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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against...
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"Reconstruction in Philosophy" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking philosophical work that challenges traditional modes of thinking and calls for a profound reevaluation of philosophical inquiry. In this transformative book, Dewey offers a compelling vision for reconstructing philosophy to better serve the needs and complexities of the modern world. With incisive intellect and deep insight, Dewey argues for a shift away from abstract metaphysical speculations...
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As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins 'black causes' for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time led him to the idea of the cosmopolitan. In Becoming a Cosmopolitan, Jason D. Hill...
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This book is a continuation of my 'Motivation and Personality', published in 1954. It was, constructed in about the same way, that is, by doing one piece at a time of the larger theoretical structure. It is a predecessor to work yet to be done toward the construction of a comprehensive, systematic and empirically based general psychology and philosophy, which includes both the depths and the heights of human nature. The last chapter is to some extent...
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Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians...
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El humanismo secular es un movimiento filosófico que se centra en la importancia de la razón, la ética y la justicia social en la construcción de una sociedad más justa y libre. Se basa sobre todo en la idea de que los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad y la responsabilidad de crear una vida significativa y moral sin depender de la religión o la superstición. 'Humanismo Secular: un manual para la vida' es la guía definitiva para aquellos que...
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Erich Fromm's groundbreaking examination of an age-old question, and a stunning look at how to pursue a life with purpose and meaning Life in the modern age began when people no longer lived at the mercy of nature and instead took control of it. We planted crops so we didn't have to forage, and produced planes, trains, and cars for transport. With televisions and computers, we don't have to leave home to see the world. Somewhere in that process, the...
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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 Wertheimer, Goldstein, and Gestalt Psychology, and with the...
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La postmodernidad plantea con clarividencia un problema, aunque no aporte soluciones. La razón se ha desestructurado, apagando las luces y sumiendo a Occidente en la oscuridad. Solo alcanzamos a ver un mundo fragmentado. ¿Es posible encontrar senderos dentro de ese laberinto? ¿Qué propuestas hay, qué alternativas?
El autor, recurriendo a Lyotard, Ratzinger y Wojtyla, propone la vía de la experiencia. Una vía fundada en la integralidad de la...
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According to bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari, today's average American has their foot in three ideological camps: nationalism, free market capitalism, and humanism. The first two might seem obvious, but the third? It's entirely possible that most who qualify for that label would be hard pressed to explain its meaning, much less use it self-descriptively. This book is designed to serve two important purposes: First, to provide an accessible...
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En este libro confluyen algunas de las búsquedas en filosofía, lenguaje y educación que persiguen los investigadores de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Santo Tomás de Colombia.
Por el camino de la filosofía, se hallarán acercamientos a la poesía en Platón, a la escritura en Benjamin y a la religión en Rosenzweig y Ricoeur. Por el del pensamiento latinoamericano, se hallarán estudios de historia de las ideas y políticas...
12) Exuberance
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Happiness is within everyone's grasp and is only a matter of making the right choices. Taking destiny into one's own hands and having the creative audacity to strive, seek, and meet challenges is the essence of life's drama and exaltation. Life per se has no meaning; it only presents opportunity to be seized and acted upon, thus paving the way for personal achievement and the full life.
Paul Kurtz, in Exuberance, shows his readers how to banish drudgery...
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Dios, el hombre y la muerte son problemas cuya verdad radica más en su planteamiento que en su solución. Esta obra da fe de ello. La primera aproximación se basa en el método cartesiano. El hombre es el tema central de la segunda aproximación. Finalmente, la aproximación a la muerte deja en claro que la estetización religiosa, metafísica o poética del morir no lo exime de su nexo ontológico con la nada.
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A new civic religion is the greatest threat to the Church today. Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo reveals how a Christian moral basis for society has been eroded by an aggressive, hedonistic and sometimes fanatical secularism. He offers a highly readable account of the serious challenge these humanist beliefs are posing to the church. He outlines resources to help Christian respond to the challenges of the new civic religion. This book includes ideal study material...
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Stars and galaxies, atoms and molecules, all created so to render a divine arena for God to love man and for man to love God. Atoms and molecules of our bodies observe the same physical laws as those stars of the cosmos. Yet divinity rests not with the stars but within each of us whose spirit seeks to touch them.
In the twenty-first century, it is now more appropriate to equate gender identity with a spiritual hemisphere (masculine or feminine) than...
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Estas cartas las dirijo a usted, señor X, es decir, a mí mismo, a ese que seré cuando la piel se aje, cuando envejezca, cuando espere en mi lecho la llegada de la muerte y solo desee poder intercambiar mi lugar con alguien más. Se las escribopara recordarle algunas cosas que le gustaban, pero especialmente porque en estos días he pensado mucho en la ignorancia y sé que a usted, que ya se ha convertido en un viejo ignorante, aún deberá emocionarle...
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Sri Sanyassian Sunkara Sankacharya Amazing, 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 is the Correct Philosophy? 7 Sexes is not for the timid,...
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a partir del pensamiento de hannah arendt, jürgen habermas y chantal mouffe, esta obra presenta un análisis de los principales elementos que caracterizan la Comunicación para el Cambio Social (CPCS) y señala las categorías esferas públicas y ciudadanía como los pilares fundamentales para repensar una comunicación que realmente transforme las relaciones sociales y permita la apertura de espacios de diálogo y reflexión en contextos probablemente...
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