Humanism category: 419 books
Our Practices, Our Selves
Or, What it Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
A book for everyone interested in learning how philosophy is done and what it can tell us about who we are.
The Individual without Passions
Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The innovative characteristic of the book lies in its tackling an extremely timely and important issue—mainly individualism—from the original point of view of a theory of passions. It underlines the importance of the problem of the passions both in forming individual identity and in building the...
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
A German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. The Antichrist- Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, "Ecce...
Wake-Robin
A Collection of Essays About the Birds
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In the early spring, the blooming of the wildflower trillium — also known as "wake-robin" — heralds the return of migrating birds. In Wake-Robin: A Collection of Essays About the Birds, John Burroughs offers absorbing reading for birdwatchers, nature lovers, and anyone interested in...
Zombie University
Thinking Under Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In this full-blooded attack on the institutions of higher education, Sinéad Murphy shows the neoliberal university for what it really is: a zombie institution, churning out generations of the thinking dead.
What if we have lost the ability to think straight? And what if this is why the shocking...
Essays in Metaphysics
Identity and Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The two lectures translated here were published in 1957 under the title Identitat und Differenz. The sensitive and attentive reader will come away with a feeling that he now knows Heidegger, the man, the teacher, better. Heidegger provides illuminating insights and thoughts on many a vital issue—our...
Issues of the Heart
Being Vulnerable Enough to Expose the Skeletons in Our Closet, Face Giants and Smell the Roses as an Apex to Connecting with God, Self and Others
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Issues of the Heart is an eclectic collection of pragmatic and realistic poems, free verse and prose that reads like a memoir or short story. It speaks on real life issues as it relates to intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict and human relations such as joy and pain, spirituality, struggles and...
Sun Rise In Life
About Fighting Spirit of Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
SUN RISE ……… is about darkness in life of Human being. The Night and darkness of Night is taken as a Symbolic way to express the theme.
SUN RISE ………is not about success or failure; it is not about ‘do’ or ‘do not’ type suggestion book. It’s about attitude towards rough days of...
by Oliver Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Solovievs place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction...
The Narratives II: Dusk Or Dawn
The Narratives, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The Narratives series of works is a collection of short introspective essays written by an average guy in an effort to better understand himself, his life, and his relationship with the world around him while traveling the road of self-discovery. These works can best be described as the author's unique...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Qu’est-ce que la célébrité ? Voici le malheureux Ouvrage à qui je dois la mienne. Il est certain que cette Pièce, qui m’a valu un prix & qui m’a fait un nom, est tout au plus médiocre, & j’ose ajouter qu’elle est une des moindres de tout...
by - Érasme
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Comprend 45 illustrations - 152 notes de bas de page - Environ 264 pages au format Ebook - Sommaire interactif avec hyperliens
Éloge de la folie fait partie des textes classiques très souvent cités pour leur approche humaniste ou pour l'originalité de leur forme. Il méritait donc sans...
A Handbook on Good Manners for Children
De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
When did you last tell your children to put their hand over their mouth when they yawn? When did you last suggest that when they are introduced to someone they should shake hands firmly and look them in the eye? Do you suggest that they should wait until everyone is served before they eat rather than...
by Gilbert Murray
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was breaking apart, another group explore the background from which Christianity arose, considering Paganism...