Consciousness & Thought
epub |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:Nichols, Shaun

5 Debunking Arguments The rise of experimental philosophy has been accompanied by a rise in debunking arguments.1 I have already discussed two debunking arguments (in sections 2.6 and 4.3.5). But ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Susan Blackmore [Blackmore, Susan]

Oops. What? To my astonishment I find I’m half way through a great long line of thought about how the bird table fell over in the wind and whether it ...
( Category: Philosophy January 2,2016 )
epub |eng, eng | 2012-05-09 | Author:Eknath Easwaran

3. Laziness This third obstacle is easy enough to understand. Just as laziness is our enemy in making money or in gaining prestige or power, it is our enemy in ...
( Category: Meditation December 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Stephen Cope [Cope, Stephen]

A quality of “paradise lost” saturates much of Keats’s greatest poetry. In his work—as in his life—beauty and happiness appear as unearthly visitors, inevitably evaporating as quickly as they came, ...
( Category: Meditation November 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-23 | Author:Daniel Klein

“In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. ‘To do as you would be done by,’ and ‘to love your ...
( Category: Humanism November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Ratcliffe, Matthew

* * * 1 For an exception, see Cataldi (1993), who also observes that the topic of emotional depth has been neglected by philosophers. 2 Several philosophers have argued that ...
( Category: Depression November 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Humphrey, Nicholas

Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism. . . . [Thus] the feeling we call volition is not ...
( Category: Neuropsychology November 2,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-06-09 | Author:Chris Berlow

“ I developed a life skills program for underprivileged teenagers in Westchester County, NY, called Power Time. Most of the teenagers who participate in the program come from broken homes, ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought October 28,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Theodore Dalrymple [Dalrymple, Theodore]

CHAPTER SEVEN There is, I trust, no need to point out again the convenience of the neurochemical hypothesis of unhappiness and undesirable conduct to those who seek to “lay their ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought October 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

VII When the historical sense reigns unchecked and drags with it all its consequences, it uproots the future, because it destroys illusions and takes from existing things the atmosphere in ...
( Category: Existentialism October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Dolezal, Luna

Merleau-Ponty suggests that it would be more accurate to characterize alienation as arising from objectification as one example, among perhaps many, that can characterize intersubjective encounters: “This is true: this ...
( Category: Phenomenology September 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Goode, Greg [Goode, Greg]

Even if all universes cease, awareness is not a kind of entity or object that can disappear along with them. It isn’t an object in the first place. Awareness is ...
( Category: Meditation July 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 1905-01-15 | Author:Ramacharaka (Yogi) [Ramacharaka]

Lesson 7.Bhakti Yoga. As we have stated in previous lessons, the Yogi Philosophy is divided into several branches or forms, each specially adapted to the requirements of certain classes of ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-20 | Author:Nirmala

***** PART 6 Approaching the Mystery the mystery of this simple moment cannot be spoken yet all of history occurred to arrive here the mystery of the endless terrain of ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Richard Bartlett

Experiencing New Realities One way to really get the power of a new idea is to have an experience with an altered or non-consensus reality that takes you so far ...
( Category: Consciousness & Thought June 11,2015 )