The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argu...

You deserve to allow yourself to feel good now. When you send positive energy and are ready to receive providence gets into action. You don't need to understand how this happens, just to trust the universe is at work and will rearrange itself to make the right things happen for you. Trust in the magic of life to aid you in picking up the pieces and the Journey back you yourself.

Chapters can change in an instant. Trust that soon you will be telling a different story. A story about how your mi...

Spirituele intelligentie is een wezenlijk kenmerk van ieder mens, zij het dat men zich daar niet altijd van bewust is. Het treedt steeds verder op de voorgrond. Dit boek beschrijft mijn reis. Het is een autobiografisch verhaal. Niet bedoeld om te vertellen hoe jij het moet doen, wel om verslag te doen van mijn ontdekkingstocht naar mijn ziel. Misschien inspireert het jou ook die reis aan te gaan en te ontdekken wat jij vormt en hoe je authentieke zelf zich manifesteert.

Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes of the volume, and three essays by distinguished contributors follow: Jeremy Waldron on Kant's theory o...

Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions.

In this famous short book Einstein explains clearly, using the minimum amount of mathematical terms, the basic ideas and principles of the theory which has shaped the world we live in today.

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable.

In this classic introductory work, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Descartes to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

First published in 1945 and never out of print, this is the second volume of one of the most famous and influential works of the twentieth century.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.