Religion and Philosophy

Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.'In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienc...

It has been suggested that 'spirituality' has become a word that 'can define an era'. Why? Because paradoxically, alongside a decline in traditiona...

In The Undiscovered Self Jung explains the essence of his teaching for a readership unfamiliar with his ideas. He highlights the importance of indi...

What kind of person should I strive to be? What ideals should I pursue in my life? What would it mean for all of us to wake up to the realities and...

About the Book An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition...

The tantric Buddhist traditions emerged in India beginning in the seventh century CE and flourished there until the demise of Buddhism in India cir...

Embark on a transformative journey through the depths of Advaita Vedanta, the ancient philosophy that unveils the essence of non-duality. According...

“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.” The Pov...

The Transcendence of the Ego is one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications and essential for understanding the trajectory of his...

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the histor...

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by ...

Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most import...

Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality...

The concept of masculinity was crucial not only to Jung's revolutionary theories of the human psyche, but also to his own personal development. If,...

About the Book Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still pro...

About the Book Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Meth...

Jacobs introduces the issues, language, concepts and positions central to ethical theorizing. Entries range from antiquity to the present and basic...

About the Book Covering the origins, key features, and legacy of the Islamic tradition, the third edition of A New Introduction to Islam includes n...

If You Want To Stand OutThen You Need To Do Something OutstandingA person with a positive attitude cannot be stopped and a person with a negativeat...

About the Book It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert,...

About the Book Filled with heartwarming stories, meaningful prayers, and enlightening insights, Wisdom for the Easter Journey is a compendium of in...

About the Book Wisdom for Life's Journey is a treasure trove of inspirational stories, advice, and prayers that will help deepen your faith and mak...

Allah is the most common and contested name in the Islamic tradition - but who is he? This book introduces a broad range of perspectives, practices...

About the Book Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them - they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, n...

About the Book What are scientists working on today? What do they worry about? What do they think about the working of the brain, climate change, a...

About the Book This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to ...

This book is an engaging introduction to the complex religious tradition of Hinduism. Central to its focus is demonstrating the fundamental diversi...

About the Book Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Epistemologists seek to understand knowledge's nature and availability. What i...

About the Book What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claim...

About the Book The definitive compendium of Cavadini's essays on Augustine Visioning Augustine offers readers an expertly selected collection of es...

This volume shows the diversity of approaches to violence in Islamic thought between the 19th century and the present day, avoiding the limiting ch...

About the Book ‘Venice speaks to us; this false witness’ voice, shrill at times, whisperingat others, broken by silences.’ In these three mov...

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct. Logical relativism is a pluralism according to whi...

From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes...

About the Book Most texts on religion and science rightly focus on the effect of modern cosmology and biology on views about God and on the place o...

About the Book Nietzsche's critiques of traditional modes of thinking, valuing and living, as well as his radical proposals for new alternatives, h...