Social Consciousness

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。

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.

The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability.

A guide to deprogramming yourself from thoughts.

In this new book, Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Chris Laszlo argue that current approaches to leadership fail to produce positive outcomes for either businesses or the communities they serve. Employee disengagement and customer fickleness remain high, resulting in a lack of creativity and collaboration at all levels of entrepreneurial activity. Investor demand for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) continues to be poorly integrated into profit strategies.

Le yoga change l'existence. Sa pratique permet de se connaître et, par l'ascèse qu'il exige, de changer en profondeur. Plus encore, le yoga renouvelle nos conceptions, communes et philosophiques, de l'existence. Il dispose à vivre mieux et à exister plus librement. C'est ce lien, entre philosophie et pratique corporelle libératrice, qu'explore l'auteure. Dans cet ouvrage, à la fois court et sans détour, Elsa Ballanfat nous propose un chemin en quatre étapes : prendre conscience du mal que nous nous faisons, initier un changement, s'ouvrir à l'autre pour mieux le comprendre.

De la même façon qu'il a su rendre la philosophie accessible à tous, Lev Fraenckel, alias « Serial Thinker », expose avec acuité ces enjeux intemporels. Convoquant tour à tour des figures majeures de la philosophie – Aristote, Nietzsche, Marx… – et des références culturelles contemporaines, il plonge au cœur de nos contradictions et éclaire nos choix, nos croyances et nos désirs.

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.

In 1968, two young medical students, Steve Biko and Mamphela Ramphele, fell in love while dreaming of a life free from oppression and racial discrimination. Their love story is also the story of the founding of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) by a group of 15 principled and ambitious students at the University of Natal in Durban in the early 1970s.

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.

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.

The preceding chapters have laid bare the systemic nature of racism in America, detailing its insidious atmosphere on Black communities across various facets of life. We've examined historical injustices, present-day inequalities, and the complex interplay of socio-economic factors perpetuating this oppression cycle. However, acknowledging the problem is only the first step; true progress necessitates a concerted effort toward meaningful change. This requires a profound shift, moving beyond individual acts of resistance to organized, sustained political engagement and advocacy.

Gegen Ende seines Lebens wendet sich Rudolf Steiner in Vorträgen und Schriften in besonderer Weise an die Mitglieder der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft. Dabei ist es sein vorrangiges Anliegen, der dogmatischen Erstarrung der gedanklichen und spirituellen Substanz der bisher erarbeiteten Anthroposophie vorzubeugen, indem er das Gewonnene in immer anderen Formen neu entwickelt und dadurch der gelebten meditativen Praxis zu erschließen sucht.

The fact that you just became conscious of me has made you more conscious than you were a moment ago. Your recognition has brought you a heightened awareness of my presence that constitutes an expansion of consciousness. In no more than a few words, this reflection of my existence within you is already bigger than that first moment of acknowledgment.

Written for both the layman and the professional scientist, The Dimensional Structure of Consciousnessopens an astounding world and points out that further progress of science depends upon a transcendence of the material world. Samuels Avery opens a 'Pandora's box'... and presents a 'through the looking glass' glimpse of the structure of consciousness as the basis of our human experience. Written by Samuel Avery, author of The Buddha and the Quantum.

In “Il sonno e i sogni”, Alfred Maury, pioniere della psicologia sperimentale nel XIX secolo, conduce un'indagine affascinante su ciò che accade quando la coscienza vacilla: genesi dei sogni, concatenazione delle immagini, ruolo dei ricordi, illusioni ipnagogiche, incubi, sonnambulismo, estasi, ipnotismo, ebbrezza, delirio… Nulla è lasciato al caso.

If you’ve wrestled with life’s deepest questions and found traditional answers wanting, The Objectivist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Zoltan Cendes provides truth and clarity to the queries that have puzzled man for centuries. Inspired by Douglas Adams’s whimsical The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, this book goes further, offering a manifesto for rational thinking and providing scientific and philosophical answers to life’s ultimate questions.

In a world increasingly governed by unseen algorithms, David Grand's groundbreaking book, "From Code to Consciousness: Algorithmic Life and Global Governance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution," offers an unparalleled and urgent analysis that demands attention from every global citizen.