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For two centuries, utilitarianism has promised a simple formula for a better world: the greatest good for the greatest number. It has shaped laws, governments, and the way we think about justice. But baked into its elegant arithmetic is a troubling possibility — that some people are simply rounding errors in the sum of human happiness.

Charles Sanders Peirce gave the modern world a word — pragmatism — and lived to watch it stolen. What returned to him under that name was looser, friendlier, more obliging than the careful method he had built. So in 1905 he invented an uglier word, pragmaticism, ugly enough, he hoped, that no one would want to kidnap it. The new word changed nothing. The hijacking was complete.

MAIGA – I in the Heart is a thought-provoking nonfiction exploration of democracy, identity, trust, polarization, and the growing internal fractures shaping modern America and its global image. At the center of the book stands the “I” the individual representing integrity, inclusion, freedom of speech, human dignity, respect for the rule of law, democratic balance, education, and the moral conscience at the heart of society.

This book is a philosophical inquiry into modern power—an examination not of what power does, but of how it appears. It begins from a simple, unsettling intuition: that in our time, the essence of power no longer lies in command, action, or consequence, but in spectacle—in the artful display of its own image. Drawing on the insights of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, I follow the transformation of authority from substance to surface. Once, power ruled through acts—laws, decrees, and the visible machinery of enforcement.

What does it mean to lead a meaningful life in the modern age? Across history, philosopher kings were imagined as rulers of rare insight—those who governed not by force, but by wisdom. Today, the crowns are invisible, but the influence remains. This book examines five of the most impactful modern thinkers shaping minds and lives outside the halls of academia: Tim Ferriss–David Goggins–Andrew Tate– Jordan Peterson–Ray Dalio.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the atoms inside your body had lived a thousand lives before you? The Eternal Traveler tells the extraordinary story of a single carbon atom on a journey spanning billions of years. Born in the heart of a dying star, it drifts through space...

Qui étaient vraiment les sophistes, ces maîtres de parole capables d'enthousiasmer la jeunesse athénienne et d'inquiéter Socrate, Platon ou Aristote ? Cet ouvrage clair et vivant dévoile l'univers de Protagoras, Gorgias, Hippias et Prodicos : leurs idées, leur influence et les débats décisifs qu'ils ont ouverts sur la vérité, la justice, la démocratie ou le pouvoir du langage. Entre relativisme, scepticisme et invention d'une nouvelle éthique, les sophistes ont posé les bases d'une pensée lucide et pragmatique, dont les échos résonnent encore aujourd'hui.

Philosophe discret menant une vie d'une régularité quasi légendaire, Emmanuel Kant n'en demeure pas moins l'un des penseurs les plus audacieux et les plus décisifs de l'histoire de la philosophie. En interrogeant radicalement les limites de la connaissance, les fondements de la morale et le sens de l'espérance humaine, il a bouleversé notre façon de penser et ouvert une voie nouvelle à l'autonomie intellectuelle. Cet ouvrage clair et accessible offre une introduction lumineuse à son œuvre.

On the twenty-eighth of February, two thousand and twenty-six, an artificial intelligence system helped designate a girls' elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab as a military target. One hundred and sixty-eight people died, most of them schoolchildren. The system was working as designed. That is the problem. This book argues that the danger of artificial intelligence has been catastrophically misdiagnosed.

You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do we go when the facts run out? Philosophy. Braiding the thought of the Stoics, Spinoza, Kant and other leading philosophers together with meditations on religious experience, Christopher Insole takes us beyond the limits of reason to a place where we might find empathy and reverence for all of our fellow persons, each in the struggle to live a meaningful life.

Reflections of an Ordinary American in Extraordinary Times is a compelling and thought-provoking exploration of America’s journey through history, culture, and modern-day challenges. Blending personal insight with historical and philosophical reflection, the book examines how society has evolved and what may have been lost along the way. It encourages readers to question the systems that shape everyday life, from education and governance to community and human connection.

"Filosofía en tiempos de crisis: pensamientos para el presente" es un audiolibro pensado para quienes sienten que la vida se volvió demasiado rápida, pesada o confusa. A lo largo de sus capítulos, se van abordando experiencias muy comunes —el cansancio, la incertidumbre, la presión por "hacer más", el miedo al futuro o incluso la relación con el dinero— y se conectan con ideas de la filosofía, no como algo complicado, sino como una forma sencilla de entender mejor lo que nos pasa y recuperar un poco de claridad en medio del día a día. Más que enseñar teoría, este audiolibro acompaña.

You are not imagining it. The years really are getting shorter. Not on any clock, not on any calendar — but inside the three pounds of tissue between your ears, something has changed. The summers that once stretched into lazy eternities now collapse into a long weekend. A decade vanishes like a coin in a magician's hand. And the unsettling sense that you are being robbed of time — that life is accelerating toward some finish line you never agreed to approach — is shared by nearly everyone who has lived long enough to notice it.

Why do the best ideas produce the worst outcomes? Saint-Simon sacrificed his fortune, his title, and his health to build a fairer world. Marx devoted his life to liberating the working class. The architects of liberal democracy genuinely believed in human dignity. Yet every system they created — however noble its origin — ended by devouring the people it promised to serve.

Every revolution in history promised equality, brotherhood, and shared prosperity. Every one of them delivered tyranny, suffering, and betrayal. And yet the dream persists—because it was never wrong. Only the method was. In What Institutional Communism Got Wrong, Boris Kriger—a former Orthodox priest who ran a homeless shelter in his own house for nine years, lived in an Israeli kibbutz, and once found himself teaching communism to the general secretaries of Canada’s two communist parties—makes a case so simple it sounds radical: cooperation is the natural state of human beings.

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson embark on an inquiry searching for ultimates. A keynote lecture delivered by Dr. Montgomery, a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, at the 24th Annual Philosophy Symposium of the California State University, Fullerton, in March, 1993.

Celebrated Spanish philosopher Jose Carlos Ruis brings the wisdom of great philosophers to life in this entertaining guide to sharpening our minds. The witty and empowering international bestseller from celebrated Spanish philosopher Jose Carlos Ruis: how the timeless wisdom of our Great...

Collective Contemplations is a collection of brief philosophical essays, contemplations, that have been conjured over time. Certain themes such as seeking silence in a noisy world, reclaiming humanity in the advent of artificial intelligence, the utility of meditation, living an authentic life, coming to terms with death, and much more are explored.

What do algorithms, collective fiction, dataism, free will, and humanism really mean in the world described by Yuval Noah Harari? “Harari Dictionary” is a precise exploration of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Rather than summarizing these influential books, this volume maps the ideas that structure them. Each entry offers a clear definition followed by carefully selected quotations from Harari’s own works, allowing listeners to grasp not just what these concepts mean, but how they function within his broader vision of history, technology, power, and meaning.

Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' – what happens when a direct link between...