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James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five most intriguing books of 2013. In his newest volume, he takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff--protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons--is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thought of empty space...
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"The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
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"How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre--and why that's a good thing. Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it's hard to say. In The Weirdness...
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By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of intricate molecular accidents. Some scientists take this logic one...
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"Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the self-described "Poet of Code" who has had a lifelong passion for computer science, engineering, and art-disciplines that, she felt, pushed the boundaries of reality. After tinkering with robotics as a high school student in Tennessee, to developing mobile apps in Zambia as a Fulbright fellow, Buolamwini eventually found herself at MIT. As a graduate student at the "Future Factory," Buolamwini's groundbreaking research revealed...
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"As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent." The contemporary relevance of Mao's...
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These informative Essays are writings of alternative political and philosophical ideas - ideas that are thoughts which may be uppermost in our minds when we deal with questions about our extraordinary existence on this Planet. This vale of tears, and laughter - the agony, and the ecstasy.Though man has made extraordinary leaps and bounds in all technologies as well as know-how, and is proven also to be self-sacrificing in many instances at his best...
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En la Dinamarca del siglo XIX, Kierkegaard interpela a sus contemporáneos con preguntas de plena actualidad y de enorme atractivo para nuestra sociedad secularizada: ¿sigue existiendo el cristianismo? ¿Hay alguien que viva de un modo coherente su fe? La obra del filósofo danés es un bosque denso, y Fazio ofrece aquí una guía y un marco biográfico que ayude a acceder al corazón de su pensamiento.
Este libro, publicado en italiano en 2000,...
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This fragile, fragile philosophy unexpectedly developed an enormous power of conviction and direction.
It invented individual rights, it founded our way of thinking, it created science in the third century B.C. in Alexandria, it invented democracy.
From what characteristics does all this power, the fragile philosophy, derive? These ancestors of ours, the classical philosophers, had postulated three things, then forgotten.
a) The word is not the...
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La cultura moderna es extensa y sofisticada, gigante en sus conocimientos y fuerte en su antropología, y muestra una sorprendente adaptabilidad y apertura para absorber, aclarar y unir. Sin embargo, en la actualidad se presenta a menudo separada de la fe que le dio vida, y sin la cual no es posible sobrevivir: se vuelve así frágil, cada vez más incapaz de adaptarse y unir.
En la práctica, muchos aspectos de la cultura y de la vida pública sufren...
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Este texto da cuenta de una investigación orientada a contestar las preguntas: ¿Cuál es la dimensión política de la escuela?, ¿Qué papel se le ha dado al cuerpo en la escuela? y ¿qué papel ocupa la escuela en el entramado del poder social? Para ello se apoya en el concepto foucaultiano de Biopoder, que permite pensar la escuela como un mecanismo viviente, organizado mediante técnicas Anatomopolíticas y Biopolíticas.
La Anatomopolítica...
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La prédation dérive de l'esprit de mal. Elle est la résultante
de toutes les pensées et de toutes les institutions négatives. Elle se
manifeste par l'impérialisme, l'esclavagisme et le colonialisme.
C'est la source principale de la vie et de la prospérité occidentales
et orientales. C'est le substratum commun aux peuples occidentaux
et orientaux.
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In the vast expanse of the mind lies a space, delicately poised between tangible reality and the ethereal unknown. This realm, governed by the unwavering justice and cosmic reason of the logos, is familiar to only a select few: philosophers who grasp its profound significance.
Within Pronoia: The Stoic Providence, the spotlight is cast not on a linear history of Stoicism, but on its deeper theoretical underpinnings. The narrative delves into the...
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Science has made remarkable progress in uncovering the mysteries of our world. But what is science, and how do we know what we know? This book aims to explore the philosophy of science, examining the fundamental assumptions, methods, and principles that underpin scientific inquiry.Starting with a historical overview of the development of science, the book will explore key philosophical questions that arise in the context of scientific research. For...
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El imperativo de autorrealización convierte a cada ciudadano en publicista de sí mismo. Las buenas acciones se truecan por exhibicionismo y golpes de efecto. No hay más bien que un tropel de bienes al peso, utilizados para halagar la buena conciencia de los consumidores.
La banalidad del bien pone énfasis en la palabra y trivializa la acción. El coraje cede su puesto a la molicie y el amor propio al autodesprecio. Los valores mercuriales del...
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"La dignidad de la persona, los derechos inviolables que le son inherentes, el libre desarrollo de la personalidad, el respeto a la ley y a los derechos de los demás son fundamento del orden político y de la paz social". Eso dice la Constitución española de 1978.
Sin embargo, no pocos advierten en el desarrollo legal una tendencia a construir una sociedad delirante, hostil a la dignidad del ser humano y a toda creencia, que contradice el acuerdo...
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En la vida, hay individuos a quienes les sonríe la fortuna en el ámbito de las relaciones amorosas. Estas personas han encontrado la pareja ideal.En este recorrido hacia la conexión emocional y la compenetración, han demostrado no solo la capacidad de reconocer la singularidad de sus compañeros, sino también la habilidad de construir una relación duradera sobre los cimientos seguros del respeto, la comunicación efectiva y la empatía. Este...
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