Philosopher Biography

Friedrich Nietzsche was a born philosopher. It seems that ever since he crawled out of the cradle, he questioned the world around him. Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Where are we headed as a society? These were things that Nietzsche would endlessly speculate about, probing the depths in order to find answers to these most difficult of questions. In the process, he had nihilistic visions of supermen, antichrists, and Zarathustra. For Friedrich Nietzsche, a man who was accustomed to questioning everything, reality itself was a long, strange trip.

Aristóteles nació en Estagira, Macedonia, en el año 384 a. C. y murió en el año 322 a. C. Fue discípulo de Platón y maestro de Alejandro Magno. Creó el Liceo, que fue tan prestigioso como la Academia. Su filosofía se caracteriza por ser un movimiento filosófico y científico basado en la experimentación. En un panorama filosófico denominado por la ciencia del mundo exterior y la cosmología, creó un concepto de la sociedad, de la realidad y del hombre totalmente diferente.

Erich Fromm und Herbert Marcuse – Die zweite Generation der Kritischen Theorie. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold erläutert verständlich und strukturiert Basiswissen zu den berühmten Philosophen der Frankfurter Schule Erich Fromm und Herbert Marcuse. Beide teilten zunächst eine kritische Perspektive auf den Kapitalismus und die bürgerliche Gesellschaft und verbanden die Theorien von Karl Marx mit den Ideen der Psychoanalyse von Sigmund Freud.

Con agudo ingenio, rigor intelectual e intensa ironía, este filósofo galés expone con agradable sencillez e igual profundidad su pensamiento acerca del mundo. Quince ensayos, escritos entre 1928 y 1935, forman el compendio de una obra deslumbrante que merece la atención general.

Der Klassiker über das Aussteigerleben und ein radikales Selbstexperiment in der Natur: Der 28-jährige Henry D. Thoreau zog sich 1845 an den Walden-See in eine einsame Waldregion Massachusetts in eine selbstgebaute Blockhütte zurück, um zwei Jahre lang ein Leben fernab der industrialisierten Zivilisation zu leben. Bis heute ist dieses sprachlich versierte Buch, das auf Thoreaus Tagebucheinträgen basiert, für alle interessant, die einen alternativen Lebensstil erstreben.

In this fiction, a former University classmate, now colonel of the SS, meets Edith Stein in Auschwitz to persuade her to contribute to the doctrinal development of a new religion that would be functional to the Nazi regime. The story presents the development of the conflict between two world views that are absolutely irreconcilable.

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) has been studying the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for the past quarter century. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, McKenna emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he calls The Archaic Revival, one of his most popular books. In 1993, McKenna wrote in This World and Its Double. It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning.

The Master Stoic: Advanced Principles and Theories of Stoicism That Will Transform Your Approach to Life, is written for individuals who want to master the philosophy of Stoicism in their lives. However, before you proceed with this book, it's recommended that you first listen to the beginner's guide, Stoicism: A Beginner's Guide to the Stoic Way of Life. This will allow you an easier understanding of the basic tenets of Stoicism. In this second book, a more detailed explanation of the doctrines of each of the significant philosophers of Stoicism will be presented, together with practical examples of how you can apply these beliefs in your daily dealings.

Chi è più sapiente? Colui che dice di sapere o colui che sa di non sapere? Su questo bivio del pensiero Socrate ha fondato la sua vita e imposta ora la sua autodifesa: stringente, appassionante, inoppugnabile. La fine è nota. E tuttavia Socrate non perde la sua forza: perché anche la morte può essere un’avventura, di silenzio o di conversazione.

I could have written a book about my path of healing from the severe physical and sexual abuse I endured in childhood. I could have written a book about my professional life in intelligence and security, and what it taught me about what goes on in the shadows of power (state and corporate). I could have written a book about my lifelong journey into mysticism, yoga, shamanism and the occult, and articulated the powerful realizations I have stumbled into along the way.

Epictetus, Greek philosopher: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan’s Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century. In Brennan’s masterful work, Said, the pioneer of post-colonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine and an erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-doubting, tender and eloquent advocate of literature’s dramatic effects on politics and civic life.

Friedrich Nietzsche sacudió a la filosofía y a varias generaciones de lectores y lectoras. Su pensamiento fue intenso, provocador, enigmáticamente abierto. Su escritura tomó la forma de ensayos y aforismos que dieron pie a interpretaciones sumamente diversas. Baste decir que sus ideas fueron utilizadas por los nazis y otros supremacistas, pero también inspiraron a autores tan distantes de ellas como los del llamado postestructuralismo francés.

Convencido de que uno de los hombres más inteligentes de la Tierra guarda el secreto del sentido de la vida y la inmortalidad del alma, el periodista Ricardo F. Colmenero se hace pasar por traficante de hachís y jugador de ajedrez para recoger los restos inmortales del comunista, del voluntario del Vietcong, del directivo del Instituto de Crédito Oficial, del presidiario, de la cobaya de estupefacientes, del primer repudiado por políticamente incorrecto cuando aún no existía lo políticamente incorrecto.

This book provides a brief biographical and historiographical examination of the noted Immediate Abolitionist leader, William Lloyd Garrison using chiefly his own words. The book is intended for both casual listeners and researchers looking for a brief but heavily cited and scholarly work on the abolitionist movement. Particularly those students of history looking to understand the abolition movement's philosophy during the decades just before the American Civil War.

This book is intended for individuals who want to start practicing Stoicism in their lives. If you’re a beginner, striving to become a Stoic, you’ve got the right book. This book is a beginner’s guide and not an in-depth discussion of the philosophy of Stoicism. Furthermore, it is presented in simple language that anyone can grasp easily.

"The Story of Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche" by Will Durant provides an insightful exploration into the life, ideas, and enduring influence of Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most provocative and impactful philosophers of the 19th century. Durant presents Nietzsche as a complex thinker whose revolutionary concepts challenged conventional morality, religion, and the nature of human existence.

Henry David Thoreau is a beloved American author, poet and philosopher. He was a lifelong abolitionist, advocate of civil disobedience againts unjust or corrupted goverments, and he defended the idea of abandoning illusory matters in favor of simple living, in order to discover life's authentic essential needs. He is best known for Walden, or Life in the woods, the book he wrote during his two-year experiment in minimalist living: having built himself a cabin in the woods, he stayed there to study, write, and enjoy his newfound communion with nature.

Am 28. Januar 1919, mitten in der politischen Umbruchszeit zwischen dem Zusammenbruch des deutschen Kaiserreichs und der Gründung der Weimarer Republik hielt Max Weber in München vor Mitgliedern des Freistudentischen Bunds seinen Vortrag "Politik als Beruf". Nachträglich überarbeitet und stark erweitert, erschien der Vortrag wenige Monate später als einzelne Schrift und etablierte sich in den folgenden Jahrzehnten zu einem viel und kritisch diskutierten Klassiker der Soziologie und der Politikwissenschaft.

In this compelling new biography, historian Niccol Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469-1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges - at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hard-nosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester.