Desires For Reality

Author : Graham Oddie
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191534256

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Value, Reality, and Desire by Graham Oddie Pdf

Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These value-facts are mind-independent - they are not reducible to desires or other mental states, or indeed to any non-mental facts of a non-evaluative kind. And these genuine, mind-independent, irreducible value-facts are causally efficacious. Values, quite literally, affect us. These are not particularly fashionable theses, and taken as a whole they go somewhat against the grain of quite a lot of recent work in the metaphysics of value. Further, against the received view, Oddie argues that we can have knowledge of values by experiential acquaintance, that there are experiences of value which can be both veridical and appropriately responsive to the values themselves. Finally, these value-experiences are not the products of some exotic and implausible faculty of 'intuition'. Rather, they are perfectly mundane and familiar mental states - namely, desires. This view explains how values can be 'intrinsically motivating', without falling foul of the widely accepted 'queerness' objection. There are, of course, other objections to each of the realist's claims. In showing how and why these objections fail, Oddie introduces a wealth of interesting and original insights about issues of wider interest - including the nature of properties, reduction, supervenience, and causation. The result is a novel and interesting account which illuminates what would otherwise be deeply puzzling features of value and desire and the connections between them.

Author : Benjamin Halligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1785331108

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Desires for Reality by Benjamin Halligan Pdf

As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era's cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. The author mounts a genuinely fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-garde experiments of Godard, Pasolini, Schroeter, and Fassbinder to the "low" cinematic genres of horror, pornography, and the Western reflected the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt-a cinema for the barricades.

Author : Esther Hicks
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781458746870

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Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks Pdf

This information-packed book, which presents the teachings of the Non-Physical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you're living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. Each day you'll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time-space reality - and you'll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life. So start making your dreams a reality ... right now!

Author : Brown Landone
Publisher : David De Angelis
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9791220893237

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How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality by Brown Landone Pdf

Brown Landone was one of the first teachers of the scientific understanding of material and immaterial achievements in life. For his first 13 years he lived the usual routine of an invalid. Then his life changed dramatically. Although virtually helpless by many medical accounts, he was able to carry a heavy metal crate down five flights of stairs when he was left alone and a house fire broke out. Afterwards, young Landone knew that his subconscious had made it happen somehow. He figured that if he could do it on a subconscious level, he could certainly do it on a conscious level. This book is an important guide for those who have decided to use the immense power of their Subconscious and make a positive and decisive change in their lives.

Author : Esther Hicks,Jerry Hicks
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781401922238

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Manifest Your Desires by Esther Hicks,Jerry Hicks Pdf

Drawing on the Abraham-Hicks teachings, the best-selling authors of Ask and It Is Given offer inspiring maxims on harnessing the power of manifestation and the Law of Attraction This information-packed little book, which presents the teachings of the non-physical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you’re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. Each day, you’ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time-space reality—and you’ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life. So start making your dreams a reality . . . right now!

Author : Benjamin Halligan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785331114

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Desires for Reality by Benjamin Halligan Pdf

As with many aspects of European cultural life, film was galvanized and transformed by the revolutionary fervor of 1968. This groundbreaking study provides a full account of the era’s cinematic crises, innovations, and provocations, as well as the social and aesthetic contexts in which they appeared. The author mounts a genuinely fresh analysis of a contested period in which everything from the avant-garde experiments of Godard, Pasolini, Schroeter, and Fassbinder to the “low” cinematic genres of horror, pornography, and the Western reflected the cultural upheaval of youth in revolt—a cinema for the barricades.

Author : Landone, Brown
Publisher : Calgary : ProsperitySecrets.com Incorporated
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1894911571

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How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality by Landone, Brown Pdf

Author : Brown Landone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9791220890823

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How to Turn Your Desires and Ideals Into Reality by Brown Landone Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Desire (Philosophy)
ISBN : 0191602655

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Value, Reality, and Desire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vadim Zeland
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781846946608

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Reality Transurfing by Vadim Zeland Pdf

Transurfing Reality was one of the top non-fiction bestsellers in the world in 2005 and 2006. Unknown till now in the West, the series has sold over 1,300,000 copies in Russia in three years. This translation (by Natasha Micharina) describes a new way of looking at reality, indeed of creating it. It provides a scientific explanation of the laws that help you do this, building up a scientific model, speaking in detail about particular rules to follow and giving important how-to tips, illustrated with examples. The author introduces a system of specific terms, notions, and metaphors, which together make a truly convincing, thought-provoking theory of creating your own life. “You are ruled by circumstances and it will always be like that until you learn how to manage your reality,” says the author. Bringing together the cutting edge of modern science and philosophical teaching, the book's style is popular-scientific, metaphorical and conversational. Books in the series: Reality Transurfing 1: The Space of Variations; Reality Transurfing 2: A Rustle of Morning Stars; Reality Transurfing 3: Forward to the Past; Reality Transurfing 4: Ruling Reality; Reality Transurfing 5: Apples Fall to the Sky

Author : Andreas Weber
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : NATURE
ISBN : 9781603586979

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Matter and Desire by Andreas Weber Pdf

Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive is an erotic process--constantly transforming the self through contact with others, desiring ever more life. In clever and surprising ways, Weber recognizes that love--the impulse to establish connections, to intermingle, to weave our existence poetically together with that of other beings--is a foundational principle of reality. The fact that we disregard this principle lies at the core of a global crisis of meaning that plays out in the avalanche of species loss and in our belief that the world is a dead mechanism controlled through economic efficiency. Although rooted in scientific observation, Matter and Desire becomes a tender philosophy for the Anthropocene, a "poetic materialism," that closes the gap between mind and matter. Ultimately, Weber discovers, in order to save life on Earth--and our own meaningful existence as human beings--we must learn to love.

Author : Lynn Steger Strong
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250247537

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Want by Lynn Steger Strong Pdf

Named a Best Book of 2020 by Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, The New Yorker, and Kirkus Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD—and now they’re filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts. When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless—one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. But her timing is uncanny. Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other’s lives. In Want, Lynn Steger Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things—and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive.

Author : Ian Leslie
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781770894044

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Curious by Ian Leslie Pdf

The latest from Ian Leslie, the author of Born Liars, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, is a fascinating look at the human characteristic of curiosity — our extraordinary capacity to take pleasure in discovering, learning, and understanding. Curious shows how the practice of “deep curiosity” — persistent, self-reflective seeking of knowledge and insight — is key to the success of our careers, the happiness of our children, the strength of our relationships, and the progress of societies. But it also argues that it is a fragile quality, which wanes and waxes over time, and that we take it for granted at our peril. Ian Leslie proposes that the Internet is opening up a “curiosity gap,” by exacerbating the divide between those with a large cognitive appetite, and those happy knowing no more than they have to know; between the curious and the incurious. He draws on many sources and stories to illustrate his points: Benjamin Franklin at Portsmouth Harbour studying the effect of oil on choppy waters; a bored Galileo distracting himself in a Pisa cathedral by observing the swinging of a recently lit lamp; Leonardo da Vinci doodling ideas in his notebook; Google co-founder Larry Page’s thoughts on the perfect search engine; the invention of the microwave oven; the advantages of your local bookseller over Amazon’s algorithms; a reassessment of Donald Rumsfeld’s defense strategy, and many more. Rich, textured, and exciting, Curious is a new take on the most absorbing human trait of all.

Author : Robert J. Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781978803602

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Destructive Desires by Robert J. Patterson Pdf

Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism’s increased codification in America’s racial politics and policies since the 1970s. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.

Author : Ann Lawrence
Publisher : Love Spell
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0505523930

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Virtual Desire by Ann Lawrence Pdf

The hero of a virtual reality game, Vad is every woman's fantasy, with his silver-blond hair, a magnificent face, and well-muscled thighs. When Gwen finds him snoring away in her video game shop, she thinks he must be out to win the Tolemac warrior look-alike contest. But the passion he ignites in her is far too real. By the author of "Virtual Heaven".