Outline: In this book, the author takes a fresh look at happiness from a practical perspective: the perspective of someone trying to solve the wonderful problem of how to give himself a good life. From this perspective, 'happiness' is the name of a solution to that problem for practical deliberation. The author's approach to happiness falls within a tradition that reaches back to ancient Gree…
Outline: In this sweeping and highly praised book, historian the author traces the fascinating ways our ideas of happiness have changed through the ages. From ancient Greece, where happiness stood for virtue, to the early Christians who saved it for the afterlife, to the Enlightment ear, which branded it a natural right, its meaning has shifted to accomodate our evolving expectaions of life.
Outline: Culture and value are the essential concerns of these remarks, hitherto available only in German as Vermischte Bemerkungen. Although the passages date from various periods of Wittgenstein's life, over half were written during his later years, and this edition adds material probably written in 1944. The German text is presented alongside the English translation by Peter Winch, and all …
Outline: Offering dramatic evidence of the transformative power of forgiveness, this book shares the stories of people of diverse faiths and cultures who, despite all odds, found the courage to reconcile with their enemies. Gathering the voices of Desmond Tutu, Benazir Bhutto, Rajmohan Gandhi, Jonathan Sacks, the Dalai Lama and others, the author's masterful anthology is an insipiring step f…
Outline: This book explores the interplay between chance and providence in the monotheistic religious traditions, looking at how their interaction has been conceptualized as our understanding of the workings of nature has changed. This lively historical conversation has generated intense ongoing theological debates, and provocative response from science: what are we to make of the history of o…
Outline: That the author is the most significant contemporary European philosopher cannot be doubted. He has yet to be completely understood and his place in the framework of European thought has still to be evaluated. His concern with the Being of being is a reflection of his deep longing to understand demands rejection of such definition as rational, economic, or pragmatic. That the author'…
Overview: Buku ini menelusuri secara runtun perkembangan historis pemikiran barat melalui sepuluh era. Buku ini menyoroti ide-ide fundamental yang merevolus cara orang berpikir dan bertindak mulai dari masa filsuf Yunani kuno dan para penulis Alkitab, melintasi periode Abadi Pertengahan, Renaisans, Reformasi, Pencerahan, Modern sampai kepada periode Postmodern saat ini.
Outline: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, the author refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of this book. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, the author maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought and creation. The author especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" that foste…
Outline: As you begin your study of cognitive psychology with this best-selling book, you will explore these intriguing questions and many others. The author's approach is comprehensive and scholarly, and at the same time, filled with discussions of the real-life research and applications that show how very important and practical the study of cognitive psychology is to your life. With this boo…
Outline: Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, the author's nine-volume book has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. The author, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence…
Outline: Hegel and existensialism form two poles of a contemporary dialogue, according to Robert C. Solomon: Hegel's global perspective and pursuit of "the absolute" balance of the enthusiastic individualism of existentialism. The dialectic between these two philosophical perspectives, whose vicissitudes have come to define not only continental philosophy but much of life in Europe and America,…
Outline: In the middle years of the seventeenth century, philosophy sprang forward into its modern era. The motivating mind behind the revolution in metaphysical thought was that of Rene Descartes, who brought philosophy both a new spirit and a new method, and thereby founded the school that came to be known as rationalism. Contained in this volume are the five works, in their entirety, that pr…
Overview: In the spirit of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the #1 nationwide bestseller, First Things First is a revolutionary guide to managing your time by learning how to balance your life. Traditional time management suggests that working harder, smarter, and faster will help you gain control your life, and that increased control will bring peace and fulfillment. The authors of thi…
Outline: This substantial volume comprises twenty-five extended essays, each providing both a survey and analysis of key issues, figures and concepts as well as making new and original contributions to ongoing debate. Consisting of three sections of Meaning and Theories of Meaning; Language, Truth and Reality; and Reference, Identity and Neccessity, and including an extensive glossary of techni…
Overview: Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars - many commissioned especially for this volume - are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essays, the editor gives an account of his presentation of these works, discusses questions surrounding the chronology of their co…
Overview: This book takes readers through a full range of approaches - analytic versus continental, scientistic versus humanistic, 'pure' versus applied - enabling them to locate and understand these different ways of doing philosphy. Clearly and accessibly written, it will stimulate reflection on philosophical practice and will be invaluable for students of philosophy and other philosophicall…
Overview: This book and its companion volume Moral Theory provide a much-needed alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy. This book focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems: abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment and war. By challenging contempora…
Outline: This book and its companion volume Applied Ethics provide a much-needed alternative to consequentialist orthodoxy. This book set out the basic system used to solve problems, the system that consequentialist deride as "traditional morality" and which they believe is 'dead". The central concepts, principles and distinction or traditional morality are explained and defended: rights, jus…
Overview: This book is the culmination of the author's theological and personal odyssey. Using the acclaimed Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English translation and adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features an insightful introduction by Clifford J. Green and supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett. Though caught up in the vortex of momentous forces in the Nazi period, t…
Overview: This series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important, otherwise unavailable texts - English-language texts and translations that have fallen out of print, new translations, and collections of significant statements about problems and themes of special importance - in an easily accessible form. Volumes in the series will ena…
Overview: What makes good people do bad things? The author, renowned social psychologist has an answer, and in this book, the author explains how - and why - we are all susceptible to the lure of "the dark side". Drawing on examples from history as well as his own trailblazing research, the author, the creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, details how situational forces and group dynamics…
Overview: The author is known to millions of readers as a psychoterapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. This book explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.
Overview: Thales, Parmenides, Herakleitos, Sokrates, Plato, Aristoteles, Epicurus, Zeno, Plotinus, Augustinus, Anselmus, Thomas, Eckhard, Nicolaus, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, Russel, Wittgenstein. Weischedel wijdt ons in in het priveleen van mannen, die…
Overview : Some of the greatest minds of the world explain, in this challenging volume, the combination of factors that unite to produce creative achievements in literature, painting, philosophy, biology, mathematics, and psychiatry. This delightful and provocative symposium, which has been edited by a distinguished scholar and critic, is stimulating for all who work in creative fields, or enj…
Overview: Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand, he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Arisotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical compo…
Overview: In this sweeping and brilliantly provocative book, eminent sociologist as the author articulates a discruptive and compelling alternative narrative of the course of Western civilization since the Renaissance and the Reformation. Humanism is commonly credited with building Western civilization as we know it - bringing about the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights…
Overview: Dalam karya klasik modern ini, Francis Schaeffer menelusuri tren-tren di dalam pemikiran abad ke-20 dan membongkarkan bagaimana ide-ide kunci telah membentuk masyarakat kita. Dengan analisis yang bercakupan luas, Schaeffer mengkaji filsafat, sains, seni, dan budaya populer untuk mengidentifikasi dualisme, fragmentasi, dan kemerosotan rasio. Karya Schaeffer sangat relevan untuk saat …
Overview: Fifteen short chapters explore what happens when we see our bodies as machines to be manipulated, molded, and marketed. This book explores some of the horrors taking place in hospitals and labs and provides biblical direction for people wrestling with ethical issues such as: - physician-assisted suicide and the "right" to die - genetic manipulation - fetal issues harvesting -…
Overview: Objects are the focus of this text. More precisely, it deals with the nature and modalities of the objectal relationship's constitution, a relationship that is established between one or several subjects and one or several objects. By parting from such a general definition, the difficulties associated with identifying an area of research loom from the start. In effect, how does one…
Overview: This study traces the genealogy and the presence of a Hermetic vein of contemporary thought and signifying practice. Giordano Bruno is a major source for a Hermetic theory of semiosis rooted in an epistemology that privileges thought-by-images, mnemonics and silence. Giambattista Vico played a significant role in channelling a transfigured form of Hermetic semiosis to the present. …