Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

In this book Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern.

This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language.

This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language.

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read.

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read.

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses.

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses.

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman).

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman).

Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar's Reith lectures of 1959.

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities.

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities.

This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account-a "e;constructive-engagement"e; account-of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible.

This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account-a "e;constructive-engagement"e; account-of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible.

Originally published in 1960, The Future of Man is a chronicle of Professor Medwar's Reith lectures of 1959.

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The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic.

The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic.

Explore the profound forces and pivotal events that have shaped human civilization with Robert Briffault's The Making of Humanity.

Personal account interwoven with most readable material available on arcane Reshel matrix of ley lines (as discovered by Bill Buehler).

With delicacy and precision, the major Chinese poet Xiao Hai conjures shadows to explore philosophical questions of illusion and reality, history and time, art and language.

The forms and scope of logic rest on assumptions of how language and reasoning connect to experience.

This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well, in a style accessible to both students and scholars.

Filled with exercises and techniques, An Ascension Handbook is a practical "e;how to"e; manual for ascending Lightworkers.

This book starts with the premise that we are spiritual beings existing in a physical universe, each with a specific purpose.

Most people have the same fundamental yearnings and questions inside of them.

In his preface to Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche says this: With [Thus Spoke Zarathustra] I have given mankind the greatest present that has ever been made to it so far.

Time is that in which we live -- it is horizontal.

Acompáñenos a un viaje fabuloso con Edgar Cayce, quien fuera el psíquico más famoso del mundo.

A timely and long-overdue work that in one convenient volume collects and analyzes the Edgar Cayce readings related to the cosmos, both in the light of modern astronomical and cosmological knowledge and the most recent discoveries in these fascinating fields.

There is perhaps no modern psychic more fascinating than Edgar Cayce, and no better authors to explore the intricate details and eye-opening stories of the people who received his readings than Sidney and Nancy Kirkpatrick.

Two Edgar Cayce experts with decades of experience studying and teaching the philosophies of his psychic readings bring his timeless wisdom into the 21st century.

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

For more than two thousand years, the Heart Sutra has been part of the daily life of millions of Buddhists.

In Emptiness, the fifth volume in The Foundation of Buddhist Thought series, Geshe Tashi Tsering provides readers with an incredibly welcoming presentation of the central philosophical teaching of Mahayana Buddhism.

Using the traditional Buddhist allegorical image of the Wheel of Life and the teaching of the twelve links of dependent origination, the Dalai Lama deftly illustrates how our existence, though fleeting and often full of woes, brims with the potential for peace and happiness.

Relative Truth, Ultimate Truth is a clear and remarkably practical presentation of a core Buddhist teaching on the nature of reality.

Form is emptiness; emptiness is form.

Madhyamaka, the "e;philosophy of the middle,"e; systematized the Buddha's fundamental teaching on no-self with its profound non-essentialist reading of reality.

Maitreya's Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, is the main Indian treatise on buddha nature, a concept that is heavily debated in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy.

The Abhidhamma, the third great division of early Buddhist teaching, expounds a revolutionary system of philosophical psychology rooted in the twin Buddhist insights of selflessness and dependent origination.

What is emptiness?

In this brilliant new translation and commentary on The Diamond Sutra--one of the sublime wisdom teachings of Mahayana Buddhism--Mu Soeng integrates this ancient wisdom teaching with current scientific and psychological thought.

The Diamond Sutra is revered throughout Asia as one of the Buddhas most profound expressions of the nature of reality.

Madhyamaka, or "e;Middle Way,"e; philosophy came to Tibet from India and became the basis of all of Tibetan Buddhism.

Like the bestselling A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of the Night, Practicing Wisdom focuses on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva.

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the author of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment and the teacher of the First Dalai Lama, is renowned as one of the greatest scholar-saints that Tibet has ever produced.

For centuries, Dzogchen - a special meditative practice to achieve spontaneous enlightenment - has been misinterpreted by both critics and malinformed meditators as being purely mystical and anti-rational.

Yogacara is an influential school of Buddhist philosophy and psychology that stems from the early Indian Mahayana Buddhist tradition.