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Three hundred years ago, Leibniz proposed that our world is the "best of all possible worlds." Voltaire turned this idea into a joke. Philosophy moved on. The insight was lost. Until now.

Language does not merely divide or connect; it resonates. The Mutual Enrichment of Languages explores the hidden kinship among the Germanic tongues and reveals how meaning expands when words diverge yet remain bound by a shared inner form. Moving beyond academic linguistics, this book offers a philosophical exploration of how recognition arises in the mind when familiar roots return in altered shapes across Dutch, German, Norwegian, Swedish, and Old English.

What if the greatest obstacle to knowledge lies not in the world but in ourselves? Four centuries ago, Francis Bacon revolutionized human thought by identifying the “idols of the mind”—systematic biases that distort our understanding. Today, modern science has confirmed his insights with mathematical precision: the structure of our assumptions determines what we can know, often more fundamentally than the evidence we gather or the intelligence we apply.

Platonic Ideal Forms reintroduces one of the oldest metaphysical ideas to the world of contemporary thought. Rather than treating Plato as a figure sealed in antiquity, this book places him in direct conversation with the sciences, paradoxes, and abstractions of the twenty-first century. The theory of ideal forms becomes a lens through which complexity, uncertainty, beauty, truth, and order can be re-examined with renewed clarity.

Modern Conflicts: In the Light of the Church Fathers is not a book about political disputes, social polarization, or ideological battles, although all of these inevitably appear in the book. It is a book about the deepest and most painful conflicts of the modern human being — conflicts that unfold not primarily between people, but within the human heart itself.

This book is not here to comfort you. It does not promise hope, progress, or some tender reassurance about the nobility of the human project. It will not tell you that everything happens for a reason, or that there is meaning to be found in our collective struggle. Instead, it stands firmly within the logic of Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra—a philosophy that does not seek to reveal a hidden truth, but to diagnose the condition of our reality. We no longer live in the world; we live within our own perception of it.

Rather than rejecting the past, The Hidden Premise invites listeners to look more closely at how our assumptions are formed and how they shape what we take to be meaningful. It offers an accessible entry into one of the major philosophical debates of the last century and encourages a more reflective relationship with tradition, interpretation, and the search for truth.

What if numbers are not the building blocks of the universe—but reflections of the human mind? For over two thousand years, the Pythagorean vision has shaped our understanding of the cosmos: a universe ruled by harmony, order, and mathematical law. From the “music of the spheres” to modern physics, the idea that reality can be perfectly described by numbers has guided both science and philosophy. Yet as quantum mechanics, neuroscience, and information theory now suggest, this vision may be an exquisite illusion.

For centuries, diplomacy has been humanity’s most elegant disguise for deceit. Treaties are broken before their ink dries, and the pursuit of peace has become a theatre of power. Algorithmic Diplomacy tears away this illusion, asking the most dangerous question of the twenty-first century: what if the only path to lasting peace is to surrender politics to reason itself? Boris Kriger envisions a world where nations speak not through fear and vanity, but through a transparent architecture of artificial intelligences bound by international law.

This book is the boundary between science and philosophy dissolves into a haunting exploration of existence itself. Beginning with the mysterious precision of the universe’s physical constants and ending at the silent edge of knowledge, this book traces the anthropic principle not as an answer, but as a profound and unsettling question. From the delicate balance that permits life to the strange recursion of a cosmos observed by minds it created, each chapter draws closer to a truth that cannot be fully named.

Self-Sabotage: Stop Ruining Your Own Chances reveals the hidden patterns that cause people to delay, overthink, retreat, or give up—right at the edge of growth. With piercing clarity and compassion, this book uncovers why so many driven, intelligent individuals repeatedly undercut their own progress. It’s not laziness. It’s not weakness. It’s a learned pattern—rooted in fear, identity, and outdated beliefs.

Are we alone in the universe—or is life a cosmic inevitability? Life in the Cosmic Context goes beyond the conventional search for extraterrestrial biology, asking deeper questions about the very nature of life and our place in an immense, evolving cosmos. In this groundbreaking work, astrobiology becomes more than the science of life beyond Earth; it is a philosophical lens for reimagining what life itself can be. From the origins of life on Earth to the potential for entirely different biochemistries elsewhere, this book challenges listeners to rethink what is possible.

The Wave Nature of Love is not a collection of essays, nor a suite of philosophical meditations, nor a ledger of memories—though it contains all three. It is a book of inner weather, written in a voice that refuses to separate thought from feeling, tenderness from severity, or beauty from ruin. Moving between intimate portraits, historical reflections, metaphysical inquiry, and the raw poetry of existence, it traces the shifting tides of a mind that sees the world not in straight lines but in waves.

This book offers a rigorous and deliberately restrained examination of one of the most ambitious ideas in contemporary theoretical physics: the holographic principle. Rather than celebrating or rejecting holography, it subjects its claims to disciplined evaluation, asking not whether the mathematics works, but what, if anything, it entitles us to say about reality itself. The analysis proceeds from a simple but often neglected distinction between three levels of theoretical success: mathematical consistency, explanatory power, and ontological entitlement.

In a world where artificial intelligence sees everything, the very notion of secrecy vanishes. Every crime—no matter how trivial, how carefully buried by time or circumstance—emerges into the light. It is identified, reconstructed, and rendered undeniable. Nothing remains hidden. But when every crime is solved, another problem arises: what should be done with the countless guilty? A system built to handle a few exceptional cases collapses under the pressure of universality.

This book examines the transformation of human intimacy as it evolves alongside shifts in culture, the human body, and technology. It follows the path of desire from the age of silence and repression to the modern world of artificial intelligence and virtual relationships—a journey that moves from secrecy to openness, from shame to understanding, from wild, consuming passion to calm, conscious connection.

At the center of our Milky Way lies one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic objects in the Universe — Sagittarius A *, a supermassive black hole four million times more massive than the Sun. Invisible to the human eye yet governing the motion of stars and gas across tens of thousands of light-years, it is both a gravitational anchor and a cosmic mystery. In A Hungry Giant in the Heart of Our Galaxy, science writer and philosopher Boris Kriger takes readers on a journey through three decades of discovery at the frontiers of astrophysics.

This book offers a radical rethinking of one of modernity’s most mistrusted concepts. Long associated with manipulation, coercion, and failed utopias, social engineering has often meant the sacrifice of individuality for the sake of imagined harmony. But what if its core idea—deliberate design of social life—could be grounded in ethics, humility, and a deep respect for human complexity? Rejecting both the authoritarian logic of the past and the fantasy of pure spontaneity, this work proposes a mature, humane, and sustainable vision of transformation. One that shapes environments, not people.

Anatomy of Stupidity is a bold exploration of one of humanity’s most enduring mysteries: why do people persist in foolishness, even in the face of clear evidence?

A universe that builds galaxies out of dust and minds out of chemistry cannot help but provoke the deepest question of all: was intelligence meant to arise, or did it slip into existence as a brilliant accident? This audiobook follows that question across the full architecture of reality—from particles assembling into structure, to organisms navigating uncertainty, to civilizations listening for echoes in the cosmic dark.