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« Takers Economy » proposes an alternative look at illegal file sharing in light of the role of art in society, and in the context of the oneness of all beings and things. ...

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1. Introduction 2. The State of Play 3. Ars Divina 4. Oneness 5. An I for an I Makes the World Go Bound 6. Alternatives Rock 7. Verses 8. Links 9. Credits 10. Disclaimer 11. About the Author 12. License...

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The Urantia Book (sometimes called the Urantia Papers or The Fifth Epochal Revelation) is a spiritual and philosophical book that originated in Chicago sometime between 1924 and 1955. The authorship remains a matter of speculation. The authors introduce the word "Urantia" as the name of the planet Earth and state that their intent is to "present enlarged concepts and advanced truth." The book aims to unite religion, science and philosophy, and its enormous amount of material about science is unique among literature claimed to be presented by higher intelligences. Among other topics, the book discusses the origin and meaning of life, humankind's place in the universe, the purpose of evil and suffering, the relationship between God and people, and the life of Jesus. The Urantia Foundation, a U.S.-based non-profit group, first published The Urantia Book in 1955. In 2001, a jury found that the English book's copyright was no longer valid after 1983. The English text became a public domain work in the United States, and in 2006 the international copyright expired....

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Dialogue format between three great philosophers. Two German and one Buddhist monk from 200 AD India.

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Nāgārjuna talks directly to Martin Heidegger. Martin, you had Parmenides and impossibility of thinking of non-Being. Supposedly, he wrote: “neither could you know what is not nor could you declare it”. Indeed, the rest of the western philosophical history is: Plato’s dialogue the Sophist and stranger’s position about non-Being and the simple discussion of the semantics of non-Being; or Hegel’s view of non-Being in the Science of Logic which is only thought in the general context of progress of the methodology of the “circles of circles”. No wonder your remarks that “nothing nothings” (Das Nichts nichtet) is often thought of as your confusions. You started off with a chair with only one leg and that was unbalanced – this is the western approach which you had to deal with metaphysically. You got stuck too....

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Dramatis personas: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) owner of the ‘Die Hütte’. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Archaya Nagarjuna 2-3th century AD Buddhist author of Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika). Mādhyamaka Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha (563-483 BC). Socrates (Greek philosopher, 469 BC to 399 BC). Plato (424BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher who re-wrote the Republic seven time over. Narrator...

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This research is framed in the context of a specialized weapon in military aviation: an unmanned multirole fighter capable of replacing manned systems and their respective missions. This paper gives a brief history of unmanned aerial vehicles and their employment as weapons to demonstrate the evolution from ISR platform to unmanned combat air vehicle and then evolves into two main sections of “can we” and “should we” pursue this avenue of development. The primary means of answering the research question is both technical and philosophical. Before being able to answer if the Air Force should pursue an unmanned fighter, it is necessary to determine if it is technically feasible for such a system....

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THE CONTEXT: A DIFFERENT MIND-SET . . . . . 1 The Mind-Set in World War I . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Post-World War I Posture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 GIULIO DOUHET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 A Continental Theorist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Organization for War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3 HUGH TRENCHARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 British Empire Theorist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Organization for War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4 WILLIAM MITCHELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 New World Theorist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Organization for War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 5 JOHN WARDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Theorist or Throwback? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Organization for War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 6...

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The Theory Of Interpretive Relativity: A Unified Map Of Literary Theory is a comprehensive study organizing and mapping all literary interpretive theory, from classical philosophy to postmodern theory, into one formulaic model. Interpretive Relativity uses, for its method of organizational strategy, the philosophy of relativism to explain how all theoretical interpretation compliment one another rather than contradict one another. This thesis uses extensive graphs and illustrations to aid in the visualization of how mapping theoretical interpretations is possible. The piece of literature, work of art, that is used through out the study is Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In other words, this thesis show how the philosophy of Einstein’s general theory of relativity could be applied to Hamlet....

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“The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion.” -- René Descartes ...

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I. INTRODUCTION: MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCT STRATEGIES FOR GRAPHING LITERARY INTERPRETATION THEORIES INTO A VISUAL FIGURE, DEFINING TERMS 1 II. MAPPING LITERARY THEORY: DEFINING THE BODY OF LITERATURE, Ln, AND MESSAGE, EMBODIED IN ART, Ln 10 III. FORMING THE X AXIS: SETTING VALUES FOR X AS SIGN, SIGNIFICATION, AND SIGNAL (X1, X2, X3) 18 X1: Sign, Encoding Meaning 21 X2: Signification: The Three Aspects to the Value X2, Concept in a Medium, X21, X22, X23 23 X3: Signal, Decoding Meaning Plotting the 2s OF B’s X31, X32, X33 30 IV. FORMING THE Y AXIS: THE AUDIENCE’S INFINITE MULTIFARIOUS “REALIZATION” 36 The Search for 1: The Messenger and the Author 38 Y 1: The Author’s text 45 Y 2: The Text 50 Y 3: The World 54 Y 4: The Reader 57 V. FORMING THE Z AXIS: VALUES FOR Z, APPLIED RHETORICAL IDEOLOGY 65 Z 1: Marxist Literary Criticism 67 Z 2: Deconstruction Criticism 71 Z 3: Multicultural Literary Criticism 77 Z 4: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism 80 Z 5: Liberation Literary Criticism 84 VI. CONCLUSION 87...

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In this modern rendition, the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rythmic flow of the english verse of poetic proportions. Besides, the attendant philosophy of that is Bhagvad-Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension....

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The spiritual ethos and the philosophical outlook that the Bhagvad - Gita postulates paves the way for the liberation of man, who, as Rousseau said, ‘being born free, is everywhere in chains’. But equally it is a mirror of human psychology, which enables man to discern his debilities for appropriate redressal. All the same, the boon of an oral tradition that kept it alive for over two millennia became its bane with the proliferation of interpolations therein. Besides muddying its pristine philosophy, these insertions affect the sequential conformity and structural economy of the grand discourse. What is worse, to the chagrin of the majority of the Hindus, some of these legitimize the inimical caste system while upholding the priestly perks and prejudices....

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Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promulgated that “our life is wonderful”, but in reality “our life was miserable”. The paradox flourishing! And then we took the creation in derision, in opposite sense, in a syncretic way. Thus the paradoxism was born....

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Philo used philisophical representations to fuse and harmonize Jewish traditions and Greek philosophy. It interprets both Jewish and historic Greek philosophies....

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“It is a melancholy reflection upon the history of the Jews that they have failed to pay due honor to their two greatest philosophers. Spinoza was rejected by his contemporaries from the congregation of Israel; Philo Judaeus was neglected by the generations that followed him.”...

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The Jewish Community At Alexandria. 13 – The Life And Times Of Philo. 44 – Philo’s Works And Method. 74 – Philo And The Torah. 104 – Philo’s Theology. 132 – Philo As A Philosopher. 167 – Philo And Jewish Tradition. 199 – The Influence Of Philo. 242 – Bibliography. 263 – Abbreviations Used For The References. 266 – Index. 269 --...

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Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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An introduction to moral, political and economic philosophy. Twelve philosophers in each category are featured, their basic theories are examined and provide the basis for discussion....

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PARTI An Introduction to Clearer Thinking Chapter 1 Attitudes: How They Affect Our Thinking 3 Chapter 2 Classifying Viewpoints: Conservative and Liberal 12 Chapter 3 Epistemology and Logic 20 Chapter 4 Fallacies: Errors o f L anguage and Logic 32 PART 2 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong Chapter 5 Moral Philosophy: A Brief Introduction 47 Chapter 6 Plato and Aristotle: Idealism and Realism 55 Chapter 7 Epicurus and Epictetus: Pleasure and Apathy 65 Chapter 8 Aquinas and Descartes: Faith and Reason 72 Chapter 9 Hume, Bentham and Mill: Subjectivism and Utilitarianism 82 Chapter 10 Kant and Schopenhauer: Idealism and Pessimism 90 Chapter 11 Nietzsche and Sartre: Naturalism and Existentialism 99 PART 3 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State Chapter 12 Introduction to Political Theory 111 Chapter 13 Law: Understanding the Rule o f Reason 119 Chapter 14 Problems o f Government: Five Great Issues 127 Chapter 15 Plato and Aristotle: Utopia and Polity 138 Chapter 16 Augustine and Aquinas: Platonist and Aristotelian 146 Chapter 17 Machiavelli and Hobbes: The Prince ...

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Religion is a powerful expression of culture that is most obviously expressed in our relationships with nature. As our major meeting point with nature is food, this provides a fertile field for cultivating the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative logics that make it essential to serious readers about nature, the environment, spirituality and religion, Asia and ourselves. Beginning with science and spirituality, the discussion moves from immortality to theology to literal misinterpretations and unifies these themes around unacknowledged Western core values. Shifting to philosophy, ethics, and rights, an ecological argument about our selective ‘liberation’ of nature is proffered as an introduction to global issues, including traditional values of poor countries and lost traditions in the West. An engrossing h...

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Contents Page Introduction 1 Chapter 1 10 Seeking Agricultural Sustainability: Science and Spirituality Chapter 2 20 Immortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipulations and Our Undoing Chapter 5 57 Some Influencers of the Church: Prophets and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 6 71 From Luther to Jung: Broadening the Insights Chapter 7 82 West Meets East: The Salvation of Agriculture Falvey - Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism vi Chapter 8 90 Pantheistic Agriculture: Investing the Gods in Agriculture Chapter 9 98 Agricultural Philosophy and Rights: From Natural Rights to Rights for Nature Chapter 10 105 Sustainable Agriculture and Secular Environmentalism: Emerging Ecological Understanding Chapter 11 112 The Religion of Sustainable Agriculture: Philosophy and Ethics Chapter 12 125 Liberating Nature: Our Rising Awareness Chapter 13 134 Sustainable Development: Having it All? Chapter 14 138 Sustaining Our Role: Global Sustainable ...

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As someone who works heavily in both math and computers, I can truly appreciate the role that logic plays in our modern world. One cannot understand the foundations of mathematics while lacking knowledge of the basics of logic and how proofs are constructed. Two of the first classes I took as a graduate student in mathematics were in the foundations of mathematics, and hardly a day goes by where I do not use some topic from those courses. Logic is also a fundamental component of advanced computer classes. I am currently teaching advanced courses in assembly language programming and computer organization. Reference is constantly being made to how the rules of logic are incorporated into the fundamental circuits of a computer. The logic used in these classes is known as classical or Boolean logic. Neutrosophic logic is an extension of classical logic, but as you will see in the book, there are two intermediate steps between them. Neutrosophic logic is yet another idea generated by Florentin Smarandache, who seems to be a perpetual idea machine. Like classical logic, it can be used in many ways, everywhere from statistics to quantum me...

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In this theoretically sophisticated monograph Dr. Alex Battler formulates a new ontological interpretation of the category of force: - a definition of force as an ontological category; - the manifestation of force in the inorganic world within the framework of the idea of the Big Bang; - a definition of force in the organic world to determine the boundary between life and nonlife; - a solution to the mind–body problem (i.e., what consciousness and thought are), which has led me to a new formulation of the concept of Progress. ...

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PREFACE......................................................................................................9 INTRODUCTION: LEXICON AND METHOD....................................17 CHAPTER I. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF FORCE.........................31 1. Foreword.............................................................................................32 2 . Ancient Greek Philosophers On Force............................................35 3. The Philosophy of Force in the Works of European Philosophers of the 15th–19th Centuries.................................................................41 Nicholas of Cusa..........................................................................41 Leonardo da Vinci.......................................................................42 Bernardino Telesio and Francis Bacon.......................................44 René Descartes and Isaac Newton..............................................47 Benedict de Spinoza....................................................................50 John Locke...................................................................................51 ...

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Ce livre est le premier d’une série qui examine les divers aspects de la réalité. Je l’intitule ‘L’intériorité comme point de départ’ parce que la réalité puise ses racines à partir de chacun de nous individuellement et indépendamment. Cela commence par notre intériorité avant d'évoluer vers ce que j'appellerais la réalité collective, c'est-à-dire un état universellement accepté dans lequel des groupes de personnes, des nations entières ou le monde entier croient. Cette réalité inclut les croyances, les cultures, les idéologies, etc. Au fur et à mesure que nous changeons et que nous nous adaptons à notre environnement, notre réalité change également. De nouvelles réalités émergent… Le premier chapitre concerne la perception et nos sens. Il démontre comment la perception est impossible sans nos sens. Quel que soit l'angle de réalité analysé, un ou plusieurs de nos sens jouent un rôle important dans sa compréhension… Le chapitre deux considère le rôle du cerveau dans la réalisation de la réalité. Il se penche sur la façon dont le cerveau peut faire en sorte que l'esprit se comporte d'une certaine manière dans certaines circonstances… ...

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Si cette année était l'année 202018, ce qui signifie d'ici 200.000 ans et que j'écrivais sur la réalité, où commencerais-je? Quelle serait la base que j'utiliserais pour mes arguments? Serais-je encore capable de parler de philosophie, de psychologie, d'art, de mathématiques, de chimie, de physique et de mécanique quantique? Serais-je capable de parler du cerveau et de l'esprit de la même manière que je le fais aujourd'hui? Serais-je capable de spéculer sur la vie et la mort? Ces sujets seraient-ils toujours pertinents dans ce bas monde? Dans 200.000 ans, serait-il encore nécessaire de spéculer sur la réalité? Bien que les réponses à ces questions puissent être « peut-être » ou « peut-être pas », une chose est certaine: dans 200.000 ans, les humains, si nous sommes encore là, seront différents, si différents que la disparité sera semblable à l'œuf d'un insecte et à l'étape finale de sa métamorphose: un imago, les stades de la larve et de la pupe se situant entre les deux. Eh bien, en termes de réalité, quand le premier Homo Sapiens a émergé il y a 200.000 ans, il n'avait aucune idée de ce que serait la réalité aujourd'hui en 2018. S...

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TABLE DES MATIÈRES Remerciements…………………………………………………………………………….3 Pourquoi j’ai décidé d’écrire cette série…………………………………………………...4 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..5 Chapitre I. La perception et nos sens dans l’interprétation de la réalité………………...10 1. À propos de la perception…………………………………………………………………11 2. Les cinq sens visibles……………………………………………………………………...12 3. Les cinq sens invisibles……………………………………………………………………23 Chapitre II. Rôle du cerveau dans l’interprétation de la réalité…………………………26 Chapitre III. L’esprit, générateur par excellence de la réalité……………………………38 1. La psychologie avant la deuxième guerre mondiale : un aperçu………………………...42 2. La psychologie après la deuxième guerre mondiale : un aperçu………………………...48 Chapitre IV. Qu’est-ce que la réalité? Une tentative d’explication à travers cinq questions 1. Qu’est-ce que la matière et pourquoi ses composantes ne se ressemblent-elles pas?.......60 2. Qu’est-ce que la vie et quelles sont ses origines?..............................................................66 a. Signification de la vie………………………………………………………………..68 b. Les origines ...

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Dünya üzerindeki düşünce türleri genellikle üç'tür: 1) çevredeki insanları tartışmak; 2) uzak-yakındaki olayları incelemek; 3) düşünceleri eleştirmek. Dedi-kodu yapmak, duyduğuna bin katarak düşünmeden konuşmak, insanları tartışmak, eleştirmektir. Olaylar üzerine ileri sürülenler ise, insan topluluklarına, bir tek insan tarafından yapılan yorumlardır. Ancak, düşünceleri eleştirmek, o düşüncelerin ardındakini görmeyi gerektirir. Yalnız dedi-kodu ile yapılabilecek bir iş değildir. Düşüncelerin vuruşması, top ile savut arasındaki yarışmayı andırır. Barutun Çinden dünyaya yayılması ile toplar yapıldı ve taştan yapılmış korunaklı-savutlu duvarları yer ile bir etmek için kullanıldı. Karşılığında, savut yapıcılar, ördükleri taş duvarları çelik ile desteklediler. Topçular bu savutları yıkamadıklarında, daha etkin toplar yaptılar; namlu içine yiv yerleştirip hem güllenin gittiği uzaklığı arttırdılar hem de güllenin varacağı yeri daha yakından belirleyebildiler. Bu dönüşüm bu gün de sürüp gidiyor. Namlulu top yerine ıslıklı ok; savut da çelik yerine karmaşık bileşiklerden yapılıyor. Düşünceler ise kafa gücü ile işe başlar. Bir kaf...

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Üniversite’nin görevi nedir? Şu tanımı yapabiliriz: düşünceleri birleştirip, ilerletmek. Düşünceleri birleştirmek ve ilerletmek neden gereklidir? Bir atılıma geçmek için, yer alacak olayların önceden ve kapsamlı olarak düşünülmesi gerekir. Düşünceler, bir atılımın başlangıcıdır ve yalnız üniversite içinde gelişmez. Düşünceler bir yönetime katılım birimi içinde gelişebileceği gibi, arkadaş toplulukları içinde de yer alabilir. Ayrıca, bir tek kişice de oluşturulup bir kitap içinde dünyaya sunulabilir. Örneklerini göstermek güç değildir. Her ileri sürülen düşünce, ardından gidilmesi gereken iyilik ve düzende midir? Bu değerlendirme yalnız üniversitelerde mi yapılabilir? Bir toplum içinde değişim gerekiyor ise, neden bu değişim bir kurumun tekelinde kalsın? Bir toplum, yaşamını diğer bir toplumun eline bırakamaz. Yoksa, o toplum yok olacaktır. Bir toplum içindeki alt kümeler için de bu durum geçerlidir. O zaman, düşünmeyi neden başkalarına bıraksın? Uzun süredir, ’düşünce önderliği’ adı altında yazı yazanların alışkanlıkları sürüp gidiyor. Ancak, bu 'düşünce önderlerinin' öne sürdükleri düşüncelere bireysel ya da kitlesel yanıt verme...

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Icindekiler Gelecek ile Yüzleşmek "Düşüncenin Kökenleri" Üzerine Kısa Bir Mukaddime... "Büyük Oyun’da Osmanlı ve Arayışlar”... "Büyük Oyun’da Oyuna Gelmek"... "Bağımsız Yeni Türk Tuğunun Doğuşu..." KUTLUK VEREN BİLGİ ve 26 AĞUSTOS’A GİDEN YOL Türk Tarihi, Toplumların Mayası ve Uygarlık "Tarih mi, Yoksa Tarihçilik mi Sona Erdi? PAN ADLI İKİ KURGUSAL YARATIK: UYDURMA "BELGELERİN" TÜRKLER ZARARINA KULLANILMALARI1 Elma’nın İki Yarısı: Yöneten ve Yönetilen ilişkileri Evrim Düşüncesinin Devrimi Uzaysal Yönetim Dünya Değiştiren mi, Değer Yargısında bulunan mı? Üniversitenin Görevi Efes Bilmek, Anlamak, Yapmak ...

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Popular introduction to objective ethics.

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Гомо-сапиенс — рациональное животное озабоченное выживанием. Ему нужны здоровье и счастье. Он читает книги о том, как быстро добиться успеха и разбогатеть. Или вообще не читает. Человек — творец, он стремится стать лучше и сделать лучше окружающий мир. Ему нужны идеалы, он ищет ответы на вечные вопросы. Эта книга для людей, а точнее для подрастающего поколения. Ее автор — создатель «обьективной этики», моральной системы предлагающей наиболее правдоподобное обьяснение мира и помогающей найти упомянутые ответы. Книга повторяет структуру авторского видеоблога — она состоит из 36 бесед, которые могут послужить чтением на досуге или, предпочтительнее, быть использованы в качестве пособия по саморазвитию. Текст каждой беседы желательно внимательно прочесть, обдумать доводы за и против, а также по возможности обсудить с кем-нибудь дабы сформировать собственное обоснованное мнение....

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1 Зачем нужна мораль? 2 Что значит "хороший человек"? 3 Откуда взялась мораль? 4 "Жертвенная" мораль 5 "Героическая" мораль 6 Личный успех или общее благо? 7 Обьективная этика 8 Закономерен ли прогресс? 9а Гомо-сапиенс против человека 9б Абсолютное добро 10 Цели и время 11 Общественный договор 12 Достоинство, честь, презрение 13 В чем смысл правил? 14 Зачем живет человек? 15 Существует ли свобода (воли)? 16 Сущее и должное 17 Зачем познавать мир? 18 Истина и правда 19 Куда идет эволюция? 20 От пользы к красоте 21а Каждому свое? 21б Справедливость 22 Власть, управление, эффективность 23 Универсальные ценности 24 Надо ли любить людей? 25 Как улучшить человека? 26 Моральные сферы общества 27 Границы и люди 28 Где начало (и конец) подвига? 29 Что такое зло? 30 Причины зла 31 Личность и стадо 32 Страх 33а Борьба со злом 33б Соразмерность, ложь, компромисс 34 Этика и личное счастье 35 В поисках морального закона 36 Итоги Приложение 1. Социальный проект Приложение 2. Манифест...

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Louise Victorine-Ackermann was a French poet. Her works were originally written in French, in verses and in rhymes. Reading this outstanding work is transcendental. I compare it to walking inside an empty cathedral, sitting by the seaside alone or lying on your back to gaze at the stars on a balmy summer night. I had a unique experience reading My life – First poems – Philosophical poems. I hope you will too. I invite you to enjoy to the last verse this powerful work from Louise-Victorine Ackermann. Also, please read my essay at the end, starting at page 152 – or you may read it first to better appreciate Ackermann’s work....

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What, who, where, when, why, and how are probably the immediate questions to which you’d like to have answers if you’re reading this essay. If you’ve read the section entitled My life, I’m assuming you already have an idea regarding the first four questions and you’re more interested in the last two. Let me start by saying there is no simple and clear-cut answer to any of these questions. But, before I get to the above-mentioned questions, I’d like to take the opportunity to say what this essay is, meaning what kind or what form of essay is it, in addition to being philosophical in terms of content. As far as the form is concerned, it’s two-pronged. First, it’s a dialectic essay. On the several topics addressed, I present a thesis – short but to the point – and an argument. Then I attempt to object to my own argument, to which I object with a counterargument, but then I counter the counterargument with a final and new argument. This is a technique called Chinese dragon strategy. Second, the essay is critical. Like the work itself, my arguments, although protean, revolve around a recurring issue: suffering and pain. The four noble tr...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Presentation of Louise-Victorine Ackermann……………….………………………………………..........3 About the translation…………………………………………………………………………...………...3 A- Works of Louise-Victorine Ackermann I- My life…………………………………...…………………………………………….........5 II- First poems……………………………………………………………………...…….........13 III- Philosophical poems………………………………………………………………...……..57 B- Philosophical essay (by Fritz Dufour) Prologue……………………………………………………………………………………………...153 Philosophical analysis of Louise-Victorine Ackermann’s work………………………………………..158 1. Love…………………………………………………………………………………….158 a. Eros……………………………………………………………………………..159 b. Philia………………………………………………………………………….....160 c. Agape…………………………………………………………………………...161 d. Love and Ethics………………………………………………………....……….161 e. Pacifism………………………………………………………………………....162 f. Just war theory…………………………………………………………………..164 g. An ethical or moral dilemma…………………………………………………….164 2. Nature…………………………………………………………………………………...168 a. Animism………………………………………………………………………..168 i. Ecosophy……………………………………………………………….169 ii. Deep ecology…………………………………………………………...169 iii. Ecocide-geocide………………………………………………………...

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Αρχαία Τραγωδία: Ο Οδυσσέας-Μέσος Άνθρωπος ψάχνει για την Αλήθεια για να λυτρωθεί από τα βάσανα του και την βρίσκει στο πρόσωπο του Ιπποκράτη στο νησί της Κω....

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ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΗ ΕΠΙΣΤΡΟΦΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ Η ΦΥΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΥΜΠΑΝΤΟΣ Η ΦΥΣΗ ΝΟΜΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΔΟΜΗΣ ΝΟΜΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΕΛΙΞΗΣ ΥΠΕΡΤΑΤΟΣ ΝΟΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΑΠΗΣ

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Δυο ψυχές μετά θάνατον περνούν από το Καθαρτήριο για να κερδίσουν τον Παράδεισο. Το Καθαρτήριο παίρνει τη μορφή ενός τροπικού νησιού στο οποίο νομίζουν ότι είναι ζωντανοί ναυαγοί και εκεί περνούν από ηθικές δοκιμασίες και δοκιμασίες αποπροσκόλλησης από κάθε διανοητικό και συναισθηματικό παιχνίδι του μυαλού....

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Η ΑΦΥΠΝΙΣΗ Η ΑΝΑΒΑΠΤΙΣΗ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟΣ Ή ΚΟΛΑΣΗ; ΑΝΩ ΘΡΩΣΚΩ Η ΔΙΑΝΟΗΣΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟ ΚΛΕΙΔΙ Η ΕΣΩΤΕΡΙΚΗ ΑΦΥΠΝΙΣΗ 0 ΕΡΧΟΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΑΝΤΙΑΣ: ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΟΝΕΙΡΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΕΦΙΑΛΤΗ ΑΝΑΔΡΟΜΗ ΣΤΗ ΓΕΥΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΓΕΙΟΥ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟΥ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΥ Η ΣΩΤΗΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΨΥΧΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΑΝΤΙΑΣ ΟΙ ΑΝΤΙΡΡΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΙΝΙΓΜΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΚΙΣΑΛ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΗ ΣΚΕΨΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧΗ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟΣ ΕΝΤΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΤΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΕΙΧΩΝ Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΛΩΣ ΗΛΘΕΣ ΑΙΩΝΙΕ ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΕ! ...