Humanism category: 419 books

Cover of Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient
by Denis Diderot
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2016

Je me doutais bien, madame1, que l’aveugle-né, à qui M. de Réaumur vient de faire abattre la cataracte, ne nous apprendrait pas ce que vous vouliez savoir ; mais je n’avais garde de deviner que ce ne serait ni sa faute, ni la vôtre. J’ai sollicité son bienfaiteur...
Cover of Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
by Brian Leiter
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019

Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how our lives unfold. Leiter presents a new interpretation...
Cover of Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century
by Jonathan MS Pearce, Ed Buckner, Dale McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

Atheism is an evolving worldview - not the single proposition that God does not exist, but everything else that might or might not go with it. With only a single sentence about the existence of single entity, there is huge scope - necessity, even - for having to reasonably work everything else out....
Cover of The Fiery Brook

The Fiery Brook

Selected Writings

by Ludwig Feuerbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

Feuerbach’s departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of Marx’s early writings. Indeed, a great amount of the young Marx must remain unintelligible...
Cover of Leviathan: Part I
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

Cover of Leviathan: PART III
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015

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Commentaries On Living

Third Series

by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems—our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices—and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. “The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader...
Cover of En viaje hacia el renacimiento
by Silvia Magnavacca
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2017

"Más que en cualquier otro período, la filosofía en el Renacimiento reclama un abordaje interdisciplinario, cosa que se ha tenido en cuenta al acercarnos a sus autores. De todos modos, nos hemos ceñido al campo de las ideas sobre el que confluyen otras perspectivas. Asimismo, hemos tomado...
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Philology

The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

by James Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014

Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more....
Cover of Humanismo

Humanismo

Los bienes invisibles

by Juan Luis Lorda Iñarra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 5, 2009

"Los bienes invisibles son luminosos, netos, inmateriales y algo misteriosos, capaces de abrir horizontes y dar belleza a la existencia. Y son liberales, porque tienen mucho de don gratuito y, al mismo tiempo, expanden, aclaran y adornan la libertad, y la elevan sobre el comportamiento instintivo...
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Humanismo II

Tareas del espíritu

by Juan Luis Lorda Iñarra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 2, 2010

En este libro, continuación de Humanismo: los bienes invisibles, el autor analiza dos dimensiones complementarias en el armónico desarrollo del hombre: la formación personal (resortes interiores, disciplina y trabajo) y la dimensión social (el arte de educar, el arte de gobernar, la familia)....
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Lila

An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert Pirsig
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013

In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator...
Cover of My Life Is an Open Book
by Sohail Lakhani
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

I would like to begin by thanking you all for sacrificing your time and patience to listen to what I have to say today. Today we will discuss how just having a positive attitude can help guide us to the road of success. The topics that will by covered in this speech are: A. Why should we consider...
Cover of A Story of Ravenna (Unabridged)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Story of Ravenna (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader. A tragic and short love story taking place in the city of Ravenna, told by Giovanni Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student,...
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