Good Evil category: 530 books

The book explains what utilitarianism is, why it is the best theory of ethics, defends it against a wide range of criticisms and misunderstandings. Though heavily criticized both in Mill's lifetime and in the years since, Utilitarianism did a great deal to popularize utilitarian ethics and was 'the most...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de L'antéchrist de Friedrich Nietzsche augmentée d'annexes (Nietzsche, sa vie et sa pensée par Andler; La philosophie de Nietzsche par Lichtenberger; La jeunesse de Nietzsche par Lizewa). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme...

Nations are Men! Men are Nations!Every Nation carries with it a face and a character. There's a story behind every face.  

This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time. Relativism asks how we are to find a way out of intractable differences of perspectives and disagreements in various domains. Standards of truth, rationality, and ethical right and wrong vary greatly and there...

These notes are no spiritual guide in a common sense. It is not made for people searching for the truth without the ability for self-doubt. Neither does it help anyone who is literally hunting for new realizations by devouring evey piece of literature that promises to provide them with new intellectual...

Confucius believed that the welfare of a country depended on the moral cultivation of its people, beginning from the nation's leadership. He believed that individuals could begin to cultivate an all-encompassing sense of virtue through ren, and that the most basic step to cultivating ren was devotion...

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there...

Francisco VI, duque de La Rochefoucauld (París, 15 de septiembre de 1613–ibídem, 17 de marzo de 1680) fue un escritor, aristócrata y militar francés, conocido, sobre todo, por sus Máximas.   Traducción por Narciso Alvaro y Zereza (1824)

…Este libro no pretende formar exorcistas, pues como veremos más adelante, el poder de exorcizar está reservado al Sacerdocio del Orden de Melquisedek; pero sí tiene el propósito de preservar un conocimiento en peligro de extinguirse, el cual fue recibido por quien esto escribe en forma tradicional,...

Mon père était avocat. Il avait épousé ma mère dans un âge assez avancé; il en eut trois filles. Il avait plus de fortune qu'il n'en fallait pour les établir solidement; mais pour cela il fallait au moins que sa tendresse fût également partagée; et il s'en manque bien que j'en puisse faire...

With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls “structural misanthropology.” Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates’s self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues,...

(a5, 140 p.) - Falar da existência de Deus de uma forma filosófica, embora para alguns possa soar como um paradoxo, é algo mais natural do que falar sobre qualquer outro assunto usual dentro da filosofia, exatamente porque não foram poucos os filósofos que, direta ou indiretamente procuraram,...

Re-Visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that aims to offer a plurality of visions on terrorism, expanding its meaning across time and space and raising new questions that explore its multifaceted occurrences. The different ideological, philosophical,...

In Götterspiel wird in Versform der Sinn des Daseins selbst hinterfragt und beschrieben, wie Götter aus Langeweile einen der Ihren auf die Erde schicken, woselbst Dieser in 'Germanischer Zeit' ohne Erinnerung an sein göttliches Dasein seine Aufgabe erfüllen muss. Verlust all seiner Lieben und...