books about: philosophic     books:       Palmistry: The Language of the Hand Cheiro Gramercy, 1999 The Language of the Hand A brand-new edition of the classic work first published in 1894. Cheiro was a renowned palmist whose world travels gained attention in the press and whose palm readings for the rich and famous of his day, including Mark Twain, elicited words of praise. In this unique book are methods for reading personalities, recognizing astrological links, and prognostication, along with drawings of hands showing structural types ...             In Defense of Advertising: Arguments from Reason, Ethical Egoism, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism Jerry Kirkpatrick TLJ Books, 2007 "In Defense of Advertising is a theoretical defense based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. It argues that the proper foundations of advertising are reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Its theme is that the social and economic criticisms of advertising are false because they are based on a false philo­sophic and economic world view. Only an alter­native world view can refute the charges and ...             The ego ; From birth to rebirth (The notebooks of Paul Brunton) Paul Brunton Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation/Larson Publications, 1987 A registered art therapist and certified grief counselor created the Children Can Cope series of workbooks to help children work through feelings about traumatic events and changes using art.             The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1 Moses Maimonides, Shlomo Pines, ... University Of Chicago Press, 1974 This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.             Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial James A. Colaiaco Routledge, 2001 As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito, Socrates Against Athens provides valuable historical and cultural context to our understanding of the trial.             A Grammar of Motives Kenneth Burke University of California Press, 1969 About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject of this book. The book is concerned with the basic forms of through which, in accordance with the nature of the world as all men necessarily experience it, are exemplified in the attributing of motives. These forms of though can be embodied ...             Advanced contemplation ; The peace within you (The notebooks of Paul Brunton) Paul Brunton Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation/Larson Publications, 1988 Advanced Contemplation takes the high road, a direct route to the deepest mystical states-yielding permanent results of a metaphysical, transpersonal, and universal nature. The Peace Within You is an uplifting approach to the peace which passeth understandingat the core of every human being, showing how its rich serenity can be conciously integrated into daily living.             Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach : A Philosophic and Practical Approach to Cruising Don Casey, Lew Hackler, ... Seascape Enterprises, 1987 If wisdom can be defined as common sense that has withstood the test of time, then Sensible Cruising is a wise book. It explains: Why a sensible cruise is affordable to almost anyone. Why the boat of choice for most cruisers is under 35 feet. Why lowering the cost doesn't devalue the cruise. How simplicity minimizes insulation from the experience. How to think in terms of how little, not how much, is really required. ...             Maimonides: A Guide for Today's Perplexed Kenneth Seeskin Behrman House, 1996             Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography Daniel Tanguay Yale University Press, 2007 Since political theorist Leo Strauss’s death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and academic discussions of his work. Tanguay offers in crystal-clear prose the first assessment of the whole of Strauss’s thought, a daunting task owing to the vastness and scope of Strauss’s ...             Plato's Democratic Entanglements S. Sara Monoson Princeton University Press, 2000 In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. ...             What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies Leo Strauss University Of Chicago Press, 1988 "All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit, if men make it their explicit goal to acquire knowledge of the good life and of the good society, political philosophy emerges. . . . The theme of political philosophy is mankind's great objectives, freedom and government or ...             Deconstruction: Theory and Practice (New Accents) Christopher Norris Routledge, 2002 Deconstruction: Theory and Practice has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative guide to this topic. Without oversimplifying or glossing over the challenges, Norris makes deconstruction more accessible to the reader. The volume focuses on the works of Jacques Derrida which caused this seismic shift in critical thought, as well as the work of North American critics Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and ...             THE EXPEDITION SETS OUT: Poetry The Oliver Arts & Open Press, 2012 Dip up a ladleful anywhere from this broad pool of enigmatic yet plain and transparent words. What are these, you'll ask, these alluring strings of sounds and beguiling images? Well, they come from the workings of a wonderfully complex and adventurous mind—in fact, maybe they are the workings of that mind, the record of what that mind's possessor discovered in the "expedition" that we know, from the title of the book, just recently set out. ...             Transformations in Consciousness: The Metaphysics and Epistemology Franklin Merrell-Wolff State University of New York Press, 1995 This book presents a philosophy that includes the enlightenment experience--that embraces the wider ranges opened by the door of realization--while not excluding the contents of the more common experience. A realization in consciousness that finds no place or adequate recognition in philosophical systems proves the inadequacy of those systems. The author first briefly surveys the principal schools of modern Western philosophy in order to show ...             The Architectonics of Meaning: Foundations of the New Pluralism Walter Watson University Of Chicago Press, 1993 The Architectonics of Meaning is a lucid demonstration of the purposes, methods, and implications of philosophical semantics that both supports and builds on Richard McKeon's and other noted pluralists' convictions that multiple philosophical approaches are viable. Watson ingeniously explores ways to systematize these approaches, and the result is a well-structured instrument for understanding texts. This book exemplifies both general and ...             Body, Text, and Science: The Literacy of Investigative Practices and the Phenomenology of Edith Stein ... M. Sawicki Springer, 2001 What is scientific about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That proposal comes from Edith Stein, who as Husserl's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive Ideen to publication. She argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative. ...             Apologetics Paul J. Glenn TAN Books, 1980 Every educated Catholic has a duty to investigate the reasonableness of his religion and to be prepared to explain it to non-Catholics. This is part of being a soldier of Christ and a witness to the Truth. This book covers the proofs for the existence of God; His nature, attributes and actions on the world; the nature of religion; the necessity and fact of supernatural revelation; Christ the Redeemer, True God and true man; His Church--its ...             The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy Jacob Howland Paul Dry Books, 2004 In the Republic , Plato addresses the deepest questions about the human soul and human community, the proper objects of worship and reverence, the nature of philosophy, and the relationship between the philosopher and the political community. As presented in the Republic , Socratic philosophizing is eternally unfinished, paradoxical, and ambiguous. According to Jacob Howland, this openness allows for ever-fresh approaches to the questions ...              search for books advertising, apologetics, architectonics, arguments, biography, capitalism, consciousness, contemplation, deconstruction, democratic, entanglements, epistemology, expedition, foundations, intellectual, investigative, laissez-faire, maimonides, metaphysics, notebooks, palmistry, perplexed, phaenomenologica, phenomenology, philosophic, philosophy, pluralism, political, practices, transformations books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Ali Abbas Story: The Moving Story of One Boy's Struggle for Life home  impressum - about us