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The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
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Overview: This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the book describes the “philosophy of lines” in art, architecture, and science. The book compares Western and Eastern traditions. It examines lines in the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Michaux, as well as in Chinese and Japanese art and calligraphy. Lines are not merely a matter of aesthetics but also reflect the psychological states of entire cultures. In the nineteenth century, non-Euclidean geometry sparked the phenomenon of the “self-negating line,” which influenced modern art; it also prepared the ground for virtual reality. Straight lines, distorted lines, blurred lines, hot and cold lines, dynamic lines, lines of force, virtual lines, and on and on, lines narrate the development of human civilization.
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Download Always Maintain a Joyful Mind by Pema Chodron (.ePUB)(.MOBI)

Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness by Pema Chodron
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Overview: For centuries Tibetan Buddhists have relied on a collection of fifty-nine pith teachings (called lojong in Tibetan) to help them develop wisdom and compassion amid the challenges of daily living. In this book Pema Chödrön introduces these transformative teachings and offers guidance on how to make them part of our everyday lives.

The lojong teachings include: “Always maintain only a joyful mind,” “Don’t be swayed by external circumstances,” “Don’t be so predictable,” and “Be grateful to everyone.” Each slogan is followed by Pema Chödrön’s accessible and succinct commentary on how to understand and apply it.

This book also features a forty-five-minute audio program entitled “Opening the Heart,” in which Pema Chödrön offers in-depth instruction on tonglen meditation, a powerful practice that anyone can undertake to awaken compassion for oneself and others.
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Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are by John Kaag
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Overview: A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche

Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys—one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically different circumstances: he is now a husband and father, and his wife and small child are in tow. Kaag sets off for the Swiss peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche wrote his landmark work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both of Kaag’s journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche’s philosophy, yet they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about the human condition.

Just as Kaag’s acclaimed debut, American Philosophy: A Love Story, seamlessly wove together his philosophical discoveries with his search for meaning, Hiking with Nietzsche is a fascinating exploration not only of Nietzsche’s ideals but of how his experience of living relates to us as individuals in the twenty-first century. Bold, intimate, and rich with insight, Hiking with Nietzsche is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness, and coming to grips with the unobtainable. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he recognizes that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing, and through the inevitable missteps, that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to “become who you are.”
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Download The Apple of Knowledge by Russell Hasan (.ePUB)

The Apple of Knowledge: Introducing the Philosophical Scientific Method and Pure Empirical Essential Reasoning by Russell Hasan
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Overview: Religion, philosophy and relativism seek to undermine our confidence in science, relegating it to the realm of mere opinion and not of actual knowledge. This treatise on epistemology traces the attack against science back to one root premise: the theory of axioms, that we should begin with self-evident principles and then use logic to derive all necessary truth from those axioms. This belief leads to an analytic philosophy that replaces actual scientific experiments with thought experiments, designed to replace sensory perception with intuitions, thereby destroying the grand tradition of real science and hard scientific experiments to learn the truth.

This book offers a radical new alternative to the theory of axioms. Instead of axioms, we should rely upon sensory experience, scientific experiments, and empirical data, to form the fundamental foundation upon which all analysis, logic and knowledge can be built.

The first part of this book is a collection of philosophy papers which explain how scientific experiments can be used to answer philosophical questions such as whether God exists and whether human beings have free will. The second part of this book is a 40-pages-long paper that attacks the theory of axioms within objectivist philosophy and shows that sensory experience is superior to axioms as a foundation for all logic and reason. The third part of this book is a 300-pages long treatise which asks: if we begin with empirical experience, not with axioms, do we need to assume that perception is valid or that the physical world exists, thereby implicitly relying on axioms? The essay shows from the beginning to the end how our knowledge of the physical world can be justified using only empirical experience as a basis for reasoning, without any necessary reference to axioms or intuition. The treatise argues that all first concepts begin from children’s minds processing sensory perception, and all other concepts come from first concepts plus further empirical experience, so all concepts derive from experience and can be put to the test of the scientific method.
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Download Understanding YHWH by Hillel Ben-Sasson (.PDF)

Understanding YHWH: The Name of God in Biblical, Rabbinic, and Medieval Jewish Thought by Hillel Ben-Sasson
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Overview: This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Providing a single conceptual key adapted from the philosophical debate on proper names, the book paints a dynamic picture of YHWH’s meanings over a spectrum of periods and genres, portraying an evolving interaction between two theological motivations: the wish to speak about God and the wish to speak to Him. Through this investigation, the book shows how Jews interpreted God`s name in attempt to map the human-God relation, and to determine the measure of possibility for believers to realize a divine presence in their midst, through language.
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