In this bracing book, the eminent Dutch philosopher Andreas Kinneging turns fashionable thinking on its head, revealing how good and evil are objective, universal, and unchanging--and how they must be rediscovered in our age.

In mapping the geography of good and evil, Kinneging reclaims, and reintroduces us to, the great tradition of ancient and Christian thought. Traditional wisdom enables us to address the eternal questions of good and evil that confront us in both public and private life. Though it is common to accept uncritically the blessings of modernity and its intellectual sources, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kinneging shows that traditional thinking is richer and more realistic. Indeed, we see how, in more than a few respects, the Enlightenment and Romanticism brought not progress but deterioration. Kinneging skillfully reformulates and defends the insights of traditional thinking for today's readers, demonstrating how an objective morality is to be understood and how we can know what morality demands of us.

At a time when the traditional virtues have practically disappeared from our language (that is, all but one--tolerance), he lays out the foundations of virtue and vice. Ultimately, Kinneging reveals the lasting significance of these seemingly archaic notions--to our own lives, to our families, to our culture, and to civilization.

This profound, award-winning work establishes Andreas Kinneging as one of our wisest moral philosophers.

Kreeft has imagined Socrates University: a log, with Socrates at one end and a typical intelligent modern student beginner at the other, conversing about the problems at the heart of each major division of philosophy.

Nothing teaches more effectively than concrete examples and apprenticeship. Like the real Socrates, this fictionalized version by Kreeft is grounded in common sense and commonsense logic, fair and open-minded on all issues but demanding good reasons for every opinion.

If you are an Expert, professional, bureaucrat, teacher, professor, Democrat or Republican, liberal, progressive or conservative, consider yourself in any way in the educated classes, the odds are high that everything you believe is wrong.

Not everything. Not simple things. Only the most important things. If you are in the majority, then a great deal of what you hold true about the world and of life is false.

Here is a small sample of things that majority of educated believe are false, but which are instead true: Science cannot answer every question put to it; It is not always right to correct a wrong; There is no wisdom in crowds; A consensus among elite academics does not prove the belief of the elite academics is true; That you are offended is irrelevant to whether a proposition is true or false; Defining yourself as your sexual desire is nonsensical; Voting does not make the majority position right and the minority position wrong; Voting is a leading cause of discord; Democracy is rarely to be desired; You cannot choose to believe you do not have free will; God exists.

These are only some of the ideas and arguments explored in this book. The majority, and that means likely you, are wrong about all of them. This is no idle claim. It will be proved chapter by chapter.

Every bad or invalid or unsound argument contains a fallacy or mistake in thinking. Nobody knows the complete list of ways thought can go wrong, and it has even been surmised such a list is endless. History supports this contention. There is ample reason to believe the human race is congenitally insane.

Some mistakes are more common than others. Every age has its own favorite forays into fiction, driven by fashion, fad, and fantasy, all of which are enforced by the culture's self-appointed Watchers. The balance of truth versus error shifts in time, yet the current age is more eager than average to ferret away any shiny object it finds and call it precious.

Fallacies therefore have tremendous inertia. Some mental misconstructions are permanent fixtures. I have evocative and memorable nicknames, at least for speakers of English, of the most popular and important fallacies of our day. We step through each, showing how it is false.

Here are just a few of our age's favorite fallacies: Controversial Fallacy, Non-Fallacy Fallacy, Appeal to Non-Authority, So Yer's Old Man, Bluff & Bluster Fallacy, You Bigot Fallacy, Hate Speech Fallacy, Bureaucrat Fallacy, One True Spartacus Fallacy, Wisdom of Crowds Fallacy, I Can't See Another

Way Fallacy; many, many others, including the ever-popular Meta Fallacy. This is a fallacy that says a thing is true because it is a fallacy. Strange as it seems, it is most convincing.

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The world we all live in is being transformed. This is the story of a boy asking many questions as his life journey begins in the evangelical church setting of America during the indulgent, colorful decade of the 1970s. His yearning for truth and understanding cause him to trust the authorities that be. The tendency of life is to bury the past and move on. What else can we do? He pursues happiness and builds his kingdom on earth. However, in midlife, his kingdom begins to unravel and crumble. Then the world begins to crumble. In the depths of unforeseen despair, he cries out to God, Why?

As the events of life unfold, are they random happenings? Is it just coincidence, or is there an organized script to explain the chaos? What is the future of mankind and planet earth? He listens but no longer trusts the status quo of what the world, the government, and the church are saying. Can any sense be made in a world where immorality has become the prevailing reasoning? History foretells the future. His discovery through a lifetime of experience is, there exists only one source, and it is full and complete. His hope revealed is that your story becomes a story of purpose, destiny, discovery, and most importantly...truth.

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past

In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin. Working from this unique perspective, she combines philosophical reflection, personal stories, and interviews with both Americans and Germans who are grappling with the evils of their own national histories.

Through discussions with Germans, including Jan Philipp Reemtsma, who created the breakthrough Crimes of the Wehrmacht exhibit, and Friedrich Schorlemmer, the East German dissident preacher, Neiman tells the story of the long and difficult path Germans faced in their effort to atone for the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, she interviews James Meredith about his battle for equality in Mississippi and Bryan Stevenson about his monument to the victims of lynching, as well as lesser-known social justice activists in the South, to provide a compelling picture of the work contemporary Americans are doing to confront our violent history. In clear and gripping prose, Neiman urges us to consider the nuanced forms that evil can assume, so that we can recognize and avoid them in the future.

The two essays published here were written on the basis of lectures given to members of the School for Spiritual Science. Their content therefore deals directly with the path of inner development outlined in the lessons of the First Class of the School.

In the first essay, Selg address the necessary confrontation with the powers of evil as they appear in the Class Lessons and in our time more broadly. Only through confronting and overcoming these powers are we able to find the path to our true humanity.

The second essay deals with the figure of the Guardian of the Threshold as a Michaelic teacher and guide along the soul's path into the spiritual world. This figure, Selg argues, is far too little understood in our time. He is a spiritual being of great significance who offers help to all earnest seekers.

This book represents an ongoing effort on the part of Peter Selg and the leaders of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum to deepen and internalize the work with the Class Lessons for all members of the School for Spiritual Science.

This book is comprised of translations of texts originally published in German by Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts: Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Bösen: Zur Schulung der Ersten Klasse . Hochschulvorträge Band 1 (2019); Die Sprache des Hüters: Zur Schulung der Ersten Klasse . Hochschulvorträge Band 2 (2020).

What's life without risk?

At least that's what Patrick Gallagher tells himself as he arrives in Las Vegas at the peak of the Cold War with a dream that can't be bought in gold or jewels: To become a standup comedian, a monologist. But nobody can run away from their past, no matter how bright their future may seem. The world isn't as clear as it appears. Will Patrick succeed? Or will he discover that everything has its price and some costs can't be quantified in a dollar bill?

In this queer revolutionary imagining of 1963 Las Vegas, Aquino Loayza, Author of the Queer Cosmic Epic: Deep, explores the seedy underbelly of Sin City in its infancy as Patrick Gallagher embarks on his quest to defy the odds and become The Monologist.

Lots of good times, you have to take the good with the bad, and it takes all kinds of people to make this world go around. I've looked into the eyes of the poor. I've looked into the souls of the rich. I've traveled across this country all alone with no contact with the people that I love. I have been happy, and I have been sad and on my own. I've seen people laugh, and I've seen people cry. This book is dedicated to family and friends that I have lost along the way in life. This book is the story of my life--the life and death and rebirth of my mind.

Beyond Good and Evil accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. He argues that past philosophers founded grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. Nietzsche leaves behind traditional morality in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.

First published in 1886, Beyond Good and Evil expands on the ideas of Nietzxche's previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. Religion and the master and slave moralities are key themes as Nietzsche re-evaluates deeply held humanistic beliefs, portraying even domination, appropriation, and injury to the weak as not universally objectionable. Nietzsche proposes his own ideas about what future philosophies should encompass.

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STOICISM

Stoicism is an ancient school of philosophy, first developed around 300BCE.

Inside this book, we will explore exactly how Stoicism came to be, some of the greatest Stoics in history, what the virtues and values of a Stoic are, and how Stoicism can enhance your life.

Despite being incredibly interesting as well as effective, Stoicism is not for everyone. Living the life of a Stoic often requires a lot of sacrifice, as well as discipline.
As you will also discover, there is no such thing as a perfect Stoic. It is an ongoing daily effort to live life in line with the Stoic values and virtues, continually striving to become better.

With the help of this book, you'll be able to better understand and embrace a Stoic lifestyle, and achieve greater success in a multitude of areas as a result

Here Is What You'll Learn About...

• What Is Stoicism
• The Most Famous Stoics
• The Nature Of Good & Evil
• Stoic Logic
• Stoic Exercises & Behaviors
• Stoic Virtues
• How To Embrace A Stoic Lifestyle
• Much, Much More

After accumulating an exhaustive amount of data during his years of deeply immersive global travel experiences, Charles J. Wolfe presents the sacred application of geometry and numerology as the divine map to humankind's enlightenment process throughout the millennia. What feels at first like science fiction is actually science-fact backed up by over 700 documented sources as well as other forms of validation that draw upon his engineering and physics backgrounds.

While exploring many of the world's most fascinating events and mysteries in a way that enchants the reader, Wolfe discusses concepts like infinity, eternity, and human consciousness and spirituality using language understandable for the novice while still challenging the expert. A whirlwind adventure through the cosmos and history, this book unveils a secret architecture of numbers that could very well revolutionize the study of numerology and breathe new life into the subject.

The 11:11 Code: The Great Awakening by the Numbers provides a deeper understanding of the creative spirit of the universe, how everything is connected, and what it all means in terms of The Great Awakening already underway.

Robert S. Hartman is one of the greatest visionaries of building a better world by first building your best self. His range of thought and breadth of experience from mathematics to philosophy to political science to innovation and creativity provides one of the most comprehensive views of life as we live it and how to live it better.

Wit & Wisdom: Inspiration for Living Fully is the first-ever comprehensive quote collection from Robert S. Hartman from a variety of his published, unpublished, and soon-to-be-published works.

His influential thought on all matters to do with the Self comes from over 50 years of exploring the question, What is good? Thus, each page of this book offers the wit-and wisdom-to challenge and encourage you to live a full life in the essence of goodness.

Edited and designed by his namesake institute, The Robert S. Hartman Institute, the book can be enjoyed two ways. Read from front to back to become engrossed in Hartman's intellectualism, humor, and vision for a better world. Or take a random page each day to inspire you to self-reflect, take action, create goodness, and live life fully.

We offer this collection to perpetuate Hartman's ideas:

The greatest power on earth is the goodwill and decency in the heart of each human being.

- Robert S. Hartman

The reference to the Antichrist is not intended to refer to the biblical Antichrist but is rather an attack on the slave morality and apathy of Western Christianity. Nietzsche's basic claim is that Christianity is a poisoner of western culture and perversion of the words of and practice of Jesus. Throughout the text, Nietzsche is very critical of institutionalized religion and its priest class, from which he himself was descended. The majority of the book is a systematic attack upon the interpretations of Christ's words by St. Paul and those who followed him.

Nietzsche claimed in the Foreword to have written the book for a very limited readership. In order to understand the book, he asserted that the reader ... must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness, my passion. The reader should be above politics and nationalism. Also, the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. Characteristics such as Strength which prefers questions for which no one today is sufficiently daring; courage for the forbidden are also needed. He disdained all other readers.

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As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwillingness to judge others, what signposts remain to guide our ethical behavior?

Surveying the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western philosophical debates on evil, Forti concludes that it is time to leave behind what she calls the Dostoevsky paradigm the dualistic vision of an omnipotent monster pitted against absolute, helpless victims. No longer capable of grasping the normalization of evil in today's world--whose structures of power have been transformed--this paradigm has exhausted its explanatory force.

In its place, Forti offers a different genealogy of the relationship between evil and power, one that finally calls into question power's recurrent link to transgression. At the center of contemporary evil she posits the passive attitude towards rule-following, the need for normalcy, and the desire for obedience nurtured by our contemporary mass democracies. In our times, she contends, evil must be explored in tandem with our stubborn desire to stay alive at all costs as much as with our deep need for recognition: the new modern absolutes. A courageous book, New Demons extends an original, inspiring call to ethical living in a biopolitical age.

Since both Batman, the megalomaniacal industrialist, and Superman, the darling of the media, sometimes operate outside the law, which of them makes the better vigilante -- and how do they compare with Robin Hood, the anonymous donor, the Ninja, and the KKK? Which of them comes out better in terms of evolutionary biology? Which of the heroes works more effectively to resist oppression? Which one is better for the environment? Which of these two makes a better model and inspiring myth to define our culture and society?

Is Batman or Superman the more admirable person? Who conforms more closely to Nietzsche's bermensch? Who makes the better god? Who is more self-sacrificing? Whose explicit code of morality is superior? Which superhero gives us more satisfying dramatic conflict? And why does a battle between the two make such a compelling drama?