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Dynamic Humanism eBook Series

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  • On the Duties of Philosophers

    Dynamic Humanism, #1

    Series Book 1 - Dynamic Humanism
    ContentsWhat is Philosophy?The Value of ContemptOn MethodOn True ReligionThe Ethical Ramifications of LogicPhilosophical AnthropologyThe Metaphysics of GodFreedom from ReligionThe Dictatorship of the IntelligentsiaForm, Content, and PowerTherefore We Must Go Back to Aristotle! ... Read more

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  • The Metaphysics of God: An Exercise in Practical Ontology

    Dynamic Humanism, #2

    Series Book 2 - Dynamic Humanism
    This book has two purposes: one philosophical, the other polemical. The philosophical purpose will reveal itself plainly in due course, but the polemical purpose is sometimes implicit - between the lines, as it were. The target of the polemic is religionism. Religionists are those who are so bound up in whatever they believe that they will not change their minds about these beliefs even when ... Read more

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  • Form, Content, and Power: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    Dynamic Humanism, #5

    Series Book 5 - Dynamic Humanism
    This book is meant to be disconcerting. It asks many more questions than it answers, but perhaps that is how philosophy should be, especially if the questions posed are capable of rousing interest in a topic and stimulating individual thought. It challenges, sometimes attacks, and even ridicules, various traditions and theoretical positions in the history of the philosophy of art, not for merely ... Read more

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  • The Value of Suicide

    Dynamic Humanism, #4

    Series Book 4 - Dynamic Humanism
    This book is not about the medical, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, statistical, or even theological aspects of suicide. It does not investigate the pathology of why some people kill themselves and it certainly does not attempt either to prevent or to encourage suicide. It is a book on the philosophy of suicide. It examines (1) the ontology of suicide, i.e., what suicide is from the ... Read more

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  • The Life of the Mind

    The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

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  • Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
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    Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In ... Read more

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  • Essays and Aphorisms

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    One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he ... Read more

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  • Homo Ludens

    A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

    An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s).In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure ... Read more

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book ... Read more

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  • The Will to Power

    Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenstein. The Will to Power ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Politics

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx’s philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to its culmination and conclusion in Marx. The ... Read more

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