Outline : Ricoeur's theory of productive imagination in previously unpublished lectures. The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur's most significant and sustained reflections on creativity as he builds a new theory of imagination through close examination, moving from Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant to Ry…
Outline: Because of the nature of his moral principles the therapeutic is, according to the author, the basic revolutionary type of our time, cutting across all lines that divide men in the social order. He is the true unbeliever, the postulant of an anticreed, using all faiths or none in the systematic pursuit of his sense of well-being. Philip Rieff's commanding study Freud: The Mind of the M…
Outline: WORRY. ANXIETY. PANIC. Does any problem hamper our lives more? It plagues us daily, draining our joy and exhausting our energy. It springs up suddenly, clouding our thinking and wrecking our relationships. Most of us have come to accept it, and even expect it... but do we have to? Biblical counselor Robert Jones brings hope for this common problem by demonstrating that it's also a solv…
This book explores the intertwining domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and ethics-two highly divergent fields which at first seem to have nothing to do with one another. AI is a collection of computational methods for studying human knowledge, learning, and behavior, including by building agents able to know, learn, and behave. Ethics is a body of human knowledge-far from completely unders…
Outline: Buku ini mengupas berbagai persoalan mendasar yang hingga kini tetap aktual, seperti hidup dan mati (aborsi, eutanasia), diskriminasi gender, kebebasan berpikir dan menyatakan pendapat (misalnya menyangkut penghinaan dan pencemaran nama), pengaturan ekonomi masyarakat, hormat pada binatang, persoalan ekologi, dan sebagainya. Dengan bahasa yang jelas dan lugas, penulis berani melawan ar…
Outline: Abortion, Fetal Issue Use, Euthanasia, Civil Disobedience, Divorce and Remarriage, Genetic Engineering and Screening, Artificial Insemination, Freezing Embryos, Cloning, Surrogate Motherhood, Homosexuality, Capital Punishment, Sexual Minority, Birth Control, Nuclear Arms, War. "So much is changing today in regard to the control of life and death and the understanding of human sexuality…
Outline: The Chinese people constitute more than a quarter of the world's population, yet until now there has been no single volume that summarizes and integrates the wealth of data available, in English and Chinese, on the psychological functioning of Chinese people. The Psychology of the Chinese People fulfils this role, emphasizing the prime areas of research, both past and present, the theo…
Outline: Man is dead. God is dead. Life has become meaningless existence, man a cog in a machine. The only way of escape lies in a non-rational fantasy world of experience, drugs, absurdity, pornography, an elusive 'final experience', madness ... If this is the twentieth-century mentality, how did it come about? And how can the Christian faith be made meaningful today? In this highly original b…
Outline: What is the origin of evil? Where does what we term evil come from? According to Paul Ricoeur, to think through evil is to think through fallibity; because human freedom is summed up as existence prior to evil. Deriving from a lecture given in Lausanne in 1985, this small text adds to the immense ouevre of this philosopher who is not regarded as a theologian but whose thinking readily …
Outline: Lao Zi was the founder of Taoism, one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese civilization, besides Confucianism. Tsai Chih Chung, the most popular contemporary Chinese cartoonist, has presented the thoughts of Lao Zi in a light-hearted and entertaining manner. Featuring the selected sayings from Tao De Jing, Tsai provides the readers with a fast and easy way to understanding t…
Outline : Kita sudah tahu anjuran untuk "work smart, not work hard", "bekerja cerdas, bukan hanya bekerja keras". Tapi bagaimana sebenarnya cara melakukan itu? Bagaimana cara bekerja cerdas, cepat, dan produktif? Apakah harus membentuk tim berisi orang-orang hebat? Mana yang lebih baik, memberi kelonggaran atau instruksi kepada anggota tim? Apakah kita harus menetapkan sasaran besar ambisius at…
Outline : The works of Philo of Alexandria, a slightly older contemporary of Jesus and Paul, constitute an essential source for the study of Judaism at the turn of the eras and the rise of Christianity. They are also of extreme importance for understanding the Greek philosophy of the time and help to explain the onset of new forms of spirituality that would dominate the following centuries. Thi…
Outline: This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed, is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality de re, the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over key …
Outline : Menurut tradisi, filsafat telah bertindak sebagai ancilla theologiae (pembantu teologi) dengan mengambil peran ministerial (pelayanan) atau menolong. Namun, menganggap bahwa teologi memiliki "peran magisterial" - yakni, otoritatif - bukan dilakukan dengan merendahkan filsafat, melainkan dengan menyanjungnya karena filsafat telah memberikan bantuan yang besar agar kita dapat memahami d…
Outline: Forgiving is for giving. All of us have suffered painful emotional and relational hurts. God calls us to forgive those who have hurt us, but that's often easier said than done. We don't usually know how to forgive others, nor are we always sure if we have truly forgiven them. Psychologist and counselor Everett Worthington, the leading Christian researcher on forgiveness, says that forg…
Outline: Orang mengira ketika Anda ingin mengubah hidup, Anda perlu memikirkan hal-hal besar. Namun pakar kebiasaan terkenal kelas dunia James Clear telah menemukan sebuah cara lain. Ia tahu bahwa perubahan nyata berasal dari efek gabungan ratusan keputusan kecil - dari mengerjakan dua push-up, bangun lima menit lebih awal, sampai menahan sebentar untuk menelepon. Ia menyebut semua tadi atomic …
Outline: They're pushy, forceful, impatient, always in a hurry, and they're always ready to tell you how to do your job better. They're control freaks. Maybe you know one. Maybe you are one. We can learn to cope with the Control Freaks around us. Better yet, we can change. This book will show you how. You'll discover ... - How to Know When Control Is Good or Bad - How to Recognize the Top Ten…
Outline: "Pluralisme sekarang ini, seperti yang ditekankan oleh golongan postmodernis, adalah ciri khas masyarakat dewasa ini." "Seseorang tidak boleh menghakimi kelompok minoritas dengan menggunakan rumusan-rumusan universal tetapi mendengar mereka dari perbedaan yang mereka mau ungkapkan. Jadi hal yang ditonjolkan adalah pluralitas penalaran, bukan kesatuan penalaran." "Unsur-unsur dalam keny…
Outline: In this book the student meets the ideas of Plato, Christianity, Marx, Freud, Sartre, B.F. Skinner, and Konrad Lorenz in the context of what each has to say about human nature. Each of these seven theories of human nature is broken down into four essential components: 1. a background theory of the universe 2. a basic theory of human nature 3. a diagnosis of what is wrong with humank…
Outline: Dunia mengalami perubahan dengan kecepatan yang sangat luar biasa. Dan para pemimpin yang berhasil dalam dunia yang berubah ini hanyalah mereka yang dapat mengarahkan sumber daya yang paling kuat - inteligensi dan energi manusia - secara efektif. Buku ini menawarkan suatu pedoman keberhasilan yang sarat dengan spiritualitas, etika dan kekuatan, bagi para pemimpin seperti tersebut di …
Outline : MELIHAT DIRI SENDIRI―MELIHAT ORANG LAIN. Kebanyakan kita tidak tahu bagaimana orang lain melihat atau memproses pengalaman mereka. Dan ini sangat menyulitkan dalam menjalin relasi, baik dengan pasangan, sahabat, atau dalam kehidupan profesional. Memahami motivasi dan dinamika dari berbagai tipe kepribadian yang berbeda bisa menjadi kunci untuk memahami perilaku yang terkadang membin…
Outline : Why did the Chinese turn against the Western democracies? ... Why did they become Communists? In nontechnical language, H. G. Creel introduces us to a China of unending poverty, oppression and war, a China searching for a way to live with other people without being irritated by them, without being swallowed by them. Taking us behind the great philosophies that helped mold the thinking…
Outline: Jika kita bertanya siapa filsuf zaman modern yang paling menentukan pemikiran filsafat kemudian hari, kiranya hanya sedikit orang yang tidak akan menyebutkan Immanuel Kant. Professor yang tidak pernah keluar dari batas kota Konigsberg, ibu kota Prusia, dan mengikuti irama hidup harian yang amat teratur, bahkan rutin itu, dengan pemikirannya yang radikal yang amat teratur, bahkan rutin …
Outline: In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change…
Outline : "Thomas Aquinas," says Jean Porter, "gets justice right." In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than predominantly a virtue of social institutions. For Aquinas, justice is more about interpersonal morality than civic or social obligations, and Porter masterfully draws out the contemporary significance of …
Outline: Written by two philosophers and a theologian, 101 Key Terms provides easy access to key terms in philosophy and how they are understood and used in theology. The focused entries discuss what the terms have meant in classical and contemporary philosophy and then shift to what these philosophical understandings have meant in the history of Christian theology to the present day. The resul…
Outline: Menelaah paham atau falsafah hidup orang Jawa melalui karya fiksi (novel) merupakan suatu hal yang baru. Tentunya sangat menarik untuk disimak mengingat penulis seorang novelis perempuan, sehingga nuansa manusia Jawa perempuan akan menonjol dalam buku ini. Penulis mencoba menganalisis dengan mengumpulkan gejala-gejala yang tersurat dalam novel-novel mutakhir Indonesia yang memberi tahu…
Outline: Tsai Chih Chung's first volume of cartoons on the Taoist classic Dao De Jing was so well-received that he was prompted to do a second volume. His skills in illustration had improved by leaps and bounds since his first volume was published and this led him to tackle some of the more abstruse passages which he did not include in the first volume. The Dao De Jing is the most widely transl…
Outline: Taiwanese author cartoonist, Tsai Chih Chung, has enlivened the sayings of Confusius through lively cartoons and simple dialogue, much to the delight of Chinese readers. Now Asiapac brings to you, as part of the Chinese Philosophers in Comics Series, as English translation by Goh Beng Choo featuring events in the life of Confucius, selected sayings from Lun Yu (The Analects) and some o…
Outline: Dalam tradisi Jerman Teori Kritis telah dirintis C. Gerlach dan A. Grunberg dalam bayang-bayang Revolusi Rusia 1917. Generasi Pertama pengembang Teori Kritis (1933 - 1970) dipimpin oleh M. Horkheimer dengan fokus pada kritik ideologi atas rasionalitas modern sebagai rasionalitas instrumental. Generasi kedua (1970 - 1980) dipimpin oleh Jurgen Habermas yang menggagas Teori Kritis sebagai…
Outline: Pola kenegaraan modern berkembang bersamaan dengan revolusi ekonomi, sosial, dan budaya yang berlangsung di Eropa Barat tiga ratus tahun yang lalu dan mendapat ungkapan yang paling mengesankan dalam perwujudan masyarakat industrial dan pasca-industrial saat ini. Salah satu pertanyaan inti etika politik dewasa ini terkait dengan legitimasi kekuasaan. Klaim-klaim kenegaraan modern yang b…
Outline: Buku kecil ini sangat bermanfaat bagi pendeta, gembala sidang, dan penginjil ataupun kaum awam dalam usaha untuk memahami sikap dan jalan pikiran orang Jawa. Penulis dari Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana Salatiga, dengan bahasa yang sederhana dan mudah dimengerti, menjelaskan mengenai "Orang Jawa dan Kejawaannya," "Pergumulan Agamawi Orang Jawa," dan "Sinkretisme yang terjadi dalam lin…
Outline: Do you: - dream about writing the Great American Novel? - regret not finishing your paintings, poems, or screenplays? - want to start a business or charity? - wish you could start dieting or exercising today? - hope to run a marathon someday? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you need ... The War of Art In this powerful, straight-from-the-hip examination of t…
Outline: Fumiko Sasaki bukan ahli dalam hal minimalisme; ia hanya pria biasa yang mudah tertekan di tempat kerja, tidak percaya diri, dan terus-menerus membandingkan diri dengan orang lain - sampai suatu hari, ia memutuskan untuk mengubah hidupnya dengan mengurangi barang yang ia miliki. Manfaat luar biasa langsung ia rasakan: tanpa semua "barangnya", Sasaki akhirnya merasakan kebebasan sejati,…
Outline: Temukan pemikir-pemikir fenomenal dunia, kontestasi gagasannya, serta pengembangan novelty, dan riset berdampak. Hoaks marak, kebenaran ilmiah dimanipulasi, intelektualisme menurun, dan mengeluh menjadi perlombaan sehari-hari. Fondasi sains dan karakter ilmiah tidak terbangun dengan kokoh di perguruan tinggi dan lembaga riset. Banyak buku filsafat sains yang menyajikan deretan filsuf d…
Outline: Ada satu kepercayaan yang mempersatukan kelompok kiri dan kanan, ahli psikologi dan ahli filsafat, penulis dan pencatat sejarah. Kepercayaan itu mengilhami judul berita di sekeliling kita dan hukum yang mengatur hidup kita. Dari Machiavelli sampai Hobbes, Freud sampai Dawkins, akar kepercayaan ini telah menghunjam dalam pemikiran Barat. Kita diajari bahwa manusia bersifat dasar egois d…
Outline: Find Your Why menunjukkan cara menerapkan gagasan Simon Sinek yang sangat kuat itu, supaya Anda bisa menemukan lebih banyak inspirasi di tempat kerja—dan pada gilirannya juga menginspirasi orang-orang yang ada di sekitar Anda. Saya percaya kepuasan adalah hak setiap orang, bukan hanya orang tertentu. Kita semua berhak untuk terjaga di pagi hari dengan penuh semangat untuk pergi beker…
Outline: The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence,. Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. this is Dietrich Bonhoeffer's claim in this book. Although the author died before completing his work, the book is recognized as a major contrib…