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  • Panpsychism

    The Philosophy of the Sensuous Cosmos

    by Peter Ells ...
    Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws. Only the mechanisms of physics - forces, electrical charges, and so on - are consequential; nothing else matters. Experiences, such as the taste of honey, feelings, thoughts, choices: everything concerning the mind is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Uses of Pessimism

    And the Danger of False Hope

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The World Itself

    Consciousness and the Everything of Physics

    There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously.Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to probing the deepest mysteries of nature, thinks not. As he ... Read more

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  • What Is Man? and Other Essays

    by Mark Twain ...
    Series series Mark Twain Books
    This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and ... Read more

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  • The Man in My Head Has Lost His Mind (What is Consciousness?)

    Sentience, #1

    Series Book 1 - Sentience
    The howl of the bedside clock-radio carves through your dreams like a buzz-saw through butter, and you are awake. In another place.Never mind the bright yellow sunlight that flecks your pillow and warms your face; you are rudely awake, and resent it. Gah!You roll onto your side, cantilever your legs over the side of the bed and plant your feet squarely on the carpet. You rub your face. Massage ... Read more

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  • The Power of Attraction

    The Power of Attraction is a compelling exploration into the universal principle that governs our lives - the law of attraction. This illuminating guide breaks down complex metaphysical concepts into practical, easy-to-understand lessons for harnessing this powerful law to manifest your deepest desires. It teaches readers how to shift their mindset, eliminate negative thoughts, and unlock their ... Read more

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  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    by David Hume ...
    The Enlightenment thinker presents his empirical approach to epistemology in this foundational text of modern philosophy.First published in 1748, David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding presents a persuasive argument in favor of the view that all human knowledge derives from experience. Discarding the notion of innate ideas and building on the views of English philosopher John Locke ... Read more

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  • Let The Universe Help You!

    by M. Alexander ...
    Know what you want and you CAN have it!• Are you tired of working extremely hard at your job only to always end up with more month at the end of your money?• Does it break your heart to let someone else raise your children because you can't afford or don't have the freedom to take care of them yourself?• Do you live in a loop, always looking forward to the weekend?• Does it seem like money slips ... Read more

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  • On Liberty (Mobi Classics)

    On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.Perhaps the most memorable point made by Mill in this work, and his basis for liberty, is that "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is ... Read more

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  • The Satanic Witch

    The late Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, may be the most notoriously familiar for his Satanic Bible, but The Satanic Witch best reflects the discoveries Anton made in his younger days working the carny shows and Mitt Camps. This is undiluted Gypsy lore regarding the forbidden knowledge of seduction and manipulation.The Satanic Witch is not designed for Barbie Dolls, but women ... Read more

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  • Fear and Trembling

    With linked Table of Contents

    In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where these people are going, but it is surely a sign of breeding and culture for me to assume that everybody has faith, for otherwise it would be queer for them to be . . . going further. In those old days it was different, then faith was a task for a whole lifetime, because it was assumed ... Read more

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  • How to Be Free

    An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life

    by Epictetus ...
    Translated by Anthony Long ...
    Series series Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    A superb new edition of Epictetus’s famed handbook on Stoicism—translated by one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55–135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long—one of the world’s leading authorities on Stoicism and a pioneer in its ... Read more

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  • Now: The Physics of Time

    From the celebrated author of the best-selling Physics for Future Presidents comes “a provocative, strongly argued book on the fundamental nature of time” (Lee Smolin).You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Self Beyond Itself

    An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will

    “Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility” (Publishers Weekly).Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they make, good or bad. And yet the latest research about how the brain functions seems to point in the opposite ... Read more

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  • Midlife

    A Philosophical Guide

    by Kieran Setiya ...
    Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle ageHow can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with ... Read more

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  • Letters From A Stoic

    All Three Volumes

    by Seneca ...
    Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca’s Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life through the use of rationalism. The letters provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that comes with life’s problems. Topics featured range from discussions on the shortness of life and anger to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Enchiridion

    by Epictetus ...
    "No man is free who is not master of himself."“Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power.”The Enchiridion or ‘Manual’ of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice from the 2nd-century Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus. The focus is on applying philosophy in daily life. The primary theme is that one should accept what happens.The manual has played a ... Read more

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  • Stoic Six Pack 5 – The Cynics

    "I would rather go mad than feel pleasure."- Antisthenes.For Cynics the secret to happiness was living a life of virtue in harmony with Nature with only the bare essentials necessary for survival. They rejected materialism and were free of belongings. Many were homeless and proud of it. The Cynics emphasized the value of self-sufficiency, or autarkeia. They ate one (vegetarian) meal a day and made ... Read more

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  • Fate, Time, and Language

    An Essay on Free Will

    The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Pale King and Infinite Jest weighs in on a philosophical controversy in this fascinating early work.In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations ... Read more

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  • The Spinal Step

    How can an anxious, fearful, unhappy humanity ever find heaven in life? Sadhguru tells us that all it takes is the realization that we determine the nature of our own experience. The fundamental possibility of determining one's inner experience in human life is the spine, which is why it is seen as the axis of the universe in yoga. An understanding of and mastery over it frees us to explore the ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Freedom

    With linked Table of Contents

    'The Philosophy of Freedom' is Rudolf Steiner's most important work. In it he explains the two aspects of free will: freedom of thought and freedom of action. This landmark book explores free will from a completely fresh and unique perspective. "If an idea is to become action, man must first want it, before it can happen. Such an act of will therefore has its grounds only in man himself. Man is ... Read more

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  • Existentialism Is a Humanism

    Translated by Carol Macomber ...
    A new translation of two seminal works of existentialismIt was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Essential Rudolf Steiner

    Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man; An Esoteric Cosmology; Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path; An Introduction to Waldorf Education; How to Know Higher Worlds

    Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of Rudolf Steiner's most important works: 'Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man,' 'An Esoteric Cosmology,' 'Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path,' 'An Introduction to Waldorf Education,' and 'How to Know Higher Worlds.' Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, ... Read more

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  • Willing to Believe

    The Controversy over Free Will

    by R. C. Sproul ...
    What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall.In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD