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In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history. In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments by a scientific theory, separate laws into a constitution, or single events into a story.

In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent, vocal cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for: individualism, material wealth, science, technology, capitalism.

Brought to you by Penguin. Happiness is impossible to define and illusory. How then are we to lead happier lives? In A Little Happier Derren Brown condenses the lessons of his international bestseller Happy into 17 beautifully-wrought, wise and profoundly reassuring mini-chapters, each one...

Acclaimed author M.A.C. Farrant has been hailed as “a brave iconoclast” by Publishers Weekly and is well known for her pithy wit and maverick sensibilities. Broken into three sections, The Strange Truth About Us is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on the human penchant for complacency.

Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Rory Alexander. René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which...

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Rousseau in just one hour. In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility – his arguments are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet whilst his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been...

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.

Mill's book Utilitarianism first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861 and was reprinted as a single book in 1863. John Stuart Mill was brought up as a Benthamite with the explicit intention that he would carry on the cause of utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is a family of consequentialist ethical theories that promotes actions that maximize happiness and well-being for the majority of a population. Although different varieties of utilitarianism admit different characterizations, the basic idea behind all of them is to in some sense maximize utility.

Марк Твен умел несколькими словами выразить истинную суть любого явления, охарактеризовать человека или описать ситуацию так, что это становилось афоризмом. Всю жизнь он изучал человечество, бездны его пороков и вершины величия. В своих произведениях Марк Твен смеялся над ним – иронично, зло, с состраданием. Он как будто подносил зеркало и говорил: смотрите, люди, вы вот какие, исправьтесь. Никто вам не поможет: ни царь, ни бог, ни герой, ни демократия. Давайте сами. Предлагаем и вам, дорогие читатели, посмотреться в это зеркало. Приобщиться к искусству размышлять о времени и о себе.

Так казав Заратустра — філософський тритомний роман-трактат Фрідріха Ніцше, зміст якого обертається навколо ідей вічного повторення, "смерті Бога" та пророцтва про надлюдину. Головний персонаж — переосмислений Ніцше пророк зороастризму Заратустра, що повертається з проповіддю до людства після тривалого усамітнення в горах.

Ever wondered why your college roommate won't shut up about The Stranger? Curious about why French intellectuals spent the 1950s chain-smoking and arguing about whether you should kill yourself? Want to sound smart at dinner parties without actually reading 800 pages of dense existential philosophy? Welcome to the only Camus guide you'll ever need and the only one honest enough to admit that "imagine Sisyphus happy" is either profound wisdom or the philosophical equivalent of "good vibes only."

This book advances the Principle of Anti-Symmetry: the claim that symmetry has never existed in nature as more than a cognitive projection. What science repeatedly reveals as “symmetry breaking” is not the loss of an original balance, but the disclosure of reality’s true structure—irreducible imbalance.

El texto ofrece una explicación genealógica de los vínculos que unen el planteamiento kantiano con cuatro presuposiciones pragmáticas inevitables en la acción comunicativa: un mundo objetivo común, la responsabilidad de los sujetos racionales, la validez incondicional de las pretensiones de verdad y de corrección normativa, y la necesaria dependencia de justificación discursiva.

This audiobook explores how human mentality—our ingrained habits of perception and emotional logic—shapes conflict in families, workplaces, and politics. It shows how changing the way we see can change the way we live together. At its core lies the idea of antihabitus: the capacity to step beyond automatic reactions, cultural scripts, and inherited patterns.

This audiobook is a call to reclaim value as real—because the future of the world depends on it. We live in a time between worlds and a time between stories, as the very existence of humanity is threatened by a meta-crisis. The meta-crisis is a series of interlocking social, political, educational, climate and technological crises, that we can all see and feel in our lives.

In this book, we point towards the ontologies of story and value. Story is real. And value is real. That is the reality consideration that we engage in this book. Along the way we engage Yuval Harari’s rejection of the ontology of both Story and Value. Harari is perhaps the most popular parrot of the postmodern zeitgeist at this moment in time. Harari’s key idea is that we need a new story around which open societies can cohere in order to respond to the meta crisis.

In this rigorous and unsettling study, Boris Kriger reconstructs Georges Bataille’s vision of the sacred as a trembling border between reason and its own undoing. Moving beyond biography and commentary, the book situates Bataille’s thought within the crises of twentieth-century modernity—the collapse of transcendence, the exhaustion of eroticism, and the metamorphosis of sacrifice into aesthetics.

In a world overflowing with information and opinions, understanding the foundations of modern thought can feel overwhelming and elusive. If you've ever grappled with interpreting the significance of the Enlightenment and how it applies to today’s society, you're not alone. 'Unraveling the Enlightenment' is crafted for modern thinkers eager to explore this pivotal intellectual movement with clarity and context.

This comprehensive guide decodes the language of Jean-Paul Sartre, providing you with a key to understanding his complex ideas and theories. Ever found yourself lost in the labyrinth of existentialism? This dictionary is your roadmap, meticulously analyzing the words and phrases Sartre used most frequently across his works. It's not just a dictionary, but a study guide, illuminating the recurring themes and concepts that shaped Sartre's philosophy and, in turn, the world.

Dive into the profound world of Albert Camus with Camus Dictionary, an enlightening exploration of the essential terms that illuminate Camus's existential philosophy. This comprehensive guide is more than just a dictionary; it's a bridge to understanding one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Albert Camus, a figure synonymous with the Absurd and Existentialism, left behind a legacy rich in thought-provoking concepts and literary masterpieces. Camus Dictionary meticulously unpacks the language and ideas that define his work.

This comprehensive guide delves into the most frequently used words and phrases by the renowned Danish philosopher, providing listeners with a deeper understanding of his existential and theological insights. Whether you are a seasoned scholar or new to Kierkegaard's works, this dictionary offers clear and concise definitions, illuminating his complex ideas and making his philosophical contributions more accessible.

This book is not here to comfort you. It does not promise hope, progress, or some tender reassurance about the nobility of the human project. It will not tell you that everything happens for a reason, or that there is meaning to be found in our collective struggle. Instead, it stands firmly within the logic of Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra—a philosophy that does not seek to reveal a hidden truth, but to diagnose the condition of our reality. We no longer live in the world; we live within our own perception of it.

Michael Köhlmeier lädt ein zu einer ganz persönlichen Reise, von Shakespeare über seinen Onkel Gerhard bis zu Coco Chanel. Will man für immer leben, wenn man für immer jung sein will? Ist Langeweile die Vorhut des Bösen? Sind Märchen nur Kindern oder auch Erwachsenen zumutbar? Und wenn es das Gute gibt, kann dann jeder die Welt besser machen? Michael Köhlmeier erkundet die großen und kleinen Fragen des Menschseins. Er zelebriert alle Facetten eines intellektuellen Savoir-vivre und entwirft eine kleine Schule des klugen Sehens.

Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely dismissed as nonsense, but what can an exploration of such pseudoscientific phenomena tell us about accepted scientific and cultural thought? In Parascientific Revolutions, Derek Lee traces...

Every act of knowing carries within it a quiet act of forgetting. Knowledge as Oblivion reveals the hidden symmetry between learning and loss, understanding and erasure, showing that progress in thought is not an accumulation but a perpetual renewal through disappearance. In this bold and luminous work, Boris Kriger dismantles the myth of intellectual continuity and invites the listener to reconsider what it means to “know.”

Este ensayo aporta luz a problemas políticos de la máxima actualidad en nuestra sociedad, en un momento en que la izquierda transformadora se encuentra en un estado de resaca, tanto por la tendencia al retroceso que está experimentando, como por su condición tras unos años de constante actividad. Escrito gracias a una profunda reflexión y un continuado estudio de la filosofía política, sobrepasa el aspecto teórico al alimentarse también de la experiencia política y la práctica institucional realizada durante muchos años.

«La omnipotencia de la imbecilidad. Ni los dioses la vencen» «La razón no ocupa todo pero, no hacerla un sitio, es como saltar obstáculos cojeando» Javier Sádaba se maneja con igual destreza en las distancias largas que en las cortas. Siempre encuentra un lugar para el ingenio. En el presente libro recurre al aforismo, o fórmula concentrada para expresar una idea, tan breve en extensión como amplio en pensamiento. Intuye, escoge la manera de decir, de provocar, de sugerir, de recorrer los puntos cardinales que afectan al ser humano: religión, política, amor...

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