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Biscuit The Dog

Finding The Heart of Servant Leadership

by Tom Sorel ...

What if the most powerful leadership lessons came from a dog?In Biscuit the Dog, Tom Sorel shares a heartfelt journey of servant leadership through the quiet wisdom of Biscuit, a gentle rescue dog who led with kindness, presence, and unwavering loyalty.Through inspiring stories and real-life experiences, this book reveals how trust, humility, compassion, and simple acts of care can transform the ... Read more

$7.99 USD

What if the most powerful leadership lessons came from a dog?In Biscuit the Dog, Tom Sorel shares a heartfelt journey of servant leadership through the quiet wisdom of Biscuit, a gentle rescue dog who led with kindness, presence, and unwavering loyalty.Through inspiring stories and real-life experiences, this book reveals how trust, humility, compassion, and simple acts of care can transform the
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Biscuit the Dog

Finding the Heart of Servant Leadership Companion Journal

by Tom Sorel ...

What if true leadership begins from within?Biscuit the Dog: Finding the Heart of Servant Leadership Companion Journal is a guided reflection journal designed to help you grow through kindness, empathy, and self-awareness.Through thoughtful prompts, this journal invites you to slow down, reflect deeply, and discover what it means to lead with heart. Explore themes of trust, humility, compassion, ... Read more

$6.99 USD

What if true leadership begins from within?Biscuit the Dog: Finding the Heart of Servant Leadership Companion Journal is a guided reflection journal designed to help you grow through kindness, empathy, and self-awareness.Through thoughtful prompts, this journal invites you to slow down, reflect deeply, and discover what it means to lead with heart. Explore themes of trust, humility, compassion,
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Descartes

A Very Short Introduction

by Tom Sorell ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the ... Read more

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René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the
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Emergencies and Politics

A Sober Hobbesian Approach

by Tom Sorell ...

In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies ... Read more

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In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies
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Descartes

A Very Short Introduction

by Tom Sorell ...

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3 hours 36 min

Descartes is perhaps best known for his statement, "Cogito, ergo sum," the cornerstone of his metaphysics. But he did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, and optics. In this book, Sorell shows that Descarates was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of the new mathematical approach to physics, ... Read more

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Descartes is perhaps best known for his statement, "Cogito, ergo sum," the cornerstone of his metaphysics. But he did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, and optics. In this book, Sorell shows that Descarates was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of the new mathematical approach to physics,
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Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice

Edited by Tom Sorell, Luis Cabrera ...

Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a human right to microfinance, given its potential for poverty alleviation. This book directs critical ... Read more

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Microfinance - the practice of providing small loans to promote entrepreneurial activity among those with few financial assets - is increasingly seen as a sustainable means of aiding the global poor. Perhaps its most influential advocate, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, has claimed that there is a human right to microfinance, given its potential for poverty alleviation. This book directs critical
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The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes

Edited by Tom Sorell ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and ... Read more

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It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and
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Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy

Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles

Edited by Tom Sorell, G.A. Rogers, Jill Kraye ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first principles. But pre-modern and early modern conceptions differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses ... Read more

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Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first principles. But pre-modern and early modern conceptions differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses
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The Ethics and Epistemology of Vaccine Hesitancy

Edited by Sven Bernecker, Tom Sorell ...

Series series Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology.Vaccine hesitancy stems from a range of concerns, many of which are fuelled by conspiracy theories, misunderstandings about ... Read more

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Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology.Vaccine hesitancy stems from a range of concerns, many of which are fuelled by conspiracy theories, misunderstandings about
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Aristotle

A Very Short Introduction

by Jonathan Barnes ...

Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and his ideas about art and poetry, placing his teachings in their historical context. ... Read more

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The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and his ideas about art and poetry, placing his teachings in their historical context.
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Hume

A Very Short Introduction

by James A. Harris ...

Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

Unabridged

3 hours 15 min

David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealized conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a skeptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... Read more

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David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealized conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a skeptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the
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Philosophical Method

A Very Short Introduction

by Timothy Williamson ...

Narrated by Roger Clark ...

Unabridged

4 hours 50 min

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither?Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

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What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither?Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally
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