Humanism category: 419 books
by Silo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Estos “Comentarios” son complementarios al libro "El Mensaje de Silo", son escritos por él y no tocan todos los tópicos de “El Mensaje de Silo” sino, únicamente, aquellos que le parecieron necesarios para una mejor comprensión de ese escrito.
Se hacen las aproximaciones a “El...
by Alain De Botton
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.
Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers...
The Most Human Human
What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the judges wins the Most Human Computer Award. But there is also...
The Crazy Ape
Written by a Biologist for the Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Szent-Györgyi concerns himself with the underlying forces and conditions that have prevented the realization of the higher possibilities of the American Dream, and, by extension, of all mankind. He addresses himself especially to the youth of the world in his attempt to...
Nonviolence
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars,...
by Eric v.d. Luft
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
This book is not about the medical, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, statistical, or even theological aspects of suicide. It does not investigate the pathology of why some people kill themselves and it certainly does not attempt either to prevent or to encourage suicide. It is a book on the...
by Erich Fromm
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
A guide to well-being from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom.
Though laptops, smartphones, and TVs have in many ways made life more convenient, they have also disconnected us from the real world. Days are spent...
Kierkegaard's Philosophy
Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1995
Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ourselves. In the second group, Soren Kierkegaard stands alone as a towering figure, a man who revolutionized our concept of the human condition. His insights go to the core of the dilemmas that...
by Ernst Haeckel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
As an epoch-marking contribution to Natural History in the widest sense, we rank the picture which Darwin gave to the world of the web of life, that is to say, of the inter-relations and linkages in Nature. For the Biology of the individual--if that be not a contradiction in terms--no idea is more...
by Jeremy Bentham
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jeremy Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) is a classic text in modern philosophy. In this foundational book of utilitarian philosophy, he advocates the institutions and individuals...
Invitation to Sociology
A Humanistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers
Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger lays the groundwork for a clear understanding of sociology in his straightforward introduction to the field, much...
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Éditions enrichies :
-Introduction et conclusion
-Biographie détaillée et bibliographie de l'auteur
-Contexte historique
-Notes
Extrait Système des contradictions économiques ou Philosophie de la misère :
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by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
On Liberty is a philosophical piece of writing by English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between...
Complete Philosophy Anthologies of René Descartes
A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, Selections from the Principles of Philosophy, A Discourse on Method
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement "Cogito ergo sum" (French: Je pense, donc je suis; I think, therefore I am), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method (1637 – written in French but with inclusion of "Cogito ergo sum") and §7 of part I of Principles...