Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

Nietzsche’s relationship with Wagner has long been a source of controversy and has given rise to a number of important studies, including this major breakthrough in Nietzsche scholarship, first published in 1982. In this work Hollinrake contends that the nature and extent of the anti-Wagnerian pastiche...

“What if everything we have been taught to believe about this World and about GOD is all wrong?” Remember that all the holy books ever written about God and this World were written when people were ignorant of even the most basic laws of the world! Because they were written during the Age...

The central theme of this collection of essays, first published in 1978, is the basic tension in Nietzsche, and so in his work, between the urge to weave a satisfying web out of reality and the equally strong compulsion to expose its painful truths. The book aims to stress, not to play down, the embarassing...

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock...

This book asserts that the better one understands the causes of behavior, the better one can apply that knowledge to produce a better world. It describes the mechanisms that cause human behavior, such as freedom of will, in a manner consistent with religious beliefs. It also asserts that all avenues...

Why should the Truth be scary? Except that we have been deceived by stories that are not true? Before it's too late to find out what's happening, read on... At least discover the following: 1. Reincarnation is true. 2. The Law of Karma applies to everyone. 3. There is a Purpose for Life. 4. Your Soul...

This book addresses, fundamentally, the challenges facing the world. It reveals in the most elemental, and straightforward way, the issue of “not thinking”. As I assisted in typing the work from the original scanned “type written” pages, originally penned in 1988, I found something in my psyche,...

Elere-Omo (The Spirit-Child) is a monograph made to espouse an aspect of Yoruba culture relating to persons fated to have alliance with spiritual confraternity that have influence on their corporeal existence on earth.  Alternatively referred to as Abiku, Emere or Elegbe-Omo, the phenomenon...

What makes you, you? Is it your mother tongue? Is it your country of birth? Is it your ethnicity? Is it your bank balance? Or could it be who or what you call God? Mokokoma takes the reader through a mental tour. An exploration of social constructs that have divided the human race, i.e., language,...

The Autonomy of Reason reflects Wolff’s determination to get out of Kant’s system what is good and to get out of Kant’s system for good. Readers will certainly benefit from Wolff’s two decades of intense study of Kant. Wolff does not see his task as one of either historical exegesis or philosophical...

Paul Ricoeur’s first book, Freedom and Nature, introduces many themes that resurface in various ways throughout his later work, but its significance has been mostly overlooked in the field of Ricoeur studies. Gathering together an international group of scholars, A Companion to Freedom and Nature...

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Arthur Schopenhauer is best known for his writings on pessimism. In this 1851 essay collection, he offers concise statements of the unifying principles of his thinking. Schopenhauer, unlike most philosophers, expressed himself in simple, direct...

Eternal life is bestowed by grace. Everybody has three component parts: outward personality, inward personality and a controlling spirit. Your body is dust. Your Hypostatic Chip or demon must return to base but the real you comprising spirit and soul has three eternal destinations: New Jerusalem,...

First published in 1926, this study addresses the theory of morality using four overarching approaches: analytical, psychological, theoretical, and finally, philosophical. Within these methodologies, chapters explore such areas as the character of moral enquiry, the knowledge of good and evil, freedom...