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"The first fifty or so years of Otto's journey were pretty good. He felt he had it all until one day he didn't. Looking for answers, he calls on his enlightened brother-in-law, Volya Rinpoche, a wise man with Russian roots, a Tibetan heritage, and an international reputation as a spiritual teacher ... Otto needs his brother-in-law's wisdom, ... and ... it turns out that Rinpoche himself is also looking for guidance. They embark on a road trip over...
3) Posdata
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Synopsis In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, a group of prisoners is described from birth with chains that hold them by the neck and legs so that they can only look towards the wall. Behind them is a bonfire and the entrance to the cave from the outside. The chained consider the shadows they see as truths, because they cannot turn around and see reality. A modern version could be a movie theater. If you are born there, and you only look at the screen...
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"The Adolescent" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, and his conflict with his father. Arkady is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov and was raised by one of Versilov's serf, the pious Makar Dolgoruky. The novel's primary tension arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady becomes an adult and joins Versilov's family in St....
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German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche was one the most controversial figures of the 19th century. His evocative writings on religion, morality, culture, philosophy, and science were often polemic attacks against the established views of his time. First published in 1872, "The Birth of Tragedy" is the author's classic work on dramatic theory. It was the author's first published work in which he exhibited his enthusiasm for the dramatic works of Aeschylus...
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Perhaps the primary field of "Our Something" is Consciousness.
In action which resembles particle to particle encounter... Consciousness enables each unit of itself forward.
Consciousness has an "immediacy" we don't understand. But...by considering it, we can have clearer thoughts about cause and effect, the separable nature of things, freewill, and fate.
Time and distance is... also... carpet-like and connected, yet separable.
Before entering Robot...
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Summer of 85 and Rusty is granted liberty on a forsaken, desert island in the Persian Gulf. As fate would have it, he meets Fitz, a naive country girl who's made bad choices, landing her in the worst duty station ever.
Rusty seeks truth in physics; Fitz craves excitement. But two weeks in Bahrain set off a series of events that will change them both forever, during which circumstances illustrate how reality is pre-determined, revealing truths...
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Suryakanta is a young horse trainer of the royal stables of the kingdom of Khasi during the time in ancient India of the great war depicted within The Mahabharata.
This is his story and the story of the mysterious girl that falls into his care, Ananti, as they journey through the world of that great epic.
Befreinded by Karna, one of the heros of Bharat, Suryakanta is invited to the magnificent city of the Kurus, Hastinapura, to train their horses...
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The Writer's Story is a plot-twisting novel that features an eccentric writer and his companion, a female rabbi. Follow the two singles from their first philosophical conversations at Starbucks and witness a robbery, a sniper, loss of life, arrests, a multitude of suspects among mental patients, and an uprising. "...the book balances its twinned heroes well." "...vibrant and entertaining." "...bursts with action..." "...intriguing..." -Foreward Clarion...
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A darkness grows, threatening the delicate fabric of the Universe. An ominous cloud spreads, bringing an increasing imbalance across the Cosmos. Essences bent on wickedness and ultimate destruction are violently stripping the Energy of Life from innocent terrestrial creatures, bringing Existence to the very brink of collapse. Only one Celestial essence boldly accepts the calling to seek out the source of the encroaching evil and restore Harmony once...
11) The New Atlantis
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In New Atlantis, Francis Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon's House (or Solomon's House), envisioned...
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A major new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the oeuvre of Denis Diderot.
Dramatic Experiments offers a comprehensive study of Denis Diderot, one of the key figures of European modernity. Diderot was a French Enlightenment philosopher, dramatist, art critic, and editor of the first major modern encyclopedia. He is known for having made lasting contributions to a number of fields, but his body of work is considered too dispersed...
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Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) is a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal Epoch in 1864. It is a first-person narrative in the form of a "confession": the work was originally announced by Dostoevsky in Epoch under the title "A Confession".
The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...
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The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium and ending with a discussion between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht about a short text by Franz Kafka. Rokem also...
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Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.
In this groundbreaking book, Tina Chanter challenges the philosophical and psychoanalytic reception of Sophocles' Antigone, which has largely ignored the issue of slavery. Drawing on textual and contextual evidence, including historical sources, she argues that slavery is a structuring theme of the Oedipal cycle, but one that has been written out of the record.
Chanter focuses...
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With Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations, writer and award-winning filmmaker Jason DeBoer presents radical anagrammatic takes on The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Hamlet. Using only the words contained within each original drama, DeBoer's experimental fictions were created by disintegrating and then reintegrating Shakespeare's language into new narratives of warfare and desire. The result is an ultra-vivid hypertext, a...
17) Poetics
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Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...
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François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Seventeen of his most notable plays, as well as two novels (one philosophical and one satirical), are presented in this collection.
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Extrait : "Sur un banc, à gauche, le marquis d'Arcy, pâle, se tenant la tête dans les mains. A cté de lui, le comte de la Ferté. D'autres condamnés vont et viennent lentement : les uns seuls, les autres par groupes. Sur un banc, vers la droite, deux ou trois femmes, vêtues de noir, la figure à demi voilée. Au premier plan, Guillaumin, tenant un trousseau de clefs, et Jacquemet. - Roulement de tambour."
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20) Life Is a Dream
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The death of Pedro Calderon de la Barca near the end of the 17th century marked the end of Spain's Golden Age of literary and artistic excellence. Pedro Calderon de la Barca immense popularity and mastery of Spanish drama has earned him notoriety as the national dramatist of Spain. Although he came from a family of lower nobility, his theater is often associated with the royal court, as he presented many plays in the palace of Philip IV. His best...
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