Meditations The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius; Robin Waterfield
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
This definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome's sixteenth emperor. As featured on the Today Show Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome--and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he ...Show more
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience by M. R. Bennett, P. M. S. Hacker
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
The second edition of the seminal work in the field—revised, updated, and extended In Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, M.R. Bennett and P.M.S. Hacker outline and address the conceptual confusions encountered in various neuroscientific and psychological theories. The result of a collaboration ...Show more
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow And The Feeling Brain by Antonio R. Damasio
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
A leading neurologist draws on 17th-century philosopher Spinoza and his own experience with patients to show the role of feelings in human affairs. ?Damasio thinks deeply and writes beautifully... We could not ask for a better guide.? < Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate, Columbia University. The eminent ...Show more
Sky Above Great Wind ... Ryokan by Kazuaki Tanahashi
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Ryokan (1758-1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma heir. E ...Show more
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life (HB) by John Gray
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can l ...Show more
Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
'A truly awe-inspiring piece of writing' David Robson, author of The Intelligence Trap In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings in neuroscience, psychology and artificial i ...Show more
Jung - An Introduction by Ann Casement
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
This book is an introduction to the ideas of the Swiss psychologist and psychoanalyst, C. G. Jung. The first chapter describes his early home life whilst subsequent chapters are devoted to his work in various sectors. This started in psychiatry at Burgholzli Hospital in Zurich, where Eugen Bleuler was t ...Show more
Diderot And The Art Of Thinking Freely by Curran Andrew S.
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclop die into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shado ...Show more
At the Existentialist Cafe Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointi ...Show more
The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more releva ...Show more
Zen in the Garden: The Japanese Art of Meditative Gardening by Miki Sakamoto
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter - wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected. Japanese by birth, but transplanted to Europe in adulthood, Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? ...Show more