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Friedrich Nietzsche gehört zu den wichtigsten deutschen Philosophen und wird bis heute stark diskutiert. Den meisten ist sein Streben nach der "Umwertung der Werte" ein Begriff. Doch was bedeutet das eigentlich und welche Werte sind damit gemeint? Jene und weitere Unklarheiten veranschaulicht Liederer in diesem Hörbuch und macht Nietzsches abstrakte Gedanken für den Hörer greifbar.

This small booklet explores the latest theories of consciousness as developed by Michio Kaku, Christof Koch, and Michael Shermer, with a special focus on a new form of scientific animism, where animals and other life forms are now recognized to have awareness and the capacity to feel pain and suffering. Part of a presentation for the Dayalbagh Studies on Consciousness in Agra, India.

Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings and listens as the men and women he works with explore new ways to think about their situation. Could we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of forgiveness? Could someone in prison ever be more free than someone outside? These questions about how to live are ones we all need to ask, but in this setting they are even more urgent.

Though uncompromising, polemical and argumentative, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) made a lasting impact on 19th-century culture as a multi-talented man of letters. And though his lengthy history of the French Revolution proved his major scholarly legacy, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History remains perhaps his most popular and accessible work. It presented his deep-seated belief that ‘Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here’.

If you want to be emotionally resilient and lead a peaceful and fulfilling life, then continue reading. The Stoic Way of Life offers a thorough insight into the most realistic and practical philosophy of ancient times - Stoicism. Did you have a wish to finally live the best life as you have always wanted, get yourself acquainted with the secrets of happiness and serenity?

Über die antiken Frauen Griechenlands ist bis jeher wenig bekannt. Anhand des Beispiels von Xanthippe, der Frage des Philosophen Sokrates, zeichnet Michael Weithmann ein Bild der Frauen der Antike. Auf unterhaltsame und gleichzeitig fundierte Weise werden alte Lebenswelten wieder zum Leben erweckt, welche unterschiedlicher nicht hätten sein könnten.

Matthias Katzer geht der zentralsten Fragen der Aristotelische Philosophie auf den Grund; welche Art von Leben die für den Menschen erstrebenswerteste sei. "Die Frage nach dem guten Leben" führt seinen Leser auf zugängliche Art und Weise an die aristotelische Ethik heran, deren höchstes Ziel das Erreichen der Glückseligkeit ist.

We were alive before taking human form. Your soul intended to use this Earth experience in a particular way. You had a plan, but wow, things have gone off track. Once born, you got hit by the bus of the Dark Veil of Forgetting, which is the distinct facet of Schoolroom Earth. By design, you then forgot your whole plan. The Choice is a manual to get back to your purpose. It is a three-part workbook to train yourself to see the magic in the mundane and pain of life. Wake up to the cosmic game you are playing. Time is running out to properly use this intense but short reality.

Niccolò Machiavelli gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Staatsphilosophen der Neuzeit. Der italienische Dichter und Diplomat wurde vor allem für sein Werk "Il Principe (Der Fürst)" weltbekannt und prägte mit seinen Analysen zum Thema Macht neue Herrschaftsvorstellungen. Werner Schwanfelder transportiert die Kerngedanken Machiavellis in die heutige Zeit und zeigt ebenso kurzweilig wie auch vergnüglich die Parallelen zu den Alltagsthemen einer modernen Führungskraft. Unterhaltsam und spannend zieht er Gewinn aus Machiavellis Thesen.

Benjamin Sword Hoppner ist ein schrulliger Milliardär, der sehr spezielle Moralvorstellungen vertritt: er glaubt, genau zu wissen, was Gut und was Böse ist. Eines Tages wendet er sich mit einem spektakulären Versprechen an die Öffentlichkeit: jeder, der Geld für einen tugendhaften Zweck braucht, soll es bekommen. Unter denen, die diese Einladung annehmen wollen, ist auch der junge Mark Weston: er plant, den Milliardär um sein Geld zu erleichtern - egal wie.

Exploring topics ranging from faith and the soul to society and morals, Refracted Reflections: Faith, Morals, and Society endeavors to highlight some of the steps toward gaining and achieving a perfected coordination and synchronization of the outward aspects of conduct and the inner aspects of thought within the self, whether related to understanding the intricacies and characteristics of the cosmos, or dealing with matters related to soul, birth, life, death, and beyond.

People over the course of humanity’s long lifetime have wondered about our proclivity towards evil. What makes us evil? Are we evil by choice or by nature? How can a man become evil? These provocative questions are at the forefront of philosophical discussions all around the world. The author explains in detail, with examples through the ages, how and why man turns to evil and explore the consequences of evil actions.

Entrepreneurs, businessmen, and investors are constantly looking for principles and rules that will pave the way for success. Usually, those at the forefront are successful entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley or legendary Wall Street investors. But the principles of economic growth, wealth creation, and preservation were written long before the rise of the modern market economy and its heroes.

In Making Monsters, David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn't. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: We believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human.

Using examples of government corruption from one of the most troubled US states, the authors warn that until all citizens unite in opposition to, and the exposing of, all government corruption, nothing in our society will change, and our government of the people, by the people, and for the people will continue to hurt the people it was intended to help.

Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the benefits of doing so cannot be overstated. It is quite literally a matter of life and death.

This book explores the nature and essential role of hope in human life under conditions of oppression. Oppression is often a threat and damage to hope, yet many members of oppressed groups, including prominent activists pursuing a more just world, find hope valuable and even essential to their personal and political lives. Katie Stockdale offers a unique evaluative framework for hope that captures its intrinsic value, the rationality and morality of hope, and ultimately how we can hope well in the non-ideal world we share.

The appearance of the famous (and massive) volumes of Rothbard's Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought in a new edition is cause for great celebration. Every paragraph bursts with intellectual energy and the author's fiery passion to tell the listener the remarkable story of economics. Many reviewers have remarked that Rothbard's accomplishment seems superhuman. He seems to have read everything. His originality is overwhelming. His passion for liberty and integrity in science is evident.

Después de pasar años como esclavo bajo el poderío del Imperio Romano, Epicteto encuentra la libertad y funda una de las más importantes escuelas de filosofía estoica. No siendo esto suficiente para él, se propone dejar para la posteridad una guía que ayude al ser humano a superar las vicisitudes de la vida con aplomo y gracia. Este libro es resultado de aquel proyecto en donde, en cincuenta y un capítulos, el lector encontrará un Manual de Vida.

A rollicking treatise on human achievement and potential that offers the keys to perfecting our purpose: Establishing freedom for all. In All’s Well: Where Thou Art Earth and Why, John Lefebvre blends philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics into an original, lyrical meditation on our place in the Universe, both the distance we have come, and the much longer way before us. Lefebvre suggests that - at our core - we are the Universe’s vessels of consciousness. That means that we are also it’s vessels of astonishment and of love.