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Famous for his political treatise The Prince, which advises would-be kings on the best strategies for governing, Machiavelli turns his attention to the inner workings of a successful republic and the people necessary to maintain it in his Discourses on Livy. Comparing contemporary societies to ancient Rome, with examples from Livy’s The History of Rome, Machiavelli tries to identify the foundations of a well-working republic, examining social and political aspects, such as voting, citizenship, warfare and religion.

「般若心経を生きる」とは、日々の実践。頭ですばらしいことを思いついても、それが実践されなければ意味がありません。とてもいい話を聞いても、それが実践されなければ意味がありません。「行があって、言がある」――言葉ばかりが先行し、行動がなおざりになっている現代人。日常に空虚さを感じるのは、この実践の怠りが原因なのです。尊い一日の積み重ねが尊い人生。今日から、般若心経を生きてみませんか。○講演者:酒井大岳(さかい・だいがく)曹洞宗長徳寺住職。昭和10年、群馬県生まれ。駒澤大学仏教学部卒業後、地元高校で講師を勤める。著書は、『心があったまる仏教』、『酒井大岳と読む金子みすゞの詩』、 『たったひとことで人生は変わる 「愛語」のすすめ』など多数。○昭和58年7月収録

「エレミヤ書」も預言書の一つです。エレミヤもイザヤと同時代の、イスラエルの歴史の中で最も難しい時代を生きた人物です。信仰の目に見えるしるしであったはずの神の都エルサレムの占領と神殿の崩壊に向かう中で、神のはたらきを自分たちの都合のいいように解釈する信仰姿勢を厳しく糾弾します。エレミヤは、苦しみや反対を身に負いながら神の言葉を告げています。

"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic The...

Según los japoneses, todo el mundo tiene un ikigai, un motivo para existir. Algunos lo han encontrado y son conscientes de su ikigai, otros lo llevan dentro, pero todavía lo están buscando. Este es uno de los secretos para una vida larga, joven y feliz como la que llevan los habitantes de Okinawa, la isla más longeva del mundo.

Why do some people accumulate wealth effortlessly while others struggle despite working harder? The answer lies in a specific mindset. This collection brings together the two foundational pillars of the prosperity movement: Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich and Wallace D. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich. For the first time, explore the synergy between these two masters. While Hill spent twenty years distilling the psychological habits of millionaires into practical steps, Wattles offers a metaphysical formula for shifting from a competitive to a creative plane.

What is the meaning of life?It's a question every thoughtful person has pondered at one time or another. Indeed, it may be the biggest question of all-at once profound and universal, but also deeply personal.We want to understand the world in which we live, but we also want to understand how to make our own lives as meaningful as possible; to know not only why we're living, but that we're doing it with intention, purpose, and ethical commitment.

In the second volume of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.

清澄寺をふりだしに、比叡山、三井寺、薬師寺、高野山、仁和寺。青年期の猛烈な勉学と焼き討ちや遠島などの度重なる受難。時の鎌倉幕府に蒙古来襲を警告し、それを的中させるなど、日蓮の生涯は気概と気迫に満ちています。激動の日蓮が最後に落ち着いたのが身延山。ここに開かれた久遠寺は、のちに日蓮宗の総本山になりました。池上で客死する日蓮ですが、臨終のみぎわ残した言葉は「墓は身延の山に建てるべし」。この遺言に、身延山に対する日蓮の愛着が見て取れます。○講演者:岩間日勇(いわま・にちゆう) -日蓮宗総本山久遠寺法主(第九十世)。1908年、山梨県生まれ。著書に『共に生き、共に栄える』などがある。○昭和58年8月身延山にて収録○一部衣擦れなどの雑音がございますが、内容の聴取には差し支えないかと思われます。

Within the chapters of Striking Thoughts, you will find the secrets of Bruce Lee's incredible success—as an actor, martial artist, and inspiration to the world. Consisting of eight sections, Striking Thoughts covers 72 topics and 825 aphorisms—from spirituality to personal liberation and from family life to filmmaking—all of which Bruce lived by. His ideas helped energize his life and career and made it possible for him to live a happy and assured life, overcoming challenging obstacles with seeming ease.

The quest to understand the mind has motivated some of history's most profound thinkers. But only in our own time are we beginning to see the true complexity of this quest, as today's philosophers draw on the latest evidence from neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and other fields to probe deeply into the inner workings of the mind.

In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.

Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: He has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems.

Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meaning come from? What sorts of things have meaning? And how do we grasp the meaning others want to convey? Meaning: A Very Short Introduction is shaped by exploring possible answers to these questions.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on 20th-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A. C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general listener by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.

Born out of the political turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan stands out as one of the most in influential political and philosophical texts of the 17th century. It argues for the restoration of the monarchy in light of the republic and calls for a commonwealth ruled by an authoritative, autocratic figure with absolute sovereignty. This would put an end to all controversy, war, and fear and establish peace via social contract.

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life.

"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis.

From the moment of its publication in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws proved to be a controversial work provoking widespread interest. Within three years it had been translated into various European languages - and was swiftly added to the List of Prohibited Books by the Roman Catholic Church. It is a remarkable book, a potpourri of observations and comments ranging far and wide over the social activities of mankind and it exerted a great influence on political leaders in the following decades.