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...

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.

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...

I AM.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read Rationality instead. It's cheaper, more entertaining, and more effective' Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind.

How can a species that discovered vaccines...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed — the demos — have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have left many out.

Naomi Zack provides here a fresh treatment of the history of this idea and its key conceptions. In the ancient world, direct and representative democracy in Athens and Rome privileged elites, as did democratic deliberative bodie...

The Logic Manual is the ideal introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a concise but complete introductory course, giving a firm grounding in the logic that is needed to study contemporary philosophy. Exercises, examples, and sample examination papers are provided on an accompanying website.

Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking...

Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons or selling citizenship? In this title, the author asks: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?