This chapter briefly describes the goal and general argument of the book, along with its theoretical framework and data collection, and introduces the Swedish case. First, we set the discussion of labour movements’ trade union revitalization and usage of social media—and particularly of YouTube—into the broader context of scholarly liter-at…
The agent is the one that does things. There somehow in the midst of all the things that cause the agent to move, you find an agent in turn causing things. You find action. The agent displays activity.Those things that are not agents do nothing. There in the midst of all the things that cause them to move and that they in turn cause, you find . . . mere happenings, nothing else…
This e-book explores some of the contributions of psychology to yesterday’s great space race, today’s orbiter and International Space Station missions, and tomorrow’s journeys beyond Earth’s orbit. Early missions into space were typically brief, and crews were small, often drawn from a single nation. As an intensely competitive space race has given way to international cooperation over …
August Strindberg (1849–1912) was an extraordinarily prolific writer whose col-lected works encompass no fewer than 72 volumes of drama, prose and poetry as well as 22 volumes of letters.1 In this extensive literary production, The Occult Diary occupies a unique and central position. Strindberg kept the diary from February 1896, when he moved into the Hotel Orfila in Paris, until the sum…
In the beginning, when the world was just fifty centim-eters long, there was Jeanne’s inquiring face. A five-year-old face, flush up against the months-old fragment I then was, my opaque little mole eyes fumbling across this earliest of landscapes, my sister’s face watching me. She smiles, I smile. I smile, she smiles. She gives me a quick slap, I cry, she smiles, I smi…
Shortly after three-o’clock on 28th July 2017, in a private room of a specialised hospice in suburban London, staffdisconnected the breathing machine that was keeping alive 11-month old infant, Charlie Gard. Lying on either side of him, his parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard held his hands, leaned close, and talked to him. They spoke to him of how proud they were of him. They saw him open hi…
Asking is one of the simplest and most familiar of human actions, and has a right to be thought of as single most powerful and most variously cohering form of social-symbolic gesture. Because so much is at stake in the act of asking, asking, or asking for, almost anything, whether information, help, love or respect, can be asking for trouble, so a great deal of care must be taken with the ways …
The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in some cases, to both. Susanne Bobzien argues that Frege plagiarised the Stoics in respect of logic, Gail…
Ada banyak cara untuk melukiskan seorang wanita: seorang anak, ibu, nenek, istri, pacar, wanita karier, sahabat, murid, guru, bos. Tetapi, persamaan yang tak bisa dilepaskan dari para wanita ini adalah: mereka memiliki hati untuk merasakan kelembutan cinta, menempa persahabatan seumur hidup, mengejar karier yang dipilih, membentuk kehidupan baru, bertanggung jawab tanpa kenal lelah atas pekerja…
Is objectivity possible? Can there be objectivity in matters of morals? What would a truly objective account of the world be like? Is everything subjective, or relative? Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? This Very Short Introduction demonstrates that there are a number of common misunderstandings about what objectivity is, and explores the theoretical and practical problems …
From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature's positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these…
In this book the author takes an unusual multi-disciplinary approach to debates about contemporary art and poetry, ideas about the mind and its representations, and theories of knowledge and being. Arts practices are considered as enactments of mind and as transformative modes of consciousness. Ideas drawn from poetics, philosophy and consciousness studies are used to illuminate the conceptual …
It is an outstanding book from both the scientific and spiritual points of view. It is the unique record of the pioneering experiments which presents clear, electro-physiological evidence of the existence of the network of chakras and nadis which form the infra-structure of the subtle energies existing in the pranic and psychic dimensions, which underlie and activate the physical, material body…
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to impro…
Karl Popper is famous for having proposed that science advances by a process of conjecture and refutation. He is also famous for defending the open society against those he saw as its arch enemies – Plato and Marx.Popper’s contributions to thought are of profound importance, but they are not the last word on the subject. They need to be improved. My concern in this book …
A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness. Consciousness is arguably the most important area within contemporary philosophy of mind and perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the world. Despite an explosion of research from philosophers, psychologists, and scientists, attempts to expl…
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the 20th century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation: The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizat…
This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. Ryan Wasserman draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and fil…
Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where…
Hanya dengan melepaskan pandangan paranoid Anda, Anda dapat hidup bahagia saat ini. Epicurus pernah menulis: "Manusia merasa terganggu bukan karena benda-benda itu sendiri, melainkan karena pandangannya terhadap benda-benda itu." Memang, alasan mengapa banyak orang tidak bisa hidup bahagia seringkali karena hatinya paranoid dan tidak bisa melepaskan persepsi subjektifnya terhadap banyak orang…
Sebagian besar para peminum kopi sejati memulai hari dengan cangkir kopi panas-ritual yang dilakukan oleh jutaan orang di seluruh dunia. Daya tarik kopi yang mengepul dan menghirup aroma kuatnya membangkitkan semangat kita untuk menghadapi segala suasana hati dan tantangan hidup. Dan, puncak kenikmatannya adalah ketika mencecap rasanya. Dengan antisipasi terjaga, pencinta kopi mengenali kekenta…
Sekarang ini, banyak orang telah kehilangan pijakan - mereka cemas dan bingung tentang cara menjalani kehidupan. Itulah sebabnya mereka mencari sesuatu yang luar biasa, dalam upaya mengatur kembali keseimbangan mentalnya. Namun, tetap saja. Bahkan setelah kita menekan tombol "kembali ke pengaturan awal", sesuatu yang luar biasa akan tetap berada di luar kehidupan sehari-hari. Ketika kita kembal…
The human mind is capable of entertaining an astounding range of thoughts. These thoughts are composed of concepts or ideas, which are the building blocks of thoughts. This book is about where all of these concepts come from and the psychological structures that ultimately account for their acquisition. We argue that the debate over the origins of concepts, known as the rationalism-empiricism d…
Integrating concepts from philosophical, anthropological, and astrobiological disciplines, Cosmos and Culture begins to explore the interdisciplinary questions of cosmic evolution.
Virtual Exchange refers to the numerous initiatives and methodologies which engage learners in sustained online collaborative learning and interaction with partners from different cultural backgrounds as part of their study programs and under the guidance of teachers or trained facilitators. This book reports on a large-scale European project, VALIANT (Virtual Innovation and Support Networks fo…
The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare. In Martial Aesthetics, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today's creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development th…
Pernahkah kamu merasa tidak diperhatikan oleh orang lain? Pernahkah kamu mendapat luka dari perkataan teman baikmu? Itu semua karena setiap manusia memiliki sifat yang berbeda-beda. Dalam berinteraksi dengan orang lain, tidak ada salahnya kita mencoba mengerti apa yang dirasakan oleh teman dekat ataupun orang lain yang belum kita kenal. Nah, di komik Simple Thinking about Blood Type 2 ini…
50 kebijaksanaan China Klasik yang sangat populer dikemas dan disajikan dengan apik dalam buku ini.Bila Anda membacanya sebagai buku motivasi, kisah-kisahnya akan memberi Anda inspirasi dalam menggeluti kehidupan sehari-hari. Bila Anda membacanya sebagai buku cerita, Anda akan menemukan kisah-kisah singkat yang begitu menarik, cerdik, padat akan pesan moral, dan pasti akan memperkaya batin Anda…
Dengan filosofi menghindari kompetisi langsung sebagai cara yang paling cerdik dalam berkompetisi, The Best of Chinese Strategies menawarkan beraegam strategi, seperti 'Indiriect Action, Continuos change startegy, Deception Strategy' dan lain-lain, sehingga anda mempunyai ruang dan gerak untuk memilih salah satu ataupun gabungan strategi yang terbaik, tepat guna, dapat diandalkan, fleksibel seb…
Di dalam buku inspirasional dan penuh humor ini, Anna Tochter menghadirkan koleksi lebih dari 300 kalimat yang biasa dikatakan oleh para ibu. Buku ini akan mengingatkan kita bahwa tak seorang pun dapat mengasihi kita melebihi ibu kita,
Pernah mengalami kesulitan memesan makanan ketika golongan darah A, golongan darah B, golongan darah O, dan golongan darah AB berada dalam satu tempat? Bingung karena teman sekamar nggak pernah bersih-bersih? Ingin terlihat baik di depan bos killer? Penasaran mengapa terjadi konflik gara-gara si cewek tidak bisa memilih antara ayam atau piza? Jika tidak saling mengenal, memesan ayam…
Tahu nggak sih kalau orang bergolongan darah A itu orang-orang yang halus, tapi kaku dan taat pada peraturan? Atau tahukah kamu kalau golongan darah B itu orang-orang yang kreatif dan bebas? Apa jadinya kalau mereka disatukan? Jangan-jangan, bisa terjadi pertengkaran! Ternyata, selain perbedaan jenis kelamin, tempat tinggal, agama, dan kondisi ekonomi, golongan darah juga bisa menentukan pe…
Melalui komik ini, terbukalah jalan menuju kisah kebudayaan China klasik. Inilah buku yang menceritakan kisah Laozi -orang bijak pada zaman kuno- dan Daodejing-nya dalam penjelasan yang mudah dipahami. Dengan format komik dan ilustrasi yang menarik, Anda akan lebih mudah memahami arti dan pengaruh Dao dan De tanpa kehilangan esensi pokok ajarannya.
Buku ini berisi kisah-kisah yang pernah di tayangkan dalam acara Kick Andy di Metro TV yang dapat menjadi inspirasi dalam kehidupan. Sejak awal kehadirannya, Kick Andy langsung mencuri perhatian penonton televisi. Mengolah cerita yang biasa hadir di sekeliling kita menjadi sebuah tayangan yang inspiratif dan membangkitkan semangat baru. Kick Andy tidak hanya mengajak untuk menonton dengan hat…
Kegalauan adalah melihat masa depan dengan mempertimbangkan semua hal buruk yang bisa terjadi. Kecemasan tak semestinya seperti itu adalah penyakit kognitif dalam skala mewabah di dunia modern kita. Penangkalnya adalah melihat masa depan dengan mempertimbangkan segala hal baik yang bisa terjadi. Ini bahkan bisa meningkatkan kemungkinan keberhasilan. Ini menambah harapan alih-alih negativitas…
Broken Theory is a jettisoned collection of fragmentary writing, collected and collaged by new media artist, writer, musician, and theorist Alan Sondheim. Folding theoretical musings, text experiments, and personal confessions into a single textual flow, it examines the somatic foundations of philosophical theory and theorizing, discussing their relationships to the writer and body, and to the …
Anyone who has spent some time around children or philosophers will be famil-iar with the following situation: The child or philosopher will ask a why-questionand demand an explanation for the fact or phenomenon at hand. If lucky, onewill be able to produce an answer, albeit just to be confronted with a furtherwhy-question concerning that answer. Then, at some point of this game of why-question…
Your ability to manage your time, as much as any other practice in your career as an executive, will determine your success or failure. Time is the one indispensable and irreplaceable resource of accomplishment. It is your most precious asset. It cannot be saved, nor can it be recovered once lost. Everything you have to do requires time, and the better you use your time, the more you will accom…
We have seen how, as a consequence of the Revolution and of the cold, destructive, criticism of the eighteenth century, there was a demand for constructive thought. This was a desire common not only to the Traditionalists but to De Biran and Cousin. They aimed at intellectual reconstruction. While, however, there were some who combated the principles of the Revolution, as did the Traditionalist…
The knowledge that the African continent gave civilization the Arts and Sciences, Religion and Philosophy is des- tined to produce a change in the mentality both of the White and Black people. 2. There are three persons in the drama of Greek philosophy: (a) Alexander the Great; (b) Aristotle's School and; (c) The Ancient Roman Government who are responsible for a false tradition about Africa an…
Humans have always had the ability to influence the genetic makeup of their children. Individuals who wanted tall and attractive children, for instance, could find tall and attractive partners to reproduce with, thereby raising the probability that their progeny would be tall and attractive. However, until very recently, this power was limited. Individuals …
Semua inspirasi berupa kalimat dalam buku 'Sadar Penuh Hadir Utuh' ini saya dapatkan secara gratis dari alam semesta. Untuk itu, silakan bagi siapa pun yang ingin mengutip sebagian atau seluruh inspirasi di buku ini. Bahkan, bila ada yang sudah membeli dan merasa sudah selesai membaca buku ini, tolong pinjamkan buku ini kepada siapa pun yang ingin membaca tapi belum membeli. Saya akan ikut be…
“Psychoanalysis has never claimed to provide a complete theory of human mentality in general.”1 Freud wrote these words in 1914, shortly after his break with Jung. It is indeed true that he never concerned himself with developing an all-embracing system, but rather moved from the analysis of patients to areas of special attention: repression, dreams,…
Within any spiritual or religious tradition, nothing could seem more obvious than the reality of the unseen world. Gods demand attention. Spirits compel action. In a famous essay on religion’s cultural foundations, Clifford Geertz (1973, 118) wryly observed that when he asked a Balinese man who had gone into trance and performed as the goddess Rangda if the…
You have probably heard Reinhold Niebuhr’s serenity prayer in some version or other: ‘God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.’ It’s clever and touching, but there is a bit of a false dichotomy. There is often very little we can do to make changes to the world, …
Aural History is an anti-memoir memoir of encountering devastating grief that uses experimental storytelling to recreate the winding, fractured path of loss and transformation.Written by a thirty-something psychotherapist and queer theorist, Aural History is structured as a sequence of three sections that each use different narrative styles to represent a distinctive stage in the protagonist’…
Theredoesnotseemtobeanyseriousreasontosupposeasignificantevo-lution in Plotinus’ philosophy. Even leaving aside the problematic nature ofdevelopmentaltheoriesfromahermeneuticalperspective,thereexistssomepositiveevidenceforconsistencyinPlotinus’thought.InhisLifeof Plotinus,Porphyrygivesatleastfourreasonsforadoptingaunitaryperspective.Thefirsttwoargumentsareratherindirect:First,Plotinusbegant…
There are many reasons why I liked Mary so much, as a person, a writer and a philosopher. I liked her for her wit, her warmth, her level- headedness and her moral clarity; her ability to steer clear of all unnecessary technicalities and cut straight to the chase, focusing on the big picture rather than getting mired in the details of any particu…
What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? This book is the first in-depth study of the concept of love in Kant`s philosophy. It argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously thought, and that understanding love is actually essential for Kantian ethical life. Perhaps surprisingly, for Kant, love permeates human existence from the strongest impulses of nature to the highes…
The subject of this book is how the brain works. In order to understand this, it is essential toknowwhatis computed by different brain systems; andhowthe computations are performed.The aim of this book is to elucidate what is computed in different brain systems; and todescribe current computational approaches and models of how each of these brain systemscomputes. Understanding the brain in this…