A book that sets to examine such popular phenomena and notions in our society, from philanthropy, to suicide and women's rights, on definitive ground.

@TheDevoutHumorist is a stream of philosophical musings that offers a modern application to wisdom derived from ancient texts (with, of course, the occasional use of humor). Topics range from adult mishaps to childhood trauma, from float tank reflections to societal observations, from Jesus Christ to Jeffrey Dahmer....

This text takes reflections from the Beatles song, Misery written by John Winston Lennon, Paul James McCartney, with corresponding Scriptures and other oddities of interest to the Christian community. Matthew 6:11-Give us this day our daily bread. John 6:26- Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you,...

The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The Political Possibility of Sound present a perfectly incomplete form for ...

With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. “With emotion and striking detail, RFK Jr. recalls both the priv...

Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of except...

Overcomers, if they are according to God's mind, are not people individually or collectively who simply underline certain truths and keep to that. Therefore they cannot be a separate and distinctive movement marked by just particular and specific teaching and separated from all others for that reason. They cannot be...

惠能是中國禪宗史上最重要的人物，也是中國佛教史上，甚至中國文化史上一位關鍵性的高僧。本書對惠能其人之生平、著作、思想，都有詳細的說明、考證。對其思想之淵源及其思想之影響，亦有專章剖析。其中，尤其對惠能作品ー《壇經》一書中的「自性」思想，有深入的討論。 作者簡介： 楊惠南 台灣省台中縣人，臺灣大學哲學系專任教授，擔任印度...

歡迎多多流通分享。您的轉發，可能從此救了無數處於苦痛的人，使社會更祥和安定。 能渡一位是一位 能救一位算一位 感恩您的分享。阿彌陀佛。

This work offers ten meta-discoveries about the universe, and ones which resonate with our inner world. Drawing upon the author's interdisciplinary studies and life, he asks what can be said in total? This work serves as an invitation for each of us to explore our own philosophy and make our own meta-insights. When ...

Pre-teen/teen girls struggle with being a real friend. They wonder how to choose their friends wisely. They need the courage to lead rather than follow. They face the challenge of making wise choices against the strong waves of peer pressure. They wonder how they can challenge their friends to do the right thing wit...

About human rights, environmental rights, animal rights, veganism, justice, LGBT, politics, the news, IR, current affairs, society, philosophy, well-being and spirituality in general. I am also the author of Nix, Freya and Durga deserts... available on the same website. inthenameofhumanrights.com https://www.inthena...

To many, James is a difficult work to swallow. It's the favourite source material of preachers of harsh sermons, who like to rebuke. It seems to fly in the face of everything Paul says about faith and salvation. But if we read it carefully, we find it's not about trying to make our actions match our faith, nor even ...

Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers achieve for themselves what Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, Louis XIV and Machiavelli learnt the hard way. Law 1: Never outshine the master Law 2: Never put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies Law 3: Conc...

People can’t reason. They don’t even know what reason is. “Reason” is almost always harnessed to something that has nothing to do with reason. Believers in mainstream religion are feeling types who “reason” with their emotions, or with their mystical intuitions. They subscribe to narrative “logic”, i.e. to a holy te...

This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called “the Truth,” by turning to a life of meditation. His use of reason throughout his poem...