Free Will category: 515 books

Important made Impotent highlights certain down-played, slighted, hush-hush issues that ought to be recipients of our keenest realization and hence, serve to instill and ingrain in us appropriately amended attitudes and actions. These insightful and enlightening inspirational poems address issues...

La storia rappresenta un salto nel passato di una donna profondamente legata al nonno paterno di origini greche, da cui ha ereditato l'amore per la filosofia e del quale mantiene un vivo ricordo, nel cuore e nella mente, sprigionato attraverso le sue parole. A seguito della perdita di questa figura...

EINFÜHRUNG Die Notwendigkeit von Frieden und Mitgefühl Ich bin an viele Plätze dieser Erde gereist, und wo immer ich mit Menschen spreche, tue ich dies mit dem Gefühl, ein Mitglied ihrer eigenen Familie zu sein. Auch wenn wir uns vielleicht das allererste Mal treffen, akzeptiere...

Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the arguments...

Un giorno Damocle disse a Dionigi, tiranno di Siracusa, che nessuno al mondo poteva essere più felice di lui. “Vuoi allora che ti faccia provare la mia felicità?”. “Oh, sì, mio signore! Sarebbe un sogno!”. Dionigi sorrise e lo invitò a pranzo, un banchetto da mille e una notte, se non...

Beyond the Subjectivity Trap challenges the paradigm of the hard problem of consciousness by contesting the relevance and primacy of human thought. By tracing the evolved egocentricity of the 'I' as an entrapping limitation on our thinking the book argues that once the Subjectivity Trap is understood...

The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents...

“If I now consider man in his isolated capacity, I find that dogmatic belief is no less indispensable to him in order to live alone than it is to enable him to co-operate with his fellows. If man were forced to demonstrate for himself all the truths of which he makes daily use, his task would never...

First published in 1913, Jevons’ Personality marries the disciplines of philosophy and psychology in order to question the existence of personality and the arguments surrounding it. Intriguingly, Jevons suggests that if a person can question their own personality and existence, by extension they...

In Freedom in Resistance and Creative Transformation, Michael Miller addresses the concept of freedom that is central to the grammar of Christian faith and important in a wide range of religious and nonreligious settings across the globe. He confronts the fact that despite the claimed importance of...

Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong...

La libertà è un concetto alle fondamenta del sistema politico e sociale in cui viviamo; dà forma al senso della giustizia e al nostro stile di vita, ed è spesso la risposta alle domande più profonde su chi siamo e chi vorremmo essere. Ma è anche stato distorto e strumentalizzato per giustificare...

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis", which occurs in Part IV...

«La croyance à la réincarnation est un des fondements de la morale. Tant qu’on n’a pas éclairé les humains sur cette loi des causes et des conséquences qui continue à agir d’une existence à l’autre, on peut essayer de les assagir en leur faisant tous les sermons que l’on veut, cela...