Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

The Moral Discourses of Epictetus. This edition includes the Discourses and Selected Writings, The Enchiridion. Translated by Elizabeth Carter. Epictetus (AD c. 55–135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (Turkey), and lived in Rome until his...

In this book a new interpretation of Nietzsche's writings weaves together several issues: power, value, nature, sexuality and sexual politics, and religion. This is perhaps the first book to address all these issues, and it offers the reader new possibilities for engaging this amazing thinker. The title...

Fé é questão de conteúdo doutrinal, de movimento vital. Para Agostinho de Hipona, sem essa segunda dimensão, a primeira não tem frutos; sem aquela primeira, a segunda pode não se realizar integralmente. E por ser vital, a fé é realidade que se comunica, pelas palavras e pelo próprio modo...

Questo dialogo di Platone, incentrato sulle scienze e sulla teoria ottica, ha avuto una enorme influenza sull'evoluzione del pensiero occidentale. Il grande filosofo qui si concentra sul tema della giustizia, sulla dottrine delle idee e presenta il famoso mito della caverna. Opera di grande respiro...

José Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 9 de mayo de 1883-ibíd., 18 de octubre de 1955) fue un filósofo y ensayista español, exponente principal de la teoría del perspectivismo y de la razón vital —raciovitalismo— e histórica, situado en el movimiento del novecentismo. Desde 1935 Ortega anunció...

In Rousseau on Education, Freedom, and Judgment, Denise Schaeffer challenges the common view of Rousseau as primarily concerned with conditioning citizens’ passions in order to promote republican virtue and unreflective patriotism. Schaeffer argues that, to the contrary, Rousseau’s central concern...

The volume Moral Cultivation explores an overlooked topic in the renewed interest in virtue ethics, the concept of moral cultivation. While the study of virtue ethics focuses on the concept of virtue itself, an exploration of moral cultivation explores the process of attaining that virtue. The essays...

Real Nigga Etiquette Is the Proverbs Addendum to The Black Man’s Bible. It is THE GOD 720’s First Philosophical Work. Real Nigga Etiquette is a Short Composite of the many rules and regulations that The God 720 lives by. It is A Self Help reference Book. That is needed and can be used everywhere...

Theaetetus by Plato.This book is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge.In the dialogue,Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions on knowledge:knowledge as nothing but perception,knowledge as true judgment,and finally knowledge as a true with an account.Each definations is shown to be unsatisfactory.

Have you ever considered the Internal Blueprint of your Life hidden within your Soul just waiting to be discovered and ignited to fulfill your true potential? This book unlocks the knowledge of that discovery. For anyone wanting to 'start again' - to reinvent themselves and live an Authentic Life.

«Não luteis contra as vossas fraquezas e os vossos vícios, pois eles é que vos deitarão por terra; aprendei, antes, a utilizá-los e a pô-los a trabalhar. Quer seja o ciúme, a cólera, a ganância, a vaidade, etc., é preciso saber como mobilizá-los para que eles trabalhem para vós na direção...

Este libro presenta los aportes de especialistas de diferentes campos de las ciencias sociales y humanas que han estudiado la naturaleza del totalitarismo y la paranoia, y su relación con la pregunta fundamental por la fragilidad humana. Estos aportes desarrollan tres asuntos fundamentales. En el...

Puisque nous essayons de rapprocher d'abord dans la pratique le déterminisme et la liberté, ou même, s'il est possible, de les faire coïncider pratiquement dans quelque moyen terme, nous devons, selon la méthode que nous avons adoptée, pousser le déterminisme rectifié aussi loin que nous le...

Je sais, le sujet est très bateau.La tarte à la crème du “lâcher-prise”, devenu très à la mode, fournit maintenant ses propres “coaches”. En même temps, un bateau peut en cacher un autre !Car, dans quelle situation doit-on lâcher prise? Comment savoir? En cultivant deux...