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Mike Fraser
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Thomas Nagel
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Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature, and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behavior, social inequality, war, and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom, and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in its lively engagement with what are literally issues of life and death.
In audio for the first time, this edition is masterfully narrated by Mike Fraser.
Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1979 Cambridge University Press.
©1979 Cambridge University Press (P)2022 Echo Point Books & Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the "big questions" of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of traditional religion and secular atheism. In this pioneering work, Philip Goff argues that it is time to move on from both God and atheism. Through an exploration of contemporary cosmology and cutting-edge philosophical research on consciousness, Goff argues for cosmic purpose: the idea that the universe is directed towards certain goals, such as the emergence of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great beginning and middle. Disappointing conclusion.
- De rocky500 en 10-01-24
De: Philip Goff
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The Concept of Mind
- De: Gilbert Ryle
- Narrado por: Barry Gladden
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
This book offers what may with reservations be described as a theory of the mind. But it does not give new information about minds. We possess already a wealth of information about minds, information which is neither derived from, nor upset by, the arguments of philosophers. The philosophical arguments which constitute this book are intended not to increase what we know about minds, but to rectify the logical geography of the knowledge which we already possess.
De: Gilbert Ryle
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The Problems of Philosophy
- De: Bertrand Russell
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 339
The Problems of Philosophy discusses Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy and the problems that arise in the field. Russell's views focus on knowledge rather than the metaphysical realm of philosophy. The Problems with Philosophy revolves around the central question that Russell asks in his opening line of Chapter 1 - Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Either be smart or be not smart
- De Gary en 01-18-18
De: Bertrand Russell
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
- De: Stephen M Barr
- Narrado por: Mark D. Mickelson
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Modern Physics and Ancient Faith argues that the great discoveries of modern physics are more compatible with the central teachings of Christianity and Judaism about God, the cosmos, and the human soul than with the atheistic viewpoint of scientific materialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inciteful and exciting
- De Kpax Ataraxia en 04-03-19
De: Stephen M Barr
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Reality+
- Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
- De: David J. Chalmers
- Narrado por: Grant Cartwright
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 155
Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds, and that we can live a meaningful life in virtual reality. We may even be in a virtual world already.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A book that could have been an email
- De Peter C. en 04-15-22
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Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
- De: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 177
Sartre's greatest novel and existentialism's key text, now introduced by James Wood, and read by the inimitable Edoardo Ballerini. Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form, he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to have existed to enjoy reading this book!
- De mohammed en 08-11-21
De: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Private Government
- How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
- De: Elizabeth Anderson
- Narrado por: Lauren Pedersen
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. In this compelling book, Elizabeth Anderson examines why, despite all this, we continue to talk as if free markets make workers free, and she proposes a better way to think about the workplace, opening up space for discovering how workers can enjoy real freedom.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing 
- De That Guy en 02-17-24
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Anti-Oedipus
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- De: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault - preface, y otros
- Narrado por: Jon Orsini
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not read in usual way,but Praxis that works on you
- De Anonymous User en 12-27-23
De: Gilles Deleuze, y otros
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Proto
- How One Ancient Language Went Global
- De: Laura Spinney
- Narrado por: Emma Spurgin-Hussey
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Daughter. Duhitár-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history’s most unlikely journeys. All four languages—along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish—trace their origins to an ancient tongue spoken as the last ice age receded. This language, which we call Proto-Indo-European, was born between Europe and Asia and exploded out of its cradle, fragmenting as it spread east and west.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant research and narration
- De Dr. Krishnendu Ray en 05-16-25
De: Laura Spinney