Titoli in Etica e moralità

El Arte de la Prudencia es un tratado de Baltasar Gracián, compuesto por 300 máximas que ofrecen consejos sobre cómo tomar decisiones sabias y vivir con prudencia. Gracián destaca la importancia de la prudencia no solo como una virtud moral, sino como una habilidad esencial para navegar la vida cotidiana, tomando decisiones estratégicas, equilibradas y reflexivas.

En 1571, tras sufrir un accidente montando a caballo, Michel de Montaigne abandona su posición como magistrado de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo y empezar a escribir. Ese es el inicio, casi novelesco, de una de las obras más importantes de la cultura occidental. «No enseño ni adoctrino, lo que hago es relatar», afirma Montaigne. Y entretanto dialoga con los pensadores clásicos sobre todo tipo de cuestiones relativas a la condición humana.

You don't have to be a computer scientist to get involved in the discussion about where artificial intelligence and technology are going. What will the year 2084 hold for you--for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell’s...

"Des vertus, on ne parle plus guère. Cela ne signifie pas que nous n'en ayons plus besoin, ni ne nous autorise à y renoncer. Il ne s'agit pas de donner des leçons de morale, mais d'aider chacun à devenir son propre maître, comme il convient, et son unique juge. Dans quel but ? Pour être plus humain, plus fort, plus doux. Vertu c'est puissance, c'est excellence, c'est exigence. Les vertus sont nos valeurs morales, mais incarnées, autant que nous le pouvons, mais vécues, mais en acte."

En 1938, peu de temps après la parution de son best-seller Réfléchissez et devenez riche, Napoléon Hill révèle comment il a réussi à décrypter le code du Diable, le forçant à lui livrer tous ses précieux secrets. Le manuscrit qui fut le résultat de cette rencontre allégorique, trop controversé pour l’époque, est resté caché aux yeux du monde durant plus de soixante-dix ans. Grâce à son don légendaire pour révéler le potentiel des hommes, Napoléon Hill creuse en profondeur pour identifier quels sont les plus grands obstacles que nous devons affronter dans l’accomplissement de nos buts personnels.

"Ich kenne mein Loos. Es wird sich einmal an meinen Namen die Erinnerung an etwas Ungeheures anknüpfen, – an eine Krisis, wie es keine auf Erden gab." "Ecce homo" ist ein Buch der Lebenskunst, das keinem anderen gleicht. Nietzsche polemisiert darin heftig gegen Moral, Seele, Geist, freien Willen und sogar Gott. Und er verkündet eine Weisheit, zu der es gehört, dass sie niemals schon gefunden, sondern immer erst zu suchen ist.

The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Christian communities. In this momentous book, David Bentley Hart makes the case that nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition have misled readers on the crucial matter of universal salvation.

We live in a time of vast changes that include accelerating globalization, mounting quantities of information, the growing hegemony of science and technology, and the clash of civilizations. Those changes call for new ways of learning and thinking in school, business, and the professions. Listen as psychologist Howard Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead.

Sorprende que a 140 años de la muerte de Schopenhauer aún existan textos inéditos de su obra. El amor es un sentimiento humano que puede crecer hasta opacar cualquier aspiración, determinación o certeza del individuo e incluso llevarlo a sacrificar su vida, y sin embargo, en palabras de Arthur Schopenhauer, había sido "totalmente ignorado por los filósofos" hasta que éste lo interpretó metafísica y trascendentemente.

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature, and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war, and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value.

Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means.

Tida como uma obra única na história da Filosofia, Meditações contém as mais profundas e reveladoras reflexões espirituais e éticas já registradas. Apresentados de maneira direta, os insights reúnem os fundamentos do Estoicismo que guiaram os pensamentos do imperador filósofo Marco Aurélio, um dos líderes mais inteligentes e bem-sucedidos de sua época. Uma obra-prima essencial para gestores, curiosos e qualquer pessoa que já tenha enfrentado momentos difíceis, porém, sem deixar de cultivar a esperança em dias melhores.

Uma das obras mais conhecidas de Sêneca é, também, um ensaio moral que traz poderosas reflexões acerca da morte, da natureza humana e da arte de viver. Tido como um dos mais consagrados textos da filosofia estoica, foi estruturado em forma de cartas dirigidas a Paulino e reúne, de maneira breve e assertiva, as ideias e os questionamentos de um dos mais célebres intelectuais de sua época em uma busca incessante por viver a vida da melhor forma possível. Seus princípios de sabedoria, embora escritos há mais de dois mil anos, continuam proporcionando grandes lições na atualidade.

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence—rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should—they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm.

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for complaint, and when we consider future generations it is very hard to avoid conclusions that most of us will find very disturbing.

La Ética demostrada según el orden geométrico de Baruch Spinoza, publicada de manera póstuma en 1677, es una de las obras filosóficas más influyentes de la Edad Moderna. Esta edición en formato audiolibro ha sido traducida íntegra y directamente del texto original en latín, Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata. Escrita a modo de tratado científico y siguiendo el modelo deductivo de la geometría euclidiana, la obra se compone de definiciones, axiomas, proposiciones, demostraciones y escolios, con el fin de exponer de forma clara y rigurosa la visión de Spinoza sobre Dios, la naturaleza...

We present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public. Profile-based identity is evident everywhere from pop culture to politics, marketing to morality. This book argues that the profile marks an epochal shift in our concept of identity and demonstrates why that matters. You and Your Profile blends social theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to unfold an exploration of the way we have come to experience the world.

Academics, students, and activists from a wide array of disciplines will find A Taste for Change a dialogue worthy of careful consideration and an inspiring call to action.

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For 18th-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.

A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the...