History of Ideas
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From  A Breath of Relief From This Fast-Paced WorldOn Consumed Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Both nostalgia and consumerism satisfy a longing, an attempt to satisfy impossible desires. Consumerism, as in the most important role for a person is somone who buys things, and a history of … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  AlienationFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In the first chapter of Finding Our Niche, Alienation, Loring introduces the eco-modernist philosophy that humans are inherently destructive of and separate from nature, and explains how that … | Philip A. Loring | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! ConclusionWhat Are the Prospects for Humanity? From: Humans |
This chapter looks at the legacy of popular resistance movements in our history and asks how a species that for most of its existence was largely cooperative, egalitarian and peaceful could have … | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add | |
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From  NEW! ConclusionFrom: The Elective Mind |
The conclusion reflects on the current role of philisophy in the modern university. | Réal Fillion | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From ConclusionThe Memory of Ourselves From: On Nostalgia |
Nostalgia is an acutely modern condition. As our future seems more in doubt, our past seems to offer more clarity and comfort. Beyond that, nostalgia helps us reconcile the dissonence of our … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  EpilogueLessons Learned |
Why aren’t people demanding action on environmental issues like climate change, despite the overwhelming evidence? This mission evolved along the way, and soon I was looking into the sorry … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong |
Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into … | John Taylor Gatto | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From From the HeartThe Golden Rule with Karen Armstrong and Joan Halifax |
Compassion is a virtuous cycle, and practicing the Golden Rule yields an expanded sense of self, which yields ever more compassionate behavior.philosophers and religious leaders such as … | James Hoggan | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From From the HeartSpeak the Truth, but not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh |
Thich Nhat Hanh used the example of a pine tree and suggested, what if that tree asked us what it could do to help the world? Our answer would be very clear: “You should be a beautiful, … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From Great AgainOn Political Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Hegel, The Particularity of Conflicts, and the Spaces of "Reason-ability" |
Hegel wants to show that history is not a cold, anonymous process that simply sweeps up human lives and never looks back. Indeed, his philosophy of history is primarily concerned with the … | Réal Fillion | 17 | 2008 | $2.21 Add |
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NEW! HumansThe 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality |
Historian Alvin Finkel builds on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present the very long view of the history of the human species. His focus is not on the leaders … | 416 | 2024 | View | |
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From I’m Just So Tired of All These Star WarsOn Art and Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … | David Berry | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
