History & Schools of Thought

Many Definitions Of Postmodernism Focus On Its Nature As The Aftermath Of The Modern Industrial Age When Technology Developed Dynamically. In The Postmodern...

For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It...

First Philosophy brings together fifty-four classic and contemporary readings on seven central philosophical topics. Mindful of the intrinsic difficulty of...

Reality -- Restoration -- Christ -- Life -- Love -- Silence -- Seedlings. Anthony De Mello. Complete And Unabridged. Originally Published In India By Gujara...

Here, Taoist practitioner Eva Wong offers a colorful treatment of the history and evolution of Taoism, told through traditional teaching tales. These tale...

This Eloquent, Impassioned Manifesto Is Possibly The Most Important Message The Dalai Lama Can Give Us About The Future Of Our World. It's His Rallying Cry,...

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if...

Antony Black. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [356]-368) And Indexes.Categories: Religion & Spirituality IslamHistory

Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ult...

discourses On Livy (1531) Demonstrates Machiavelli's Fundamental Preference For The Republicanism Of Ancient Rome. In An Age When Political Absolutism Was...

In keeping with those virtues which have made it the leading collection of its kind, the fifth edition of Classics of Western Philosophy features unabridge...

This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form an...

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, di...

Feinberg, Joel, Shafer-Landau, RussCategories: Education & TeachingSchools & Teaching

This landmark book on human sexuality makes the sacred lovemaking techniques of the East fully comprehensible to Western readers. Elegantly illustrated, it ...

An Anthology Of Writings Of The Modern Period. It Provides The Key Works Of Seven Major Philosophers, Along With A Selection Of Associated Texts By Other Le...

Framing the evolution of post-Enlightenment philosophy, Contemporary Thought begins with a discussion of the British Empiricists and Kant's analysis of the...

Fingers Pointing towards the Moon was the first of what would be a series of extraordinary spiritual manifestos written by the anonymous Wei Wu Wei. Like a...

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History...

This moment of perfect clarity that is the force behind all the traditional Japanese arts—from archery to flower arranging—is celebrated here in Dave L...

A religious diatribe written from within the Church against the established order of things in a presumably "Christian" land.Categories: Politics & Soci...

First Published In 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia Is One Of The Most Important Works Of European Humanism. Through The Voice Of The Mysterious Traveler Ra...

Extracted from: Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding, and Concerning the Principles of Morals, By David Hume. Reprinted from The Posthumous Edition ...

BKS Iyengar’s translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the “bible” of yoga. This new edition of the classic text...

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict...

Bring the wisdom of ancient Yoga philosophy into your life in a fresh, accessible, and relevant way.In its highest form, yoga is a practice for your body a...

hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this b...

'john Searle Has A Distinctive Intellectual Style. It Combines Razor-sharp Analysis With A Swaggering Chip-on-the-shoulder Impudence That Many Of His Oppone...

Divine Play is the story of a great yogi and how he evokes spiritual awareness through direct experience, and it is about how a yogi blesses and serves all ...

Cultivating Stillness -- 1. Wu-chi -- 2. Wang-chi -- 3. T'ai-chi -- 4. The Three Realms Of Existence -- 5. The Mind (heart) Of Tao -- 6. The Human Mind (hea...

The author of the popular new English version of "Tao te Ching" brings his gift for bringing new life into ancient sacred texts to one of the world's grea...

Covering philosophy of religion, theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, freedom and determinism, and ethics, this textbook presents some 70 selections dra...

Place the word Tao Into your heart. Use no other words. The Tao is constantly moving, the path that all life and the whole universe takes. There is noth...

Traditional accounts of the feminist history of philosophy have viewed reason as associated with masculinity and subsequent debates have been framed by this...

Straw Dogs Is A Work Of Philosophy, Which Sets Out To Challenge Our Most Cherished Assumptions About What It Means To Be Human. From Plato To Christianity, ...

this Is The Best General Book On Philosophy For University Students: Not Just An Introduction, But A Guide Which Will Serve Them Throughout Their Studies....

Bishop John Shelby Spong, author of Jesus for the Non-Religious, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Sins of Scripture, and many other books, is known fo...

A Selection Of Jung's Works That Provide An Insight Into His Ideas And Contributions To Psychoanalysis. Jung's Early Work -- Jung's Involvement With Freud A...

To Some, Nihilism Is Losing Its Crisis Connotations And Becoming Simply An Unobjectionable Characteristic Of Human Life. Carr Argues That This Transformatio...

Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. In the introduction to this brilliant transla...

“Patocka’s contribution to philosophy and, in particular, to post-Heideggerian thought has shaped the European debate about the future of philosophy and...

Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on th...

Introduction To Several Worldviews In Philsophy And Religion. A World Of Difference -- A Universe Charged With The Grandeur Of God : Christian Theism -- The...

Pt. I. Introduction: What Was The Scottish Enlightenment? -- Pt. Ii. Human Nature. 1. The Science Of Man / David Hume. 2. The Unity Of The Sciences / Dugald...

This popular introductory text provides a unique diversity of teaching tools for instructors who prefer a synoptic approach. The text is visually appealing ...

Reeves (philosophy, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) wrote and presented these dialogues as part of a humanities course at Reed College in Portland, Oreg...

Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, their per...

Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese...