Humanist philosophy Books

We are at a pivotal point in our collective human experience of discovering an ever growing awareness that "You are everyone and everyone is you." This great awaking is happening all around us. Yet, in the light of this awakening, we are still...

"Can there be a more flagrant challenge to the recent - and classic - relativisms, scepticisms and 'deconstructivisms' toward reason, rationality, logos than the Vision of the Manifestation of Life?" As Tymieniecka writes in...

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information and data­ processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human, (other) animal, or...

In this book, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem. Social humanism is a moral and political philosophy that does just this. As a political philosophy, it justifies the...

We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise,...

This work explores basis of Human Freedom and Ethics.Aristotle said that the man is a logical and a political being, but I argue that Humans are also moral beings because they have freedom to choose. Morality does not depend on God. Humans have enough...

The Book on the Living God, The Book on Life Beyond and this book form a trilogy. These three books should be read together. The Book on Human Nature presents basic concepts about human nature with the goal of inspiring readers to awaken the timeless,...

Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This book argues that they are not. Part One develops a chastened empiricist theory of content, which cedes to experience a crucial role...

PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from...

Increasingly, the mind is being treated as a fit subject for scientific inquiry. As cognitive science and empirical psychology strive to uncover the mind's secrets, it is fitting to inquire as to what distinctive role is...

§ 1. Remarks on the Current Status of the Problematic. The literature treating the relationship between the phenomenologies of Husserl and Heidegger has not been kind to Husserl. Heidegger's "devastating" phenomenologically...

This collection of papers on issues in the theory of mental representation expresses a diversity of recent reflections on the idea that C. D. Broad so aptly characterized in the title of his book Mind and the World Order. An...

A first in English, this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can we be?

The title of this book involves a play on words. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking both spent a lifetime working on what is called a "unified field theory," or in popular parlance, "a theory of everything." The author of Oneness...

How did a devout Catholic girl from a Louisiana mill town become a Mystical Humanist Unitarian Universalist, and what does that mean anyway, at least to her?"Dr. Dolly" shares her emotional journey-torn from Catholicism by a young love crisis, jumping...

Dans cette étude de la philosophie positive de Saint-Simon et Auguste Comte, l'auteur examine leurs théories de la société, de la religion et de la science.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the...

Wittgenstein's aphoristic style holds great charm, but also a great danger: the reader is apt to glean too much from a single fragment and too little from the fragments as a whole. In my first confron­ tations with the...

My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R. Michael Harnish at the...

This series will include monographs and collections of studies devoted to the investigation and exploration of knowledge, information, and data-processing systems of all kinds, no matter whether human. (other) animal, or...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

In this volume, distinguished neurologist Jason W. Brown extends the microgenetic theory of the mind by offering a new approach to the problem of time and free will. Brown bases his work on a unitary process model of brain...

A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus,...

The Pages that follow were written in the aftermath of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic by Adam Michael Hollick in March/April of 2023. It is my belief that the Pandemic was, in fact, World War 3. Therefore, this book is drafted as my CAMPAIGN PLAN to earn...

Die Welt von Wabi-Sabi Unter den Japanern gibt es eine weit verbreitete Geschichte über die frühen Jahre eines Teemeisters namens Sen No Rikyu. Als Sohn eines bescheidenen Lagerverwalters versuchte er, seinen Status zu verbessern, indem er den Weg des...

The premise of this book is that the role of government is to look to the well-being of the people and to maintain and improve the quality of the environment. In other words, government is animal husbandry and ecosystem management - it is applied biology...

2011 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Fromm provides what was at the time a new and provocative view of Marx's humanism that challenged both Soviet distortion and Western...

One of the most popular writers in the fields of inspiration and spirituality at the turn of the 20th century, James Allen set as his life's goal the revelation of universal principles-both spiritual and practical-that empower the individual. With an...

Positive humanism is an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing. As an applied philosophy its focus is on ideas that lead to increased...

The existence of human brings about modernity that's on and on with all its consequences. This book is telling dear readers about some concept of human that should be able to make modernity different significantly from what currently happens, more humane...

Le Baron de Bock était un écrivain athée radical du XIXe siècle qui a écrit un certain nombre d'essais politiques et sociaux influents. Ce recueil d'œuvres diverses comprend des textes tels que De l'école et de l'instruction publique, du suffrage...

The rift which has long divided the philosophical world into opposed schools-the "Continental" school owing its origins to the phenomenology of Husserl and the "analytic" school derived from Frege-is finally closing. But this...

Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves.

Exploring Hegel's philosophical psychology to uncover viable remedies to the chief dilemmas plaguing contemporary philosophy of mind, Hegel and Mind exposes why mind cannot be an epistemological foundation nor reduced to discursive consciousness nor...

Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the...

Sensory Engagement with Media: A Phenomenological Exploration ofMultimodal Reading" immerses readers in a profound journey through theintricate realm of human perception and media interaction. Thisilluminating exploration delves into the depths of...

" 1. Pour se faire une idée claire des éléments du droit naturel et de la politique, il est important de connaître la nature de l'homme, de savoir ce que c'est qu'un corps politique et ce que nous entendons par loi.2. La nature de l'homme est la somme de...

The 'problem of consciousness' is widely seen as an intractable mystery - the biggest challenge humanity faces as it seeks to gain a 'complete' understanding of both itself and the non-human world. But what exactly is consciousness? The aim of this book...

NEW MEDIA THEORY SERIES | Edited by BYRON HAWK | WRITING POSTHUMANISM, POSTHUMAN WRITING turns the posthumanist gaze upon writing. Ultimately, this collection considers the relationship between posthumanisms and writing with the aim of developing...

Though he made his fortune pioneering practical uses for electricity, Frederick Lawson was also an active and vocal adherent of New Thought philosophies, early "New Age" thinking that promoted the belief in "mind over matter" and in the concept that...

The difference between a status-quo, but revisable, “common sense” and new realities, new discoveries, and such, generates a tension. One of the places where philosophy spends its time is the border country between a new science and an old...