise, engagingly written overview, John R. Shook describes pragmatism's origins, concepts, and continuing global relevance and appeal.

O excelentă introducere în scrierile lui Seneca, în ceea ce înseamnă filosofia stoică și stoicismul: lecții comprimate pe înțelesul cititorului contemporan și sfaturi practice despre cum să duci o viață bună, despre umilință, dragoste, bătrânețe ș.a., extrase din învățăturile atemporale ale lui Seneca

Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer describes the defining role played by rejection in literary endeavors and contemplates failure as the essence of the writer’s life.

Walden oder Das Leben in den Wäldern - seit Jahrhunderten das Buch für Aussteiger, Frugalisten, Konsumverweigerer - oder auch ganz einfach nur Naturliebhaber! In ihm beschreibt Henry David Thoreau, wie er zwei Jahre lang die Stadt verließ, um im Wald nur mit eigenen Mitteln zu leben. Im Kapitel "Frühling" legt er dar, wie nach dem Winter das Leben in die Natur zurückkehrt - mal nüchterne Erläuterung, mal philosophische Betrachtung über das menschliche Leben, aber immer ein faszinierendes Stück Literatur.

Walden oder Das Leben in den Wäldern - seit Jahrhunderten das Buch für Aussteiger, Frugalisten, Konsumverweigerer - oder auch ganz einfach nur Naturliebhaber! In ihm beschreibt Henry David Thoreau, wie er zwei Jahre lang die Stadt verließ, um im Wald nur mit eigenen Mitteln zu leben. Im Kapitel "Der Teich im Winter" gibt er einen geradezu magischen Bericht darüber, wie es ist, wenn man die scheinbar ruhende Natur betrachtet - mal nüchterne Erläuterung, mal philosophische Betrachtung über das menschliche Leben, aber immer ein faszinierendes Stück Literatur.

This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life but also is an amalgam of what life taught Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803-April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

"Die Wände der Bienenzelle stoßen in dem Winkel aufeinander, der mit dem geringsten Aufwand von Wachs die größte Festigkeit gibt; der Knochen und der Kiel des Vogels geben die größte Flugkraft bei dem geringsten Gewicht. In der Beredsamkeit ist dieses kunstvolle Auslassen ein Hauptgeheimnis starker Wirkung, und im allgemeinen ist es ein Beweis hoher Bildung, die größten Dinge auf die einfachste Art zu sagen." Einfach leben, in Einklang mit der Natur – das war die scheinbar einfache Philosophie von Ralph Waldo Emerson, der im Massachusetts des 19. Jahrhunderts lebte.

"Cogito, ergo sum: Ich denke, also bin ich." Einer der wohl berühmtesten Sätze der Philosophiegeschichte stammt von René Descartes. In seinem Grundlagenwerk denkt er in sechs Meditationen über Metaphysik und Erkenntnistheorie nach. Themen sind der Zweifel, die Natur des menschlichen Geistes, das Dasein Gottes, das Wahre und das Falsche, die materiellen Dinge und die Verschiedenheit von Geist und Körper. Ein wahrhaftiges Grundlagenwerk der Philosophie.