Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

Some girls have all the luck! Or do they? Do you feel like you work hard, follow all the “rules”, do everything you are “supposed” to do, but what you want still passes you by? Do you crave a better job, a healthier body, or a more satisfying personal life? All of the above? Then this book...

Hope by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus | Includes Analysis   Preview: Hope, the story of two of the three young women held captive by Ariel Castro, is a graphic and gripping account of a decade of abduction, assault, and abuse in a rundown house on Seymour Street in a rough section...

"To relax the mind is to lose it." Stoic Six Pack 2 brings together six more essential texts for students of Stoicism: Consolations from a Stoic by Seneca On the Shortness of Life by Seneca Lectures and Fragments of Musonius Rufus Ethical Fragments by Hierocles Meditations...

Hello provides insights into the origin of consciousness, the dynamics of the human mind and the positive effects of using truth to cope with reality.The three sections of the book, When, Now and Then, follow the transformation resulting from using the power of truth to reveal insights into...

Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was a visiting fellow at The Sorbonne, Harvard, and Berkeley as well as the first academic director of the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His many books include:...

Intelligence is born out of the willingness to question what we are told - whatever it may be! Each chapter in this book asks us to do just that - question accepted ideas and popular opinions - and, through questioning them, develop the ability to overcome the prejudices that stand between us and greater intelligence. Warning: Contains material some may find offensive.

On the Basis of Morality is one of Arthur Schopenhauer's major works in ethics, in which he argues that morality stems from compassion.

La philosophie n’est pas une matière abstraite et rébarbative ! C’est un art de penser au service d’un art de vivre. Conçu par un esprit libre, qui pense librement. Au delà du conditionnement du passé et de l’ADN idéologique. Penser librement, c’est le cas de ces deux philosophes,...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: Raison ultérieure. — Toutes les choses qui vivent longtemps sont peu à...

‘When we focus our attention on the sun, the centre of our universe, we draw closer to our own centre, our higher self, the sun within; we melt into it and begin to resemble it more and more. ‘But to focus our attention on the sun also means to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, desires,...

“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” - Epicurus. Epicurus posited a materialistic physics, in which pleasure, by which he meant freedom from pain, is the highest good. Serenity, the harmony of mind and body, is best achieved, through virtue and simple...

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato in approximately 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man—for this reason, ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title. The dramatic date of the dialogue...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic who continues to fascinate contemporary minds. The product of both...

Come poter ottenere maggiore controllo e coscienza sulle potenzialità che ognuno di noi possiede? Ho tentato di rispondere esplorando le parti di noi stessi che più ci sfuggono, mostrando come siano esse stesse ad aprire possibilità di comunicazione prima di tutto con noi e poi con gli altri.
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