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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the search for justice led not to a courtroom, but into the deepest chambers of the soul? In *The Republic*, Plato creates one of the foundational works of Western philosophy: a dramatic dialogue on justice, power, education, truth, the ideal...

Manufactured Fear: When Fear Becomes a Tool for ControlFear kept your ancestors alive. It made them run from predators, avoid poisonous food, and stay close to the group when the dark came. Fear is not a flaw in the human design. Fear is the design. Every person alive today is the descendant of someone who was afraid enough, at the right moment, to survive. The problem is that someone figured this out. Somewhere in the deep past, long before written language, long before cities or governments or religion, someone noticed that a frightened person does what they are told.

Research has found that honesty is the single most important characteristic a person can possess when it comes to liking them, respecting them, and understanding them. But honesty is eroding at a frightening rate in many areas of society today, as we are confronted with a number of honesty crises. The frequency of deepfakes has skyrocketed, now that they are simple to make and untraceable.

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this work have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Et si votre manière de penser, de réagir et de décider était dirigée par des scripts que vous n'avez jamais choisis ? Dans les années 1970, une psychologue de Harvard a prouvé qu'un seul mot vide pouvait ouvrir 93 pour cent des portes. La plupart...

Ein radikal neuer Ansatz zur Überwindung der politischen Spaltung Die Welt ist in einem Dauerkrisenzustand. Und die Demokratie scheitert immer häufiger an den Grenzen unseres Gehirns. Die kognitiven Anforderungen von Inklusion, Toleranz und Diversität überfordern uns – unabhängig von der politischen Ausrichtung.

The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind 'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIAN THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers...

What if you were marooned amidst an endless ocean, forced to construct a world capable of protecting and sustaining you? In How to Build a World, Federico Campagna invites the reader to join him in a sustained thought experiment, reimagining the most fundamental questions of philosophy...

An engaging new translation of a timeless fifth-century Buddhist meditation guide that teaches practices for becoming happier and freer by learning how to love everyone Sages and religious teachers the world over have taught us to love one another, extending our love and kindness beyond our...

Freiheit ist in aller Munde – doch fühlen wir uns wirklich frei? In einer Welt der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten erleben viele Menschen eine subtile innere Blockade. Wir funktionieren, optimieren uns selbst und suchen nach Anerkennung, während wir gleichzeitig spüren: Irgendetwas stimmt nicht. Wir leben in einer Gesellschaft, die Freiheit verspricht, aber oft nur neue Formen der Abhängigkeit schafft.

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Solitude by Michael Harris, read by Kerry Shale. 'I came away from this book a better human being. Michael Harris's take on existence is calm, unique, and makes one's soul feel good.' Douglas Coupland Solitude is a rapidly...

"El hombre ha nacido libre, y sin embargo, vive en todas partes entre cadenas." Estas son las famosas palabras de apertura de un libro que no ha dejado de suscitar debates desde su primera publicación en 1762. Rousseau desaprueba que algunos hombre se sientan con el derecho natural de ejercer autoridad sobre otros, y defiende un pacto o "contrato social", que debería existir y ser la fuente del poder soberano.

La tesi di Murgia è che l'odio possa essere una virtù, dipende da come lo pratichiamo. Per esempio, con Odio gli indifferenti Antonio Gramsci ha mostrato che, se riconosciuto e disciplinato, questo sentimento non è per forza distruttivo. Passando dalle maledizioni sarde ai salmi biblici, da Grazia Deledda alle lettere di san Paolo, Murgia smonta i nostri pregiudizi e rivendica il diritto di odiare – specialmente i prevaricatori, i prepotenti, tutti coloro che non credono nella responsabilità collettiva del bene.

To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Žižek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are...

Falecido no Rio de Janeiro em 1917, o filósofo cearense Farias Brito é reconhecido no Brasil e no exterior pela excelência de sua obra. Extraídos do livro "A base física do espírito", os textos aqui reunidos abordam, entre outros, os seguintes temas: "O homem na cena do mundo", "As causas da revolução mental", "O racionalismo e a psicologia".

«Cara Liviuccia, non preoccuparti per me. Ho raramente il mal di testa piccolo, mentre quello grande l'ho avuto solo sabato mattina, legato alla cena della notte precedente. Del resto, esiste la grazia di stato di cui sono testimone ormai da tanti anni...». Il mittente di questa lettera del 1960 è Giulio Andreotti e il destinatario è sua moglie Livia.

In Contemplation, Jared Henderson provides us with a toolkit of strategies for creating a life of intellectual curiosity in a world of constant distractions. For the ancient philosophers, a life worth living was a life spent in contemplation of higher ideas that challenged the intellect and...

""Compassion is at once deeply personal and inherently public, influencing how we relate to one another and how institutions and societies respond to vulnerability."" -Hon'ble Mr. Justice Surya Kant (Chief Justice of India) ""In a deeply reflective moment, Dr Kiran Bedi read excerpts from...

We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by Google Earth and the Cloud. The terrestrial order is giving way to a digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things – a constantly expanding 'infosphere' of information and...

«Come può l'attenzione che si presenta all'arte diventare un atto d'amore, o qualcosa di simile?» È la domanda da cui nasce questa raccolta di saggi, conversazioni e riflessioni di Maggie Nelson sui temi che hanno plasmato il suo percorso intellettuale e umano nell'arco di oltre vent'anni. Come l'amore è una descrizione delle illuminazioni che l'incontro con l'«altro» può donare a ognuno di noi e assieme l'autoritratto di una stagione della vita animata da una caotica e vorace curiosità.