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  • Deductive Irrationality

    A Commonsense Critique of Economic Rationalism

    Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays in this collection analyze not only the work of founders of the discipline of economics, but also political philosophers influential in this founding and select contributors of seminal theories in modern economic thought_namely, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Alfred ... Read more

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  • God Is Not Great

    How Religion Poisons Everything

    Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas.With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of ... Read more

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  • Laozi's Daodejing--From Philosophical and Hermeneutical Perspectives

    The English and Chinese Translations Based on Laozi’S Original Daoism

    by Chen Lee Sun ...
    Laozis DaodejingThe English and Chinese Translations Based on Laozis Original Daoism From Philosophical and Hermeneutical Perspectives?????? ???????????Your work on Lao Tzu promises to be very interesting.--Professor Sir Alfred Ayer (A.J.Ayer)I strongly recommend to you a new translation of Lao Tzu from a very remarkable translator, a Chinese lady Lee Sun Chen Org, who deeply believes in the ... Read more

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  • What Would Nietzsche Do?

    How the greatest philosophers would solve your everyday problems

    by Marcus Weeks ...
    What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault leave the toilet seat up?With sections on Relationships, Self and Identity, How to Live, Art and ... Read more

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  • Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen

    The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations

    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, a landmark account of Descartes, reason, and truthIn this classic work, philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to ... Read more

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  • The Edge of Reason

    A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

    An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues: "A timely masterpiece."—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Touching a NerveReason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality ... Read more

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  • The Rationalists

    Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics

    Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy's first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression. ... Read more

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  • Walking Up And Down On it: Collected Philosophical Works

    Available for the first time anywhere, Emericus Durden's three essays on skeptical nihilism are collected in one volume.One's experience of the entire transformation process from beginning to end – taking up the method of skeptical nihilism, seeing the practice through to its completion, afterwards stabilizing oneself in the new perspective beyond every possible form of human society and ... Read more

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  • A Cultivated Reason

    An Essay on Hume and Humeanism

    As Plato’s tripartite division of the soul, Descartes’s criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and Kant’s notion of the categorical imperative attest, philosophy has traditionally been wedded to rationalism and its “intellectualist” view of persons. In this book Christopher Williams seeks to wean his fellow philosophers away from an overly rationalistic self-understanding by using resources that ... Read more

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  • Conscience and Its Critics

    Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason, and Modern Subjectivity

    by Edward Andrew ...
    Series series Heritage
    Conscience and Its Critics is an eloquent and passionate examination of the opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Seeking to illuminate what the United Nations Declaration of Rights means in its assertion that reason and conscience are the definitive qualities of human beings, Edward Andrew attempts to give determinate shape ... Read more

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  • Musings of the Realist

    by The Realist ...
    You’re either going to love or hate this book by The Realist. This book says all of the things that people have in the back of their minds that they want to say but don’t. Musings of the realist is a short read that says things the way they really are with no sugar coated fluff.A lot is covered in this book and after reading it you will be either wondering WTF just hit you or will saying to ... Read more

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  • The Moon Through the Lonely Window: Explorations in Philosophy

    Questions burn within us all. At times, the answers bring an inferno of their own, laying waste to our comfortable traditions and beliefs. The light of that mighty fire will either destroy us or light the pathway towards truth. We march forward with no shield to protect us; reason our only weapon.The Moon Through the Lonely Window is a collection of philosophical thoughts by David J. Guyton. These ... Read more

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