Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and usedivine means as though there were no human ones. So wrote theJesuit scholar Baltazar Gracian some 300 years ago, in a book thatwill be compared to Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's ThePrince. A new translation of long lost wisdom on livingsuccessfully yet responsibly.

The introduction of this book reads, "Beauty, like every otherquality — courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom — is a partof us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal andimpersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make connectionsbetween the senses and the soul, between contemplation andexpression, between ourselves and the world." In this wide-rangingand deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites usto reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beautyas one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives.Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science andnature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the authorlooks at her subject in its most generous implications — not simplyas a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway towholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Writtenwith curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyricalsensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings by theauthor,

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Conceived originally as a serious presentation of thedevelopment of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, FrederickCopleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed farbeyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as thebest history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangledwith A.J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God andthe possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students werefed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that theirfamiliarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced tosimplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress thewrong by writing a complete history of Western Philosophy, onecrackling with incident and intellectual excitement - and one thatgives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in abeautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who wentbefore and to those who came after him.

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of thedevelopment of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, FrederickCopleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy hasjourneyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universalacclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever written. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of ‘the beautiful’, Burke’s subject here was that quality he uniquely distinguished as ‘the sublime’ – an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke’s essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary.

This translation presents Daoism’s basic text in highlyreadable contemporary English. Incorporating the latest scholarshipin the field (including the most recent discoveries of ancientmanu*s in the 1970s and '90s), the book explains Daodejing 's often cryptic verses in a clear and concise way.The introduction interprets the Daodejing 's poetic imageryin the context of ancient Chinese symbolism, and a briefphilosophical analysis accompanies each of the 81 translatedchapters of the Daodejing.

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of thedevelopment of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, FrederickCopleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy hasjourneyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universalacclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.

本书包括：价值与货币；货币的特质性价值；目的序列中的货币；个体自由；个人价值之货币等价物；生活风格等。

This remarkable book combines myth and psychology, the poetryof the Sufis and the wisdom of King Solomon, along with Needleman'ssearching of his own soul and his culture to explain how money canbecome a unique means of self-knowledge. Includes a "user's guide"and discussion section, exclusive to this paperback edition.

Conceived originally as a serious presentatin of thedevelopment of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, FrederickCopleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyedfar beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim asthe best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangledwith A.J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God andthe possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students werefed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that theirfamiliarity with most of history's great thinkers was reducedto simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress thewrong by writing a complete history of Western Philosophy, onecrackling with incident an intellectual excitement - and one thatgives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in abeautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who wentbefore and to those who came after him.

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'Lacan's work marks a crucial moment in the history of psychoanalysis, a moment which will perhaps prove as significant as Freud's original discovery of the unconscious.' - Colin MacCabe 'Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Georges Bataille had often urged Lacan to publish the text of his seminars: the influence of his teaching can be observed in works by Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault... in Roland Barthes's studies on semiology and Louis Althusser's "reading" of Marx. But it can be felt still more basically [in] the current revival of interest in psychoanalysis... the desire for a return to origins which is a common factor in so many avenues of modern thought.' - The Times Literary Supplement Ecrits is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand this seminal thinker and his influence on contemporary thought and culture.