Cosmic Moral Law
Cosmic Moral Law

Author: Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Publisher: Editions Prosveta

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 2818403103

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True morality is everywhere manifest in Nature, the extension of the natural laws that govern our psychic life. When human beings break these laws they pay by suffering or illness. The reader will no doubt be surprised to learn that true morality is not a limitation; on the contrary it confers tremendous freedom and increases our power of action. If we obeyed these laws both in our own lives and in our dealings with others, the result would be the ideal society. Table of contents 1. ‘As You Sow, So Shall You Reap’ 2. The Importance of Choice - Work not Pleasure 3. Creative Activity as a Means of Evolution 4. Justice 5. The Law of Affinity: Peace 6. The Law of Affinity: True Religion 7. The Laws of Nature and Moral Law 8. Reincarnation 9. Don't Stop Half-Way 10. Know How to Use Your Energies 11. How to Distil the Quintessence 12. The Moral Law Exemplified in a Spring 13. Why Look for Models in the World Above 14. Man Creates in the Invisible World by Means of his Thoughts and Feelings 15. We must not Sever the Link Between the World Below and the World Above 16. If You Are Light You Will Seek the Company of Light 17. Duplicates - New Recordings 18. Morality Comes into its Own in the World Above 19. Example ist the Best Teacher 20. Turn the Other Cheek

Mind and Cosmos
Mind and Cosmos

Author: Thomas Nagel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-22

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0199919755

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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

A Secular Age
A Secular Age

Author: Charles Taylor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-09-17

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 0674986911

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The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

The Cosmic God
The Cosmic God

Author: Isaac Mayer Wise

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781436628884

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Powers of Pure Reason
The Powers of Pure Reason

Author: Alfredo Ferrarin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 022624315X

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The goal of the present book is nothing less than to correct what Alfredo Ferrarin calls the standard reading of Kant s. Ferrarin argues that this widespread form of interpretation has failed to do justice to Kant s philosophy primarily because it is rooted in several uncritical and unjustified assumptions. Two are particularly egregious: a compartmentalization of the First Critique, and an isolation of each Critique from the others. Ultimately these two assumptions cause one to lose sight of the fact that the cognitive/epistemological functions laid out in the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic are functions of an overarching pure reason of which the constitution of experience (and of a science of nature) is only one problem among others. This book, by contrast, argues that the main problem, which pervades the entire first critique, is the power that reason has to reach beyond itself and legislate over the world. Ferrarin pays close attention to both the Transcendental Dialectic and the Doctrine of Method where Kant lays out his conception of cosmic philosophy as embodied in the ideal philosopher."

The Quest for Cosmic Justice
The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Author: Thomas Sowell

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-06-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0743215079

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This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of our times. It is not a comforting book but a book about disturbing and dangerous trends. The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of fundamental principles of freedom -- amounting to a quiet repeal of the American revolution. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed -- and why we need to change course before we do irretrievable damage.