Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

God is pissed. In the beginning, God created heaven, earth, and all the animals. They were part of a grand and perfect design. It worked well, and God was pleased. Then one of the animals, man, started altering the design, irritating God. God gave man, unlike the other animals, a little cleverness,...

Weird Hummingbirds: Unleash Your Life! There comes a point in everyone's life where you can't quite remember how you got here? Perhaps you're in a job that doesn't fullfill you, or a relationship that doesn't fit or you've just gotten lazy or indifferent about what you expect from life. Have...

Questions relating to human freedom cannot be separated from questions relating to human consciousness. The two are intricately entwined, and neither can be understood apart from the other. There is a widespread assumption today that we can understand the nature of human freedom even though there...

Living Toward Everything is an honest and hopeful journey about where humanity stands in the quest to extend life. It delves into the truths about what’s being done to increase human longevity with rejuvenated biology and how close we are to getting there. After five years of dealing...

Plato's Phaedo, also known to ancient readers as Plato's On The Soul, is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's fourth and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days, following...

UNFOLDING DREAMS - Journey beyond the Rio Summits On January 1, 1992, carpenter Mario Houle and geography student Patrice Boyer embarked on a journey, planning to cross North, Central and South America in a self-initiated campaign called Green Light to Rio. Their plan was to raise awareness about environmental...

In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P. F. Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be explained on analogy with a conversation. The relation between a morally responsible agent and those who hold her morally...

In our entire life, the possibilities of choosing to do anything at any given point of time are infinite. And it is our conscious mind that can create a better world for each one of us. But sometimes, our mind, influenced by several external factors in our outside space, chooses to do things which...

Four brain bending short stories about unlucky circumstances and squandered opportunities to tell someone you love them, losing a parent, unruly neighbors who find horror in the truth, and crony capitalism and corruption in city bureaucracies. Their is parody and satire mixed in with materialism and...

The notion of 'freedom' is essential to America's view of itself as a democratic and individual-based society. In this philosophical dialogue, characters assess the many facets, implications and apparent contradictions inherent in this deceptively complex idea. Seventy-nine short segments provide food...

Humans constantly use three things in determining the next step in their lives, whether its in decision-making, reactions, achievements, people they meet, or building every aspect of their life. The mind has different levels and sections, and these all combine together to give a certain decision....

Medicine Fire is a workout for the emotions as you laugh, cry, love, and hate your way through this far ranging tale. “The Story” weaves through sweet romances and personal triumphs, brutal toughness and heartbreak, and uplifting spiritual philosophy. There is a little magic, and even a pinch of...

Wer ist Astelli? Scheinbar nur ein Kind, das sich auf einer Pilgerreise quer durch alle Länder begibt. Doch niemand, der das Kind trifft, bleibt von der Begegnung unberührt. Es steckt mehr in Astelli, als das Auge zu sehen vermag - doch das Kind weiß selbst nicht, ob es wirklich sein will, wozu...

Die Torheit lauert hinter jeder Ecke. Sie macht das Leben bunt und stellt auch dem Klügsten ein Bein. Der große Seneca schrieb: "Wenn ich mich über einen törichten Menschen belustigen will, so brauche ich nicht lange zu suchen: Ich lache über mich selbst." In diesem Sinne eilt die "Kleine...