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Sentences    by Michael Curran
Price: $0.99 USD. 110850 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2013. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Essays.

Thoughts and aphorisms on art and style, psychology and self-knowledge, religion, happiness, self-interest, pride, vices and virtues, politics, thinking, illusion, and the purpose of life. Includes many quotes from a range of writers such as Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, Montaigne, Pascal, Emerson, Nietzsche and Wilde.
Summa Sophialogica, I-I    by f bonzo moretti
Price: Free! 520510 words. Language: English. Published on April 30, 2013. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Metaphysics.

The Summa Sophialogica is a comprehensive humanist reworking of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. The rhetorical and logical organization of this work is identical to the original, as is its scope--which incorporates an examination of all sentient morality and experience. However, the author has recast the questions posed and the answers given herein to suit a non-theistic audience. Part 1 of 4.
Del che è & che non è    by Paolo-Ugo Brusa
Price: Free! 107350 words. Language: Italian. Published on April 3, 2013. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Ethics & moral philosophy.

Le culture si spendono per confinare l’inafferrabilità dell’evenienza, che è conseguenza dell’umana libertà. I modi del confinamento fanno appello a idee di razionalità e di socialità che vedono quell’afferrare come indispensabile e doveroso. Qui, come in 'Essere al mondo', si indaga invece l’originaria libertà dei rapporti tra mondo, mente e medio per conoscerla nell’immediatezza del suo darsi.
The Essence of Medieval Philosophy    by Michael Ziccardi
Price: $4.99 USD. 130600 words. Language: English. Published on March 9, 2013. Nonfiction » Philosophy » History & Surveys / Medieval.

"The Essence of Medieval Philosophy" takes a comprehensive look at the ideas that define Western Philosophy’s most enduring, though least understood era – the Medieval Period. In addition to offering in-depth examinations of the era’s most renowned philosophers, the book presents detailed reviews of some the era’s greatest works.
Fundamentals of Western Philosophy    by Michael Ziccardi
Price: $4.99 USD. 141260 words. Language: English. Published on March 8, 2013. Nonfiction » Philosophy » History & surveys / general.

This work includes detailed examinations of the ideas put forth by such influential thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
Putting Away Childish Things: A New Synthesis    by Jon Mercurio
Price: $0.99 USD. 103220 words. Language: English. Published on December 10, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Social.

We compare the intellectual growth of mankind to the maturation of an individual and suggest that mankind is nearing the end of its adolescence. Without a paradigm shift mankind like an unsophisticated child is doomed to continue repeating fatal errors. Religion and science are part of our intellectual growth one being the original thesis, the other the antithesis. Synthesis requires a sorting.
The Value of Suicide    by Eric v.d. Luft
Price: $4.99 USD. 110550 words. Language: English. Published by Gegensatz Press on December 4, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Ethics & moral philosophy.

The main point is to argue that suicide ought not automatically to be seen as an expression of despair, but that some people have non-despondent, creative, altruistic, unselfish, or advantageous reasons for doing themselves in. The ancients knew this. Our culture has lost this insight in the meantime. Luft wants to recover it.
Where in the World is God?    by Hope Raymond
Price: Free! 143080 words. Language: English. Published on December 4, 2012. Nonfiction » Psychology » Neuropsychology.

Where in the World is God? traces the course of an informal study of humanity’s choices today, linking them with energy-driven needs of the universe. The author examines her premises, provides extensive data collected mostly from mainstream media, and draws conclusions that link the course of humanity’s life with the long-term, evolutionary needs of the universe.
Notes Towards a New Age, Volume 2    by Ed Ramsey
Price: $0.99 USD. 381420 words. Language: English. Published on September 8, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Contemporary philosophy.

Ed Ramsey lives his blue collar philosophy, which he refers to as Mavellonialism. It is his cherished hope that inviting people to immerse themselves in the ideas presented throughout the chapters listed in Volume 2, will open the eyes of the reader to the immense, invaluable and satisfying opportunity given them to come to live as mavericks, in accordance with God's fervent hope for humanity.
In Search of the Self: The Riddle of Personal Existence    by Donald Oakley
Price: $2.99 USD. 299800 words. Language: English. Published on September 2, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » Epistemology.

In Search of the Self reviews research into the neurological basis of consciousness, the potential of copying one’s personality into a silicon chip or endowing an artificial entity with self-awareness, plus an examination of beliefs about the nature of the self and its destiny after death.