This volume contains Edgar Allen Poe’s non-fiction work, “Eureka: A Prose Poem”. Often published with the subtitle "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe", it is a monograph on Poe’s personal ideas about the universe and God, whom he frequently describes as an author. His last major work and largest non-fiction piece, “Eureka: A Prose Poem” comprises nearly 40,000 words. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in the mind of this seminal author,...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-03-22 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 5,99 €
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The School of Life 'A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live' Jeanette Winterson, The Times 'A beautiful, inspiring book... offering a glimpse of a more enlightened path' Sunday Telegraph 'Smart, stimulating, sensitive. A timely and perceptiv...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-01-26 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 9,49 €
La Esencia del Cristianismo es un libro escrito por Ludwig Feuerbach y primeramente publicado en 1841. Este libro explica la filosofía y crítica de la religión de Feuerbach. La teoría de la alienación de Feuerbach sería más tarde usada por Karl Marx.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-04-10 0,99 €
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions." With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—H...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-02-14 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 10,99 €
Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa. Un estudio sobre la naturaleza humana (en original en inglés The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature) es una obra escrita por el psicólogo y filósofo de la Universidad de Harvard William James.
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The culmination of a lifetime of counselling, lecturing and writing, M. Scott Peck's major work leads us to a deeper awareness of how to live rich, fulfilling lives in a world fraught with stress, worry and anxiety. Writing with a depth of understanding that comes with the seasoned perspective of age, Dr Peck continues the journey of spiritual growth that began with The Road Less Travelled, one of the most influential personal development books of modern times. To the famous opening line of ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-10-31 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 10,99 €
"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York Times Among the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books—The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell—in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. This edition also features an additional essay, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds," now i...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-09-29 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 10,99 €
Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement 'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure' Observer Søren Kierkegaard, one of the most passionate and challenging of modern philosophers, is now celebrated as the father of existentialism - yet his contemporaries described him as a philosopher of the heart. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen ana...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-04-04 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 9,49 €
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1963, selling many millions of copies since its original publication. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can help you heal yourself, banish your fears, sleep better, enjoy better relationships and just feel happier. The techniques are simple and results come quickly. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Dr. Joseph Mu...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2023-01-14 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 0,99 €
Traducidos por primera vez al castellano desde el árabe y el persa por un grupo de especialistas coordinados por Clara Janés, los Tratados de Jayyam dan la medida de las enormes capacidades intelectuales de un autor capaz de abarcar innumerables facetas del pensamiento: desde aspectos científicos relacionados con la trigonometría, la física o la fijación del calendario hasta cuestiones relativas al estudio de los géneros musicales y otras que siguen vigentes en la especulación filosófic...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-25 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 10,99 €
In "Philosophy and the Social Problem," Will Durant's first book, Durant argues that philosophy has fallen into disrepute because it has stood high and dry upon academic ground, has occupied itself generally with the problem of knowledge, and has not gone down among the crowd to be of practical service. Durant says that philosophy can justify itself only by fruits which are of direct utility to the common man. And since the great prblem of the modern world is the social problem - the problem of ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-09-24 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 0,49 €
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he envisages a brilliant future for humanity: one in which individuals would at last be responsible for their destinies. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-09-24 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 5,49 €
Repensar la moral cristiana es repensar una dimensión esencial del cristianismo. Este libro ha sido ideado especialmente para un público reflexivo que se hace preguntas sobre algunos aspectos importantes de la moral cristiana que se han vuelto más o menos problemáticos al encontrarse expuestos a la revolución intelectual de la modernidad y al sufrir el choque del pluralismo contemporáneo. Estos conceptos son la moral, la conciencia, el pecado, la naturaleza, la vida, el placer, la persona...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-11-11 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 9,99 €
The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Kierkegaard quotations ever published "Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven—in the spring at the earth."—Søren Kierkegaard The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next t...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-27 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 20,99 €
'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of evil, Erasmus and the reform of the Church, reason and truth, and whether God is happy. Accessible and absorbing, the essays in Is God Happy? deal with some of the eternal problems of philosophy and the most vital questions of our age. Leszek Ko...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-11-01 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 9,49 €
The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, th...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-09-30 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 10,99 €
The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal 'leap of faith'.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2005-08-25 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 4,99 €
Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental History of Western Philosophy , "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times ). A...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2001-09-27 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 9,49 €
"This was true mystical vision. This I could never have anticipated. But I knew that we were both on the same galactic journey into the great void that contains us all. I was standing before a boundlessness that could swallow the stars in a heartbeat."--from Breakfast at the Victory
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-10-13 Género:No ficción > Filosofía 10,99 €