Metaphysics category: 2011 books
Nicholas and Helena Roerich
The Spiritual Journey of Two Great Artists and Peacemakers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In her latest title, Ruth Drayer provides a factual account of the two Russian visionaries who believed beauty could solve the world's problems and unify humanity. Partners in all things, charismatic Nicholas (1874-1947) was an internationally acclaimed artist, author, daring explorer, conservationist,...
The Life of the Mind
The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1981
“A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates.” —Newsweek
Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt’s greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in...
The Cracking Tower
A Strategy for Transcending 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
End-of-the-world paranoia has been with us since time immemorial. Now, with the end of the legendary Mayan “long count” calendar looming on December 21, 2012 and recent threats of a worldwide economic collapse triggering widespread apprehension and a search for answers, The Cracking Tower offers...
by Jason Reza Jorjani
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In Prometheus & Atlas, Dr. Jorjani endeavors to deconstruct the nihilistic materialism and rootless rationalism of the modern West by showing how it was grounded on a dishonest suppression of the spectral and why it has a parasitic relationship with Abrahamic religious fundamentalism. Rejecting...
The Power of Movies
How Screen and Mind Interact
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking “into” a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie’s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power of Movies, a thoughtful,...
by Charles Webster Leadbeater
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The old Greek saying Gnothi seauton, know thyself, is a fine piece of advice, and self-knowledge is absolutely necessary to any candidate for progress. And yet we must beware lest our necessary self-examination should degenerate into morbid introspection, as it often does with some of the best...
by Louis Armfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book of living poetry is assembled for the purpose of helping people to over come what ever in life that they may have to surmount. To help people not to be afraid to be truely honest with themselves, to dump the bagages of grudges and embrace forgiveness of self and others and then breathe,...
The Myth of the Blood
The Genesis of Racialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Written during the rule of National Socialism in Germany and the rise of the so-called Racial Laws in Fascist Italy, The Myth of the Blood offers a unique window into the historical origins of the racialist thought that so fatefully characterized an era. More than a study of history, however, The...
Enlightenment Interrupted
The Lost Moment of German Idealism and the Reactionary Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The modern world claims to inherit the values of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment Interrupted suggests a different genealogy. Instead of carrying on the Enlightenment it grew out of its suppression and forgetting, a founding act of bad faith and willed blindness that has haunted our world from its birth....
by Helen Beebee
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Causation is one of the most important and enduring topics in philosophy, going as far back as Aristotle. In this lucid and enthralling account, Helen Beebee covers all the major debates and issues in the philosophy of causation, making it the ideal starting point for those approaching the subject...
by Valtteri Viljanen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This work examines the unique way in which Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77) combines two significant philosophical principles: that real existence requires causal power and that geometrical objects display exceptionally clearly how things have properties in virtue of their essences. Valtteri Viljanen...
Berkeley
Ideas, Immateralism, and Objective Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Berkeley: Ideas, Immaterialism, and Objective Presence offers a novel interpretation of the arc of George Berkeley's philosophical thought, from his theory of vision through his immaterialism and finally to his proof of God's existence. Keota Fields unifies these themes to focus on Berkeley's use...
The Nature of Philosophical Problems
Their Causes and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
We must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to...
Autonomy and the Situated Self
A Challenge to Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Autonomy and the Situated Self offers a critique of contemporary mainstream bioethics and proposes an alternative framework for the exploration of bioethical issues. It also contrasts two conceptions of autonomy, one based on a liberal model but detached from its political foundation and one that...