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The Sutra of Hui Neng with Chinese Script is the English translation of a Buddhist scripture--Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch on the High Seat of 'The Treasure of the Law', first translated by Mr. Wong Mou-Lam, published in Shanghai in March 1930. We have overhauled Mr.Wong's work to make it more palatable to the Western readers. We also attached the original Chinese text to accompany the English translation paragraph by paragraph . In addition,...
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"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world.'" Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, leaving a world that can be mastered technically and intellectually. And though this idea seems empowering, many people have become disenchanted with modern...
6964) Le grand secret
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Qu'on ne s'attende pas à trouver ici une histoire ou une monographie méthodique de l'occultisme. Il y faudrait consacrer des volumes que remplirait forcément une grande partie du fatras que je veux avant tout épargner au lecteur. Je n'ai d'autre dessein que de dire aussi simplement que possible ce que m'ont appris plusieurs années passées dans ces régions assez décriées et peu fréquentées. J'en rapporte les impressions d'un voyageur de...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: John Stuart Mill: Overview is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
6966) Utilitarianism
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Utilitarianism (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide)
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Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide)
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Hi there,
I'm David Winston. I'm a spiritual teacher and philosopher, but I didn't plan to be these things. In my twenties, I had the most amazing spiritual awakening.
There are many different definitions of spiritual awakening. Here's my definition. A spiritual awakening is when a person has a deeper understanding of oneself, one another, or the universe, or a combination of the three. A spiritually awakened individual knows that we are all souls...
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From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. InThe Music between Us, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enable musics uncanny ability to provoke, despite its myriad forms across continents and throughout centuries, the sense of a shared human experience. Drawing...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: Kierkegaard on Anxiety, Despair and Choice is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
6971) Discourse on Method
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Discourse On Method (SparkNotes Philosophy Guide)
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This new selection of writings on education-many previously published under the title Soka Education-comes from some five decades of works by Buddhist philosopher and founder of the Soka schools system, Daisaku Ikeda. From educational proposals and university lectures to personal essays, the writings not only delve into the meaning of soka (value-creating) education but offer a hopeful vision of the power of education to bring happiness to the individual...
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John Dewey's Experience and Education is an important book, but first-time readers of Dewey's philosophy can find it challenging and not meaningfully related to the contemporary landscape of education. Jeff Frank's Teaching in the Now aims to reanimate Dewey's text-for first-time readers and anyone who teaches the text or is interested in appreciating Dewey's continuing significance-by focusing on Dewey's thinking on preparation.
Frank, through close...
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These works by William Lyon Phelps were originally published in the early 20th century and are now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps' is a selection of classic essays, including 'The Weather', 'Man and Boy', 'The Devil', and many more.
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In this short essay, written in october 2001, I tried to express my thoughts... thoughts that were the result of intense réflections on human beings actions with a focus on his irrationality as the cause of our (African) problems. Sharing these thoughts was my way of healing, speaking out loud and making sure that my views and aspirations were forever saved. For them could later be used to see how far we've come and therefore (objectively) measure...
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We know teenagers face many developmental issues as they navigate their path into adult life. They sometimes find themselves heading towards the margins of school life because of academic failure, poor peer relations, acting out behaviors, school and home pressures. Problems that often lead to risky behaviors behavior with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco addictions that in the end only complicate their young lives and offer them little relief. They need...
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"As a man thinks, so is he." Personally, and socially, so is he. Yet if this is true, then "as a man thinks" has led us into the thick of global crisis. What exactly is it, about our thinking, that fails us? What has gone so wrong? There are firm reasons why we may hope for new direction. Firstly, we have a new view of the connectedness of all things. Never before has this encompassed so much. It makes a crucial difference to philosophy. Secondly,...
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In his classic work on the subject, perennialist author, Frithjof Schuon, explores the vast and varied landscape that is Buddhism. Every reader interested in Buddhism from whatever angle will here find much that speaks to his or her condition. Schuon presents Buddhism not as an historical artifact of the past but as a living spiritual force. In describing the essentials of Buddhism, he frequently makes use of comparisons with other traditions, including...
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Henry Shue is professor emeritus of politics and international relations at Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War and Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection.
An expanded and updated edition of a classic work on human rights and global justice
Since its original publication, Basic Rights has proven increasingly influential to those working in political philosophy, human...
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For the first time in all of the Ages, the doors to the Konocimiento Kósmico (Kosmic Knowledge) are open. The book "The Absolute" narrates the story based on real experiences, of a woman who since childhood sought to understand the reasons of life. This desire to understand leads her to the encounter with her destiny. She meets the Maestra who initiates her in the studies of Konocimiento Kósmico. These studies reveal the origin and purpose of man...
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