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Thrivation is the big-idea philosophy of an Everyman whose wisdom may help us transcend the circle of life and death carousel and help ensure that we leave an everlasting imprint on this planet and humanity. In a word, thrive!

The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.

What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of “health care services” for the sake of the patient’s subjective well-being.

Torture doctors invent and oversee techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars. Their knowledge of the body and its breaking points and their credible authority over death certificates and medical records make them powerful and elusive perpetrators of the crime of torture. In The Torture Doctors, Steven H. Miles fearlessly explores who these physicians are, what they do, how they escape justice, and what can be done to hold them accountable.

Tras la partida de Sócrates al Hades, todos los hombres de Grecia se llenaron la cabeza de interrogantes respecto a su muerte. En este libro —uno de los diálogos más importantes de Platón—, se sostiene una charla entre Equécrates y Fedón, revelándose las últimas preocupaciones del famoso filósofo, así como también valiosos debates en lo que intervendrían Simias y Cebete, respecto a la naturaleza del alma y como esta representa un ser inmortal que trasciende al cuerpo; y que, para su propio bienestar, debe estar lo más desapegada posible a las bajas ambiciones terrenales.

In "Also sprach Zarathustra" bringt Friedrich Nietzsche die Kerngedanken seiner Philosophie in großer Dichtung zum Ausdruck. Die ewige Wiederkunft des Gleichen, der Übermensch, der Wille zur Macht: All dies findet sich in diesem monolithisch dastehenden Werk und bündelt sich in der feurigen Figur des Zarathustra. Der Sprecher Volker Braumann legt hier mit dem ersten Teil des Zarathustra eine mitreißende wie verständige neue Lesung des Textes vor.

Wollen wir den perfekten Menschen? Wann ist es Zeit zu sterben? Das Ethik Hörbuch beantwortet diese und weitere brennende Fragen: Gibt es eine Schwangerschaft auf Probe? Leben wir, um zu arbeiten, oder arbeiten wir, um zu leben? Der angesehene Theologe Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Huber wendet sich den Grundfragen unseres Lebens zu. Es geht um Probleme, die sich in Entscheidungssituationen auf dem Lebensweg eines Menschen stellen. Huber betrachtet im Hörbuch »Ethik - Die Grundfragen unseres Lebens« auch ethische Prinzipien, also berufsethische und institutionsethische Fragen.

Was rechtfertigt eine Handlung? Was macht eine Entscheidung rational? Im Hörbuch Philosophie der ZEIT Akademie führt der international renommierte Professor Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin Sie in die Welt der praktischen Philosophie ein - in ihre Traditionen, ihre Schulen und Sichtweisen. Was ist Glück, und was ist Glückseligkeit? Können Menschen frei entscheiden - oder kommt es ihnen bloß so vor? Der Professor für Philosophie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München leitet Sie an, diese Fragen der Praktischen Philosophie zu beantworten: Dafür müssen Gründe abgewogen werden.

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jessica, a devotee of the pseudo-religious Bene Gesserit order, must find their place in the culture of the desert-dwelling Fremen of Arrakis. Paul must contend with both the devious rival House Harkonnen and the gargantuan desert sandworms—the source of the spice.

On the face of it, Avatar: The Last Airbender is a story about a lone superhero. However, saving the world is a team effort, embodied in Team Avatar, aka the Gaang. Aang needs help from his friends and tutors, even from non-human animals. Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy brings to the fore the Eastern, Western, and Indigenous philosophies that are implicit in the show. This volume features contributions by experts on Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Indigenous schools of thought, next to focusing on Western classical authors.

What is the meaning of life? What is my purpose? What am I supposed to do? Since the beginning, human beings have grappled with these age-old questions. In this book, you’ll learn the answer to these questions.

Como sus predecesores y contemporáneos, Aristóteles no fue la excepción dentro de los filósofos que abordaron el amplio cuestionamiento de lo que significaba el alma. A partir del análisis de las opiniones dadas por muchos de sus colegas, el padre de la filosofía occidental, no solo descartaría los viejos mitos respecto a la naturaleza del alma, sino que también explicaría las dinámicas y diferencias existentes entre los distintos tipos de almas de los seres vivos, usando para ello el movimiento, las sensaciones, los deseos, los pensamientos y las facultades de los sentidos.

Den guderne elsker er Agnes Henningsens kærlighedscredo. Romanen kan læses som et forsvar mod de mange beskyldninger for usædelighed og moralsk fordærv, som hun måtte lægge ryg til. Den guderne elsker udkom første gang i 1921.

In Tending the Heart of Virtue, Vigen Guroian illuminates the power of classic tales and their impact on the moral imagination. He demonstrates how these stories teach the virtues through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, while he also unveils components of the good, the true, and the beautiful in plot and character. With clarity and elegance, Guroian reads deeply into the classic stories.

In this book, we explore the belief in naturalism as an atheistic worldview grounded in our best understanding of the world and reality. We delve into the concept of moral naturalism, which allows us to evaluate ethical principles and behaviors based on the natural world and the well-being of sentient beings.

If you sometimes ask yourself "Why am I here?" or "Is there always a clear right and wrong?", you're drawn to the big questions of life, which is what philosophy is all about! Its goal is to explore life's mysteries, to see if universal truths are discoverable through logical reasoning.

For thousands of years, humans have lived by rules and formulas created back in a very barbaric time. Since then humans have moved forward but these old instructions for life haven't. Humans find themselves pulled between the two most powerful forces in the universe: creative and destructive.

The works of J.R.R. Tolkien are some of literature's most beloved. For decades, scholars, fans, and critics alike have been discussing and debating the professor's Legendarium—much ink has been spilled, many books bound, all offering their unique perspectives.

Real Philosophy for Real People is an answer to those philosophies that prize theory over truth, to any metaphysics that cannot account for itself, to anthropologies that are unworthy of the human person, and to ethical systems that reduce the great dignity and destiny of the human person.

Karl Popper's THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, and a devastating criticism of the idea that there are laws of development in history and that human beings are able to discover them. Popper dedicated the book to all those who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny