Philosophy

The Wire and Philosophy

by David Bzdak, Joanna Crosby & Seth Vannatta

By many accounts, HBO’s The Wire was and remains the greatest and most important television drama of all time. Conceived by writers David Simon and ex-Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns, this five-season,...

Seven Scarlet Doors: Third Book of the Initiate

by Oberto "Falco" Airaudi, Laura M. George & Barbara Marx Hubbard

Seven Scarlet Doors is the third installment of a futuristic trilogy in which humans are living in a dystopian world. Capitalism has failed, a great cataclysm has occurred, and an "End Times" of our own making...

Reborn to Live: Second Book of the Initiate

by Oberto "Falco" Airaudi, Laura M. George & Alex and Allyson Grey

Reborn to Live is the second installment of a futuristic trilogy in which humans are living in a dystopian world. Capitalism has failed, a great cataclysm has occurred, and an "End Times" of our own making has...

Death as Gateway to Eternity: Nature's Hidden Message

by Hans Kury

In the spirit of the great German mystics, Hans Kury seeks to discover whence we have come and whither we are going. In these conversations of a solitary man with the mountains, the stars, the animals, the plants-in...

Foundations for Moral Relativism

by David Velleman

In Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to...

The Embroidered Armour

by Roberto Peregalli, Shaun Whiteside & Pierre Le Tan

In investigating ancient Greek concepts concerning the relationship between seeing and knowing, Roberto Peregalli presents an eloquent demonstration of the modernity of Ancient Greek wisdom.

The Embroidered...

The Philosopher's Book of Questions and Answers: Questions to Open Your Mind

by D.E. Wittkower

Your life through the lens of the world's greatest thinkers!

Do you ever wonder how important money really is in life or what you need to do to achieve happiness? With The Philosopher's Book of Questions and...

Science & Governance - Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously

by Various

“This report is the product of an expert working group acting under mandate from the European Commission Directorate General for Research (DG RTD), on the topic of European science and governance. We interpreted...

Bug Music

by David Rothenberg

In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle—the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experience this great sonic invasion...

Approaching the Navel of the Darkened Soul

by Romano Màdera

In order to conduct a well-grounded search for meaning, this book wants to renew the ancient attempt to seek wisdom in everyday life, training ourselves to modify our own perceptions of the world in as authentic...

The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

by Paul Hazard, J. Lewis May & Anthony Grafton

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory....

Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen

by Guo Jun, Kenneth Wapner & Robert Thurman

An inspiring introduction to Chan Buddhism in a value-priced hardcover edition. Perfect for daily spiritual guidance and gifts.

The Conversation

by David Brooks

Brimming with mystery, confessions, food, and philosophy, this novel tells the tale of two strangers who meet in a restaurant in the Italian city of Trieste. Stephen, an Australian engineer living in Paris,...

Greening of the Self

by Joanna Macy

The premise of Greening of the Self is that we are not individuals separate from the world. Instead we are always “co-arising” or co-creating the world, and we cannot escape the consequence of what we do...

I

by Alfred John Dalrymple

If there is an enabler of out existence it is a particulate field... also it is ethereal, in the entirety of it, and the I of it. Is Consciousness that field? It rests in its own fullness as one thing, yet it...

Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth

by Scott S Haraburda

"The Greatest is Love." God wants us to love our neighbors. If this is the premise of being Christian, then why do thousands of denominations claim to be the "right and true" one, implying that all others are...

Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do

by William Irwin & Mark D. White

Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary

He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends...

What I Believe

by Bertrand Russell

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell...

An Esoteric Cosmology

by Rudolf Steiner

It is only of recent times that the truths of occultism have been the subject of public lectures. Formerly, these truths were only revealed in secret societies, to those who had passed through certain degrees...

The Wisdom of Thomas Troward

by Thomas Troward

Included here are The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, The Dore Lectures on Mental Science, The Law and the Word, and The Creative Process in the Individual. Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer...