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1) Emile
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children's natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau's defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary...
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Get to know the theologian and religious thinker whose radical reinvention of the Christian faith sparked the Protestant Reformation. In A Treatise on Good Works, Martin Luther expounds on his contention that although Christlike behavior is important, believers are redeemed ultimately through God's grace. This primer is a great way to deepen your understanding of the Christian faith and its turbulent theological history. As part of our mission to...
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[2022]
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Why do we send our kids to college? Why do we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a useless degree? Why do we let our children get indoctrinated by those who fundamentally disagree with America's greatness? In his newest book, The College Scam, Charlie Kirk answers all of these questions and more. Since founding Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk has been the leading voice across American college campuses standing up for conservative students....
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Life is the original school - life, domestic and social. All other schools merely exercise functions delegated by the family and by society, and it is not until the latter has reached such a state of complication as to necessitate a division of labor that special schools exist.
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"El alma ama la variedad, pero, ya lo hemos dicho, tan sólo la ama porque está hecha para conocer y para ver: por tanto es preciso que pueda ver, y que la variedad se lo permita, vale decir: es preciso que una cosa sea lo bastante simple para ser percibida y lo bastante variada para ser percibida con placer."
En este pequeño tratado sobre el gusto —escrito en 1717 y destinado a un curso académico—, la exigencia de armonía y de simetría...
8) How to think like a woman: four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
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"An exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential seventeenth- and eighteenth-century feminist philosophers Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Catharine Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and a searing look at the author's experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia. Growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions. In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the...
9) How we think
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"How We Think" by John Dewey is a groundbreaking exploration of the process of thinking and its role in education and problem-solving. In this influential work, Dewey delves into the nature of intelligence, inquiry, and reflective thought, offering valuable insights into how individuals can enhance their thinking abilities and engage in meaningful learning experiences. The book begins by challenging traditional notions of thinking as a passive, linear...
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2020
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The Essence of Permaculture introduces the concept of permaculture and outlines the twelve permaculture principles. This booklet is both a 'taster' for the full length book by permaculture co-originator David Holmgren, and a standalone introduction to permaculture. It has been very popular with permaculture teachers to give to their students for introductory or further reading on the principles. It also contains some of David's reflections on the
...11) Confidence
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
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Philosophy Wise re-invigorates philosophy's initial impulse to help people live more meaningful lives. Written for philosophers and non-philosopher's alike, it shows you how to gain clarity and wisdom by using the lens of philosophy to approach your everyday concerns. 20 of the world's greatest thinkers are presented as guides, each offering you their vision of how to live a more purposeful and satisfying life. Experiment and choose from a kaleidoscope...
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The thread running through this collection of essays is the inviolate marriage between philosophy and psychology. Psychotherapist Mary Capocefalo has written, 'Long before psychologists were asking questions about mind and behavior, philosophers were expressing the same curiosity.' The Socratic method of teaching by asking questions is indispensable in psychotherapy. Aristotle spoke about happiness as though he had read twentieth-century psychological...
14) Indian Mythology
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The Rishis, the wise men of ancient India, were in a dilemma. They had compiled the Vedas, the rules of behaviour, and Dharma had been conceptualised or framed.Dharma, you could consider as a mission statement for life.But how to reach it to the people so they could understand? How to ensure that people listened to the lessons? One of those wise men then came up with the brilliant idea of telling stories which would interest people and also have the...
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This detailed analysis of one of the most brutal periods of religious persecution ever recorded is a must-read for history buffs of all stripes. Author Henry Charles Lea lends detail and dimension to the historical record, providing a turn-by-turn recounting of events along with deeper insight into the motives and psychology of the persecutors and persecuted.
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Extrait de la notice préliminaire: "Le voyage de Diderot en Russie ne devait pas être seulement un témoignage de reconnaissance envers l'impératrice, le philosophe en revint chargé de travaux. Il devait d'abord publier le compte rendu de ce qui avait été déjà fait par ordre de Catherine II au point de vue de l'enseignement, [...]. Il devait ensuite envoyer un projet d'Université dont la rédaction l'occupa pendant plusieurs années."
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Subjetividad, biopolítica y educación: una lectura desde el dispositivo es un libro cuya estructura ha sido definida en cinco capítulos y un colorario, articulados a través del pensamiento denominado por algunos posestructuralista. Se constituye en un esfuerzo por hacer visibles aspectos teóricos del dispositivo como concepto, y propone asumirlo como un elemento metodológico que, por un lado, permite analizar lo social desde un referente crítico...
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Missions and the World Crisis
Unless Souls are Saved, Nothing is Saved
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was a man for all seasons. Over his lifetime, he spent himself for souls, transforming lives with the clear teaching of the truths of Christ and His Church through his books, his radio addresses, his lectures, his television series, and his many newspaper columns.
In 1950, Sheen became the National Director of the Society for the Propagation...
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2020 has been a year of metamorphosis for humanity.
Everything from politics to employment to personal relationships is now being shaken, rattled and rolled so that what remains can rest upon a firmer foundation.
For many, the puzzle pieces of their life have become jumbled amid the pandemic of 2020. The picture on the box cover may no longer be recognizable. A new and larger vision might be helpful to fit our disunited lives back together into...
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