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What do Aristotle, Buddha, Seneca, Nietzsche, Kabbalah, and Plato, have in common?
They worked tirelessly toward understanding and enlightenment.
Walk the path of the great thinkers of the past with History of Philosophy: Overview of Eastern Philosophy, Western Philosophy, and the Most Important Thinkers through the Ages. War, innovation, courage, and revolution shaped the world as it is today, but the great philosophers of the past shaped our thoughts, religions, and minds. They worked as teachers, spiritual leaders, and scholars to harness the power of logic and critical thinking, creating a foundation of thought that led to humankind's understanding of the unity of life and the universe.
You will learn how:
- Stoicism shaped the reasoning behind logic, physics, and ethics.
- Seneca developed his philosophy of three kinds of life: theory, pleasure, and politics.
- Nietzsche's arguments about truth, morality, existence, and consciousness molded modern thought.
- Prayer, meditation, and scripture can reveal the interconnection between all things and ease the pain of human existence.
- Plato taught the importance of questioning that led to the birth of the scientific process.
- Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, and Zen follow the same basic principles of life and cosmic unity.
- The birth of rational, scientific, and logical thought led humankind to truth.
This quick survey of the history of philosophy offers a glimpse into the thoughts that unite humanity, and the great thinkers who embraced the study of the cosmos. Start your journey down the path to enlightenment today.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
As Douglas Adams points out, if there is no final answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" 42 is as good or bad an answer as any other. Indeed, 42 quotes might be even better! Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative, and significant quotes in the history of philosophy, providing witty and compelling commentary along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best philosophy intro ever
- De Fabian en 04-14-18
De: Gary Cox
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Hidden Wisdom
- A Guide to Western Inner Traditions
- De: Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney
- Narrado por: Ethan Sawyer
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
The co-editors of Gnosis magazine explore the many esoteric traditions that Western culture has to offer. While terms from Eastern spiritual practices such as Zen, mantra, and karma have become part of our daily lexicon, the traditions of Western spirituality have been largely unexplored by people searching for non-mainstream routes to spiritual experience. But for those who identify with Western culture, Western religious traditions have their own wisdom teachings that are more suitable to their needs and expectations.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, enjoyable, not too deep
- De DBruno1987 en 03-03-15
De: Richard Smoley, y otros
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A Concise History of Buddhism
- From 500 BCE-1900 CE
- De: Andrew Skilton
- Narrado por: Jinananda
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
Andrew Skilton - Senior Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies, Kings College, London - explains the development of the basic concepts of Buddhism and its spread across the continents during its 2,500 years of history. He begins with a close look at Buddhism in India, where it flourished until the 12th/13th century CE, charting the growth of different schools and practices. By the time it disappeared from its homeland midway through the millennium, it had become established in Central Asia and the Far East in a variety of forms.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Difficult for the indoctrinated
- De Heavypen en 04-18-18
De: Andrew Skilton
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A Secular Age
- De: Charles Taylor
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 42 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 218
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs Guest Narrators for French and German
- De Norman en 06-13-15
De: Charles Taylor
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
- Thinkers of the New Left
- De: Roger Scruton
- Narrado por: Rory Barnett
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 113
From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Milliband, and Eric Hobsbawm. Scruton delivers a critique of modern left-wing thinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deconstructing the New Left
- De Wayne en 01-17-20
De: Roger Scruton
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The History of Philosophy
- De: A. C. Grayling
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 28 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 102
The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic by Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has there been a comprehensive and entertaining single-volume history of this great, intellectual, world-shaping journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A much needed update to Bertrand Russell's classic
- De Michael en 06-27-20
De: A. C. Grayling
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God and the Evolving Universe
- The Next Step in Personal Evolution
- De: James Redfield, Michael Murphy, Sylvia Timbers
- Narrado por: Chris Ryan
- Duración: 7 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In God and the Evolving Universe, James Redfield and Michael Murphy present an important message of hope and a vision for the future. The authors contend that thousands of years of human striving have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded spiritual experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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higher is better
- De Tommie en 04-20-07
De: James Redfield, y otros
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The Case for God
- De: Karen Armstrong
- Narrado por: Karen Armstrong
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 330
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great recasting of how God should be interpreted
- De John Doyle en 02-18-11
De: Karen Armstrong
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The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali
- A Biography
- De: David Gordon White
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 101
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
Consisting of fewer than 200 verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of these assumptions are incorrect. Virtually forgotten in India for hundreds of years and maligned when it was first discovered in the West, the Yoga Sutra has been elevated to its present iconic status.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Academic Hubris
- De John en 10-31-14
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The Yugas
- Keys to Understanding Our Hidden Past, Emerging Energy Age and Enlightened Future
- De: Joseph Selbie, David Steinmetz, Swami Kriyananda - foreword
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 446
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 382
Today's view of history cannot account for ancient anomalies, such as the Pyramids and advanced knowledge contained in India's Vedas. But in 1894, an Indian sage gave us an explanation not only for our hidden past but for the trends of today and for our future enlightenment - the 24,000-year yuga cycle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book but one slight problem
- De Z en 02-19-19
De: Joseph Selbie, y otros
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In Defense of History
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who deny the possibility of achieving any kind of certain knowledge about the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De David A en 07-03-18
De: Richard J. Evans
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- De: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
Like F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, "remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Without This Book, You Are Uneducated
- De Michael D. Rubin en 10-03-18
De: Ludwig von Mises, y otros
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- De: George M. Marsden
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- De Adam Shields en 09-14-16
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Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion
- De: Benjamin E. Zeller
- Narrado por: Eric Burns
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
In March 1997, 39 people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a graduation. Benjamin Zeller not only explores the question of why the members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicides, but interrogates the origin and evolution of the religion, its appeal, and its practices. By tracking the development of the history, social structure, and worldview of Heaven's Gate, Zeller shows that the movement was both a reflection and a microcosm of larger American culture.
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1 out of 5 stars
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cult apologia.
- De Avery en 06-01-20