Metaphysics category: 2011 books

Considerations about the existence and nature of God are given far too much weight in contemporary discussions of philosophy of religion. Against prevailing orthodoxy, this introduction to philosophy of religion urges a broader perspective that attends seriously to a wide range of religious and non-religious worldviews.

The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. Yet this assumed absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, neither their constitutive force.  This latter call for an existential...

How might we envision animism through the lens of the ‘anthropology of anthropology’? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists...

Learn the difference between Exoteric and Esoteric. Find ways to heal our earth as well as becoming attune with yourself. Discover the secrets to what's needed to end the destruction of the human race. A great tool for those beginning the path of self-awareness.

A review of Aristotle's Laws of Logic in light of the (equal and opposite) paradigm of man and woman balance. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic...

These poems represent the vestiges of man from the perspective of a distant future. Akin to radio signals, the remnants of humanity streak toward a black hole where art, politics, love, technology, philosophy, science and the yearning for eternity accrete. Prophetic, stoic, polyphasic, the words disassemble...

L’idée de Dieu a joué un tel rôle dans les destinées humaines, elle a pénétré si profondément les mœurs, le langage  et jusqu’à l’hérédité des peuples, que celui qui en est aujourd’hui dépourvu,...

Extrait : De la vie vécue par des êtres douloureux qui se meuvent dans le mystère d’une nuit. Ils ne savent rien que souffrir, sourire, aimer ; quand ils veulent comprendre, l’effort de leur inquiétude devient de l’angoisse et leur révolte s’évanouit en sanglots. Monter, monter toujours...

Extrait :  Une personne très respectable, et digne de foi, s’il en fut jamais, m’ayant assuré que par le commerce qu’il  avait eu avec les Chinois lettrés, il avait appris que leurs sentiments sur la divinité étaient tels que je  vais les exposer...

Aristotele (384-83 a.C. – 322 a.C.) è uno dei più grandi pensatori dell'antichità. La sua attività di ricerca ha affrontato metafisica, fisica, etica, politica, psicologia, biologia, poetica, retorica e logica, e la sistematizzazione da lui data a queste discipline ha dominato la cultura occidentale...

Written in a more casual style, but without forfeiting the clarity so evident in Thinking and Destiny, Harold Percival’s momentous first book, Man and Woman and Child offers additional information about the plight of the human.       This book follows the development of the child into...

The Journey to Qualia takes a strange turn from it being the unique subjective experience of the Mind to its ultimate state of Being. --Mark Megna The time has come for man to set Himself his highest goal. Just As ape became man; so shall man become Overman. --Tony Megna

The Essenes, the Kahunas of Hawaii, Pan and the nature kingdom, the angelic kingdom, the Vedas and Upanishads, the Kabbalah, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the Egyptian mysteries, and The Keys of Enoch:  These profound spiritual teachings, unknown to so many on our planet, are a valuable resource...

This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of theoretical and literary frameworks—from...