Humanism category: 419 books

Montaigne - Les Essais Ce livre numérique présente une Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne édités en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différents chapitres. Édition Villey-Saulnier,...

Deux essais philosophiques fondateurs et essentiels pour comprendre notre société actuelle. Le Traité sur la tolérance est une œuvre polémique de Voltaire publiée en 1763. Destinée à stigmatiser le fanatisme religieux, c’est un texte majeur de la philosophie des Lumières. Au départ,...

Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin...

Tribute to Tamil Poet Kannadasan. Some of his famous and ever-green song lyrics translated in English along with the original Tamil text. English transliteration also available to help people who are interested in hearing the spoken Tamil. The text will help Tamil speakers users across the countries...

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Stoic Six Pack brings together the six essential texts of Stoic Philosophy: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The...

"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 In...

“It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B – the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble – and...

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One of the leading philosophers of the French Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne is famous for his ‘Essais’ (Essays), which established a new literary form, merging casual anecdotes and autobiography with serious intellectual insight. This comprehensive eBook presents Montaigne’s complete works,...

Selections from one of the great classics of literature--now part of the Shambhala Pocket Library. In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature. Since its...

First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature.

The unified field explanation of history What are we, and how does that affect what we believe and how we act - as individuals and nations? "Why" ties together religion, psychology and politics. Some of what it says is floating in the zeitgeist, but much approaches issues from new angles. It is short - a poem, not a tome.

An exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been misused and misunderstood, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Escape from Freedom. In the Western world, and especially in the United States, Karl Marx is perceived as the spiritual godfather of Lenin and Stalin—someone bent on creating...

¡Te sorprenderá lo fácil que es la vida cuando haces de la ética una prioridad! En este libro encontrarás básicamente lo que es la ética personal, el porqué de su importancia, cómo la puedes aplicar a tu vida diaria y por qué hacerlo te ayudará a vivir una vida más productiva y feliz....