Karol Wojtyla's Personalist Philosophy: Understanding Person and Act
Miguel Acosta and Adrian J. Reimers
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An important milestone of 20th Century philosophy was the rise of personalism. After the crimes and...
Perception
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Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and...
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis
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Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis,...
The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity
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This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian...
The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive
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"The Most Human Human" by Brian Christian is a mind-blowing piece of reportage that will appeal to...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Kingdom of Us (2017) in Movies
Oct 22, 2017 (Updated Oct 22, 2017)
The filmmaker follows the journey of the Shanks children, now teenagers and young adults, who six years later are still trying to make sense of their loss. Issues include mental health problems, and dealing with trauma especially with four of the teens suffering from autism. Each person deals with it differently, ranging from creating music, becoming philosophical, to having a full-blown nervous breakdown.
Mother Vikie is incredibly stoic, attempting to keep order despite the horrendous upheaval from the death. There's some disturbing scenes in which the children discuss finding a note in which their father had originally planned to kill them before committing suicide. It is heartbreaking to watch how it has both scarred and shaped the family, but they courageously attempt to pull together as one unit. A must-watch documentary.
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Philosophy Book in Books
Jan 30, 2019
What this does, instead, is to give a broad overview of the main works of the main thinkers (SOcrates, Plato, Descartes, Karl Marx, etc) of any particular era, with the book itself split into 6 main sections, as follows:
1) The Ancient World (700 BCE - 250 CE)
2) The Medieval World (250 - 1500)
3) Renaissance and the Age of Reason (1500 - 1750)
4) The Age of Revolution (1750 - 1900)
5) The Modern World (1900 -1950)
6) Contemporary Philosophy (1950 - present)
Nicely illustrated throughout, and with a little bit of history on the thinker themselves, this is a good intro for anybody interested in the subject. (Speaking personally, the closer the philosophy got to contemporary years, the less interesting I found it - I was more interested in the likes of Plato, Socrates and Descartes, for instance, than in Jacques Derrida).
Plato: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
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Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Plato: A...
R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and Other Writings: With Essays on Collingwood's Life and Work
David Boucher and Teresa Smith
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This volume presents a many-faceted view of the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its centre...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin's account of his rise from poverty and obscurity to affluence and fame is a...