The Old Philosopher
Author | : Vi Khi Nao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9781937658489 |
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Author | : Vi Khi Nao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9781937658489 |
Winner of the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry
Author | : Robert Walterscheid, Sr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Human-alien encounters |
ISBN | : 9781878948014 |
Some of life's greatest lessons are found in our day-to-day interactions; be it with family, friends, co-workers or the strangers in the grocery store. These lessons are designed to build character, keep us humble and help us succeed, if we choose to let them. With the understanding that life gets busy demanding our attention, our energy and our skill sets, it's important that we learn to slow down, breathe and take in the wisdom that is all around us. The Old Philosopher has done just that; taken everyday situations and grabbed hold of useful knowledge and principles to carry us through life. This book is a reminder to not sweat the small stuff, to not take life for granted, and to find the good in every situation. I encourage you to change your perspective. To take disappointments, mistakes or even failures, and allow them to become learning opportunities for growth and success to take place in your life; continually strive to find the lessons that life is trying to teach you in your everyday circumstances.
Author | : Pierre Destrée |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190460547 |
"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique"--
Author | : Alex Long |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107086590 |
Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan T. Pennington |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 149342758X |
Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the "spiritual part" of our lives. We don't clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost biblical image of Jesus as the one true philosopher who teaches us how to experience the fullness of our humanity in the kingdom of God. Jesus teaches us what is good, right, and beautiful and offers answers to life's big questions: what it means to be human, how to be happy, how to order our emotions, and how we should conduct our relationships. This book brings Jesus and Christianity into dialogue with the ancient philosophers who asked the same big questions about finding meaningful happiness. It helps us rediscover biblical Christianity as a whole-life philosophy, one that addresses our greatest human questions and helps us live meaningful and flourishing lives.
Author | : K.T. Fann |
Publisher | : Partridge Publishing Singapore |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1543766072 |
One book that’s been lurking in the back of my mind for a long time is a book about sex. You see, abort forty years ago while I was going through a painful divorce, I decided to teach a course called “Philosophy of Sex” at my university. My other favorite philosopher Wittgenstein once said to his student:“ What is the use of studying philosophy if all that does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life?” Other than the food, is there anything more significant to everyday life than sex? Yet, philosophers rarely discuss sex as a philosophical topic. I tried to apply my philosophical skills to help myself think clearly about the male-female relationships while living them. Over the years I have formed my own philosophy of sex and seriously contemplated writing a philosophical book, following my course outline with the title, “Thinking About Sex”. But such a book would be too didactic and boring. My recent writings convinced me that I write best when I let my thoughts range freely, and do not try to organize them into a set form. So there won’t be a table of contents or chapter divisions in this book. What follows are my sexual reminiscences interjected with my philosophizing about them. The events described are real, and the persons involved are real, but with names changed. Some parts of it may sound to some people like pornography, but it is actually a philosophy book. A great contemporary philosopher Noam Chomsky said,“ The job of a philosopher is to tell the truth and to expose lies.” That’s what I am trying to do. Another great philosopher Karl Marx said,“ Philosophers hitherto have only interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it.” I am also trying to do that. This is not just a memoir, but I meant it to be a subversive track. I wish to subvert the status quo of our sexual mores. In fact, I meant this to be a Manifesto of Sexual Liberation!
Author | : Laozi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Rée |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 761 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0300248806 |
An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.
Author | : Laozi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Chinese |
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