Philosophy Consciousness

Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on animal sleep with philosophical theories of dreaming. It shows that dreams provide an invaluable window into the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals, giving us access to a seemingly inaccessible realm of animal experience. The book carries profound implications for debates about animal cognition, animal ethics, and animal rights, challenging us to regard animals as beings who matter.

Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive coverage of vice epistemology, an exciting new area of philosophical research, Vices of the Mind uses real examples drawn primarily from the world of politics to develop a compelling theory of epistemic vice.

On Inhumanity is bracing and vital listen in a world lurching towards authoritarian political regimes, resurgent white nationalism, refugee crises that breed nativist hostility, and fast-spreading racist rhetoric. The book will open your eyes to the pervasive dangers of dehumanization and the prejudices that can too easily take root within us, and resist them before they spread into the wider world.

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Mit Also sprach Zarathustra schuf Friedrich Nietzsche eines der einflussreichsten Werke der modernen Philosophie. In Form poetischer Reden seines fiktiven Propheten Zarathustra entfaltet Nietzsche eine kraftvolle Vision des Menschen – über Moral, Wahrheit, Selbstüberwindung und die ewige Wiederkunft. Das Werk verbindet tiefsinnige Philosophie mit literarischer Sprache und Symbolkraft. Es fordert dazu auf, alte Werte zu hinterfragen, sich selbst zu überwinden und schöpferisch neue Wege zu gehen.

Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment? is a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner, who was also an official in the Prussian government. Zöllner's question was addressed to a broad intellectual public community, in reply to Biester's essay entitled: "Proposal, not to engage the clergy any longer when marriages are conducted".

Nietzsche behandelt zentrale Themen wie Kunst, Moral, Wahrheit, Wissenschaft, Religion und Selbstüberwindung – mit sprachlicher Raffinesse und geistiger Sprengkraft. Berühmt ist das Werk auch für das erste Auftreten des „toten Gottes" und die Idee der ewigen Wiederkunft.

Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? The Brain and the Meaning of Life draws on research in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to answer some of the most pressing questions about life's nature and value.

Every act of knowing carries within it a quiet act of forgetting. Knowledge as Oblivion reveals the hidden symmetry between learning and loss, understanding and erasure, showing that progress in thought is not an accumulation but a perpetual renewal through disappearance. In this bold and luminous work, Boris Kriger dismantles the myth of intellectual continuity and invites the listener to reconsider what it means to “know.”

¿Cómo hago de la meditación parte de mi vida cotidiana? Cuando la mente y los pensamientos desaparecen, te vuelves consciente. ¿Qué es atención plena? Es la consciencia. Osho explora los obstáculos internos y externos que impiden llevar más consciencia a todas nuestras actividades diarias. Él enfatiza que, si bien las técnicas pueden ser útiles para señalar el camino, en sí mismas no son meditación. Por el contrario, la meditación es, en última instancia, un estado del ser en el que somos capaces tanto de acción como de quietud.

歩けるうちは、人は死なない長生きしたくないという高齢者が増えている。不健康寿命が延び、ムダな延命治療によるつらく苦しい最期は恐ろしいと感じるからだ。著者は2000人以上を看取った元外科医の緩和ケア医。

〈お金が〉"足りない"よりも"ありすぎる"方が人は壊れる!裕福で幸せそうに見える家族ほど、闇が深い。お金があれば幸せになれる――そう信じる人は多い。だが、本当にそうだろうか。加害者家族支援の第一人者である著者が見てきたのは、むしろ「お金によって壊れていく家族」だった。

Ce voyage au fin fond de la dépendance, cette invitation au gai acquiescement de soi emprunte deux versants. Sous la forme d'un traité, sont explorées les voies qui conduisent à la grande santé, au joyeux dire oui. En contrepoint, dans des fragments, une autre voix se donne à entendre. À la troisième personne, lointaine et pourtant si intime, l'auteur narre sa singulière quête de liberté en plein chaos. Chemin faisant, Alexandre Jollien nous livre un carnet de route, un véritable traité de déculpabilisation.

A guide to deprogramming yourself from thoughts.

Aufmerksamkeit ist zu einer kommerziellen Ressource geworden. Einst waren die Sirenen mythische Wesen, die umherfahrende Seeleute in den Tod lockten. Heute ertönen sie rund um die Uhr in unseren Küchen und Schlafzimmern, beauftragt von den wertvollsten Unternehmen der Weltgeschichte, deren Ziel es ist, unsere gesamte Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zu bündeln. Das Ergebnis: Ständig starren wir auf unsere Handys und verlieren die Welt um uns herum aus den Augen.

في شهر يونيو عام 1879، كان الفيلسوف والعالم الأمريكي "تشارلز ساندرز بِرس" على متن باخرة في رحلة من ولاية بوسطن إلى نيويورك عندما سُرقت ساعته الذهبية من مقصورته.1 أبلغ "بِرس" عن السرقة، وأصر على أن يصطف كل فرد من أفراد طاقم السفينة على سطحها، وحقق معهم جميعًا، لكنه لم يتوصل إلى شيء، وسرعان ما صدر عنه تصرف غريب بعد أن تمشَّى قليلًا، حيث قرر أن يخمن هوية السارق، على الرغم من أنه لم يمتلك أي دليل حقيقي يتكئ عليه، وهو أشبه بشخص يخاطر بكل ما يملك، وهو يعلم أن هذه المخاطرة حتمًا ستفشل، وبمجرد قيامه بهذا التخمين وجد نفسه مقتنعًا اقتناعًا تامًّا بهوية السارق.

Let There Be Light presents a simple, beautiful, and elegant view of the oneness of all life, subjective and objective. It demonstrates the unity of the physical world with conscious experience of the physical world. Consciousness is not inside space and time, space and time are within consciousness; they are a special structure of the perceptual portion of consciousness.

Thinking About Thinking is a based on a series of lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1996 by Professors Alan Dershowitz (lawyer), Robert Nozick (philosopher) and Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist) about perennial issues such as truth, free will, race, gender, and religion.

Stoicism is an enduring and ancient philosophy that can help you with everything from love and politics to money and spirituality. The Stoics were celebrated by the Romans, they influenced Christianity and even Shakespeare admired them. Today, both therapists and politicians will profess adherence to the Stoic creed. The “serenity prayer” is a Stoic statement. The Beatles’ “Let it Be” is a Stoic song.

To Know or Not to Know is a meditation on curiosity, doubt, and the fragile brilliance of awareness—a journey through the architectures of thought toward the stillness where understanding becomes reverence.