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The imminent philosopher and theologian examines religion in light of science and philosophy in modern society.
Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the prob-lem of anxiety. This edition includes a new...
Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the prob-lem of anxiety. This edition includes a new...
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After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" that fosters herd like quiescence and stigmatizes the...
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"Twilight of the Idols means that the old truth is on its last legs," declared Friedrich Nietzsche in this 1889 polemic. Forceful in his language and profound in his message, the philosopher delivered the nineteenth century's most devastating attack on Christianity. Intended by Nietzsche as a general introduction to his philosophy, it assails the "idols" of Western philosophy and culture, including the concepts of Socratic rationality and Christian...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (German: Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable...
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Although dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry-called in twelfth-century Provencal "the gay science." This volume, which Nietzsche referred to as "the most personal of all my books," features the largest collection of his poetry that he ever chose to publish. It also offers an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views most central to his...
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First released in 1901, about one year after Nietzsche's death, "The Will to Power" is a collection of Nietzsche's unedited and unpublished writings. Though the title and all of the ideas are of the radical philosopher's own invention, the order and selection of Nietzsche's notebooks are due to the organization of his sister. As a result of his poor health, Nietzsche used his remaining energy to write a different work, leaving "The Will to Power"...
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"Fired with a fearless iconoclasm which surpassed the wildest dreams of contemporary free thought" - The New York Times
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written - an essential summary of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God....
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First published in 1882 and revised in 1887, "The Gay Science" was written at the peak of Nietzsche's intellectual abilities. It includes a large number of poems and an appendix of songs, all written with the intent of encouraging freedom of the mind. With praise for the benefits of science, intellectual discipline, and skepticism, "The Gay Science" also exhibits an enthusiastic affirmation of life, drawing from the influence of the Provencal tradition....
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A Book that Transformed America
Civil Disobedience was Thoreau's first published book and continues to transform American discourse. It is unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling.
The ideas presented in this essay have influenced some of the most powerful and influential people in history, including Martin Luther King Jnr, Leo Tolstoy, President John F. Kennedy and Ernest...
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Professor Albérès in this well-ordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialism - anguish, nausea, hypocrisy, lucidity, consciousness, conformity, commitment, ethical values, situation, etc. Translated from the French by Wade Baskin.
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Este tratado del filósofo dinamarqués es el primero de los veinte Discursos edificantes de diverso tenor, que vieron la luz en Copenhague el 13 de marzo de 1843. Más que un tratado, es la oración de un penitente que en soledad y recogimiento interior ruega para que en su corazón se cumpla el deseo de querer de verdad una sola cosa: el Bien, única eternidad en el tiempo que se aplica y resiste a todos los cambios.
Deseo ignorado o siempre postergado,...
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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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This is Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work; "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits" - first published in 1878. It constitutes the first work in his signature aphoristic style, discussing many different concepts in brief paragraphs and sentences. The 638 aphorisms are divided into nine sections by subject, with a short poem as an epilogue. This fantastic book is highly recommended for students of philosophy, and is not to be missed by fans...
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Joseph Imagines God is a story of a man who is visited by someone claiming to be God. Joseph is an agnostic, the son of a Holocaust survivor. He receives a visitor at work who invites him to participate in a series of seven meetings with God. Joseph is asked to prepare a theme and questions for each of these meeting. Joseph is curious, but suspicious of his visitor's intent. He decides to participate, but is committed to challenge and unmask any of...
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All of the work of Joseph Smalkowski, also known as the performer and philosophical rock poet, Copernicus, has been contained in four unpublished books, a thousand unpublished poems, and thirteen world internationally acclaimed philosophical art rock albums. In "Immediate Eternity," Copernicus goes brain first into the atomic and subatomic world, the world he calls MAGOVA, and struggles to extract a vision of reality and bring that vision back into...
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We challenge the nature of our truth. Truth in nature, and truth in science, is only relevant from the perspective of the participant. Our goal is to limit the ground clutter of human existence and to find bridges that direct us along the journey. "Those bridges should best lead us to our own version of heaven."
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"La vieja y tradicional Lgica de Aristteles y Bacon ya no satisface a este mundo nuevo de la Cultura. En sta encontramos, ya no el mundo del "ser" sino fundamentalmente el mundo del "devenir"; ya no la ley "necesaria", sino la finalidad "contingente", ya no la simplicidad cuantitativa o cualitativa, sino el complejo biolgico y espiritual" -Dr. Adalberto Garca de Mendoza
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This book presents an analysis of how we are between what our imagination creates and nihilism, which is the non-existence of everything. The author explores science, religion, and philosophy as solutions to the meaning and purpose of life as well as the ideologies they create. The unique faculty of imagination in homo sapiens is part of the development of cognitive abilities throughout history, and any reality is an integration of experiences and...
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Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, this anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogue of which they were part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global...
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Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855) fue un filósofo y teólogo danés, considerado el padre del existencialismo. Su filosofía se centra en la condición de la existencia humana, en el individuo y la subjetividad, en la libertad y la responsabilidad, en la desesperación y la angustia, Temor e Temblor es uno de sus mejores escritos filosóficos y fue publicado en 1843. En esta obra que se presenta al lector como cautivadora y sugestiva, el autor plantea...
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