Robert C Solomon: 13 books
True to Our Feelings
What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us--all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings,...
by Robert C. Solomon
Language: German
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Language: German
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Ein kleines Buch über große Fragen
Indem Robert C. Solomon nach dem Selbst und dem Selbstbewusstsein, nach Wahrheit und Wissen, Freiheit, Glück und Moral fragt, führt er uns anhand von ganz konkreten Beispielen sehr anschaulich vor Augen, dass wir Philosophie auch in unserem Alltag erleben...
Spirituality for the Skeptic : The Thoughtful Love of Life
The Thoughtful Love of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2002
Is it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organization? In this book philosopher Robert Solomon offers challenging answers to these questions as he explodes commonly held myths about what is means to...
Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts
Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
In the same spirit as his most recent book, Living With Nietzsche, and his earlier study In the Spirit of Hegel, Robert Solomon turns to the existential thinkers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, in an attempt to get past the academic and political debates and focus on what is truly interesting and...
Building Trust
In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? And, most importantly, how can it be regained once it has been broken? In Building...
The Joy of Philosophy
Thinking Thin versus the Passionate Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy--questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion in the good life; about love, compassion, and revenge; about honesty, deception, and betrayal; and...
A Better Way to Think About Business
How Personal Integrity Leads to Corporate Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1999
Is business ethics a contradiction in terms? Absolutely not, says Robert Solomon. In fact, he maintains that sound ethics is a necessary precondition of any long-term business enterprise, and that excellence in business must exist on the foundation of values that most of us hold dear. Drawing on twenty...
Not Passion's Slave
Emotions and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents...
by Robert C. Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. Philosophy, accordingly, requires not only emotional sensitivity but an understanding of the emotions, not as curious but marginal psychological phenomena but as the very substance of life. In this, the second book in...
by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.
Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords...
Living with Nietzsche
What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2003
Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most popular and controversial philosophers of the last 150 years. Narcissistic, idiosyncratic, hyperbolic, irreverent--never has a philosopher been appropriated, deconstructed, and scrutinized by such a disparate array of groups, movements, and schools of thought....
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...