This book offers an introductory review to a wide range of thinking, formulated over the last half-millennium in the Western world, about the meaning of human existence.
The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement is a virtual dialogue between Transhumanists of the "e;Oxford School"e; and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger.
Philosophy has sometimes been described as the discipline in which you can never be wrong, as the reserve of absentminded professors, aloof academics and purveyors of obscure ideas or interesting opinions.
The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of "e;reality"e; is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud.
"e;God's Physics"e;: A New Science Transforming the World & Our LifeScience is currently undergoing a profound "e;Paradigmatic-Shift"e; from the Old "e;Material-Causal"e; Paradigm of 20th Century's Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics to the New "e;God's Physics"e; Paradigm: Succinctly stated, 'God's Physics' replaces our old way of looking at the world as created by a "e;random Big-Bang"e; nuclear explosion towards an exciting new realization that our entire physical universe, our bodies and minds, and our total physical and human existence are all being continuously created by a singular higher "e;Universal Consciousness Reality"e; 'God'!
Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis endeavors to educate, challenge, and most importantly, inspire the reader to engage with the personal and collective shadow as a necessary first step in both individual and planetary healing.
The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of The Creator.
A partir de uma reflexão filosófica sobre a existência de Deus e sua relação com a humanidade, este texto delineia uma ética independente de dogmatizações religiosas e radicada na dignidade humana, por meio da explicitação de uma estrutura moral formada pelos valores do respeito, do cuidado e da justiça, que nos orientam na incessante busca da felicidade.
Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound.
Collected here are nine short essays, On the Sufferings of the World, The Vanity of Existence, On Suicide, Immortality: A Dialogue, Psychological Observations, On Education, Of Women, On Noise, and, A Few Parables, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
If there exists on any subject a philosophy (that is, a system of rational knowledge based on concepts), then there must also be for this philosophy a system of pure rational concepts, independent of any condition of intuition, in other words, a metaphysic.
The seven lectures presented here were delivered in New York for the purpose of presenting the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states of being, and thus to bring to them a realization of the universality of the evolutionary process and its actuality; and to deal somewhat with the nature of the expanded states of consciousness and the enlarged life toward which all mankind is traveling.
Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound.
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time.
When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean?
