You ... A Philosophizing Human

You ... A Philosophizing Human

Author: Will C Thomas Jr

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0595453546

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The idea behind the book is to inspire people and especially my family to read and to write. Somehow I started reading comic books between the ages of three and four. And not really knowing how that happened. U continued to read various books even with several nieces and nephews hanging all over me (those that lived with us). I remember reading in elementary school "There is no frigate like a book to take you miles and miles away" somewhere on the reading tests, my mother and father were told in elementary that I read at a twelfth grade level. Read in a neighborhood that stressed playing outdoors brought some pointed finger at a boy who was sitting on the porch reading in the summer while his peers passed by to go play some game. Yet it helped him pick up many philosophies along the way. Certainly I struggled to write sentences that did not always begin with I. I did so because I believed that one's thoughts could be put on paper. So what you read here are some of my thoughts and philosophies that have been with me over many years.


The Philosophy of Mencius

The Philosophy of Mencius

Author: Mencius

Publisher: Spastic Cat Press

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781483703589

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The Philosophy of Mencius is a collection of sayings, dialogues and debates of Mencius. The Philosophy of Mencius is translated into English by James Legge with Preliminary Essays and Explanatory Notes. Mencius was a Chinese philosopher who is the most famous Confucian after Confucius. He was an itinerant Chinese philosopher, a pupil of Confucius' grandson, Zisi and one of the principal interpreters of Confucianism.


The Value of Philosophy

The Value of Philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 9781549905544

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"The Value of Philosophy" is one of the most important chapters of Bertrand's Russell's magnum Opus, The Problems of Philosophy. As a whole, Russell focuses on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.


A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings

A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings

Author: Michael Ruse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1108820433

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Considers why humans consider themselves superior to all other animals, and whether they are right to do so.


Aphorisms on Love and Hate

Aphorisms on Love and Hate

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 0141397918

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'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Nietzsche's works available in Penguin Classics are A Nietzsche Reader, Beyond Good and Evil, Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Birth of Tragedy, The Portable Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ.


Aping Mankind

Aping Mankind

Author: Raymond Tallis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1317234634

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Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we draw the line? In this brilliant critique Raymond Tallis dismantles "Neuromania", arising out of the idea that we are reducible to our brains and "Darwinitis" according to which, since the brain is an evolved organ, we are entirely explicable within an evolutionary framework. With precision and acuity he argues that the belief that human beings can be understood in biological terms is a serious obstacle to clear thinking about what we are and what we might become. Neuromania and Darwinitis deny human uniqueness, minimise the differences between us and our nearest animal kin and offer a grotesquely simplified account of humanity. We are, argues Tallis, infinitely more interesting and complex than we appear in the mirror of biology. Combative, fearless and thought-provoking, Aping Mankind is an important book and one that scientists, cultural commentators and policy-makers cannot ignore. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the Author.


How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle

How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle

Author: Jonas Ceika

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 191346265X

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From the creator of the Cuck Philosophy YouTube channel comes this timely and explosive re-evaluation of Marx and Nietzsche for the 21st-century left. Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. Over the last century, the means which threaten not only life's joy but its very existence have only multiplied. At the same time, as a new wave of nationalism and right-wing politics spreads across the world, fewer and fewer people are being convinced that socialism could improve their everyday lives, let alone save us from our own destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Čeika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the twenty-first century. Leaving behind its past associations with bureaucracy and state tyranny, and it's lifeless and drab theoretical accounts, Čeika instead uses the works of Marx and Nietzsche to reconnect socialism with its human element, presenting it as something not only affecting, but created by living, breathing, suffering human individuals. At a time when ecological collapse is hurtling towards us, and capitalism offers no solution except more growth and exploitation, How to Philosophise with a Hammer and Sickle shows us the way forward to a socialism grounded in human experience and accessible to all.


Robert Spaemann's Philosophy of the Human Person

Robert Spaemann's Philosophy of the Human Person

Author: Holger Zaborowski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-02-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0199576777

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An analysis of the most important features of Robert Spaemann's philosophy. Holger Zaborowski demonstrates the importance of Spaemann's contribution to a number of contemporary debates in philosophy and theology and explains the unity of his thought.


A Philosophy of the Human Being

A Philosophy of the Human Being

Author: Julian A. Davies

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780761845164

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This book is an accessible text that explores what it means to be human. It is designed for an introductory course in Philosophy of the Human Being and contains an abundance of current examples, with embedded quotations from philosophers and selections from contemporary writers following the chapters. The author provides an introduction to philosophy, then discusses the topics of human sociability, intelligence, freedom, duality, individuality, and immortality. He concludes by highlighting the contrast between realism and materialism. This systematic approach focuses on issues, with a minimum of metaphysical superstructure and jargon, and provides connections between the readings. Book jacket.