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How can I find purpose in my life?
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The Art of War
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Sun Tzu; Translated by Lionel Giles
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The author's royalties from this book are being donated to Saint
Frances Hospice, a charity that cares for people with palliative
and end of life care needs. The kindness project is full of
practical, actionable ideas on how you can make the world a kinder
place one small step at a time, and in turn improve your own
personal wellbeing. We'll explore how you can be kind every single
day we'll look at how to be kind whilst at home and at work, and
examine, importantly, how to be kinder to ourselves. From the
co-host of the Kindness Project Podcast, Chris Daems, comes a book
about hope, about faith in his fellow humans and why finding small
incremental ways to be kind every single day can help us become
happier and healthier. Learning from some of the kindest people on
our planet, Chris explains how we all benefit from being a little
kinder and whilst looking for kindness in others found his own road
to being a little bit kinder himself. Further details "In The
Kindness Project, Chris Daems gifts readers a brazenly honest and
highly engaging account of his own quest to be kinder in life.
-Lauren Janus "This is a book that makes you reflect on your own
character and relationships, what it means to be kind to yourself
and others. A warm, enjoyable, inspirational read, packed full of
wisdom and actionable ideas." -KeithBoyes
considers the metaphysical tradition of the contemplation of Being:
Homer, the Greek Tragedians, Plato, Plotinus and the development of
the tradition in the Middle Ages. Von Balthasar then explores the
analogy between the metaphysical vision of Being and the Christian
vision of the Trinity.
This work presents a sustained reflection on the New Testament
vision of God's revelation of his glory in Christ. This divine
"appearing" is grounded in the self-emptying of the eternal Logos
in the incarnation, cross and descent into hell, yet this is the
means whereby his glory is manifested and enriches all who are
seized by its beauty.
An utterly unique and accessible introduction to the ancient principles
of Taoism with the world's favourite bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and his
friend Piglet.
Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way about him, a way of doing things that
has made him the world's most beloved bear, and Pooh's Way, as Benjamin
Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient
Chinese principles of Taoism. And as for Piglet, he embodies the very
important principle of Te, meaning Virtue of the Small.
"It's hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're
only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is
because you are a very small animal that you will be useful in the
adventure before us."
Benjamin Hoff's explanations of Taoism and Te through Pooh and Piglet
show that this is not an ancient and remote philosophy but something
that you can use, here and now. Beautifully illustrated by E H Shepard.
How 'effectiveness', increasingly a measurement of value replacing
a simple financial result, can best be judged across a wide variety
of fields. The purpose of this volume is to examine the concept and
measurement of 'effectiveness', now increasingly employed to
evaluate the kinds of operations where success cannot be judged in
monetary terms. A philosopher comments on thedevelopment of the
concepts of 'cause' and 'effect' from classical times to the
present; a systems engineer looks at the possibility of using the
parameter for the evaluation of coherent systems; a restoration
ecologist discussesthe parameters used in reforestation and their
relation to effectiveness considered at different levels; a
sociologist relates the methodologies used in this discipline to
evaluate the effectiveness of health programs; an expertof
education discusses the applicability of the measurement of
effectiveness to the functioning of schools; a specialist in aid to
developing countries describes the effectiveness of operations from
the implementation of major projects to demining operations; a
consultant on foreign aid highlights the cultural perception of
efficacy in developing countries; finally, an anthropologist
examines the relationship between 'effectiveness' and 'efficiency'
in food intake and production between two different populations
living in the same region, a semi-nomadic agro-pastoralist and a
settled agriculturalist one. A concluding discussion notes the
salience of the concept of effectiveness inmany 'living' phenomena,
including sociocultural ones, and the possibility of using them
better to understand their evolution.
In this volume von Balthasar turns to the works of the lay
theologians, the poets and the philosopher theologians who have
kept alive the Grand Tradition of Christian theology in writings
formally very different from the works of the Fathers and the great
Scholastics. This volume contains studies of Dante, John of the
Cross, Pascal, Hamann, Soloviev, Hopkins and Peguy.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics.`Opportunities multiply as they are
seized.'Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is
a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the
ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the
principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very
carefully about strategy before resorting to physical battle, this
philosophy continues to be applied to the corporate and business
world.Sun Tzu's timeless appraisal of the different aspects of
warfare are laid out in 13 chapters, including sections on `Laying
Plans', `Waging War' and `Terrain'. Words that are as resonant
today in every aspect of our lives as they were when he wrote them.
offers a series of earlier Christian theology when the aesthetic
view was still held and appreciated. Drawing insights from some of
the leading figures of the early Church such as Anselm, Augustine,
Bonaventura, Denys and Irenaeus, von Balthasar presents his views
with a freshness and vigour rarely excelled in contemporary
theological writing about the Grand Tradition.
This timely and up to date new edition of Biomedicine and Beatitude
features an entirely new chapter on the ethics of bodily
modification. It is also updated throughout to reflect the
pontificate of Pope Francis, recent concerns including ethical
issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, and feedback from the many
instructors who used the first edition in the classroom
Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial
crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power
from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an
enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic
global economyâa world free from hierarchy and control. In their
eyes, Bitcoin's underlying architecture, blockchain, hailed the
dawn of decentralisation. Money Code Space shatters these
emancipatory claims. In their place, Jack Parkin constructs a new
framework for revealing the geographies of power that lie behind
blockchain networks. Drawing on first-hand experience in
cryptocurrency communities and start-up companies from Silicon
Valley to London, Parkin untangles the complex web of culture,
politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.
This text opens with a critical review of developments in
Protestant and Catholic theology since the Reformation which have
led to the steady neglect of aesthetics in Christian theology.
Then, von Balthasar turns to the central theme of the volume, the
question of theological knowledge. He re-examines the nature of
Christian believing, drawing widely on such theological figures as
Anselm, Pascal and Newman.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced
Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what
makes a well-balanced society and individual.
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with
people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings
and listens as the men and women he works with explore new ways to
think about their situation. Could we ever be good if we never felt
shame? What makes a person worthy of forgiveness? Could someone in
prison ever be more free than someone outside? These questions
about how to live are ones we all need to ask, but in this setting
they are even more urgent. When Andy steps into jail, he also
confronts his inherited guilt: his father, uncle and brother all
spent time in prison. He has built a different life for himself,
but he still fears that their fate will be his. As he discusses
questions of truth, identity and hope with his students, he
searches for his own form of freedom. Moving, sympathetic, wise and
frequently funny, The Life Inside is an elegantly written and
unforgettable book. Through its blend of memoir, storytelling and
gentle philosophical questioning, readers will gain a new insight
into our justice system, our prisons and the plurality of lives
found inside.
From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening,
essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary
politics around the world
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined
how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on
gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global
networks have formed ‘anti-gender ideology movements’ dedicated to
circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families,
local cultures, civilization – and even ‘man’ himself. Inflamed by the
rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to abolish
reproductive justice, undermine protections against violence, and strip
trans and queer people of their rights.
But what, exactly, is so disturbing about gender? In this vital,
courageous book, Butler carefully examines how ‘gender’ has become a
phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations and
transexclusionary feminists, and the concrete ways in which this
phantasm works. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of critical
race theory and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender
movement demonizes struggles for equality and leaves millions of people
vulnerable to subjugation.
An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our
moment, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a galvanizing call to make a broad
coalition with all those who struggle for equality and fight injustice.
Imagining new possibilities for freedom and solidarity, Butler offers
us an essentially hopeful work that is both timely and timeless.
Frank Jackson champions the cause of conceptual analysis as central
to philosophical inquiry. In recent years conceptual analysis has
been undervalued and, Jackson suggests, widely misunderstood; he
argues that there is nothing especially mysterious about it and a
whole range of important questions cannot be productively addressed
without it. He anchors his argument in discussion of specific
philosophical issues, starting with the metaphysical doctrine of
physicalism and moving on, via free will, meaning, personal
identity, motion and change, to the philosophy of colour and to
ethics. The significance of different kinds of supervenience
theses, Kripke and Putnam's work in the philosophy of modality and
language, and the role of intuitions about possible cases receive
detailed attention. Jackson concludes with a defence of a version
of analytical descriptivism in ethics. In this way the book not
only offers a methodological programme for philosophy, but also
throws fascinating new light on some much-debated problems and
their interrelations. puffs which may be quoted (please do not edit
without consulting OUP editor): 'This is an outstanding book. It
covers a vast amount of philosophy in a very short space, advances
a number of original and striking positions, and manages to be both
clear and concise in its expositions of other views and forceful in
its criticisms of them. The book offers something new for those
interested in the various individual problems it
discusses-conceptual analysis, the mind-body relation, secondary
qualities, modality, and ethical realism. But unifying these
individual discussions is an ambitious structure which amounts to
an outline of a complete metaphysical system, and an outline of an
epistemology for this metaphysics. It is hard to think of a central
area of analytic philosophy which will not be touched by Jackson's
conclusions.' Tim Crane, Reader in Philosophy, University College
London 'The writing is clear, straightforward, and down to
earth-the usual virtues one expects from Jackson . . . what he has
to say is innovative and valuable . . . the book deals with a large
number of apparently diverse philosophical issues, but it is also
an elegantly unified work. What gives it unity is the
metaphilosophical framework that Jackson works out with great care
and persuasiveness. This is the first serious and sustained work on
the methodology of metaphysics in recent memory. What he says about
the role of conceptual analysis in metaphysics is an important and
timely contribution. . . . It is refreshing and heartening to see a
first-class analytic philosopher doing some serious
metaphilosophical work . . . I think that the book will be greeted
as an important event in philosophical publishing.' Jaegwon Kim,
Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
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