Philosopher Biography

رأى الكثير من المؤرخين أن دعوة «جمال الدين الأفغاني» إلى وَحْدة الشرق، ومُحارَبة الاستعمار ومُقاوَمته، تجعله جديرًا بألقابٍ مثل مُنقِذ الشرق، وباعث نهضته. في هذا الكتاب، يقدِّم المؤرخُ «عبد الرحمن الرافعي» سيرةً ذاتية متميزة لهذا الفيلسوف الإسلامي المستنير، بدايةً من طفولته والعصر الذي نشأ فيه، ومراحل حياته العملية بين الهند والآستانة ومصر، ذاكرًا الأحداثَ التاريخية المُواكِبة له، والحالةَ السياسية لمصر في ذلك الوقت.

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'". This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade - ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death.

Ferdinand von Schirachs neues Buch verwebt autobiographische Erzählungen, paradoxe Aperçus, Betrachtungen und Reflexionen zu einem...

Die ursprünglich als Aufsatzserie in der anthroposophischen Presse erschienene Autobiographie Steiners Mein Lebensgang aus den Jahren 1924 und 1925 stellt den Versuch des Anthroposophiebegründers dar, der Entwicklung seines Lebens und Werkes im biographischen Rückblick klare Gestalt, Richtung und Bedeutung zu geben. Sie ist damit eine zentrale Quelle für jeden, der sich mit Leben und Ideen Steiners beschäftigt.

Nacido en Italia en el año 1224, Aquino fue un teólogo y filósofo católico perteneciente a la Orden de Predicadores, principal representante de la tradición escolástica, y fundador de la escuela tomista de teología y filosofía. Conocido también como Doctor Angélico o Doctor Común, es considerado santo por la Iglesia Católica y autor de la gran "Suma Teológica", tratado en el cual pretende exponer de modo ordenado la doctrina católica.

Robert Greene hat eine ungewöhnliche, provozierende Enzyklopädie verfaßt und alle Spielregeln der Macht zusammengestellt, die immer und überall gelten.

John Dee was one of the greatest scientific minds of his time, but also one of the most controversial. He was a learned man in fields as varied as mathematics and astronomy, centuries before they became formalized fields of study, but he is better remembered for performing magic and alchemy. Instead of astronomy, he became renowned across England for astrology, and he was one of the country’s most notorious occult writers during his life.

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In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis and ascended to prominent, dangerous roles. After the war and through twists of circumstance, they became friends, and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.

Moses Ben Maimon, frequently called Maimonides, was a medieval philosopher who revolutionized thinking about ethics, reason, and the Jewish Torah through his emphasis on reason and evidence. His works were broadly accepted by the Sephardi Jewish community and spread across the medieval world, reaching the Jewish populations as far as Yemen, and though he lived in the 12th century, Maimonides continues to be one of the most studied scholars of Jewish law, philosophy, and theology.

One of the most controversial philosophers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche was an intellectual prodigy who dared to challenge conventional views. Confronting traditional ideas about religion, morality, and culture, Nietzsche created some of the most important philosophical works of all time.

Jacques Derrida had a major influence on twentieth century philosophy and the idea of postmodernism. Challenging some of the deepest assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition, he is most renowned—or condemned—for his engagement with the movement that he called 'deconstruction.' In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Glendinning explores both the difficulty and significance of the work of Derrida.

رحلة فكرية عميقة لحياة الفيلسوف والشاعر الأكثر جدلًا وغموضًا أبي العلاء المعري، بقلم العقاد الساحر وثقافته الواسعة جسد عبقرية هذا المفكر الاستثنائي الذي سبق زمانه بتساؤلاته حول الحياة والموت، والإيمان والعقل، والخير والشر. فقدم صورة صادقة ومثيرة لروح المعري المتمردة، ليتركما مندهشين متسائلين عن السر العبقرية والجمال!

Joseph Murphy and the Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Great Minds Series, Volume 6, 2017 Revised, Updated, and Reformatted Edition, is a study that features one of the greatest self-help authors of our time. Joseph Murphy (1898-1981), born in Ireland, was a naturalized American author and New Thought minister, ordained in divine science and religious science. He was born into a strictly Catholic schoolmaster family and was accepted as a Jesuit seminarian. However, by the time he reached his late teen years, he began to question the orthodoxy of the Jesuits and withdrew from the seminary, leaving his family for going to America, where he started a modest career as a pharmacist.

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure akin to Sarah Bakewell's book on Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off not just to tell the story of Browne's life but also to champion his skeptical nature and inquiring mind for our own age.

Socrate est un philosophe de la Grèce antique (-470 à -399), considéré comme l'un des inventeurs de la philosophie morale et politique. Il n'a cependant laissé aucune œuvre écrite ; sa philosophie s'est transmise par l'intermédiaire de témoignages indirects (en particulier par les écrits de ses disciples Platon et Xénophon).

Die zentralen Werke Friedrich Nietzsches in der Reihenfolge ihrer Entstehung, ungekürzt gelesen! Mit dabei: 1. Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn (Track 1-2), 2. Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik (Track 3-9), 3. Also sprach Zarathustra (Track 10-23), 4. Der Antichrist (Track 24-27), 5. Götzendämmerung (Track 28-31), 6. Ecce Homo (Track 32-37), 6. Ausgewählte Briefe (Track 38-39).

Auch wenn Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) zeit seines Lebens als Misanthrop galt, waren seine Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (Track 1-11) dennoch ein veritabler Bestseller. Wie führe ich das Leben möglichst angenehm und glücklich? Diese simplen und doch hochkomplexen Fragen beantwortet Schopenhauer in seinem überaus erfolgreichen und noch heute beliebten Werk. Weiterhin in dieser Box vertreten: Versuch über das Geistersehn (Track 12-16) sowie sein postum veröffentlichtes Werk Über die Kunst Recht zu behalten (Track 17-18).

When Confucius spoke, people listened, and they still listen today. The wisdom of this Chinese philosopher, teacher, politician, and writer still rings as true today as it did over 2,000 years ago. Who was the legend who has become revered as a sage throughout the ages? To put it shortly, he was a simple man. Confucius was born into poverty, but at an early age he came to value education, integrity, and moral behavior. This audiobook tells the story of the life of the world-renowned philosopher and scholar, and it describes the tenets of his philosophy in a succinct manner.

Um das Paradox von Unabschließbarkeit und Gewissheit kreist das Denken Kafkas. Die Entdeckung des Zweifellosen in sich, zu dem er gar nicht viel an sich verändern, sondern nur die alten, engen Umrisse seines Wesens nachziehen musste, scheint dabei das Agens einer praktischen Philosophie zu sein, bei der es Kafka letzthin um die nächsten Bedürfnisse des Lebens geht, vor allem in der Frage zur Bildung eines Verantwortungsgefühls, einer ethischen Musikalität.