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つい数年前まで「脳科学は万能である」ともてはやされたブームも、いまやすっかり下火になりました。精神科医として活躍する和田秀樹さんは、当時のことを「前時代的な幻想だった」と振り返ります。

PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. As neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy shows us, games have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behavior and brought us to the brink of annihilation.

数多い仏教書の中でも「いづれの行も及びがたき身なれば，とても地獄は一定すみかぞかし」といった『歎異抄』の文言ほどわれわれに耳近いものはあるまい．

1930年、ヤラヴァーダー中央刑務所に収監中のガンディーは、修道場（アーシュラム）でみずからの教えを実践する弟子たちに宛てて一週間ごとに手紙を送る。

During his lifetime, world renowned psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl had an unshakably optimistic outlook on life. He believed that regardless of circumstance, we can all find meaning and fulfilment in our lives, even in the face of great adversity. But how much influence do we have on shaping our own lives? How do we seize opportunities and create a meaningful life? And in doing so, can we still respect the dignity of others and tolerate all views?

The study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and warfare. It aims to offer a new history of Greek historiography from the Enlightenment to the present, and to acknowledge the continuing spiritual importance of the ancient Greeks for European culture.

If we do what is right, everything else will follow: happiness, success, meaning, reputation, love. This is central to Stoic wisdom. The path isn't always easy, but it is essential, and the alternative - taking the easy route - leads only to cowardice and folly. In the third book in his bestselling Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday explores the crucial role that integrity plays in every good life. From pillars of upright living like Ulysses S. Grant and Marcus Aurelius, to the cautionary tales of Napoleon and F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book shows us the power of owning our convictions.

For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one’s commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined, one must begin with justice. The influence of the modern world often tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that that’s simply untrue—and the fact that so few people today have the strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why we’re so unhappy.

過去から学び、未来を予測する――教養としての「哲学」＆「近現代史」講座　振り返ってみると、20世紀は「全体主義と世界大戦の時代」でした。

Sanuk is a Thai concept that can loosely be translated as meaning ‘fun’. Though sanuk is in fact much more than that; it’s about achieving pleasure and joy in all aspects of life. For Thai people, if it’s not sanuk, it’s not worth doing. Thai people believe that it’s the little things that add up to a joyful life. Whether it’s raising happy kids, enjoying a quick chat with your neighbour or having a laugh with friends, they try to bring a sense of joy into their daily routines. This easygoing, fun-loving way of life is why Thailand is often called The Land of Smiles.

Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means.

Today, a new generation of Buddhists searches for ways to adopt Vajrayana while staying true to its historical legacy. Modern Tantric Buddhism unpacks the principles and applications of this esoteric practice in an accessible and meaningful manner, connecting its roots to a socially engaged, modern-day dharma. Von Bujdoss challenges assumptions about what it means to be a socially engaged Buddhist, and presents Tantra as an ideal vehicle for critically examining today’s most pressing social issues.

...habe gerade Kafka-Dub gehört: Zuerst dachte ich: 42, du weißt schon, Douglas Adams, dann war ich ganz bei meinem Jahr mit Milton: Paradise Lost, dann beim Zenmeister und seiner berühmten Aufgabe, mit einer Hand zu klatschen, und zum Ende hin fragte ich mich, wie das wohl zu Ende gehen kann: Haus, Tisch, warten, allein, Welt, Dub, Dub, Dub... Kafka Dub ist ein Hörbuchprojekt zu Franz Kafkas Zürauer Aphorismen, die nach Kafkas Tod von seinem besten Freund Max Brod als Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg veröffentlicht wurden und will eine neue Perspektive auf Kafkas zeitloses Werk finden.

「強く願うだけでは夢は叶わない。なにひとつ攻略法を知らなければ、いつまでもレベル1のままだ」ーーベストセラー『言ってはいけない』シリーズの著者が提言する、新時代の人生戦略。

◆人の直感はパワフルで本能的で、まるでゾウのよう。◆ゾウを【ナッジ】で後押しすれば、人の心も動きはじめる

【ひろゆき氏も参戦！全く新しい哲学入門書！】「人生、親ガチャで決まる？」「勝ち組に入るのがすべて？」現代人の気になるテーマ、哲学者とディベートしたらどう答える！？

Dangerous Jokes develops a novel, well-researched, and compelling argument that lays bare the power of demeaning jokes in ordinary conversations. Claire Horisk draws on her expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law, and cognitive science to explain how the element of humor—so often used as a defense—makes jokes more potent than regular speech in communicating prejudice and reinforcing social hierarchies.

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.

An extensively updated version of The American Leadership Tradition, Moral Vision is for anyone tired of today’s textbook tendencies to submerge the role of individuals as big economic and demographic waves roll in. History is more than statistics, economics, and group identities. Human beings are more than paper boats riding the rainfall into gutters.

西洋哲学と出会って１５０年、日本の哲学者たちは何を考え、何を目指してきたのか。日本哲学のオリジナリティに迫る、第一人者による入門書の決定版！