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Hebert Spencer coined the famous expression “survival of the fittest”.
Spencer’s theory inspired Andrew Carnegie and William Graham Sumner's visions of unbridled and unrepentant capitalism of the United States in late 19th century. Carnegie interpreted Spencer's social theory as justifying merciless economic competition.
Spencer's reputation was not recovered for many years from the interpretative caricatures of many scholars, thus marginalizing him to the hinterlands of intellectual history. Fortunately, recent scholarship has begun restoring and repairing his legacy and theory.
This is a must-have book for listeners who are interested in studying and correctly interpreting Spencer’s theory that can be simply coined by him as “survival of the fittest”.
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In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
- De Rodger en 12-05-19
De: Anthony Gottlieb
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Philosophy
- Who Needs It
- De: Ayn Rand
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 423
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Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone. This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: a rational, conscious, and therefore practical one, or a contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deep and provocative
- De Sierra Bravo en 05-21-09
De: Ayn Rand
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A Short History of Ethics
- De: Alasdair MacIntyre
- Narrado por: Tim Dalgleish
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great philosopher made ridiculous by accents
- De Olivia Walling en 10-04-17
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Democracy in America
- De: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 34 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Most Listenable, if not the Best Translation
- De Michael Allen en 10-04-13
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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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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 Wisdom of Life, Counsels and Maxims
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 79
'The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.' Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century because his humanistic, atheistic, if pessimistic views chimed with a new secularism that was emerging from a Western society dominated by religion. Despite his rather forbidding image (and a few outdated views), he is one of the most approachable German philosophers, and this is certainly evident in these two key works, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims.
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5 out of 5 stars
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depressingly hopeful
- De Sebastian huerta en 06-22-17
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Democracy in America (Excerpts)
- De: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 4 h y 46 m
- Highlights
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831 de Tocqueville was sent to America by the French government to study the U.S. penal system, but his real aim was to observe a democratic republic firsthand to see if such an entity could function with dignity and humanity. His travels, which took him to the cities of the Northeast, to the frontier and the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi and through the South, showed him a great deal about the United States. In 1834, he wrote Democracy in America, in which he examines the advantages and pitfalls of democracy, the conditions and conflicts among the races, and the movements that grip the country.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Democracy in America
- De Michael en 02-18-10
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The Metaphysical Club
- De: Louis Menand
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid (part history, part biography, part philosophy) consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Great American Experiment
- De Victoria en 12-08-03
De: Louis Menand
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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
- De: Immanuel Kant, Thomas Kingsmill Abbott - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 3 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, lays out Kant's essential philosophy and defines the concepts and arguments that would shape his later work. Central to Kant's doctrine is the categorical imperative, which he defines as a mandate that human actions should always conform to a universal, unchanging standard of rational morality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Categorical Imperatives for Everyone
- De Darwin8u en 04-04-17
De: Immanuel Kant, y otros
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- De: Anthony Pagden
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A thorough political tract rather than history
- De Jacobus en 03-08-14
De: Anthony Pagden
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- De: Max Weber
- Narrado por: Monroe Clark McBride
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day powerful and fascinating. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good unprejudiced scholar
- De Viktor V. Choban en 07-11-19
De: Max Weber
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent exploration of this subject
- De Caroline en 01-13-15
De: Matthew Stewart
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- De: Gustave Le Bon
- Narrado por: Joseph Gomez
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal. In a crowd, the conscious personality of the individual is submerged and dominated by the collective mind. Furthermore, every sentiment becomes contagious to a degree that individuals readily sacrifice their personal interest to the collective.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read in terms of group psychology....
- De Alednam A Uonopk en 08-19-20
De: Gustave Le Bon
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Anarchy
- De: Errico Malatesta
- Narrado por: Caroline Collins
- Duración: 1 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
"Anarchy" (1907) is a political classic written by famous anarchist Errico Malatesta. "Anarchy is a word which comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, without government: the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a party (which party has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare)."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Malatesta is a Fantastic writer.
- De Elly en 08-28-21
De: Errico Malatesta
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Between Past and Future
- Eight Exercises in Political Thought
- De: Hannah Arendt
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future, Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just stunning
- De Peter Stephens en 02-26-18
De: Hannah Arendt
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 19 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,856
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,504
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,488
Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and insightful book
- De ESK en 01-25-13
De: Will Durant