Discours de la Méthode/Discourse On The Method

Nhat Hanh, Thich

In the final book of the best-selling Mindfulness Essentials series, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to realize our dreams in this very moment.We all want our lives to be useful and meaningful. The aspiration to transform suffering—our own, each other's, and the Earth's—can give us the energy we need to continue on a wholesome path. In How to Dream, Thich Nhat Hanh expl...

Travis Rieder

Philosopher Travis Rieder outlines a new ethics for the age of humanmade catastrophe. We are all asking, in a hyperglobalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction: how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid plastic or air travel, or to drive electric, make any real difference? We urgently need to expand our ethical toolkit. The mental ...

Adam Nicolson

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is justice? How can I be myself?How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cit...

Sauer, Hanno

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs. Morality is often associated with restraint and coercion; restriction and sacrifice; inquisition, confession and a guilty conscience. Joyless and claustrophobic, it is a device us...

Anastasia Berg / Wise, Rachel

Having children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all. A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'A book for lovers of sound reasoning.' THE NEW YORKER Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents. We seek self-fulfilment; we want women to find meaning and self-worth outside the household; we wish t...

Peter Cave

An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how i...

Rene Descartes

Editado en 1644, en Ámsterdam, Los principios de la filosofía contiene las mismas doctrinas de las Meditaciones, pero en un estilo breve, conciso y directo, en forma de reemplazar la filosofía aristotélica. Para tratar de explicar el universo y los diversos fenómenos y cuerpos terrestres, que es el principal objetivo de la obra, en la primera parte trata de demostrar la necesid...

Rene Descartes

El cartesianismo hace mucho tiempo que murió. El pensamiento de Descartes, sin embargo, pervive y pervivirá mientras exista como guía de reflexión la libertad de pensar. Este principio constituye la más deliciosa fábula que el hombre pudo inventar, y eso se lo debe a la humanidad, en buena parte, a Descartes y, especialmente, a las dos obras que el lector tiene entre sus manos....

Rene Descartes

Las obras de Descartes Discurso del método y Meditaciones metafísicas se ofrecen íntegras en esta edición en una traducción clásica actualizada, con notas aclaratorias. El texto va precedido de un estudio preliminar, que consta de una biografía del filósofo, de breves estudios específicos ?destinados a facilitar la comprensión de dichas obras situándolas tanto en el contexto de...

Rene Descartes

Obra dividida en seis partes, todas para lograr un método. No podemos dudar de que dudamos "Pienso , luego existo" ...

Rene Descartes

Aunque resultaría improcedente reducir la filosofía de RENÉ DESCARTES (1596-1650) a uno solo de sus libros, el DISCURSO DEL MÉTODO es la clave del resto de su obra. Su extraordinaria influencia sobre el pensamiento moderno lo convierte en una pieza fundamental para la comprensión del desarrollo de la civilización occidental y de la historia del pensamiento. Actualizada en su bi...

Rene Descartes