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From Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: that the end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and that we should welcome it. Anthropocene antihumanism has been inspired by revulsion at...

Shaun Gallagher offers an account of psychopathologies as disorders of the self. The Self and its Disorders develops an interdisciplinary approach to an "integrative" perspective in psychiatry. In contrast to some integrative approaches that focus on narrow brain-based conceptions, or on symptomology, this book takes its bearings from embodied and enactive conceptions of human experience.

The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that their perspective presents many problems: How does one distinguish real action from reaction? Is it scientifically acceptable to say that the whole organism can use its parts, instead of being a mere summation of their separate mechanical reactions? What about the danger that this analysis will imply that physical systems fail to be "causally closed"?

This short yet profound tale lets you enter a private event, where an unnamed master reveals the nature of human beings and consciousness. In doing so, he shares the secrets of how others influence your life force energy (chi), thoughts, and actions, giving you the insights to take control of your life. More than that, you'll learn how to more rapidly attract the people and resources needed to fulfill your life purpose.

Tackling a key theme each month, from Happiness and Health to Money and Politics, Everyday Stoicism guides you through the calendar year to build a toolkit of simple exercises and practical ideas for how to live these values every day. So, harness the collective wisdom of the ancient Stoic philosophers today and discover the joy of everyday stoicism.

In The Art of Letting Go, best-selling author Lucas Hayes offers a gentle, practical guide to breaking free from overthinking, emotional baggage, and self-sabotaging patterns—so you can finally breathe again.

Nel 1989, la realizzazione di un mondo senza guerre sembrava a portata di mano; oggi, oltre al terrorismo e ai conflitti locali, torna a incombere il pericolo di una terza guerra mondiale. Come spiegare tale parabola? Losurdo traccia una storia inedita e coinvolgente dell'idea di pace dalla rivoluzione francese ai giorni nostri. Da questo racconto, di cui sono protagonisti i grandi intellettuali (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Constant, Comte, Spencer, Marx, Popper ecc.) e importanti uomini di Stato (Washington, Robespierre, Napoleone, Wilson, Lenin, Bush Sr. ecc.

Ewolucja człowieka a w szczególności jego umysłu jest jedną z największych zagadek natury. Koncepcja inteligencji makiawelicznej wyjaśnia w jaki sposób złożoność życia społecznego doprowadziła do powstania tak złożonego mózgu jakim obecnie dysponujemy. Autor wyjaśnia pochodzenie inteligencji społecznej i politycznej. Pokazuje w jaki sposób teoria umysłu, czyli umiejętność przewidywania motywów działania innych osobników stymulowała rozwój naszej inteligencji, w jaki sposób wykształcała się w nas umiejętność obrony przedmakiawelicznymi zakusami innych.

For thousands of years, humans have reported encounters with gods, angels, demons, spirits, and other non-human intelligences. Modern science dismissed them as hallucinations. Religion demanded belief. Both explanations failed."Beyond the Gods" offers a third path.

Every decision you have ever made has been contaminated. Not by ignorance, not by carelessness, but by the very biology that makes you alive. The hormones circulating in your blood, the emotional systems firing beneath your awareness, the ancient programs optimized for survival and reproduction on an ancestral savanna that vanished millennia ago — all of these operate continuously, silently shaping every judgment you make. The most educated judge, the most experienced general, the most brilliant analyst — all are subject to the same invisible contamination at the moment of decision.

In a world where chaos often reigns, inner peace seems more elusive than ever. The 48 Laws of Peace offers a roadmap to tranquility, using time-tested wisdom from Stoic philosophy and practical, modern-day strategies to help you find balance, clarity, and lasting calm. Inspired by the teachings of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus, each law provides a clear, actionable step to mastering your inner world and, ultimately, living a life of unshakable peace.

Nous ne disposons que de 4 000 semaines sur Terre, en moyenne. Alors pourquoi gaspillons-nous une si grande partie de ce temps avec des tâches qui ne nous procurent pas de joie ? Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : la durée de vie moyenne de l'être humain est scandaleusement courte. Ceux d'entre nous qui atteignent l'âge de 80 ans n'auront vécu qu'un peu plus de 4 000 semaines. Comment est-il possible de faire des projets ambitieux dans un laps de temps aussi court ?

Jacobo Grinberg nos ofrece en El despertar de la conciencia una obra magistral que explora los rincones más profundos del ser. Este libro, estructurado en dos partes, es tanto un mapa de autodescubrimiento como una ventana a las investigaciones revolucionarias del autor.

"Los hechos son testarudos y el incosciente tiene buena memoria", recuerda Anne Ancelin Schützenberger en este libro en el que presenta su terapia transgeneracional psicogenealógica contextual, un punto de vista que concibe al ser humano como un eslabón en la cadena de generaciones.

By the time you read this sentence, it has already become the past. Your brain is lying to you—and that lie keeps you alive. Every perception you experience, every movement you make, every intuition that guides your decisions is not a response to reality but a prediction about it. You are not seeing the present. You are seeing your brain's best guess about what the present should be.

What if everything you thought you knew about existence was hiding a disturbing truth? Every time you eat, you perform an act of destruction. Every breath you take requires the transformation of prior structure. Every thought in your mind has a physical cost. This is not philosophy or metaphor. It is thermodynamic law. In this groundbreaking work, Boris Kriger presents a unified theory of persistence that reveals why existence itself has a cost, and why that cost must be paid in transformed structure.

人生は自分次第だなんて、大嘘である。私たちは何もコントロールしていないが、あらゆることに影響を与えている。カオス理論や進化生物学、歴史、哲学など、多様な知見を縦横無尽に渉猟し、世界の成り立ちや人生について考えさせる、壮大かつ感動的な書。

Why do I act the way I do? How can I think one thing, and do another? I know better! Why do I feel like a different person some days, on top of the world sometimes, and horrible at other times? There are answers to all of these questions. Anderson Silver has compiled teachings from stoicism and other schools of thought in Your Duality Within to help you navigate through them. A follow-up to the very successful Your User’s Manual, Your Duality Within is the second book in a three-book series tackling the most basic questions of our humanity.

Timely and profound meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize finalist Michael Ignatieff. When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss...

In this fascinating lecture, Deepak Chopra makes the point that consciousness is the ultimate reality, and it manifests both as the soul and universal spirit, which then slowly gives rise to both individual and cosmic intelligence. The intent of the soul is to just remember three things: to know...