Humanism category: 419 books

Je me doutais bien, madame1, que l’aveugle-né, à qui M. de Réaumur vient de faire abattre la cataracte, ne nous apprendrait pas ce que vous vouliez savoir ; mais je n’avais garde de deviner que ce ne serait ni sa faute, ni la vôtre. J’ai sollicité son bienfaiteur...

Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how our lives unfold. Leiter presents a new interpretation...

Atheism is an evolving worldview - not the single proposition that God does not exist, but everything else that might or might not go with it. With only a single sentence about the existence of single entity, there is huge scope - necessity, even - for having to reasonably work everything else out....

Feuerbach’s departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of Marx’s early writings. Indeed, a great amount of the young Marx must remain unintelligible...

In this series of commentaries J. Krishnamurti, one of the great thinkers of our time, touches upon many human problems—our hopes, our fears, our illusions, our beliefs, our prejudices—and in the simplest language seems to pierce to their roots. “The sheer simplicity is breathtaking. The reader...

"Más que en cualquier otro período, la filosofía en el Renacimiento reclama un abordaje interdisciplinario, cosa que se ha tenido en cuenta al acercarnos a sus autores. De todos modos, nos hemos ceñido al campo de las ideas sobre el que confluyen otras perspectivas. Asimismo, hemos tomado...

Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more....

"Los bienes invisibles son luminosos, netos, inmateriales y algo misteriosos, capaces de abrir horizontes y dar belleza a la existencia. Y son liberales, porque tienen mucho de don gratuito y, al mismo tiempo, expanden, aclaran y adornan la libertad, y la elevan sobre el comportamiento instintivo...

En este libro, continuación de Humanismo: los bienes invisibles, el autor analiza dos dimensiones complementarias en el armónico desarrollo del hombre: la formación personal (resortes interiores, disciplina y trabajo) y la dimensión social (el arte de educar, el arte de gobernar, la familia)....

In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator...

I would like to begin by thanking you all for sacrificing your time and patience to listen to what I have to say today. Today we will discuss how just having a positive attitude can help guide us to the road of success. The topics that will by covered in this speech are: A. Why should we consider...

This carefully crafted ebook: "A Story of Ravenna (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader. A tragic and short love story taking place in the city of Ravenna, told by Giovanni Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student,...