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Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead’s The Function of Reason
Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being anti-scientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain). It is hard...
Engels | 2 uur 34 minuten (112 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Joseph Norio Uemura Uemura’s Reflections on the Mind of Plato
"Plato was not a Platonist! I would like to show . . . that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato without bias or an ax to grind will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend; and not a desiccated scholarly mandarin. Plato was an open-minded, tolerant, reasonable individual, not a tight-lipped, pietistic, puritan. In a word, Plato was an Athenian, not a Spartan!" In the twenty-four centuries that have passed since the Athenians put Socrates to death, every generation has interpreted the meaning...
Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Henri Bergson An Introduction to Metaphysics
The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be helpful to anyone who seeks to go beyond simply dealing with the practical demands of daily life and consider the nature of things. Of special importance is Bergson’s claim that it is both possible and necessary to know from the inside rather than confining our attention to external perspectives and points of view. Intuition...
Engels | 2 uur 5 minuten (91 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
René Descartes Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes is often described as the first modern philosopher, but much of the content of his "Meditations on First Philosophy" can be found in the medieval period that had already existed for more than a thousand years. Does God exist? If so, what is his nature? Is the human soul immortal? How does it differ from the body? What role do sense experience and pure reason play in knowing? Descartes stands out from his predecessors because of the method he developed to treat these and other fundamental...
Engels | 3 uur 32 minuten (153 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Tijn Touber Time Bender
The man who came to save Earth
Just when the situation on planet Earth is becoming unbearable, a mysterious man shows up to save the day. According to Time Bender our planet is the most precious jewel of the cosmos, because it carries the DNA of just about every species in the universe. That’s why our forefathers called it the Living Library and many galactic wars have been fought over her. As time is short and the stakes are high a pact of friends is formed to save the Living Library from the grips of evil. Time Bender is a fast-paced...
Engels | 5 uur 52 minuten (507 MB) | London Books, Bodegraven | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
From the Spirit of Music
"The Birth of Tragedy" stands alongside Aristotle’s "Poetics" as essential works for all who seek to understand poetry and its relationship to human life. In this, his first book, Nietzsche developed a way of thinking about the arts that unites the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus as the central symbol of human existence. Although tragedy serves as the focus of this work, music, visual art, dance, and the other arts can also be viewed using Nietzsche’s analysis and integration of the Apollonian and...
Engels | 3 uur 15 minuten (141 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Immanuel Kant Kant’s Foundations of Ethics
These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant’s ethical and political world-view. "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) challenge all free people to think about the requirements for self-determination both in our individual lives and in our public and private institutions. Kant’s "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" is dedicated to the proposition that all people can know what they need to know to be honest,...
Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (228 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Aristotle Aristotle’s Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed: "poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history." Like so many other works by Aristotle, the Poetics has dominated the way we have thought about all forms of dramatic performance in...
Engels | 1 uur 26 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Grahame Lock Political philosophy
an audio course on Western political theory
This audio course examines the major periods in the history of Western political thought and questions the political and social order. It considers the ways in which thinkers have responded to the particular political problems of their day, and the ways in which they contribute to a broader conversation about human goods and needs, justice, democracy, and the proper relationship of the individual to the state. One aim will be to understand the strengths and weaknesses of various regimes and philosophical...
Engels | 4 uur | Home Academy Publishers, The Hague | 2008
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Petra Roelofs De eenzame rups
een zoektocht naar geluk; in search of happiness
Dit is een autobiografisch verhaal van een eenzame rups die het avontuur aangaat op zoek naar geluk. Ik neem je mee en laat je zien hoe ik, met mijn hooggevoelige natuur, het gevoel van eenzaamheid heb kunnen transformeren naar een gevoel van verbonden zijn met alles wat er tussen hemel en aarde is. De regenboog staat hier voor mij symbool voor. Ik hoop hiermee ook jou te kunnen inspireren om je open te stellen, hulp te vragen en op onderzoek te gaan. Zo ontwikkel je de kunst om op een andere manier...
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Engels | Nederlands | 23 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Magister, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Emiel de Boer Divine response to Anti-Semitism
The Everlasting Covenant in Progress
Only few peoples have suffered so much from discrimination and persecution as the Jewish people. In Roman times, after three failed uprisings against Rome, the Jewish people were scattered throughout the Roman Empire and in later times throughout the world. The scattering throughout the world took place in the manner prophesied by Moses. He also correctly prophesied the discrimination and persecutions that would continue to haunt the Jewish people. But God also showed Moses the return of the Jews...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2024
E-book
Evert Heintz Flow for life
Discover your unprecedented capabilities with the pyramid of insight
"Suddenly the ground disappeared from under my feet and I fell into the abyss. During my 15 meter fall I landed on a snow bridge which saved my life as the crevasse was at least fifty meters deep." As a person you can do much more than you think! In this fascinating book you will learn to discover your unprecedented capabilities and thus increase the flow and energy in your own life. After a near-death experience, author and mountaineer Evert Heintz learned to look differently at his energy. He developed...
Engels | 268 pagina's (ePub2, 12 MB) | Heintz, Heemskerk | 2024
E-book
Mohamad Mostafa Fakhri The Reign Of Solomon
The Second Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 1402 Anno Hegirae
The Jews believe that they will be spared suffering, pain and oppression because they have lived the norms and values through legislation that they have jointly drafted. Christians believe that they cannot be executed on Judgment Day because, on rather dubious reasoning, they crucified Jesus of Nazareth and made him pay the ultimate price, as it were, for the sins of subjects of Christian societies. The Muslims, with their different denominations, believe that salvation comes from the recognition...
Engels | 491 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Mostafa’s Books And Publishing House B.V, Rotterdam | 2023
E-book
Epicureanism and scientific debates
antiquity and late reception
Epicureanism is not only a defence of pleasure: it is also a philosophy of science and knowledge. This edited collection explores new pathways for the study of Epicurean scientific thought, a hitherto still understudied domain, and engages systematically and critically with existing theories. It shows that the philosophy of Epicurus and his heirs, from antiquity to the classical age, founded a rigorous and coherent conception of knowledge. This first part of a two-volume set examines more specifically...
Engels | 350 pagina's (PDF, 7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
Fabio Bolzonar Catholicism and the welfare state in secular France
Even though the policy impact of Catholicism has increasingly been acknowledged, existing scholarship lacks a coherent view on its changing influence over time and in different political contexts. In this book, Fabio Bolzonar investigates the influence of Catholicism on developments in French social protection from World War II to the mid-2010s. He discusses the factors that have favoured or inhibited it and explores the hybridization between Catholic values and secular principles in the social engagement...
Engels | 223 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2023
E-book
Milo Scheeren | Käthie Schene | Peter Toonen Avoiding or awakening
stories of people who were willing to bear the consequences when theit perception of reality changed
What is the real story? Many people no longer recognize themselves in what is being reported by governments and media, or doubt whether they are being told the whole truth. And what happened to dialogue? Why has widespread censorship by mainstream media and social media become commonplace? It seems as if only one truth is allowed, namely the government’s. In that case, do we still live in a democracy? This book has been written for and by people who do not want to look away, but who dare...
Engels | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 6,6 MB) | Paris Books, [Bodegraven] | 2023
E-book
Victor M. Salas Immanent transcendence
Francisco Suárez’s doctrine of being
Long considered one of late scholasticism's most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to early modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in line with...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 4,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
This obscure thing called transparency
politics and aesthetics of a contemporary metaphor
Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media - it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure...
Non-fictie
Engels | 280 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Petrus de Alvernia | Marco Toste Petrus de Alvernia
Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum; a critical edition and study
This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne's Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving commentary in question form on Aristotle's Politics. As the introduction explains, the Questiones was philosophically innovative and became the most influential question commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages. The volume also includes a critical edition...
Non-fictie
Engels | Latijn | 902 pagina's (PDF, 15 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Maarten A. Oversier The right to be
exposing the surpressed history we still carry within us
Echoes of unresolved trauma from our past, even past lives, can cause physical, psychological, or emotional ailments that present-day humans suffer. But what is the real genesis of these traumas? In the more than 25 years that Maarten Oversier has been a practicing reincarnation and regression therapist, he has discovered that the source can always be found within three specific historical domains. The shocking, and therefore often repressed experiences of our ancestors, the hell of two recent world...
Non-fictie
Engels | 383 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | LondonBooks, [Bodegraven] | 2022
E-book
Filosofie & Religie