Humanism category: 419 books

“No revolution however drastic has ever involved a total repudiation of what came before it.” The religious reformations of the sixteenth century were the crucible of modern Western civilization, profoundly reshaping the identity of Europe’s emerging nation-states. In The Reformation,...

The Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, as well as the first editor of the New Testament. A classical scholar that wrote in a pure Latin style, Erasmus earned the sobriquet "Prince of the Humanists". Using the philological methods pioneered...

This sixteenth-century religious satire by a Renaissance critic and theologian is “a masterpiece of humor and wise irony” (Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian). At the onset of his hugely successful satire of medieval European society, Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus invokes the goddess Folly,...

To find philosophical enlightenment, it is not necessary to climb to the top of a mountain or pursue a graduate degree. All that is required is five minutes a day with any of the 80 life-changing questions and answers compiled here by philosopher Gerald Benedict. Full of insight and wisdom, and utterly...

 …Mais, avec des facultés, l’homme a reçu, de la nature, des besoins  : besoins intellectuels, moraux et physiques  ; besoins du cœur, de l’intelligence, des sens, de l’imagination. Or, quel moyen que chacun remplisse la fonction, pour laquelle la nature le créa,...

Knowledge plays an important role in making a human life happy and peaceful. In the absence of knowledge, the man would spend an unhappy life even if surrounded by all the pleasures of the world. “Hitāśikṣā-Chatrīśī” is a small but invaluable text which can spread the light of knowledge...

A Disturbing Lack of Faith is a short essay, which takes a critical look at the concepts of gods and faith. Argued from a position of skepticism, the flawed logic of these religious concepts fail with the application of reason. All the usual fallacies of apologetics are preemptively torn apart. When...

**“A philosophical look at the history of our species which alternated between fascinating and frightening . . . like reading Dean Koontz or Stephen King.” —**Rocky Mountain News The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human...

For more than half a century, in such books as The Art of Happiness and The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Inner Peace, the Dalai Lama has guided us along the path to compassion and taught us how to improve our inner lives. In A Force for Good, with the help of his longtime friend Daniel Goleman, the...

"Jessa explores the issue with well prepared research and quotes that she shares in her essay. I am delighted in the way the author transforms this difficult matter into an easily digestible short work. " --Martin Beltov, Codices Quality Book Reviews A philosophical discussion regarding...

In this book Herbert Marcuse makes clear that capitalism is now reorganizing itself to meet the threat of a revolution that, if realized, would be the most radical of revolutions: the first truly world-historical revolution. Capitalism's counterrevolution, however, is largely preventive, and in the...

Marx écrivit ces ouvrage dans le courant de l’hiver 1846-1847, alors qu’il résidait à Bruxelles. C’est une réponse à l’étude que Proudhon avait tait paraître en octobre 1846, sous le litre général de : Contradictions économiques,...

William James was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers...