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Sartre contemplates the human emotional experience by analyzing phenomenological psychology and existentialism In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to understand the role emotions play in the human psyche. Sartre analyzes fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy while asserting that human beings begin to develop emotional capabilities from a very early age, which helps them identify and understand the emotions'...
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This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities.
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A survey of the influential - and prolific - modern philosopher. In dozens of books, magazine articles, and essays, George Santayana infused his philosophy with exquisite language, wit, and subtle humor, prompting one authority to state that he "writes philosophy more beautifully than any other thinker since Plato." The Wisdom of George Santayana makes accessible both his ideas and his oft-quoted aphorisms on a variety of subjects including naturalism,...
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Martin Heidegger's Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation presents crucial elements for understanding Heidegger's thinking from 1936 to 1940. Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier, showing how his relationship with Nietzche's has changed, as well as how his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With...
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"The Essence of Form" identifies and describes the core constituents of a redefinition of what is commonly known as "form". With its new definition as the synthesis between an object and its appearance, the term "form" implies five specific categories which participate in the essence of its meaning and reality, namely, consciousness, constitution, potential, source, and function. These implied categories are explored thoroughly to reveal the nature...
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The Ties That Bind' is a hybrid type of literary manuscript that presents a fresh and palatable introduction to the metaphysical world of learning. The propositions within are Promethean and thematic-driven and an experimental prescription for truth in understanding. Each representation offers a quality and expansive definition with a degree of poetic and inspirational flair and a measure of conscientious, transformative, and inspirational thought...
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The Philosopher's Journey: A History of Thought is a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the history of philosophy. This book traces the evolution of philosophical thought across cultures and time periods. It offers a rich tapestry of ideas and thinkers that have shaped our understanding of the world we live in.It allows readers embark on an intellectual journey that takes them through the major philosophical movements throughout history. From...
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En "Teodicea", el más relevante de sus libros y una de las cumbres del pensamiento filosófico y teológico del Occidente cristiano, Leibniz nos presenta a un Dios que en su creación del mundo ha seguido el plan más digno de merecer su preferencia. Un Dios convertido en optimizador global de la economía del universo, que ha hecho y hace lo mejor que es posible. Un Dios definido como una instancia trascendente sometida, a pesar de sus infinitos...
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At the intersection of science, metaphysics, and consciousness, The Science of Energy is the first book in a series that bridges the gap between conscious experience and the physical world. It presents a new metaphysical system, a single framework of logic where all aspects of reality (conscious and material) can work together. It is a path to understanding the nature of reality, but more than that, it lays the foundation for understanding how to...
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Throughout history, humans have pondered the existence of a higher power, often referred to as God. Many questions have arisen about this being, including: What is God? Where can he be found? What is his purpose? Who is he? And how does he communicate with others? Individuals from diverse societies and cultures throughout history have asked themselves the same existential questions. Many religious, philosophical, and theological systems have attempted...
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In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy. In the process, he reflects on what makes such exercises possible and intelligible.
The primary questions Wirth asks are: How does this particular engagement and confrontation challenge and...
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Awareness Is is an exploration into what it is to be a conscious being on a journey to realize the truth. It examines the nature of the relative physical world, the role and purpose of a conscious being alive in this world, and the questions that may arise during one's spiritual awakening. This book explores such topics as the physical body, purpose, the ego, forgiveness, spirituality and the realization of truth. The insights offered are presented...
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Pensar sólo acontece como aprendizaje, pues el pensar mismo está siempre de camino hacia el pensar. Cuando se pregunta «¿qué significa pensar?», no se trata sólo de saber qué se requiere para realizar correctamente el pensamiento, sino de remontarse a aquello que lleva al ser humano imperativamente a pensar. ¿Desde dónde llama este mandato a pensar? ¿Y en qué manera llega esta llamada a la esencia humana?
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The Nobel Peace Prize–winning doctor, theologian, and missionary explores the essence of faith in this masterful early work on Kantian metaphysics. Famous for his medical missionary work in what is now the West African country of Gabon, Albert Schweitzer was an accomplished theologian, philosopher, and international bestselling author. While studying for his PhD at the Sorbonne, Schweitzer developed his views on theology through an analysis of Immanuel...
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Like Thomas Scarborough's previous book Everything, Briefly (2022), This Town, too, is a metaphysics. However, it adopts the form of a story, which "concretizes" abstract thought. A narrator visits a pre-modern town, where he engages with various people: an old man, a young woman, the chief, and other townsfolk. The method of "concretization" brings a metaphysics down to the level of teens and up--covering core issues of language, reality, ethics,...
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Descartes's revolutionary treatise on reason and scientific thought, which sparked radical breakthroughs in mathematics, philosophy, and metaphysics After he finished school, René Descartes was left with more doubts than certainties. His Jesuit education included some of the best teaching available in mathematics, physics, and letters, and yet Descartes found the foundations of his schooling hollow. Determined to discover for himself what was real,...
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You are in a prison, but you do not see the bars; you hold the keys, and you do not know what they are. You stumble upon a book strange as a portent in the mystical sky. Do not let it pass you by. Take the offering and leaf through its pages. You will learn that you are more than an earthly human. You come from regions aethereal, from a realm of harmony and numinosity that Necessity made you forgo. You dwell in a physical body as a divine seed-part...
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There is no longer any question, the afterlife is real ..... Objective clinical evidence has now proven post-mortem consciousness survival to be a scientific fact.
Objective evidence is the gold standard for scientific proofs, and now we have unequivocal objective clinical data proving that Post Mortem Consciousness Survival is real. Indeed, The individual consciousness (spirit, soul) has been proven to survive the death of the physical body,...
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