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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our biology-our senses, intelligence, and lifespans-in the hopes that, with technology, we can become something better, something other, than ourselves. For decades, transhumanism has been quietly exerting its influence, but in the last few years it has achieved critical mass, finding support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world's biggest businesses. In To Be a Machine, journalist...
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers. When The Stone Reader--a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column--first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Shinichi Suzuki, of the eponymous Suzuki Method, debunked Western stereotypes about "authentic" classical performance while transforming music education globally. Yet as Eri Hotta shows, his movement was about much more than developing music skills. A committed humanist, he aspired to nurture the potential, musical or otherwise, in every child"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism think of humankind as a species whose destiny...
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The founder of Mockingbird Ministries argues that having an accurate view of humans helps us avoid the temptation to divide the world into good and bad people, provides the foundation for real relationships rooted in vulnerability, and leads us to a more liberating view of human nature, sin, and grace"--
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born--or emerge in an entirely new guise....
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