Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense, Paperback - Mortimer J. Adler

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mortimer J. AdlerDiscusses complex philosophical problems in concrete language to better understand the eternal concepts th...

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Reducere. In this classic work, Adler explores how man differs from all other things in the universe, bringing to bear both philosophical insight and informe...

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Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movemen...

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Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience and the Stories of Our Lives: The Relational Roots of Mental Health offers a new understanding of identity and mental ...

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Cum se citeste o carte. Ghidul clasic pentru o lectura inteligenta - Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

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Reducere. Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all...

Where's the common sense? During the COVID-19 pandemic, the TSA is allowing passengers to board planes with unlimited amounts of hand sanitizer, wh...

Reducere. Here is the story of one Black American Communist who became disillusioned with Communism and penned this cautionary tale of the perils of his expe...

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How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporar...

Reducere. Struggling under oppressive laws, high taxes, and the heavy hand of King George the Third's rule, the people living in early America longed for fre...

&i>Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies&/i> is about a family coming to terms with the unthinkable: the death of a mother. Playful and funny, profound an...

Reducere. A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire w...

A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and coll...

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In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional effor...

Draws principles of fundamental human rights.Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Thomas PaineNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 1982Dimension...

Common Sense covers the 5 year period of Government by a brand new political party elected on a manifesto of eliminating crime. The book traces the...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Thomas PaineIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 96Collection: Arcturus ClassicsPublication date...

Reducere. How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? To what do words having referential significance refer? What...

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Reducere. Written by Richard Peabody in the early 1930s, "The Common Sense of Drinking" describes alcoholism and a method for its cure. The roots of Peabody'...

From one of the world's most influential and cited sociologists, Everything is Obvious reveals how variable is human common sense and how, as indiv...

The book of Numbers raises ethical questions central to the Jewish faith. Too often, we learn these Biblical stories as children and never revisit ...

Reducere. This radically reoriented and popular presentation of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity derives its concepts from Newtonian ideas rather than...

Reducere. For millennia, philosophers have spun tales about goodness and badness, yet in matters of ethics, agreement is curiously hard to find. Finding Our ...

In this book Michaela Gloeckler gives new inspiring perspectives on the significant role of the human heart in the development of the immune system...

Reducere. Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the Thirteen Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summ...

Common Sense inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. It was here that our constitutional form of government was first suggested. ...

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What is the secret to humanity's evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect...or something much nicer?Publisher: Oneworld Public...