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In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.

A part of Harper Perennials special Resistance Library highlighting classic works that illuminate the Age of Trump: A boldly packaged reissue of the classic examination of dangerous nationalist political movements. Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly. New YorkerA stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believerthe first and most famous of his bookswas made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Called a brilliant and original inquiry and a genuine contribution to our social thought by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., this landmark in the field of social psychology is completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today as it delivers a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. This 25th Anniversary Quill Edition features a new introduction by the author; important typographical changes; and a Reader's Guide that includes discussion topics, an interview with the author, and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life.

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are.The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think. Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis, which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful, anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten the dark, strange loop we traverse.

Vi mennesker har altid forudsagt verdens nært forestående undergang. I dag fylder Klima, terror og pandemier aviser og tv og hjemmesider, og alle har hver deres take på, hvordan verden snart ender eller i det mindste undergår voldsomme forandringer. Det er blevet umoderne at håbe og tro på, at det kan være anderledes. Optimisme er naivt. Det er uncool at være entusiastisk, når det kommer til fremtiden.Men hvorfor er det sådan? Hvorfor har vi mennesker altid frygtet fremtiden? Og er det egentlig mere velbegrundet i dag end tidligere? Eller mindre? Og hvad gør det ved os som mennesker, at have frygten som grundtone i livet? Hvad gør det ved vores børn, at de vokser op i det, mange tror er en undergangstid? Er det fair overfor dem, at tage håbet fra dem allerede før de når at leve? HÅB er et helhjertet forsvar for håbet og optimismen. En poetisk og filosofisk men også helt konkret beskrivelse af, hvorfor vi skal og må skifte frygt ud med håb. Budskabet underbygges igennem interviews med internationale videnskabsmænd og eksperter, som sagligt argumenterer for, at vi skal mane frygten i jorden, og hvorfor vi egentlig burde være mere optimistiske nu, i denne tid, end nogensinde før.

This is the most accessible edition of Art of War ever produced, with the text broken down into digestible individual lessons, unique teaching illustrations to clarify the text, and step-by-step commentary that draws on the full range of recent translations and ancient commentators.

A comprehensive guide to the understanding and practicing Buddhist meditationThe very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in self-absorbed mind-noise.Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight.Its easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram's assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide, and to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.In this new edition of the bestselling book, the author rearranges, revises and expands upon the original material, as well as adding new sections that bring further clarity to his ideas.

The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophyLong regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed translation by Allan Bloom was the first to take a strictly literal approach. In addition to the annotated text, there is also a rich and valuable essay -- as well as indices -- which will enable readers to better understand the heart of Plato's intention.

What you are today is not important . . . for in this runaway bestseller you will learn how to change your life by applying the secrets you are about to discover in the ancient scrolls. "I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed."-From the ancient scroll marked III in The Greatest Salesman in the World Praise for The Greatest Salesman in the World "The Greatest Salesman in the World is one of the most inspiring, uplifting, and motivating books I have ever read. I can well understand why it has had such a splendid acceptance."-Norman Vincent Peale "At last! A book on sales and salesmanship that can be read and enjoyed by veteran and recruit alike! I have just completed The Greatest Salesman in the World for the second time-it was too good for just one reading-and in all sincerity, I say that it is the most readable, most constructive and most useful instrument for the teaching of sales as a profession that I have ever read."-F.W. Errigo, Manager, U. S. Sales Trainer at Parke, Davis & Company "I have read almost every book that has ever been written on salesmanship, but I think Og Mandino has captured all of them in The Greatest Salesman in the World. No one who follows these principles will ever fail as a salesman, and no one will ever be truly great without them; but, the author has done more than present the principles-he has woven them into the fabric of one of the most fascinating stories I have ever read."-Paul J. Meyer, President of Success Motivation Institute, Inc. "Every sales manager should read The Greatest Salesman in the World. It is a book to keep at the bedside, or on the living room table-a book to dip into as needed, to browse in now and then, to enjoy in small stimulating portions. It is a book for the hours and for the years, a book to turn to over and over again, as to a friend, a book of moral, spiritual and ethical guidance, an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration."-Lester J. Bradshaw, Jr., Former Dean, Dale Carnegie Institute of Effective Speaking & Human Relations "I was overwhelmed by The Greatest Salesman in the World. It is, without doubt, the greatest and the most touching story I have ever read. It is so good that there are two musts that I would attach to it: First, you must not lay it down until you have finished it; and secondly, every individual who sells anything, and that includes us all, must read it."-Robert B. Hensley, President, Life Insurance Co. of Kentucky "Og Mandino provocatively prods your attention into fascination as he masterfully relates his story. The Greatest Salesman in the World is a book with emotional appeal for millions."-Roy Garn, Executive Director, Emotional Appeal Institute "There are very few men who have the writing talent with which Og Mandino has been blessed. The thoughts contained in this book symbolize the importance of selling to the entire world's existence."-Sol Polk, President, Polk Bros., Inc.

"The Companion Species Manifesto" is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in "significant otherness". In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not surrogates for theory, she says; they are not here just to think with.

Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine.

Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of John Rawls's view, much of the extensive literature on his theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes it once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Covers "I Ching" - a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience.

"En Triumf ... En rigtig Guldlok-bog. Der er hverken for lidt eller for meget, og tolkningerne er hverken for tynde eller for tykke og klumpede. Warburtons lille filosofihistorie kan nydes som et fuldt og nærende måltid eller en perfekt appetitvækker, der kan lokke enhver ud på en rejse i filosofien." – The GuardianNigel Warburtons filosofihistorie henvender sig til unge i alle aldre. Ikke for ingenting blev den således på kort tid en bestseller i England. Den er skrevet i et klart og enkelt sprog, der inviterer læseren til selv at gå i gang med 40 af de vigtigste filosoffer i verdenshistorien fra Sokrates til Peter Singer. Hvert kapitel er af overskuelig længde, og Warburton tager altid udgangspunkt i konkrete – og ofte tillige underholdende – eksempler og cases, der gør filosoffens tanker mere levende og lettere at gå til. Endvidere inddrages filosoffernes eget liv på en sådan måde, at forholdet mellem liv og tænkning fremstår klart – og ofte også modsætningen. Til den danske udgave har filosoffen Uffe Steen sammen med oversætteren, idéhistoriker Jens Viggo Olavi Nielsen, udarbejdet et tillæg i Warburtons ånd om det 20. århundredes vigtigste danske tænker, K. E. Løgstrup. Også det 19. århundredes væsentligste danske filosof, Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, har sit eget kapitel i bogen.

ETHICA NICOMACHEA eller ETIKKEN er for den græske filosof og videnskabsmand Aristoteles (384-322 f.Kr.) en slags forskole til samfundslæren (politikken), der har til opgave at gøre mænd til gode borgere i bystaten. Efter en indledning, der både gælder etikken og politikken og en redegørelse for dyderne, der opdeles i moralske og intellektuelle dyder, præsenterer Aristoteles i anden til fjerde bog af ETIKKEN den berømte teori om dyden som en midterposition mellem to yderligheder. De moralske dyder kan ikke læres, men må leves, hvorfor der skal være lagt en god grund til dem fra barndommen af. I femte bog behandler han retfærdigheden, der skiller sig ud fra de mere individuelle dyder og har karakter af en slags overdyd. Derefter følger i sjette bog en behandling af de intellektuelle dyder, hvor især forstandighed behandles. Syvende bog skildrer de personer, der farer vild, fordi deres vilje er for svag, og nydelsen lokker dem. Ottende og niende bog omhandler venskabet, der strækker sig fra elskov til forretningsforbindelser og alle de bånd, der knytter mennesker sammen inden for kredsen af borgere. Tiende og sidste bog vier Aristoteles til en undersøgelse af nydelsen og en bestemmelse af lykken. ETHICA NICOMACHEA eller Aristoteles' etik foreligger nu for første gang på dansk i digital form med noter og søgbart indeks i Niels Møllers oprindelige oversættelse fra 1936.

Afsked med almagten udgør et væsentligt bidrag til den aktuelle, kirkelige debat om kristendommens gudsbillede og er skrevet i et lettilgængeligt sprog, så alle interesserede kan være med.

Etiske problemstillinger er allestedsnærværende i den offentlige debat, hvor spørgsmål om bl.a. kriminalitet, kloning og gensplejsning ofte er på dagsordenen. Men etik er samtidig en forskningsdisciplin, der rækker ud over den almene debat og behandler spørgsmålene mere stringent og systemtisk. Anvendt etik er en forskningsdisciplin i kraftig vækst, og denne bog giver en indføring i de mest centrale dimensioner.

“Op igennem 1990’erne og 00’erne har vi skabt en kultur, der alene har opfordret mennesket til at definere sig selv ved sine ambitioner, drømme og fantasier. En kultur, der reproducerer folks manglende evne til nøgternt at vurdere egne evner ved at anspore dem til konsekvent at overvurdere dem”. Så kontant er meldingen fra Morten Albæk her i bogen.Albæk gør op med folks indbildte tro på, at deres talent bare skal opdages og langer ud efter den manglende selverkendelse, der nærer X Factor og andre lignende konstruktioner i vores omgivelser. For efter Albæks mening er de fleste af os helt gennemsnitlige, fejlfyldte mennesker, som skal arbejde flittigt og gøre vores bedste hver eneste dag, hvis vi skal opleve succes og bidrage positivt til verden.Morten Albæk er Group Senior Vice President i Vestas, anerkendt som en af de mest innovative marketingdirektører i verden og adjungeret professor i Anvendt Filosofi ved Aalborg Universitet.I bogen deler han sine tanker om vigtigheden af at være et helt menneske i en moderne og omskiftelig verden. Han forklarer, hvorfor man hverken kan være en god leder, en god medarbejder eller et godt menneske, hvis man ikke er ærlig i omgangen med sig selv og med andre. De kontante refleksioner sættes løbende i relief med Albæks fortælling om sin egen opvækst og sine personlige erfaringer fra ungdoms- og voksenlivet.

Yoga bliver ofte forbundet med smidighed, sundhed og stresshåndtering, men de fleste har alligevel en fornemmelse af, at yoga er langt mere og dybere end det. Men hvad er dette dybere lag? Og hvordan kan yogastillinger og meditationsøvelser have eksistentiel betydning?"Nærmere noget" er en introduktion til de filosofiske tanker, der ligger til grund for yogatraditionen. Filosofien tager udgangspunkt i menneskets evige uro og viser dig en vej til indsigt og fred. Vejen fører dybt ind i dig selv. Det handler bestemt ikke kun om velvære, og du må regne med at få rokket din selvopfattelse godt og grundigt.Du behøver hverken dyrke yoga eller tro på reinkarnation for at kunne genkende dig selv i tankerne. Den indiske visdom foldes ud på en måde, som kan kobles direkte til vores moderne vestlige liv og samtidig er tro mod den oprindelige filosofi.

Hvordan lærer man at tænke selvstændigt? Den franske filosof Oscar Brenifier beskriver i denne bog filosofiske samtaler i klasselokalet som undersøgende samtalefællesskaber, der styrker elevernes selvstændig tænkning.Eleverne lærer at stille spørgsmål til hinanden, selv at tænke over og give svar, gå respektfuldt og kritisk på opdagelse i andres og egne svar samt forsvare egne holdninger med argumenter. Hermed trænes elevernes sproglige og sociale kompetencer. Oscar Brenifier, verdenskendt filosof og filosofisk vejleder igennem mange år, præsenterer i denne bog, skrevet til det danske marked, 45 filosofiske øvelser, der kan danne udgangspunkt for de filosofiske samtaler. Øvelserne er opdelt i nem, middel og svær, da dette kan være en hjælp til lærere, som ønsker at benytte undersøgende samtaler med og mellem elever som pædagogisk fremgangsmåde.Samtalerne skal styres af læreren og være velstrukturerede, så de ikke strander i modsætninger mellem personlige opfattelser. Indledningsvist beskrives derfor lærerens rolle og hvordan de filosofiske samtaler igangsættes og struktureres samt hvilke forhindringer, der kan opstås. Bogen henvender sig primært til folkeskolelærere og lærerstuderende, men vil være inspirerende for alle voksne, der vil igangsætte og støtte børn og unges egen tænkning gennem samtale.

The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence, a profound book by Robert Pantano, delves into the depths of human existence. Published in 2022, this book explores the paradox of finding meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. Pantano, a master of his craft, weaves a narrative that is both captivating and thought-provoking. The genre of this book is hard to pin down, as it transcends traditional boundaries, offering readers a unique blend of philosophy, self-help, and existential musings. Independently published, The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence, stands as a testament to Pantano's insightful and introspective approach to writing. This book will undoubtedly leave readers pondering their own existence and the meaning they attribute to their lives. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the intricacies of life and existence.

How do we live without free will?The existence of free will - our ability to choose between one course of action and another, to determine our own destiny - is a foundation stone of western society, dictating our notions of fairness and justice, punishment and reward, our very identity as individuals and humans. But as world-renowned scientist Robert Sapolsky shows, there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that free will exists, even while everything in our biology leads us to believe that it does. Gathering together all of the scientific evidence available, Sapolsky first demonstrates conclusively that free will is a fabrication rather than a reality and then goes on to examine how it is that we live successfully and justly in its absence and asking what would happen if we were all to accept, once and for all, that everything we do has already been determined?A book of monumental scope and importance, Determined brings us face to face with a truth that is at once profoundly disturbing and liberating, with radical implications for every aspect of our lives.

A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022"e;Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better anyway"e; The New York Times Book Review'An eloquent, moving, witty and above all useful demonstration of philosophy's power to help us weather the storms of being human' Oliver Burkeman, author of FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS______________________________________Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice ... Hope?Life is hard - as the past few years have made painfully clear. From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world, sometimes simply going on can feel too much.But could there be solace - and even hope - in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition? Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striving for our "e;best lives"e; and help us find warmth, humanity, and humour in the lives we actually have? Could it inspire in us the desire for a better world?In this profound and personal book, Kieran Setiya shows how philosophy can help us find our way. He shares his own experience with chronic pain and the consolation that comes from making sense of it. He asks what we can learn from loneliness and loss about the value of human life. And he explores how we can fail with grace, confront injustice, and search for meaning in the face of despair. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy, as well as fiction, comedy, social science and personal essay, Life is Hard is a book for this moment - a work of solace and compassion. It draws us towards justice, for ourselves and others, by acknowledging what it means to be alive.

Ramana Maharshi was one of the most significant spiritual teachers to emerge from India. This title presents a collection of conversations between him and the many seekers who came to his ashram for guidance. It contains the essence of his teaching.