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Seventeenth-century French writer René Descartes, one of the fathers of philosophy, imagined the mind and body as two separate entities that combine to form a human being. This concept came to be called "mind-body dualism." Ryle set about ridiculing Descartes's idea of, as he put it, a "ghost in the machine" stating that it was "entirely false, and false not in detail but in principle...not merely an assemblage of particular mistakes. It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind."

"Common Sense" was published in 1776, at a time when America, then a colony of Great Britain, was teetering on the brink of war. It was an immediate success, a best seller, and was credited with galvanizing the people of America and George Washington's army. Paine's approach followed a path blazed by earlier thinkers such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, though he radicalized both their positions. For Paine, British rule in America amounted to little more than tyranny.

A winner of the 1992 Bancroft Prize, Nature's Metropolis broke new ground in the burgeoning field of environmental history, while also adding weight to both urban and Western history. Before its publication in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, each following separate lines of development and maturity. Using Chicago and its surrounding areas as a model, Cronon's book looks to disprove this idea.

How do we know what knowledge is? In his 1963 article, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", American philosopher Edmund Gettier radically challenged the accepted definition of knowledge itself. Greek philosopher Plato, discussing knowledge well over 2,000 years ago, defined it as "justified true belief". But in two ingenious cases, Gettier demonstrates that somebody's justified belief can be true because of nothing more than luck.

An extraordinarily ambitious work, Republic has made important contributions to many branches of modern philosophy. The work unfolds as a series of conversations in which participants set out a number of different theories of justice, and then imagine how these theories might become reality within the political structure of a city. In examining justice, Plato investigates an enormous range of questions in the areas of ethics, politics, and even the nature of existence itself.

The hottest and most controversial book of the year! Find out who really controls the media in America. “[Ann Coulter] is never in doubt. And that, along with her bright writing, sense of irony and outrage, and her relish at finally hitting back at political opponents (especially in the media)...

In his 1997 work Theology of Discontent, American Iranian Hamid Dabashi suggests that the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 would not have happened had it not been for the influential ideas of eight Iranian Islamic thinkers in the four decades before it occurred. Dabashi surveys these thinkers' contributions to the development of Iran's system of Islamic beliefs. He says this ideology was shaped both according to Iranians' perception of themselves and according to their perception of the West.

Hier bekommen Sie einen maßgeschneiderten Führerschein für Ihre Situation, Ihr Anliegen, Ihr gezieltes Thema etc. Das ganze Leben lang sind wir am Lernen und wenn wir ein Fach, eine Schule oder eine Ausbildung abgeschlossen haben, erhalten wir sogar einen Nachweis dafür. Wieso also gibt es keine Prüfung, die wir für das Leben ablegen müssen? Versteht es sich von selbst, dass wie die leichten, sowie die schweren Lebensprüfungen alle mit Bravour bestehen, wo wir doch nie darauf vorbereitet wurden? Hier können Sie sich hineinfühlen, sich vorbereiten, etwas genauer hinsehen und sich wirklich auf das einlassen, was im Leben oft so schwierig erscheint, leichter und bewusster zu erfüllen. Wappnen Sie sich, ja, bereiten Sie sich vor, wer sich damit auseinandersetzt, bevor es schwierig wird, hat schon halb gewonnen. Hier erhalten Sie Ihren persönlichen Führerschein, der viel mehr ist als eine Anleitung - er eröffnet Ihnen eine weitere Sicht, mehr Verständnis und schenkt Ihnen Einsichten, die Sie sinnvoll und gezielt einsetzen können. Leben ist jetzt. Leben Sie es vollkommen, leben Sie es richtig!

Hier bekommen Sie einen maßgeschneiderten Führerschein für Ihre Situation, Ihr Anliegen, Ihr gezieltes Thema etc. Das ganze Leben lang sind wir am Lernen und wenn wir ein Fach, eine Schule oder eine Ausbildung abgeschlossen haben, erhalten wir sogar einen Nachweis dafür. Wieso also gibt es keine Prüfung, die wir für das Leben ablegen müssen? Versteht es sich von selbst, dass wie die leichten, sowie die schweren Lebensprüfungen alle mit Bravour bestehen, wo wir doch nie darauf vorbereitet wurden? Hier können Sie sich hineinfühlen, sich vorbereiten, etwas genauer hinsehen und sich wirklich auf das einlassen, was im Leben oft so schwierig erscheint, leichter und bewusster zu erfüllen. Wappnen Sie sich, ja, bereiten Sie sich vor, wer sich damit auseinandersetzt, bevor es schwierig wird, hat schon halb gewonnen. Hier erhalten Sie Ihren persönlichen Führerschein, der viel mehr ist als eine Anleitung - er eröffnet Ihnen eine weitere Sicht, mehr Verständnis und schenkt Ihnen Einsichten, die Sie sinnvoll und gezielt einsetzen können. Leben ist jetzt. Leben Sie es vollkommen, leben Sie es richtig!

There are no bad readers, just those with bad reading habits. We didn’t learn how to read efficiently when we were growing up. Chances are, from the moment you were first taught how to read, you were taught inept reading strategies. Problems arise not when we use such techniques, but rather when we don’t advance them over time.

Reservation or affirmative action is a hugely controversial policy in India. While constitutionally mandated and with historians, political scientists and social activists convinced of its need, many resist it and consider it as compromising 'merit' and against the principle of equality of...

What is the nature of our personal relationship with God? That's the core question of Fear and Trembling. If God asks us to do something we instinctively feel is unethical, must we obey and have faith that he knows best? Examining this question, Danish philosopher Kierkegaard considers the biblical story in which God commands Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. His unique reading of the story breaks new ground, focusing on our relationship with God at an individual level.

Issues of human rights and freedoms always inflame passions, and John Rawls's A Theory of Justice will do the same. Published in 1971, it links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and freedoms. Controversially, though, it also accepts differences in the distribution of goods and services - as long as they benefit the worst off in society.

American lawyer-turned-sociologist David Riesman published his first book, The Lonely Crowd, in 1950. Aimed at academics, it nonetheless gained a large popular audience. In it, Riesman explores the links between social character - the ways in which members of a society are similar to one another - and social structures. Riesman's work popularized sociology, helping to establish it as an academic discipline, and today it provides a fascinating window into the 1950s American psyche.

Sociologist Émile Durkheim's 1897 work On Suicide is a powerful evidence-based study of why people take their own lives. In the late 19th century it was generally accepted that each suicide was an individual phenomenon, caused by such personal factors as grief, loss, and financial problems. But Durkheim felt there were patterns in suicide rates, and believed that a more likely cause of suicide lay in the individual's relationship to society.

Søren Kierkegaard has long been considered the father of the philosophical movement known as Christian existentialism, which focuses on the living human being. In his major 1849 work, The Sickness unto Death, he takes listeners on a journey from the human self, its spirit, despair and sin, through to faith.

Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez's 1971 book, A Theology of Liberation, provides an inspiring and groundbreaking argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should act in support of the poor. The Catholic Church had traditionally seen itself as politically neutral. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, reformers such as Gutiérrez urged it to seriously address real-world issues such as poverty and oppression.

When American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, Western liberal democracies seemed to have won the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Fukuyama believed liberal democracy had triumphed for a reason. Any political system containing "fundamental contradictions," he thought, would eventually be replaced by something else. For Fukuyama, communism was such a system.

Every year, thousands of International Medical Graduates from all over the world seek to advance their careers with a residency training in the United States. Only a handful succeed. The core principles outlined in Making the Match will help prepare the mind of the International Medical Graduate for the daunting but rewarding challenge of pursuing residency in the US.

Built to Deliver distills 30 years of hands-on school system transformation into an eight-step execution framework. Whether you're leading a public school district, charter or private school network, community college, university, or education nonprofit, this framework helps turn bold strategy into measurable, daily action—so plans aren’t just made, they’re fulfilled. Most plans don’t fail from lack of effort. They fail in the gap between vision and execution. Built to Deliver helps close that gap.