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The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at the end of an extraordinarily productive year in which he had produced The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist, Nietzsche shuns any pretense at modesty with chapter titles include “Why I am so Wise”, “Why I am so Clever” and “Why I Write Such Excellent Books”. His translator Anthony M. Ludovici states, Ecce Homo “is not only a coping-stone worthy of the wonderful creations of that year, but also a fitting conclusion to his whole life.

Sulaiman Samuel Cohen was Jewish by race and Iraqi by origin. An accountant by profession, Cohen came to India in his early youth and settled down here for life. He worked in Bombay for a few years, then joined the Theosophical Society and lived at its headquarters in Adyar, Madras for five years. During this time Cohen heard of Sri Ramana Maharshi, came to Sri Ramanasramam with the intention of staying for fourteen days and stayed fourteen years, from 1936 until the Maharshi shed the body in 1950. He was one of the many staunch devotees who lived at Palakothu, a sadhu’s colony near the ...

Aristóteles nació en Estagira, Macedonia, en el año 384 a. C. y murió en el año 322 a. C. Fue discípulo de Platón y maestro de Alejandro Magno. Creó el Liceo, que fue tan prestigioso como la Academia. Su filosofía se caracteriza por ser un movimiento filosófico y científico basado en la experimentación. En un panorama filosófico denominado por la ciencia del mundo exterior y la cosmología, creó un concepto de la sociedad, de la realidad y del hombre totalmente diferente.

Perché Eraclito morì sepolto vivo sotto il letame? Cosa ci raccontano il dolce morire di Democrito in una vasca piena di miele e il tuffarsi nell'Etna di Empedocle? Perché Thomas More fu decapitato e Giordano Bruno arso vivo? Cosa nascondono la cicuta di Socrate, la polmonite di Descartes e la pleurite di Schopenhauer? Per Matteo Saudino, il Prof più seguito d'Italia, morire è l'atto più filosofico del nostro vivere. La morte è un caleidoscopio attraverso cui osservare frammenti di puzzle esistenziali e ricostruire trame del pensiero.

If anything, Karl Marx’s life reminds us of the power of the pen over the sword. During his lifetime, he lived in relative obscurity. Rather than making any waves, Marx was usually lucky just to make the rent. And to make the ongoing hardship of his life even worse, Karl Marx was afflicted with boils from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. But his pen would indeed demonstrate its power, and by the time 70-some years had passed since his demise, one-third of the entire planet would be living under regimes based upon his ideology.

Preguntas aparentemente sencillas, como ¿qué te pasa?, ¿cómo te llamas? o ¿de dónde vienes?, nos van acercando poco a poco al centro más profundo de nuestra alma, allí donde se descubre la herida originada por las cuatro infinitudes esenciales: vida, muerte, tú y mundo. Jamás seremos demasiado humanos: si algún horizonte tiene sentido es el de llegar a ser más humanos.

Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970) was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain. Russell was a philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, prominent anti-war activist, and an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons. In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Carl Gustav Jung ha sido un gran seductor de mujeres de fama legendaria. Esta ficción dramática explora e ilustra las relaciones de C.J. Jung con sus cuatro mujeres más importantes: Emma Rauschenbach, su esposa, Sabina Spielrein, su primera paciente y amante, Toni Wolff. Paciente, asistente, amiga y amante durante 40 años y finalmente , durante sus años maduros, con la estudiante Marie-Louise von Franz.

Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno - Sozialphilosophen der Frankfurter Schule. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zu den bedeutenden Vertretern der Kritischen Theorie, bekannt als Frankfurter Schule, Max Horkheimer und Theodor W. Adorno. Der 1895 in Zuffenhausen bei Stuttgart geborene Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) wuchs in einer wohlhabenden jüdischen Textilindustriellenfamilie auf. Mit seinem Freund Friedrich Pollock zog er 1919 zunächst nach München, dann nach Frankfurt am Main.

St. Augustine was the greatest Western philosopher for 1,000 years and a dominant influence on the history of Christian theology. From his conversion in 386 to his death in 430, he remained a great teacher, church statesman, and polemical theologian. St. Thomas Aquinas was one of many scholars influenced by Augustine’s theories.

Dieses Buch bringt uns die Hannah Arendt nahe, die wir für das 21. Jahrhundert brauchen. Es erzählt, wie die charismatische Philosophin zu ihrem eigenen, sehr besonderen Denken kam, und erklärt, wie wir denken sollten, wenn unsere Politik aus den Fugen gerät. Mit Leidenschaft und brillanter Expertise beleuchtet Lyndsey Stonebridge Arendts Leben und Werk, bringt sie in einen Dialog mit unserer unruhigen Gegenwart – und fordert uns dazu auf, so zu denken wie Hannah Arendt: unerschütterlich, liebevoll und trotzig.

Penseur brillant, Marx est aussi un homme d'action qui consacre sa vie à la lutte. Pour lui, le niveau de civilisation d'une société se mesure au sort qu'elle réserve aux plus démunis. D'où son engagement aux côtés du prolétariat, pour lequel il construit une théorie complète, dans le but de le rendre idéologiquement autonome. C'est en effet ainsi que peut se fonder efficacement son émancipation, qui par ailleurs délivre toute la société du règne de l'argent.

Stoicism: Live a Life of Virtue - Complete Guide on Stoicism provides an overview of the history of the stoic philosophy as well as profiles of some of the ancient masters who contributed to its development. In addition, it tells the stories of some modern practitioners of the philosophy who successfully used it to overcome difficult situations in their lives. We have also provided a number of exercises that you can use to help make Stoicism a part of your daily life. Start living the stoic life today.

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) has been studying the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for the past quarter century. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, McKenna emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he calls The Archaic Revival, one of his most popular books. In 1993, McKenna wrote in This World and Its Double. It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning.

Mark Rothko, Hannah Arendt, Romain Gary, Gidon Kremer. C'è un legame sotterraneo tra alcuni grandi nomi della cultura mondiale: i paesi baltici dove sono nati e la cui anima li ha accompagnati nella fuga oltre confine. È sulle tracce di quest'anima che Jan Brokken attraversa Lettonia, Lituania ed Estonia ricostruendo le vite straordinarie di personaggi celebri e persone comuni.

Sujet d'intense fascination, le Marquis de Sade a acquis au fil des décennies une image qui relève du mythe. En occultant, détournant et justifiant les faits historiques, de nombreux intellectuels du XXème siècle interprètent avec complaisance la vie et la littérature du Marquis jusqu'à l'ériger en symbole. Briseur de tabous, libérateur de la sexualité, Révolutionnaire et féministe avant l'heure ? La réalité du personnage est autre.

Born in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was largely raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents after his father died when he was two. He attended the renowned École Normale Supérieure, where he studied psychology, philosophy, ethics, sociology, and physics. In 1929, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who went on to become a celebrated feminist writer and philosopher, with whom he had a lifelong intellectual and romantic relationship.

Despite new revelations about Heidegger's anti-Semitism, writes Madsbjerg, the philosopher's work still stands on its own. Fried replies.

Are you overwhelmed by the assholes in your life? Authors Trudy Snow and Jan Vandenberg cover the different types of assholes we may encounter and how to prevent them from ruining our lives. Trudy Snow and Jan Vandenberg are subject matter experts in topics related to managing toxic people and conflict resolution. This book offers a simple and common sense perspective about difficult personalities because after all they are all assholes.

This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War.