People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors ...
Desmond Tutu, who has worked rigorously on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has put together his hard-earned thoughts on the nature of forgiveness and reconciliation in this story of South Africa's post-apartheid healing. Without any saccharine formulas, his tempered work maintains humanistic ideals for moving forward.
Expounds upon consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, spirit, religion and absolute knowing and also supports Kant, denounces skepticism and hails idealism.
Bestselling author Alcorn offers a simple two-point checklist for Christlikeness based on John 1:14. Alcorn shows the reader how to show the world Jesus--offering grace instead of the world's apathy and tolerance, offering truth instead of the world's relativism and deception.
One of the most important documents of slavery ever written, this landmark in the literature of African-American women is the eloquent autobiography of a woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. The spiritual, inspiring narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's 30 years as a slave in upstate New York.
Galbraith looks at today's economy and America's military actions in Iraq and contends that we observe the current state of the nation in a cloud of myth, believing that stockholders and owners run our corporate world.
In SIX GREAT IDEAS Adler discusses the nature of what he considers to be the six ideas fundamental to the way that we judge and act: truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality, and justice. In doing so, he has created an accessible introduction to philosophical thinking.
With depth, honesty, and clarity, "Buddhism Is Not What You Think" focuses on the single most essential impulse in any serious spiritual inquiry - the desire to awaken. It's a book about being awake - about being fully human. The Buddha was not interested in theology or cosmology. He didn't speak on these subjects, and in fact, would not answer ...
'The whole function of philosophy ought to be to find out what definite difference it will make to you and to me, at definite instances in our life, if this world-formula or that world-formula be the true one'. With these words, William James, one of the great minds of American philosophy, captures the power of pragmatism, a theory first developed ...
An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African Americans in the United States.
A scientist and his son travel into the ancient world of Ryhope Wood, where they learn mysterious secrets of the universe, but are trapped in the forest.
Everyone says that lying is wrong. But when we say that lying is bad and hurtful and that we would never intentionally tell a lie, are we really deceiving anyone? In this wise and insightful book, David Nyberg exposes the tacit truth underneath our collective pretense and reveals that an occasional lie can be helpful, healthy, creative, and, in ...
Through an engaging, deeply researched, and eloquent narrative laced with rich and riveting case studies, Dr. Newman cuts to the heart of what really works--and doesn't--in medicine, and rebuilds a bridge between physicians and their patients.
Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, ...
Satan's forces want to keep a team of young people from coming to a revelation of God through an understanding of His precepts and principles. And the devil and his minions are pulling out the stops to make sure their eyes remain darkened to the truth.
Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect. (Philosophy)
A biography of the abolitionist, activist, feminist, and preacher who was born a slave in 1797. Along with the story of Sojourner Truth's life, the authors also explore the general history of slavery, and profile leading figures in the abolitionist movement. Quotes from Truth's speeches are used to enliven the text.
Blackburn offers a tour de force exploration of what he calls "the most exciting and engaging issue in the whole of philosophy"--the age-old war over truth. Among the questions Blackburn considers are: Is science mere opinion, can historians understand another historical period, and indeed can one culture ever truly understand another?
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
