Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic who continues to fascinate contemporary minds. The product of both youthful fire and mature consideration, the Enquiry, "contain[s] everything of Consequence relating...

Build a better mouse trap?Reinvent the wheel?Why do we always have to do things bigger, better, and bolder than those who've paved the way before us?Is it a good aspect of the human condition, or is it a bad affliction?Let's get to the bottom of it!

The main topic of this book is the concept that 'sense and feel must exist for anything to ever be real and existent to mankind itself.' The result(s) can be expressed as a set of attributes (maybe "alpha(s)" is a better word) that can solve. However, being in air (Greek-resonant...

In an age where our attention is on technological/medical advances, yet we invest a great deal of our energy on political tactics and military defense. Man's problem continues to be his selfishness, cynicism and lack of an ideal managing/governing system based on natural law for universal human rights....

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” - Socrates. Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation...

The ebook version of a video interview series I conducted on the topic of destiny. I was feeling confronted by delays in realising some of my dreams, and so I decided to ask people who inspire me how they would answer questions like these:• As students of personal or spiritual growth we often hear...

What place does motivation have in the lives of intelligent agents? Mele's answer is sensitive to the concerns of philosophers of mind and moral philosophers and informed by empirical work. He offers a distinctive, comprehensive, attractive view of human agency. This book stands boldly at the intersection of philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics.

"A thought provoking and powerful memoir taking a voyage through the oceans of the mind, to a destination yet undecided and undefined..."

Frammenti d'una filosofia dell'errore e del dolore, del male e della morte è l'ultimo dei sei libri in cui Rensi rompe con i consueti moduli sistematico-trattatistici dell'esposizione filosofica e adotta lo stile del pensiero breve. Questo “formato” è caratterizzato da una duttilità che esalta...

Credenti, bigotti e infervorati religiosi si astengano. perché Il palazzo della ragione, la raccolta poetica che Avella ha dato alla luce è quanto di più distante dal loro credo indefesso. L'autore imposta il suo discorso su un'immanenza concreta e totalizzante: inutile sperare nei miracoli, in...

Je ne crains pas d'affirmer que, philosophe et chrétien, M. l'abbé Coignard unit dans un mélange incomparable l'épicurisme qui nous garde de la douleur et la simplicité sainte qui nous mène à la joie. Il est remarquable que non seulement il accepta l'idée de Dieu telle qu'elle lui était...

Compilazione priva di indice e di divisione in capitoli, redatta sotto forma di diario, con data e ora di ogni contenuto scritto. Il libro non riguarda la vita personale dell'autore, bensì una rassegna di pensieri filosofici, antropologici e politici, che contemporaneamente ricostruiscono il credo dell'autore e l'evoluzione del suo pensiero.

Plato's dialogue on the nature of the physical world and humankind.

Plato's dialogue that addresses the death of Socrates.