Bertrand Russell describes the purpose of this book as theputting together of some remarks on the state of happiness whichare inspired by common sense, rather than any profound philosophyor deep erudition. It is based on the belief that many people whoare unhappy could become happy by well-directed effort. --Thistext refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of thistitle.
Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives. Drawing on history and his own rich imagination for examples, Sartre offers compelling supplements to his more formal arguments. The waiter who detaches himself from his job-role sticks in the reader'
Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher committed to making thetools of her trade relevant to real life. In "Moral Clarity, "sheshows how resurrecting a moral vocabulary--"good "and "evil,heroism "and "nobility"--can steer us clear of the dogmas of theright and the helpless pragmatism of the left. In search of aframework for forming clear opinions and taking responsible actionon today's urgent political and social questions, Neiman reachesback to the eighteenth century, retrieving a set ofvirtues--happiness, reason, reverence, and hope--that were heldhigh by every Enlightenment thinker. She shows that the pursuit ofmoral clarity is not a matter of religious faith but is open to allwho are committed to these ideals, believers and nonbelieversalike. And she draws on literature, evolutionarytheory, and othercontemporary research to show why, by keeping before us thedistinction between the real and the possible, these idealscontinue to guide and inspire.
Review 'Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms.' - The Guardian Must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms. - The Guardian Product De*ion "... must have come on like punk rock to a public groaning under the weight of over-cooked Augustanisms." The Guardian "The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." --William Wordsworth, from the Advertisement prefacing the original 1798 edition When it was first published, Lyrical Ballads enraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to what had been voiced before. For Wordsworth, as he so clearly stated in his celebrated preface to the 1800 edition (a
The Yeats anthology of the poems of William Blake is that great rarity: one great visionary poet's anthology of everything that moves him about another, even greater one. Yeats prepared it in 1905 and it probably remains the single greatest single one-volume edition of William Blake extant, the one that, in less than 250 pages, presents as sensibly compressed and canny an edition as you'll ever find of perhaps the least sensible and most chaotic genius of English poetry. Even those who have the complete Blake in a couple of editions will find Yeats' Blake all-but-indispensable. –Buffalo News, April 6, 2003 This selection of Blake's work was commissioned in 1905 by the firm of George Routledge from W.B. Yeats. Yeats, one of the few poets comparable to Blake, prepared a unique selection of his poetic and prose writings.
A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Popper also explains some of the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.
What is right ? What is wrong ? How do we decide ? To a remarkable extent, our decision-making is determined by the origins of the ethical ideas that we employ and the history of their development. A Short History of Ethics is widely acknowledged to be the perfect introduction to the subject, presenting in concise form an insightful yet exceptionally complete history of moral philosophy in the West, from the Greeks to contemporary times. In clear and readable prose, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the finest living philosophers, leads the reader towards a greater understanding of what lies behind our ethical decisions.
本书从考古发现的风水起源，介绍了古代对风水一建筑及其选址之间密不可分关系的认识，昭示了风水与易经、八卦、历法以及阴阳变易、天人合一等诸多领域之间的互补关系，展现了风水用于古都选址、城镇布局、村落聚散、民宅营建等方面的方法、手段和重要作用。
本书从考古发现的风水起源，介绍了古代对风水一建筑及其选址之间密不可分关系的认识，昭示了风水与易经、八卦、历法以及阴阳变易、天人合一等诸多领域之间的互补关系，展现了风水用于古都选址、城镇布局、村落聚散、民宅营建等方面的方法、手段和重要作用。
In this "lucid primer of Russian thought" ( The TimesLiterary Supplement ), Lesley Chamberlain finds that during thelast two centuries Russian intellectuals have asked two fundamentalquestions, "what makes a good man?" and "what is the right way tolive?" The nineteenth-century ideal of a happy man living in a justsociety became, in Russia, a quest to effect the wholesaletransformation of society. Chamberlain shows how this moralpassion, manifesting itself in philosophy and literature, existedin both pre- and post-revolutionary Russia. She reveals that 1917did not represent the watershed we once thought, and shows how thedreams of a plain and simple life reached its negative apotheosisunder Lenin. In Motherland , Lesley Chamberlain has produceda radical new interpretation of Russian intellectual history that,finally, gives a glimpse in to the soul of that singularcountry.
Culler's most famous work, Structuralist Poetics has never been out of print since first publication in 1975, selling over 20,000 copies. It introduced a new way of studying literature by attempting to create a systematic account of the structure of literary works, rather than studying the meaning of the work. Culler's new preface answers some of the criticisms levelled at his approach and details how it is still as relevant today as when it was first published.
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.
Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breakingattempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Westernphilosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. Inthis formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of thehuman mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advancesin the field that came to be known as cognitive science. Thisimportant and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book fromwhich all of Dennett’s future ideas developed. It is his firstexplosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the foundingtexts of philosophy of mind.
A cornerstone of Sartre’s philosophy, The Imaginary was first published in 1940. Sartre had become acquainted with thephilosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by hisidea of the 'intentionality of consciousness' as a key to thepuzzle of existence. Against this background, TheImaginary crystallized Sartre's worldview and artistic vision.The book is an extended examination of the concepts of nothingnessand freedom, both of which are derived from the ability ofconsciousness to imagine objects both as they are and as they arenot – ideas that would drive Sartre's existentialism and entiretheory of human freedom.
