Free Will category: 515 books

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by Léon Denis
Language: French
Release Date: August 14, 2015

Christianisme et Spiritisme est un ouvrage de Léon Denis publié à l’origine en France en 1898 et régulièrement réédité depuis1. Cette analyse historique et littéraire des sources chrétiennes cherche à démontrer que...
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以撒‧柏林

(聯經Wings:Monograph 1)

by 葉浩
Language: Chinese
Release Date: December 7, 2018

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by Christopher Alan Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

Choice. Do you have it? If not, why not? It may require us to look into this issue in more depth to see why, although we often think we possess choice in our lives, we often have little of it. "If I were to pledge allegiance to something, I would only pledge my allegiance to the survival of my...
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I Am Dynamite

An Alternative Anthropology of Power

by Nigel Rapport
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the...
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by Kenneth William Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011

This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from “big ideas” like probability and uncertainty and conservation laws to the behavior of quarks and photons and neutrinos, and on to explanations of how a laser works and why black holes evaporate.
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by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012

This volume by the Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov is not an astrological handbook. The Zodiac here discussed is the Book of Books in which everything is recorded, and the constellations and planets are the hieroglyphs, the sacred letters which reveal, to those who know how to decipher them, how...
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Are We Hardwired?

The Role of Genes in Human Behavior

by William R. Clark, Michael Grunstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004

Books such as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene have aroused fierce controversy by arguing for the powerful influence of genes on human behavior. But are we entirely at the mercy of our chromosomes? In Are We Hardwired?, scientists William R. Clark and Michael Grunstein say the answer is both yes--and...
Cover of 關於人生,你可以問問亞里斯多德:不做決定,等於讓別人決定你。幸福,是有意識的思考、選擇和行動。
by 伊迪絲‧霍爾
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 27, 2019

你無法保證自己所做的決定一定正確,   但你能保證的是,你為了這個決定所做的準備,可以最大化成功和幸福的機會。   想要得到幸福,就必須為自己的「做」與「不做」負起責任。   〈極端價值充斥的現世,最適合參照的「中道」智慧〉   「做對的事」,其實沒那麼了不起…… **  ◎說什麼「要有勇氣」?**   只是面對你害怕的事物,訓練自己不要那麼害怕。 **  ◎說什麼「實踐正義」?**   只是決定公平對待他人、負起該負的責任,同時幫助大家實現潛能,包括你自己。 **  ◎說什麼「決心自制」?**   只是想清楚何謂「中庸之道」,什麼是對強烈情緒、人際互動和欲望的適當反應。   人生可以自動駕駛嗎?   許多人往往都不假思索地活著,覺得這樣也很快樂!   亞里斯多德卻深信:由自己主導,成為掌握人生控制面板的唯一駕駛,才是「活得好」的關鍵。   「快樂」不只是追求片刻的討喜或開心,而是「一生持續的狀態」,   而這種「幸福」或「滿足」的源頭就在於——   運用人類獨有的理性思考,誠實面對自己的行與不行,   找到目標、實現潛能,持續地「做對的事」,努力修正以成為更好的自己。   英國知名文史古典學者伊迪絲.霍爾,   以淺近的現代語言和生活實例,為你我與古代賢哲之間搭起無礙的橋樑,   精準闡釋亞里斯多德的哲思,用以因應各項現實課題——   如何做出明智的決定?如何在溝通和說服中達成目的?   如何利用「美德與惡習」檢索表分析自己的性格、抗拒外在誘惑?   如何選擇適合的伴侶與知己?如何面對死亡、喪親等失落體驗?……   不論天地、不談神祇,從人類經驗出發的亞里斯多德,只是帶著你「好好想清楚自己」。   從幸福、慎思、認識自己到群體關係,他層層探問「為人」的十個根本學問,   那些原本看似高標的道德真理,在一步步推演、思索的路上,變得格外親切與實用,   你也隨之內化了賢哲智慧,用更寬待的眼,面對自己和周遭的一切。   無論古典希臘或現代世界,或是處在生命的哪個階段,   亞里斯多德回歸本質的人生忠告,永不過時。 **  【亞里斯多德的人生相談】**   ◎如果我們培養美德、控制惡習,藉此訓練自己要良善,就會發現快樂的心態來自於「習慣性地做對的事」。   ◎想要活得好、並公平對待他人,必須不惜代價地愛自己。幸福與自我厭惡並不相容。   ◎找出你喜歡做、也有天分的事,然後堅持做下去。這一點可能說的比做的容易,但身為人類,比起一棵榆樹或一隻瞪羚,至少你可以做出理性的選擇。   ◎不要急著考慮,慎思沒有衝動的容身之處。確認所有資訊,不正確的知識永遠不可能產生正確的決定。   ◎我們是看某人有目的性的選擇,來判斷他的人格——不是看他做什麼,而是看他為了什麼而做。   ◎第一印象很重要。靈魂高貴的人,必須在打扮浮誇到不修邊幅之間取得平衡。衣衫過度破舊邋遢,本身就是一種誇耀。   ◎如果你受到傷害而不覺得憤慨,這是道德功能失常的跡象。別人會認為你沒有自尊,無法挺身捍衛任何事。憤怒,有時是高尚且正當的。   ◎表現得體又不傷人的幽默,只開你願意讓別人對你或在你面前開的玩笑。談到笑,你丟出去多少,就要願意接受多少。   ◎道德上的不作為跟主動作為一樣嚴重,在臨死前,我們會後悔的不是做了什麼,而是沒做什麼。   ◎休閒並不是次要的事。要充分利用閒暇,甚至比工作更耗費心力。無聊不僅是和平的敵人,也是幸福的敵人。 本書特色   ◎亞里斯多德是最符合現代人需求的哲學家   以人類經驗為本,強調理性思考、主動作為、實踐良善,考慮個別差異、注重平衡中道……在這個資訊、價值倏變的不確定年代,亞里斯多德的哲思宛如一股穩定身心的雋永力量,引領我們在紛擾混亂中回歸本質,確立人生舵向。   ◎用現代精神詮釋古哲智慧的人文通識讀本   作者以充滿現代精神的詮釋,引介古哲的思考智慧,可做為理想的人文通識讀物,提供讀者學習理性思辨、初探哲學理念的入門管道。   ◎以人生關鍵十問完整匯聚亞里斯多德哲思   亞里斯多德的論述常散見於各書,但少見有系統的解說,本書簡潔有力地呈現亞里斯多德的豐富思想,使讀者隨之推演、思考,感受賢哲智慧與自身生活的緊密連結。 得獎記錄   ◎作者以簡潔有力的方式,將亞里斯多德的實踐科學做了清楚的介紹。這不是件容易的工作,因為對於經驗的掌握,一直都是哲學家面對的挑戰,而無疑地,亞里斯多德是面對這些挑戰的哲學家中最成功的一位。——國立台灣大學哲學系教授...
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by Joseph Zammit
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016

To know the future, you must know the present. To know the present, you must know the past. To know the past you must know it all. To know it all, you must know the Third Cosmology.All of the knowledge and practices in the world today fall into either the Old Cosmology or the New Cosmology.The Old...
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by Kay Yes
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017

The creator of Universe desires to bring in innovative and mind blowing experiences for the participants of a service called Life. This time, he chooses a different path than the one which he had used for bringing the world to the current state. Along with likeminded friends, living in the realm...
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Intimations of Mortality

Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being

by David Farrell Krell
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990

Heidegger’s thinking has an underlying unity, this book argues, and has cogency for seemingly diverse domains of modern culture: philosophy and religion, aesthetics and literary criticism, intellectual history and social theory. “The theme of mortality—finite human existence—pervades Heidegger’s...
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From My Writings and My Evenings

Essays on Thoughts and Truth

by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015

It is late in the evening and a philosopher wants to get words on paper. No grand project. No grand system of thought, just an attempt to get some things off his chest. Where would he turn his attention? Where would his thoughts lead him? Several catch phrases become crystallization points for his...
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God and the Meanings of Life

What God Could and Couldn't Do to Make Our Lives More Meaningful

by Dr T. J. Mawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God. For Sartre and Nagel, for example, a God of the traditional classical theistic sort would constrain our powers of self-creative autonomy in ways that would severely detract from the meaning of our lives, possibly...
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by Tim Lewens
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006

In this invaluable book, Tim Lewens shows in a clear and accessible manner how important Darwin is for philosophy and how his work has shaped and challenged the very nature of the subject. Beginning with an overview of Darwin’s life and work, the subsequent chapters discuss the full range...
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