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  • Philosophy's Big Questions

    Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches

    by Stephen J. Laumakis, Douglas S. Duckworth, Jan Westerhoff, Dan Arnold, Rick Repetti, Amber D. Carpenter, Peter Hershock ...
    Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions—about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffering, and the conditions for a just and flourishing society—that thinkers in different cultures across the ... Read more

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  • Philosophy's Big Questions

    Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches

    by Stephen J. Laumakis, Douglas S. Duckworth, Jan Westerhoff, Dan Arnold, Rick Repetti, Amber D. Carpenter, Peter Hershock ...
    Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions—about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffering, and the conditions for a just and flourishing society—that thinkers in different cultures across the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation

    Edited by Rick Repetti ...
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of the field of the philosophy of meditation and engages primarily in the philosophical assessment of the merits of meditation practices.This Handbook unites novel and original scholarship from 28 leading Asian and Western philosophers, scientists, theologians, and other scholars on the philosophical assessment of meditation ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will

    Agentless Agency?

    Edited by Rick Repetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy
    Throughout the history of Buddhism, little has been said prior to the Twentieth Century that explicitly raises the question whether we have free will, though the Buddha rejected fatalism and some Buddhists have addressed whether karma is fatalistic. Recently, however, Buddhist and Western philosophers have begun to explicitly discuss Buddhism and free will.This book incorporates Buddhist ... Read more

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  • Essays on Philosophy, Praxis and Culture

    An Eclectic, Provocative and Prescient Collection

    by Lou Marinoff ...
    This collection provides a panoramic view of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes. These essays cast light on our perennially imperfect human condition. The collection ranges from Alfred Korzybski's general semantics; Thomas Mann's prognosis for Western civilization; Hume's moral skepticism applied to globalization; Jungian synchronicity and encounters ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy

    by Evan Thompson ...
    A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation with Indian and Western philosophy of mind, casting new light on the self and its relation to the brain.Thompson shows how the self is a changing process, not a static thing. When we are awake we ... Read more

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  • Five Minds for the Future

    by Howard Gardner ...
    We live in a time of relentless change. The only thing that's certain is that new challenges and opportunities will emerge that are virtually unimaginable today. How can we know which skills will be required to succeed?In Five Minds for the Future, bestselling author Howard Gardner shows how we will each need to master "five minds" that the fast-paced future will demand:The disciplined mind, to ... Read more

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  • Psychotherapy East & West

    by Alan Watts ...
    Before he became a counterculture hero, Alan Watts was known as an incisive scholar of Eastern and Western psychology and philosophy. In this 1961 classic, Watts demonstrates his deep understanding of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga. He examined the problem of humans in a seemingly hostile universe in ways that questioned the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • The Empathic Civilization

    The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases.No matter how much we put our ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Self

    Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience

    by Matthieu Ricard, Wolf Singer ...
    A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging—and diverging—views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious, free will and perception, and more.Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • What about Me?

    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses — even ... Read more

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  • The Bodhisattva's Brain

    Buddhism Naturalized

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    This fascinating introduction to the intersection between religion, neuroscience, and moral philosophy asks: Can there be a Buddhism without karma, nirvana, and reincarnation that is compatible with the rest of knowledge?If we are material beings living in a material world—and all the scientific evidence suggests that we are—then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, in this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD