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  • "Africa": Doomed?

    The African continent is arguably the richest in terms of natural resources and rich in human resources as well, so why the extreme poverty, suffering, misery, etc., especially in the dark-skinned communities in the sub-Saharan region? Why is the term ‘African’ a direct reference to the dark-skinned people, to the exclusion of all the others on the continent? Why are they looked down on and not ... Read more

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  • "Unto Me"

    “UNTO ME”The Religious Quality of Social WorkWhen Jesus looked forward to the great climax of History, the Last Judgment, he saw it as a process by which the inner significance of their own actions and relations would be revealed to men. Those men on his right hand whom he welcomed to their reward had never realized the high quality of their own actions. Here was a man who had seen a work-mate in ... Read more

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  • (Un) Thinking Nationalism: From India to (H)india

    by Victor Ferrao ...
    Nationalism thinks and marks the space of people, that it imagines belong to it. There is a constitutive spatial and a constructed loyalist political dimension to all forms of nationalism. (Un)thinking nationalism is an attempt to (re)mediate these marked spaces, constructed identities, crafted exclusions, deliberate inclusions and varied subject positions ranging from triumphant privileged ... Read more

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  • 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All

    "You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that's more than enough gods, that the world will ever need."Abhijit Naskar has always been hailed by the world as a humanitarian thinker who has lifted the human spirit with his numerous works of Neuroscience and Humanism, whether it is with his series on the neuropsychology of religion entitled ... Read more

    $8.48 USD

  • 7 Sexes & the Origin of Man

    Sri Sanyassian Sunkara SankacharyaAmazing, shocking, overwhelming, fascinating, intriguing. Concepts which have eluded clear expression for thousands of years. Where did the race originate? Why are we here? Does Human personality survive the Death of the Body? Where will we be after Death? What is the purpose of the life experience? What to believe? Who has the Truth? Where is the evidence? What ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Thought

    A Philosophical Guide to Living

    by Luc Ferry ...
    Series series Learning to Live
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Ferry's openness, energy, and charm as a teacher burst through on every page." —Wall Street JournalFrom the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry’s instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy—including its profound relevance to modern daily life and its ... Read more

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  • A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

    by Thomas More ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Religion
    "I die the King's good servant, but God's first," declared Sir Thomas More from the scaffold upon his 1535 execution for treason. Condemned to death for his refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England, More spent his final months in the Tower of London, writing this message of hope in the face of suffering.The noted Renaissance humanist cast his work of political ... Read more

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  • A Disturbing Lack of Faith

    by Damien Ba'al ...
    A Disturbing Lack of Faith is a short essay, which takes a critical look at the concepts of gods and faith. Argued from a position of skepticism, the flawed logic of these religious concepts fail with the application of reason. All the usual fallacies of apologetics are preemptively torn apart. When viewed in this way, any open mind, freed from the filter of presupposed, unfounded beliefs, will ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • A Educação planetária de Edgar Morin

    Uma visão a respeito do pensamento de Edgar Morin na Educação, por Célio Azevedo. ... Read more

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  • A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans

    with A Theory of Meaning

    Translated by Joseph D. O’Neil ...
    Series Book 12 - Posthumanities
    “Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species, build and inhabit. This concept of the umwelt has become enormously important within ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Fragile Life

    Accepting Our Vulnerability

    by Todd May ...
    “His discussion of the ways in which those who try to make themselves invulnerable . . . undermine what makes us most human, is clear and bracing.” —Los Angeles Review of BooksIn a moving examination of life and the trials that beset it, Todd May shows that our fragility, our ability to suffer, is actually one of the most important aspects of our humanity.May starts with a simple but hard truth: ... Read more

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  • A General View of Positivism

    Series Book 185 - Standard eBooks
    Auguste Comte, considered by some to be the first “philosopher of science,” was perhaps most famous for founding the theory of Positivism: a framework of thinking and living meant to engdender unity across humanity, backed by love, science, and intellect.Positivism itself is a combination philosophy and way of life. Here Comte lays down the various tenents of the philosophy, describing what he ... Read more

    $1.59 USD

  • A Handbook on Good Manners for Children

    De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus

    by Erasmus ...
    When did you last tell your children to put their hand over their mouth when they yawn? When did you last suggest that when they are introduced to someone they should shake hands firmly and look them in the eye? Do you suggest that they should wait until everyone is served before they eat rather than hoover up the best bit for themselves? Do you demand that your young daughter dress decorously ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Light to Yourself

    Series Book 10 - The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti 1956-1957
    In these talks, given in Europe and India, Krishnamurti goes into the importance of going into problems openly, without conclusions. "..because we approach our problems partially, through all these various forms of conditioning, it seems to me that we are thereby not understanding them. I feel that the approach to any problem is of much more significance than the problem itself, and that if we ... Read more

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  • A Little Book of Stoicism

    If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its wilful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself to the world at large. ... Read more

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  • A Modern Utopia (Annotated)

    by H. G.Wells ...
    This is the Annotated version of the original book. This is the Summarized version of the original book. This Summary version consists of 55% to 65% of the total book. The Brief Description of the eBook is written as follows.To this planet "out beyond Sirius" the Owner of the Voice and the botanist are translated, imaginatively, "in the twinkling of an eye. " Their point of entry is on the slopes ... Read more

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  • A Nova Retórica e o Ideal Humanista

    o filósofo como funcionário da Humanidade segundo Chaïm Perelman

    Este estudo se propõe a investigar a concepção do ideal humanista presente na obra de Chaïm Perelman. Ideal que só seria alcançado ao se superar um tipo de racionalidade que teria tolhido a possibilidade de uma razão prática – fator indispensável para que se realize esse ideal tradicional da filosofia: o de alcançar a comunhão e o entendimento. Ou seja, a criação do acordo baseado na razão prática ... Read more

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  • A Person as a Lifetime

    An Aristotelian Account of Persons

    Is it possible to derive a viable definition of persons from Aristotle’s work? In A Person as a Lifetime: An Aristotelian Account of Persons, Stephanie M. Semler argues that we can. She finds the component parts of this definition in his writing on ethics and metaphysics, and the structure of this working definition is that of an entire lifetime. If J.O. Urmson is right that “[t]o call somebody a ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • A Pluralistic Universe

    by William James ...
    A pioneer of American Psychology and Philosophy, renowned William James, offers for a critical psychological thinking/viewpoint on pragmatism and that of other such critical points of thoughts or thought structure which are coherent or synonymous to structuralism. ... Read more

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  • A Short Story Collection

    A Collection of fourteen of the author's short stories. They will steer you to a positive outlook. They are composed of human and animal stories in the natural world. The author wrote them from observing out of his window and by witnessing human behaviors as well. With open hearts and childlike wonder, may you enjoy each story, and may you always find the magic in living. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Summer with Montaigne

    On the Art of Living Well

    Translated by Tina Kover ...
    “Brings the man to life and shows his questions, ideas, and solutions to be every bit as relevant as they were in the 16th century.” —New York Journal of BooksMichel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? In ... Read more

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  • A Theology for the Social Gospel

    In April, 1917, I had the honour of delivering four lectures on the Nathaniel W. Taylor Foundation before the Annual Convocation of the Yale School of Religion. These lectures are herewith presented in elaborated form.The Taylor Lectures are expected to deal with some theme in Doctrinal Theology, but the Faculty in their invitation indicated that a discussion of some phase of the social problem ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Human Motivation

    Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in Psychological Review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Human Motivation

    The present paper is an attempt to formulate a positive theory of motivation which will satisfy these theoretical demands and at the same time conform to the known facts, clinical and observational as well as experimental. It derives most directly, however, from clinical experience. This theory is, I think, in the functionalist tradition of James and Dewey, and is fused with the holism of ... Read more

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