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  • Necessity and Freedom

    (CW 166)

    Translated by Pauline Wehrle ...
    5 lectures, Berlin, January 25 - February 8, 1916 (CW 166)The age-old question of free will is still a mystery to most people today. Even religious and philosophical circles have difficulty reconciling the concepts of morality, destiny, karma, and necessity with true freedom. Steiner illuminates questions of freedom and necessity, and guilt and innocence, by discussing various aspects of evolution ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Liberty

    Readings in Islamic Political Philosophy

    The object of writing on the subject of the political philosophy of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is to show mankind how the Prophet initiated the movement of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice in the Arabian Peninsula and how it gradually spread to other countries of the world; and how, in the wake of this enthusiasm for knowledge, new schools, universities and centres of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intimations of Mortality

    Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being

    Heidegger’s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. “The theme of mortality—finite human existence—pervades Heidegger’s thought,” in the author’s words, “before, during, and after his magnum opus, Being and Times, published ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Message of a Master

    A Classic Tale of Wealth, Wisdom, and the Secret of Success

    by John McDonald ...
    The Message of a Master is the story of a seemingly miraculous change that takes place in a man after he meets a true master of life. He learns and shares with us teachings that allow him to develop his powers so that he can accomplish anything he desires. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Significance of Free Will

    by Robert Kane ...
    Robert Kane provides a critical overview of debates about free will of the past half century, relating this recent inquiry to the broader history of the free will issue and to vital currents of twentieth century thought. Kane also defends a traditional libertarian or incompatibilist view of free will (one that insists upon the incompatibility of free will and determinism), employing arguments that ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • Treatise on Divine Predestination

    Translated by Mary Brennan ...
    Series Book 5 - Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture
    Treatise on Divine Predestination is one of the early writings of the author of the great philosophical work Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus (the Irishman), known as Eriugena (died c. 877 A.D.). It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and in the afterlife.The work survives in a single manuscript of which editions were ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Satan Speaks!

    Anton Szandor LaVey, notorious founder of the Church of Satan, died on October 29, 1997, days after completing his final contribution to Satan Speaks!Satan Speaks! collects together sixty unorthodox, paradoxical and humorous essays by the most misunderstood man in America.Marilyn Manson pays tribute to Anton LaVey in his forward, and Blanche Barton, mother of Xerxes Satan LaVey, provides a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith

    Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science

    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in favor of irrationality: the two can inform each other's visions of the world.Pollack begins by reflecting ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • 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

  • Beyond Fate

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why.This timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Persons and Causes

    The Metaphysics of Free Will

    This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Motivation and Agency

    What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of human agency. This book stands boldly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD $40.99 USD

  • Not Passion's Slave

    Emotions and Choice

    The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as evaluative ... Read more

    $47.99 USD $40.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Free Will: A Very Short Introduction

    by Thomas Pink ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so consequential that they may change the course of our life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? Is the feeling that we could have made different decisions just an illusion? And if our choices are ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Are We Hardwired?

    The Role of Genes in Human Behavior

    Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene have aroused fierce controversy by arguing for the powerful influence of genes on human behavior. But are we entirely at the mercy of our chromosomes? In Are We Hardwired?, scientists William R. Clark and Michael Grunstein say the answer is both yes--and no. The power and fascination of Are We Hardwired? lie in their explanation of that deceptively ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • How It All Works & How We Fit In

    Where We Came from * What We're Doing Here * Where We're Going

    by Don Kerr ...
    Don Kerr www.donkerr.comJane Roberts SETH books taught us that we create our reality through our beliefs. Richard Bachs books showed us that space and time are illusions which we create and which then reflect back to us, usually surprising us along the way!Written by a practicing architect who enjoys seeing how things go together, this book explores many areas of wonderment:Where did we come from? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • God's Lecture

    On the Way Things Are and How Man Screwed It Up

    God is pissed. In the beginning, God created heaven, earth, and all the animals. They were part of a grand and perfect design. It worked well, and God was pleased. Then one of the animals, man, started altering the design, irritating God.God gave man, unlike the other animals, a little cleverness, which has caused him to jump the tracks. Using this cleverness, man has conceived, created, and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Free Will and Luck

    by Alfred R Mele ...
    Mele's ultimate purpose in this book is to help readers think more clearly about free will. He identifies and makes vivid the most important conceptual obstacles to justified belief in the existence of free will and meets them head on. Mele clarifies the central issue in the philosophical debate about free will and moral responsibility, criticizes various influential contemporary theories about ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Structures of Agency

    Essays

    This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E. Bratman of Stanford University. They revolve around his influential theory, know as the "planning theory of intention and agency." Bratman's primary concern is with what he calls "strong" forms of human agency--including forms of human agency that are the target of our talk about self-determination, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ignorance, Manipulation, and Enslavement

    The New Medievalism, Collapse of Western Philosophy and Practice,  and America in Freefall

    This transdisciplinary book deals with the most critical problems now challenging our and our worlds survival: human overpopulation, vast environmental destruction, persistent ignorance in spite of purported advances in education, dominance of neoconservative thinking incommensurate with the world/s problems, increased religiosity that harks back to the Middle Ages, anti-science thinking, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Moral Cultivation

    Essays on the Development of Character and Virtue

    Edited by Brad Wilburn ...
    The volume Moral Cultivation explores an overlooked topic in the renewed interest in virtue ethics, the concept of moral cultivation. While the study of virtue ethics focuses on the concept of virtue itself, an exploration of moral cultivation explores the process of attaining that virtue. The essays in this collection explore the question: How do we develop good character? Brad Wilburn has ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Free Testament

    'The Free Testament' is one of those slim volumes of aphoristic philosophy by John O'Loughlin which tend towards a categorical comprehensiveness that leaves little or nothing either out of the equation (frame) or to chance, including an examination of certain numerological norms which here undergo a radical transformation commensurate with the divisions of axial relativity into both psychic and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 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