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We were alive before taking human form. Your soul intended to use this Earth experience in a particular way. You had a plan, but wow, things have gone off track. Once born, you got hit by the bus of the Dark Veil of Forgetting, which is the distinct facet of Schoolroom Earth. By design, you then forgot your whole plan. The Choice is a manual to get back to your purpose. It is a three-part workbook to train yourself to see the magic in the mundane and pain of life. Wake up to the cosmic game you are playing. Time is running out to properly use this intense but short reality.

Niccolò Machiavelli gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Staatsphilosophen der Neuzeit. Der italienische Dichter und Diplomat wurde vor allem für sein Werk "Il Principe (Der Fürst)" weltbekannt und prägte mit seinen Analysen zum Thema Macht neue Herrschaftsvorstellungen. Werner Schwanfelder transportiert die Kerngedanken Machiavellis in die heutige Zeit und zeigt ebenso kurzweilig wie auch vergnüglich die Parallelen zu den Alltagsthemen einer modernen Führungskraft. Unterhaltsam und spannend zieht er Gewinn aus Machiavellis Thesen.

Benjamin Sword Hoppner ist ein schrulliger Milliardär, der sehr spezielle Moralvorstellungen vertritt: er glaubt, genau zu wissen, was Gut und was Böse ist. Eines Tages wendet er sich mit einem spektakulären Versprechen an die Öffentlichkeit: jeder, der Geld für einen tugendhaften Zweck braucht, soll es bekommen. Unter denen, die diese Einladung annehmen wollen, ist auch der junge Mark Weston: er plant, den Milliardär um sein Geld zu erleichtern - egal wie.

Exploring topics ranging from faith and the soul to society and morals, Refracted Reflections: Faith, Morals, and Society endeavors to highlight some of the steps toward gaining and achieving a perfected coordination and synchronization of the outward aspects of conduct and the inner aspects of thought within the self, whether related to understanding the intricacies and characteristics of the cosmos, or dealing with matters related to soul, birth, life, death, and beyond.

People over the course of humanity’s long lifetime have wondered about our proclivity towards evil. What makes us evil? Are we evil by choice or by nature? How can a man become evil? These provocative questions are at the forefront of philosophical discussions all around the world. The author explains in detail, with examples through the ages, how and why man turns to evil and explore the consequences of evil actions.

Entrepreneurs, businessmen, and investors are constantly looking for principles and rules that will pave the way for success. Usually, those at the forefront are successful entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley or legendary Wall Street investors. But the principles of economic growth, wealth creation, and preservation were written long before the rise of the modern market economy and its heroes.

In Making Monsters, David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn't. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: We believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human.

Using examples of government corruption from one of the most troubled US states, the authors warn that until all citizens unite in opposition to, and the exposing of, all government corruption, nothing in our society will change, and our government of the people, by the people, and for the people will continue to hurt the people it was intended to help.

Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the benefits of doing so cannot be overstated. It is quite literally a matter of life and death.

This book explores the nature and essential role of hope in human life under conditions of oppression. Oppression is often a threat and damage to hope, yet many members of oppressed groups, including prominent activists pursuing a more just world, find hope valuable and even essential to their personal and political lives. Katie Stockdale offers a unique evaluative framework for hope that captures its intrinsic value, the rationality and morality of hope, and ultimately how we can hope well in the non-ideal world we share.

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion to tell the listener the remarkable story of economics. Many reviewers have remarked that Rothbard's accomplishment seems superhuman. He seems to have read everything. His originality is overwhelming. His passion for liberty and integrity in science is evident.

Después de pasar años como esclavo bajo el poderío del Imperio Romano, Epicteto encuentra la libertad y funda una de las más importantes escuelas de filosofía estoica. No siendo esto suficiente para él, se propone dejar para la posteridad una guía que ayude al ser humano a superar las vicisitudes de la vida con aplomo y gracia. Este libro es resultado de aquel proyecto en donde, en cincuenta y un capítulos, el lector encontrará un Manual de Vida.

A rollicking treatise on human achievement and potential that offers the keys to perfecting our purpose: Establishing freedom for all. In All’s Well: Where Thou Art Earth and Why, John Lefebvre blends philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics into an original, lyrical meditation on our place in the Universe, both the distance we have come, and the much longer way before us. Lefebvre suggests that - at our core - we are the Universe’s vessels of consciousness. That means that we are also it’s vessels of astonishment and of love.

Che ne è dell'onore? Una parola dalla storia impegnativa, che ha i suoi momenti alti nell'antichità e nell'età feudale dove in seno al mondo cavalleresco diviene un irrinunciabile valore immateriale, differenziandosi in complesse gerarchie e sottili variabili di casta, di condizione socioeconomica, di età, di sesso. Noi sorridiamo di quei significati, ma lungi dal costituire un residuo arcaico, definitivamente sostituito dal più democratico concetto di dignità, oggi l'onore può parlare ancora al nostro immaginario, e riproporre una sua mai esaurita valenza politica.

Epictetus was one of the main voices of the philosophy of the Stoa, and as such most influentia. His "Enchiridion", or handbook, is a manual for practical philosophy. It offers carefully worded instructions for an ethical, sustained way of life. A very old text - but true to this very day and age!

Más que de estética, en el sentido estricto de la palabra, este tratado explora asuntos diversos como la moral, la psicología, la descripción de los caracteres individuales y nacionales. Temas que pueden ocurrirse alrededor del asunto principal. Es una obra sencilla, llena de ingenio y alegría. Kant, ataca por primera vez el problema estético, y aunque sus ideas fundamentales acerca del arte y la belleza se hallan sistemáticamente expuestas en su obra posterior, la "Crítica del Juicio", tienen aquí cierto interés para el conocimiento de los orígenes de la estética Kantiana.

The statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero remains a writer whose influence has been felt for many centuries. Tusculan Disputations is his most wide-ranging philosophical work, and was intended to introduce the Roman people to the pleasures and benefits of the study of philosophy. In a series of stimulating dialogues, Tusculan Disputations examines some of the most fundamental questions of human life: the fear of death, the endurance of pain, the alleviation of sorrow, the various disorders of the soul, and the necessity of virtue for a happy life.

La proclamación neoliberal de la libertad se manifiesta en realidad como un imperativo paradójico: sé libre. Domina una economía de la supervivencia en la que cada uno es su propio empresario. El neoliberalismo, con sus desinhibidos impulsos narcisistas del yo y del rendimiento, es el infierno de lo igual, una sociedad de la depresión y el cansancio compuesta por sujetos aislados.

The reduction of suffering deserves special priority. Many ethical views support this claim, yet so far these have not been presented in a single place. Suffering-Focused Ethics provides the most comprehensive presentation of suffering-focused arguments and views to date, including a moral realist case for minimizing extreme suffering. The book then explores the all-important issue of how we can best reduce suffering in practice, and outlines a coherent and pragmatic path forward.

In 1597, a series of witch trials were held in Scotland which resulted in about 200 executions. The Scottish King James VI (who became James I of England in 1603) took a great interest in the trials and was inspired to write Daemonologie, a text in which the detection and classification of acts of sorcery and the resulting judicial processes are discussed in the form of a Socratic dialogue.