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  • Intimacy

    A Dialectical Study

    An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of intimacy. Working with a wide variety of philosophical and literary sources, it warns against measuring our relationships against ideal standards, since there is no consummate form of intimacy.After analyzing ten major ways that we aim to establish ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • Care of the Soul Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

    A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

    by Thomas Moore ...
    “Thoughtful, eloquent, inspiring.” — San Francisco ChronicleA special 25th anniversary edition of Thomas Moore's #1 New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction by the author. More timely than ever, this classic work on personal growth provides a powerful spiritual message for our troubled times.In Care of the Soul, readers are presented with a revolutionary approach to thinking about daily ... Read more

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  • Descartes' Error

    Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

    **"An ambitious and meticulous foray into the nature of being." -- The Boston GlobeA landmark exploration of the relationship between emotion and reason**Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain ... Read more

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  • What Matters Most

    Living a More Considered Life

    by James Hollis ...
    The celebrated author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path.Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? To even begin to answer these questions, we must start by exploring our own internal ideals, values, and beliefs. Presenting the unique ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How to Be a Stoic

    Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life

    **An engaging guide to how Stoicism—the ancient philosophy of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius—can help us flourish today.“One of the best explorations of Stoic philosophy that I’ve read.” —Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek**Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive.In this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Healing Emotions

    Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health

    Can the mind heal the body? The Buddhist tradition says yes—and now many Western scientists are beginning to agree. Healing Emotions is the record of an extraordinary series of encounters between the Dalai Lama and prominent Western psychologists, physicians, and meditation teachers that sheds new light on the mind-body connection. Topics include: compassion as medicine; the nature of ... Read more

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  • On Romantic Love

    Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion

    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love? Berit Brogaard here attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions. This short book, informed by both historical and cutting edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Handbook of Music and Emotion

    Theory, Research, Applications

    Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this book 'Music and Emotion' (OUP, 2001) was critically and commercially successful and stimulated much further work in this area. In the years since publication of that book, empirical research in this area has blossomed, and the successor to ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Colors, Symbols, Archetypes

    People are made up of atomic particles and thoughts are waves in the ocean of awareness. Thoughts are not physical. Archetypes are not things either. Archetypes are the original patterns of principles and beliefs that are represented in some type of symbolic form so we are able grasp ideas like truth, beauty, honor, loyalty, peace, and wisdom to bring them into our lives in a conscious state.This ... Read more

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  • Oxford Handbook of Happiness

    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the "dark side" of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing. The Positive Psychology movement, along with changes in attitudes toward organisational and societal health, has generated a surge of interest in human happiness. The Oxford Handbook of Happiness is the definitive text for ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • The Prudence of Love

    How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover

    The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues concerning love. Eric Silverman advocates an account of the virtue of love derived from Thomas Aquinas's account of charity and makes three claims concerning love's effect on a person's happiness.First, he argues that there are at least ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Gut Reactions

    A Perceptual Theory of Emotion

    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions in a double sense. First of all, they are perceptions of changes in the body, but, through the body, they also allow us to literally perceive danger, loss, and other matters of concern. This proposal, which Prinz calls the embodied appraisal theory, reconciles the long standing debate between those who say ... Read more

    $38.69 USD