Titoli in Coscienza e pensiero

Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner sets the record straight: far from the ruthless "Machiavellian" henchman that people think he was, Machiavelli emerges here as a profound ethical thinker who fought to uphold high moral standards and restore the democratic freedoms of his beloved Florence.

In this book the philosopher Jonathan Westphal examines the mind-body problem in detail, laying out the reasoning behind the solutions that have been offered in the past and presenting his own proposal. The sharp focus on the mind-body problem, a problem that is not about the self or consciousness or the soul or anything other than the mind and the body, helps clarify both problem and solutions. Westphal outlines the history of the mind-body problem, beginning with Descartes.

In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brings the worlds of neuroscience and social psychology together for the first time. In elegant and accessible prose, and with abundant use of anecdotes and case-studies, she examines the ethical problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on humans, the limitations of animal models, and the frightening implications of such research. She also explores the history of thought-control and reveals how it persists all around us, from marketing and television to politics and education.

On Inhumanity is bracing and vital listen in a world lurching towards authoritarian political regimes, resurgent white nationalism, refugee crises that breed nativist hostility, and fast-spreading racist rhetoric. The book will open your eyes to the pervasive dangers of dehumanization and the prejudices that can too easily take root within us, and resist them before they spread into the wider world.

Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger. She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.

What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? How do we be real people in a world of online personas and "authentic" simulated experiences? In this innovative examination of our present reality, award-winning writer Laurence Scott charts the ways our traditional mental models of the world have started to fray. Effortlessly applying philosophy to the quotidian, Scott "makes banal things shimmer with meaning" (Guardian).

How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind.

The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the meaning of human life, and of the place of death in life. It is an essay in philosophical anthropology: the study of the conceptual framework in terms of which we think about, speak about, and investigate homo sapiens as a social and cultural animal. This volume examines the diversity of values in human life and the place of moral value within the varieties of values.

«إن الفرح لا ينمو في الظلام، لكنه ينتشر في نور الصباح». في هذا الكتاب، يحاول الفيلسوف وعالم الاجتماع الفرنسي «فريدريك لونوار»، تفسير شعور الفرح، ويتحدث عن مسارين...

في الوقت الذي بدأ فيه «فويرباخ» أبحاثه في الدين، كان الفلسفة المثالية قد بلغت القمة في عهد التنوير الألماني، خاصةً فلسفة هيجل. وجد فويرباخ نفسه أمام كنيسة معادية...

هذا الكتاب, حكايات وتأملات لبناء عقل هادئ في زمن مضطرب, ورحلة لتحرير النفس من الجروح المحفورة والتجارب الحزينة, والكفاح من أجل العيش بفرح وحيوية ومواصلة الرقص مع...

"Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído", decía Borges. Y es que los buenos libros nos transforman; un pasaje, por breve que sea, puede despertar la curiosidad del lector y animarlo a leer una obra que cambie su vida para siempre. He ahí el poder de la literatura, que no sólo nos abre horizontes, sino que deposita en nosotros, de manera lenta pero constante, la clave para entender la vida.

While medicine and science have obviously changed enormously since the classical world, and some Greco-Roman beliefs about diet now appear hilariously off the mark, How to Eat reveals that much of their advice still resonates—and all of it is fascinating.

يضم هذا الكتاب حوالي 25 مقال عبر فيهم أحمد حلمي عن رأيه بأسلوب ساخر وبُعد فلسفي خفيف فى أكثر من موضوع، سواء فى حياته الخاصة ومجال عمله أو فى الحياة بشكل عام؛...

In her latest book, In Praise of Listening, Christian McEwen reflects on listening (silence, music, nature, prayer) in a series of thoughtful chapters, each one focused on a different theme. When an athlete speaks of "listening to his body," or a gardener describes herself as "listening to the land," when writers and artists explain that they are "listening" to their work-in-progress, they are using the word as she chooses to use it here—as an extended metaphor for openness and receptivity, rippling out from the self-centered human to the farthest reaches of the non-human world.

متى كانت رحلة القدوم من البحر؟ وأي بحر يقصده الكاتب؟ وما حتمية العودة إلى البحر؟ ولم كانت العودة-بالقطع-حزينة؟ هذه كلها أسئلة تثيرها صفحات الكتاب، منذ سطورها...

يحوي هذا الكتاب على ثلاثين سنة إلهية في الأنفس والمجتمعات تمت صياغتها بأسلوب جذاب رائع وذلك يهدف إلى بناء العقلية المنهجية التي تحول المعطيات والمعلومات...

"كتاب مفعم بالحيوية.. مثير للاعجاب.. وغزير بالمعرفة على نحو مدهش" - "نيويورك تايمز" "يحقق الكتاب نجاحًا مذهلًا - مجلة "ساينس" " اللغة الفلسفية، وميكانيكا الكم،...

مفكر ديني عراقي، من مواليد مدينة البصرة 1971، بدأت خطاه التنويرية مع تأسيسه مجلة الوعي المعاصر ومجلة إنسان في مهجره دمشق، ثم ظهرت معه خطى تمردية مفاجئة بعد ظهور...

Respiramos sin darnos cuenta. Una inteligencia inconsciente, la inteligencia vital, regula lo que somos y hacemos y late en toda forma de vida. Vinculando las ciencias de la mente con la nueva biología, Inteligencia vital muestra que: - todo lo vivo está dotado de percepción y sensibilidad; -...