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Every day we're bombarded with methods, mantras and life-hacks that promise us mindfulness, prosperity and wellness. We read countless self-help books to unlock the seven habits, twelve rules or one big secret to living a long and happy life, while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources. The average full-time worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job: are you making the most of them? Do you truly believe in what you do, day in day out? Maybe you want to do something else with your limited time on the planet. Maybe your own happiness isn't your only life goal, or you don't want to get to your deathbed with the gnawing feeling you had much more in you. In that case, you'll need a different kind of book. Internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition – the will to make the world a wildly better place – it is possible to be both idealistic and successful, and to change the world along the way. Looking to the great change-makers of history, he uncovers the qualities that made them so persuasive, influential and effective, and shows how we, too, can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to gross inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself. This is not a self-help book. It won't make your life easier – but it should make it more meaningful. The question is: what will you do with it?

"A COMPLETE MANUAL OF THE SECRET YOGIC BREATH!"<br/><br/> Yogi Ramacharaka was an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. In this work, he hopes to awaken the minds of the Western world to the value of the Yogi "Science of Breath."<br/><br/> "For thousands of years, yogis have believed that breath is the essential link between body and mind, energizing a subtle body which connects the physical and mental aspects of our being. In this book, Yogi Ramacharaka explore the secret science of breath as the missing key to both physical health and the attainment of higher states of consciousness. Pranayamas - yogic breathing techniques are explained so that one can immediately begin working with the ancient science of breath."<br/><br/> Based on the book The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka, 1904.

This book is a reflection upon the anarchist turn. It takes three newish anarchists and interprets their work following the method of exegesis. Two questions guide the work. What can the anarchist turn tell us about revolution and nonviolence and what can it tell us about contemporary religion? The protagonists are David Graeber, Timothy Morton and Simon Critchley. This book is of interest to anarchists, activists, and philosophers. Indeed anyone doing and interested in interdisciplinary approaches to important cultural questions and the building of nonviolent cultures should find at least parts of this book interesting.

Astonishingly, Wittgenstein insisted that he was not an original thinker but one who passionately seized upon the thoughts of truly original thinkers with a view to developing a method of conceptual clarification. He compared his mind to fertile ground in which the seeds of the truly original: Ludwig Boltzmann, Heinrich Hertz, Arthur Schopenhauer, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos, Otto Weininger, Oswald Spengler and Piero Sraffa, could blossom. Assembling Reminders is the first full length study to explore how these figures influenced Wittgenstein - but also how he could claim to have understood them better than they did themselves. It illuminates Wittgenstein's uniqueness in the history of 20th century thought at the same time that it clarifies his relationship to both analytical and Continental philosophy as well as to Viennese critical modernism. Allan Janik, (1941) is currently Research Fellow at the University of Innsbruck's Brenner Archives Reseach Institute. He is also Adjunct Professor for the Philosophy of Culture at the University of Vienna and at the Skill and technology Ph D. program at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology. »Janik's book is a wonderful achievement« Newton Garver in Journal of the History of Philosophy Volume 45, Number 4, October 2007

The epistemology of professional knowledge is a research field that occupies itself with the development and maintenance of professional knowledge at both an individual and working group level, but also at a community level. One of its major aims is to illustrate the effect of information technology on professional knowledge and to create the basis for a sound social and productive implementation of new technology in the workplace. This book strives to define the contours of this research field. The study extends directly into the centre of debates on the philosophy of the mind. Through a series of case studies, the author examines the conflict between mathematical calculation and human judgement, which arises when new technology competes with existing professional knowledge. He also provides a useful context for the major issues by looking at the historical development of the computer as a tool and examining the scientific and intellectual traditions, which have shaped design approaches. A chapter on education and professional knowledge covers the problems of balancing technology, human knowledge and working practices. Professor Göranzon insists that work studies require an understanding of the fact that thinking about work and skill is always rooted in a tradition and that the awareness of a number of different historical perspectives on these matters has a liberating effect.<br/><br/>Bo Göranzon is professor emeritus of Skill and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm and Life Long Research Fellow of Clare Hall at Cambridge University. Since 1985 he's Artistic Director for the Dialogue Seminar at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

All understanding is based on examples. Examples are not just appendages of understanding, illustrations or pedagogical devices, they are the cornerstones of understanding. These are some of the most important ideas in this book.<br/>The author demonstrates the fundamental role that examples play in concept formation and cultural understanding by using examples from art, literature, ethics and law. However, in traditional epistemology and philosophy of science, examples play a minor role. The Western philosophical tradition focuses on the general. The consequences of this for the humanities is the theme of the chapters In the Shadow of the Eternal , In the Light of History , The Humanities as Science and Explanation and Understanding in the Humanities .<br/>The fundamental changes that the concept of science has undergone in the course of its long career is also the background for an essay on F.W. Taylor 's influential ideas on Scientific Management.<br/>The book ends with a critique of ethical relativism and moral provincialism and a discussion of ways of reaching cross-cultural agreement in the field of ethics.<br/><br/>Tore Nordenstam received his Ph.D. from the University of Khartoum in Sudan, where he also taught philosophy for five years. In 1968, he accepted a position as Professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen, Norway. He left his university position in 1998 in order to devote more time to writing and painting.

<b>"One of the best books ever written on the power and practicality of philosophy for building a good and successful life" -</b> Tom Morris, bestselling author of <i>Plato's Lemonade Stand </i>and <i>Stoicism for Dummies</i><br/><br/><b>-------<br/><br/>How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?</b><br/><br/>Socrates is the most famous ancient philosopher and the father of the entire Western philosophical tradition. He spent his life teaching practical philosophy to ordinary people in the streets of Athens, yet his work has largely been left to gather dust in academia - until now.<br/><br/><i>How to Think Like Socrates</i> is an entertaining and informative primer on the life of the great thinker - and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives. Author Donald Robertson transports readers back to the streets of ancient Athens, expertly weaving together a page-turning account of the visionary man who eschewed material pleasures and stood by his beliefs, even in the face of controversy, with a steadfastness that ultimately resulted in his execution.<br/><br/><i>How to Think Like Socrates</i> highlights the continuing importance of the four cardinal virtues of Greek philosophy: wisdom; justice; courage; temperance. As a practising cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, Robertson also uses his expertise to reveal the many ways in which the evidence-based concepts and techniques of modern psychology can trace their roots back to Socrates and shows how his philosophical insights can guide and benefit all of us to this day.<br/><br/><b>-------</b><br/><br/><b>"Engagingly written and highly accessible, especially innovative in highlighting the significance of Socratic philosophy for modern readers" </b>- Chris Gill, Professor Emeritus of Ancient Thought, Exeter University