Enlightenment Through Entitlement

Author : Nicolas Vale
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781503592476

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Enlightenment Through Entitlement by Nicolas Vale Pdf

This book is an evolving theory about the human condition and the true nature of reality. The theory states the laws of human energy dynamics that include the premise that all human stress, depression, anxiety, and conflict come from the perceived unfair or unequal exchange of human energy. The theory put forth utilizes the laws of physics from the physical realm and translates these same laws into human beings and human behavior. The theory clearly states that all human behavior is one hundred percent defensive, protective, selfish, self-centered, self-serving and is done so the human in question can avoid, relieve, reduce, or eliminate all forms of conceivable human suffering (self-destructive and suicidal behavior explained). The more we feel threatened and consequently suffer, the more selfish we become. There are no such things as selflessness, sacrifice, martyrs, or heroes because everything a person does or thinks about himself or herself has the subconscious and/or conscious goal of relieving suffering. Everything is a defense against suffering. The theory/philosophy presented in this book explains why people act the way they do, and why life is a brutal, fierce competition for scarce, finite, ultimately impersonal, ultimately impartial, and ultimately neutral human energy. All inevitable stress and conflict come from the entitlement people feel for this powerful invisible force (human energy), and there just isnt enough to go around to satisfy each persons unique entitlement issues. Even though this book talks about an inherent order to human beings with regards to energy, it is a very spiritual book meant to help people make sense of their lives and take the mystery out of why things happen they way they do. Once the reader becomes enlightened (aware) to the true nature of reality, only then can the human species evolve to a place where we can talk about what we are experiencing here on earth accurately. The final frontier for mankind is not outer space as many people will have you think. The final frontier is the acceptance of a hierarchical structure to mankind, selfishness, self-interest and entitlement as a truth and a natural, normal part of human existence. The theories presented in this book will change the way you view reality forever. It is to your advantage to understand reality. This book is where science, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and spirituality overlap.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Ethics
ISBN : OCLC:78616545

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Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Author : Christopher Caldwell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501106910

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The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell Pdf

A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences and his conclusion is this: even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in wealth, freedom, and social stability—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell reveals the real political turning points of the past half-century, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules. Essential, timely, hard to put down, The Age of Entitlement “is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (New York magazine) about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.

Author : Peter Tregear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Conservatories of music
ISBN : 098721148X

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Enlightenment Or Entitlement? by Peter Tregear Pdf

Tertiary music education is commonly understood as preparing students for a career as a performer. This, however, fails to address fundamental shifts in the ways most of us now typically encounter, and think about, music in our lives; nor does it acknowledge the diminishing funding base that supports traditional modes of teaching. It is time to rethink both how, and why, we teach music on campus. In addressing the issues the author draws upon his experience since being appointed in 2012 to lead the government-initiated takeover by Australian National University of the revered Canberra School of Music, a time of intense controversy.

Author : James Cairns
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442636408

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The Myth of the Age of Entitlement by James Cairns Pdf

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster. Providing insights from millennials rarely profiled in the mainstream media, Cairns redefines entitlement as a fundamental concept for realizing economic and environmental justice.

Author : Steven Watts
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781590515037

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Self-help Messiah by Steven Watts Pdf

An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans “how to win friends and influence people” Before Stephen Covey, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm Gladwell there was Dale Carnegie. His book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, became a best seller worldwide, and Life magazine named him one of “the most important Americans of the twentieth century.” This is the first full-scale biography of this influential figure. Dale Carnegie was born in rural Missouri, his father a poor farmer, his mother a successful preacher. To make ends meet he tried his hand at various sales jobs, and his failure to convince his customers to buy what he had to offer eventually became the fuel behind his future glory. Carnegie quickly figured out that something was amiss in American education and in the ways businesspeople related to each other. What he discovered was as simple as it was profound: Understanding people’s needs and desires is paramount in any successful enterprise. Carnegie conceived his book to help people learn to relate to one another and enrich their lives through effective communication. His success was extraordinary, so hungry was 1920s America for a little psychological insight that was easy to apply to everyday affairs. Self-help Messiah tells the story of Carnegie’s personal journey and how it gave rise to the movement of self-help and personal reinvention.

Author : Jed McKenna
Publisher : Wisefool Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780980184822

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Spiritual Enlightenment:: The Damnedest Thing by Jed McKenna Pdf

A MASTERPIECE of illuminative writing, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing is mandatory reading for anyone following a spiritual path. Part exposé and part how-to manual, this is the first book to explain why failure seems to be the rule in the search for enlightenment, and how the rule can be broken. :: Book One of Jed McKenna's Enlightenment Trilogy. Contains Bonus Material.

Author : Elize Lemieux
Publisher : Author House
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781468573930

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Enlightened Reasoning by Elize Lemieux Pdf

Enlightened Reasoning Between the covers of this book, the reader will be taken along on one womans journey, from poverty through crisis, to loss and rebirth of her faith. Elize Lemieux has gained the courage to share with us the many hills and valleys of her life. These include the loss of a newborn and the estrangement of her daughters. Integral to all of her stories is her recovery from the ills of alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Perhaps the most poignantly is the love and learning she has shared with her son with Autism. These pages illustrate in bright colors the metamorphosis of an underprivileged young girl from Northern Ontario, who through determination and resilience became a successful woman now living life joyfully. She writes, Where once I could only see darkness, pain, suffering and fear, I now see a vastness of light. Of course no one accomplishes such a transition alone. In her prose, she gives thanks and profound gratitude too many her beloved mother and loving sisters, her dear friends and spiritual guides and of course, the lilacs. Here are stories of tragedy, magic, compassion and everything else one experiences on the path to wisdom and acceptance.

Author : Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 067440372X

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A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment paradoxes by Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel Pdf

Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and family. At the heart of this volume is "woman" as she appears in a wealth of representations, from simple woodcuts and popular literature to master paintings; and as the focal point of a debate--sometimes humorous, sometimes acrimonious--conducted in every field: letters, arts, philosophy, the sciences, and medicine. Against oppressive experience, confining laws, and repetitious claims about female "nature," women took initiative by quiet maneuvers and outright dissidence. In conformity and resistance, in image and reality, women from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries emerge from these pages in remarkable diversity.

Author : Tara Ratnam,Cheryl J. Craig
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800439405

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Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement by Tara Ratnam,Cheryl J. Craig Pdf

Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement develops a body of professional knowledge by providing a deeper understanding of what manifests itself as 'excessive entitlement', by presenting a theoretical framework within which one can investigate issues and helps those concerned with education and teacher education.

Author : Daniel Carey,Lynn Festa
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191607813

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The Postcolonial Enlightenment by Daniel Carey,Lynn Festa Pdf

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas - eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory - in order to interrogate the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial aspirations. With essays by leading scholars in the field, Postcolonial Enlightenment address issues central not only to literature and philosophy but also to natural history, religion, law, and the emerging sciences of man. The contributors situate a range of writers - from Hobbes and Herder, Behn and Burke, to Defoe and Diderot - in relation both to eighteenth-century colonial practices and to key concepts within current postcolonial theory concerning race, globalization, human rights, sovereignty, and national and personal identity. By enlarging the temporal and geographic framework through which we read, the essays in this volume open up alternate genealogies for categories, events and ideas central to the emergence of global modernity.

Author : B. Taylor,S. Knott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230554801

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Women, Gender and Enlightenment by B. Taylor,S. Knott Pdf

Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.

Author : Ole Peter Grell,Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521651967

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Toleration in Enlightenment Europe by Ole Peter Grell,Roy Porter Pdf

This 1999 book is a systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe.

Author : Joseph Heath
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443422543

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Enlightenment 2.0 by Joseph Heath Pdf

The co-author of the internationally bestselling The Rebel Sell brings us "slow politics": promoting slow thought, slow deliberation and slow debate. Over the last twenty years, the political systems of the western world have become increasingly divided--not between right and left but between crazy and non-crazy. What’s more, the crazies seem to be gaining the upper hand. Rational thought cannot prevail in the current social and media environment, where elections are won by appealing to voters’ hearts rather than their minds. The rapid-fire pace of modern politics, the hypnotic repetition of daily news items and even the multitude of visual sources of information all make it difficult for the voice of reason to be heard. In Enlightenment 2.0, bestselling author Joseph Heath outlines a program for a second Enlightenment. The answer, he argues, lies in a new “slow politics.” It takes as its point of departure recent psychological and philosophical research that identifies quite clearly the social and environmental preconditions for the exercise of rational thought. It is impossible to restore sanity merely by being sane and trying to speak in a reasonable tone of voice. The only way to restore sanity is by engaging in collective action against the social conditions that have crowded it out.

Author : Robert Lindsay Wells
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781984536686

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Enlightenment by Robert Lindsay Wells Pdf

This collection of poetry and essays explores the enlightenment experience both before and after. The poetry takes us on a journey through the breadth of our human condition. There is beauty, and there is ugliness. But through it all, there are those special moments when we glimpse a higher reality. The images and metaphors are meant to inspire us to see beyond the illusion of the world and understand the universal way. The essays look directly at enlightenment using plain language, not poetic imagery. We discuss what it takes to live as enlightened beings, the mistakes that can trap us, and the good choices that allow us to advance within ourselves and make a difference in the world. Living our enlightenment is the secret to staying on the path and helping others find their own enlightenment.