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Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 0860000125
Author : Eric Hoffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015072117024
This collection of aphorisms and philosophical comment represents Eric Hoffer at his best. It offers stunning insights that strike home with startling frequency, often most uncomfortably; it has a fine unity, a well-defined theme. That some of the statements invite argument and questioning is inevitable and stimulating. Here is a book of the "wry epigram and the icy aphorism" which made his earlier books so appealing and gained for him a wide audience.--Publisher description.
Author : Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781421432441
Originally published in 1961. Arthur O. Lovejoy, beginning with his book The Great Chain of Being, helped usher in the discipline of the History of Ideas in America. In Reflections on Human Nature, Lovejoy devotes particular attention to influential figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Bishop Butler, and Mandeville, tracing developments and changes in the concept of human nature through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also discusses the theory of human nature held by the founders of the American Constitution, giving special attention to James Madison and the "Federalist Papers."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:762152088
Author : Mavis Klein
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781780998275
This book is a collection of 17 independent, opinionated and provocative essays on the various conceptual experiences of being human. Topics include: Ego States, Strokes and Transactions, Our Species, Duality Rules OK, Realities, Languages and Theories, Five Personality Types, Compound Personality Types, Personality Types in Relationships, The Enemies of Love, Men and Women, Morality, The Quest for Happiness, The Issue of Astrology, Life Stages, Zeitgeist, and The Life and Death of God. Most serious books are thought marathons; this serious book is a collection of thought sprints - perfect mind-bending for between stops on bus or train. ,
Author : Dom Moraes
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Population
ISBN : 0275634701
Author : Dee Hock
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781475966558
Volume 1 Autobiography of a Restless Mind is a fascinating, exceptionally diverse collection of observations and reflections written over the past twenty-five years by one of the most innovative thinkers, writers, and leaders of the past half century. Witty and wise, playful and profound, prophetic and immensely quotable, it is a companion no thinking, caring person should be without. Written in an unforgettable style reminiscent of Aurelius, Montaigne, Lao-Tse, and Bacon, it is a classic that will be read with pleasure and profit for generations to come.
Author : Richard Holloway
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847672544
Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are unpredictable places. We are susceptible to forces we don't understand. We are capable of inflicting immense cruelty on one another and yet we also have the capacity to be tender, to empathise, to feel. In his thought-provoking new book Richard Holloway holds a mirror up to the human condition. By drawing on a colourful and eclectic selection of writings from history, philosophy, science, poetry, theology and literature, Holloway shows us how we can stand up to the seductive power of the monster and draw closer to the fierce challenge of the saint.
Author : Malcolm Jeeves
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781932031966
Malcolm Jeeves, former editor-in-chief of Neuropsychologia, a leading international scientific journal in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, explores the intersection of science and faith in defining what it means to be human. He reports on recent scientific research on consciousness and the link between mind, brain, and behavior. He examines issues such as determinism by indicating the possible relevance of chaos theory to enduring concerns about freedom and responsibility. He looks at similarities and differences between human nature and animal nature. He reexamines traditional dualist views of soul and body in the light of contemporary research on mind and brain and argues for a wholistic model. This leads to addressing questions such as: does spiritual awareness depend on the intactness of our brains or does spirituality stand apart from our biological substrate?
Author : Russell Wingood
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781411658509
This book is filled with quotes and wisdom from it's author Russell Wingood, many areas of personal and spiritual growth are touched upon in this compilation.
Author : Douglas K. Candland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195356144
In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans "think," we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. Weaving together diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and his own enlightening commentary, Candland brings to life a series of extraordinary stories. He begins with a look at past efforts to civilize feral children. We meet Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, now famous as the subject of a Truffaut film; Kaspar Hauser, raised in a cell, civilized, and then assassinated; and the Wolf Girls of India, found early this century huddled among wolf pups in a forest den (they were originally believed to be ghosts by superstitious villagers, who nearly shot them as they were being captured). In each case, it was hoped that the study of these children would help clarify the age-old nature/nurture debate, but, as Candland shows, so much of the information "revealed" was really only a projection of beliefs previously held by the investigating scientists. Candland then turns to "clever animals." We learn how the investigation of "Clever Hans," the German horse who could calculate square roots, proved to be a first step in the direction of behaviorism (researchers found that Hans was being tipped off by the subtle and unwitting body language of his owner and other observers, who would bend almost imperceptibly at the waist with every hoof beat, and stand erect when the correct count was reached). And Candland discusses the many attempts to communicate with our closest neighbor, the apes. We read of Richard Lynch Garner's 1892 experiment living with chimpanzees in Gabon (he taught one to say the French word "feu"), and of Gua, raised by W.N. and L.A. Kellogg alongside their own son Donald, and of the latest successes of teaching sign language to such precocious apes as Sarah, Sherman, Austin, and Koko. Throughout, Candland illuminates the boldest and most intriguing efforts yet to extend our world to that of our fellow creatures. And he shows that, in the end, our effort to "make contact" is a reflection of the way in which we as a species create and order our universe. Humans have long shown a wish to connect with the silent minds around them. In assembling and interpreting the compelling tales in this book, Candland offers us a new understanding not only of the animal kingdom, but of the very nature of humanity, and our place in the great chain of being.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : Paradigm
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106017480564
Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native folklore as the basis or nemesis of cultural order. Yet these Western notions of nature and culture ignore the one truly universal character of human sociality: namely, symbolically constructed kinship relations. Kinsmen are members of one another: they live each other's lives and die each other's deaths. But where the existence of the other is thus incorporated in the being of the self, neither interest, nor agency or even experience is an individual fact, let alone an egoistic disposition. "Sorry, beg your pardon," Sahlins concludes, Western society has been built on a perverse and mistaken idea of human nature.
Author : John Bourman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0965079708
Author : Christian Erk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110319712
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended in academic circles. Yet, despite its prominence the human right to health remains something of a mystery - especially with respect to its philosophical underpinnings. Addressing this unfortunate and intellectually dangerous insufficiency, this book critically assesses the stipulation that health is a human right which - as international law holds - derives from the inherent dignity of the human person. Scrutinising the concepts underlying this stipulation (health, rights, dignity), it shall conclude that such right cannot be upheld from a philosophical perspective.
Author : António de Castro Caeiro
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527537743
This book breaks frontiers. It deals with human beings and their intrinsic relationship with time in the space of a week. Each day is different from another. There is nothing human without days. It is said that life is a single day, but one day is the measure of time in the rhythm of human life. Days, weeks, months, years, and decades are human organizations of time; the universe has no days. It is human beings who are time. We are literally the days of the week repeatedly until the week ends. In this book, there is a continuous search for the days’ identities, for their specific characteristics, for the way they open up to our consciousness in each of its parts. The book identifies the particular characteristics of each day and the specific relationship of human beings with time.