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Uma das obras mais conhecidas de Sêneca é, também, um ensaio moral que traz poderosas reflexões acerca da morte, da natureza humana e da arte de viver. Tido como um dos mais consagrados textos da filosofia estoica, foi estruturado em forma de cartas dirigidas a Paulino e reúne, de maneira breve e assertiva, as ideias e os questionamentos de um dos mais célebres intelectuais de sua época em uma busca incessante por viver a vida da melhor forma possível. Seus princípios de sabedoria, embora escritos há mais de dois mil anos, continuam proporcionando grandes lições na atualidade.

We live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity—from living our 'best life' to eating artisan food—matters more and more to us, but where the forces of inauthenticity seem to be taking over. Our world is full of people and products that are not what they seem. We no longer know whether we are talking to a person or a machine. But we can fight back—and this award-winning book shows us how. Authenticity argues that although our counterfeit culture is shaped by the most powerful forces of evolution, economics and technology, we can still come together to reclaim reality.

When Özlem Cekic became the first Muslim MP in the Danish Parliament, her email inbox was inundated with hate mail and threats, and her gut reaction was to delete and ignore each abusive message. But eventually, she decided to take a risk. She started replying to each message and inviting the senders to meet and engage in dialogue over coffee. And with time, understanding, and patience, she began to make a difference, both in the lives of those who hated her before even meeting her, and in her own life.

This book explores the nature and essential role of hope in human life under conditions of oppression. Oppression is often a threat and damage to hope, yet many members of oppressed groups, including prominent activists pursuing a more just world, find hope valuable and even essential to their personal and political lives. Katie Stockdale offers a unique evaluative framework for hope that captures its intrinsic value, the rationality and morality of hope, and ultimately how we can hope well in the non-ideal world we share.  

DO WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO LOVES AMERICA? A person who acts with the best interests of Americans in mind? Someone who is immune to influences of large contributors? An individual who is guided by the U.S. Constitution and honors his or her pledge? A person who is not afraid to take control, or to make waves? An individual dedicated to American ideals, and not "trends"? Did Donald J. Trump fulfill those requirements? You can be the judge. After you read this compact book, packed with information about the real Donald Trump, you will agree that he did. You will be equipped to defend him ...

Political philosophy is the study of the ethical relationships between individuals, society, and the state. In this Libertarianism.org Guide, professor Jason Brennan provides a working knowledge of many of the major issues, ideas, and arguments in philosophy.

Sob a atmosfera agitada da Renascença e dominado pela ideia da unidade italiana, Nicolau Maquiavel escreveu "O príncipe". Na obra, que está entre as mais lidas da nossa literatura desde o século XVI, o autor tenta definir o poder, as formas de governo, as virtudes do soberano e uma nova ética do fazer político. Refletindo as condições da época, o combate às tradições medievais e uma abordagem livre de fatos históricos, esta obra é parte preponderante no legado essencial que Maquiavel deixou para a ciência política.

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States - one rooted in the modes of warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror. The Counterrevolution is a penetrating and disturbing account of the rise of counterinsurgency, first as a military strategy but increasingly as a way of ruling ordinary Americans.

An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsification as the key component in the scientific method.

The second volume of A Handbook of Traditional Living continues the project of the first: to resurrect perennial values for a traditionalist lifestyle in an anti-traditional world and to provide concrete and desperately needed advice for those who wish to break free of the spell of a deadening and desert-like modernity. Deeply inspired by Julius Evola, René Guénon, and the traditionalism of which they were foremost exponents, this audiobook confronts the fundamental questions of family, friendship, work, genders and marriage, religion and spirituality.

Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality. Using the French Revolution and its ideals as an example, he demonstrates his belief that any government must put the inherent rights of its citizens above all else, especially politics.

In this short accessible book, leading democratic theorist Jason Brennan guides listeners through the evolution of the concept of democracy and actual democratic practice over time to help them understand the foundations of this longstanding and yet newly fragile political system. In his wide-ranging tour of the concept, Brennan will examine what democracy meant to the Greeks who first developed the concept before examining how it changed throughout European and later Western history.

"Капитал" – главный труд немецкого экономиста и политического деятеля Карла Маркса, несомненно, оказавший влияние на мировую историю. Данное издание – это основные положения и идеи содержащиеся в «Капитале», обработанные немецким экономистом и политиком Ю. Борхардтом. Как отмечает сам Борхардт, ему «удалось передать теорию учения в правильной форме», что «дает ключ непосвященному или новичку к ее пониманию». Аудиокнига будет интересна как специалистам, так и всем интересующимся вопросами социально-экономических теорий.

Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Thomas Paine's death, these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for liberty in political thought. Common Sense is a pamphlet that Paine wrote in support of American independence. Thanks to its original and simple style, it spread like wildfire through the colonies, helping to inspire the American Revolution. Rights of Man is Paine's passionate defence of the French Revolution that led to his trial for sedition and libel.

A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy and fundamentalism. The authors argue that a return to these values constitutes “a path to hope,” leading the way out of the present worldwide malaise brought on by economic collapse, moral failure, and an ignorance of history.

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to explain behavior.

Plutarco ce ne parla con la semplicità che solo i grandi comunicatori possiedono, e ci spiega come comportarci con chi non sta dalla nostra parte...

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. It is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning politics and ethics.

Individualism: A Reader provides a wealth of illuminating essays from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. In 26 selections from 25 writers, individualism is explained and defended, often from unusual perspectives. The depth and complexity of ideas about individualism are reflected in the six sections in this collection. The first examines individuality generally, with the following five detailing social, moral, political, religious, and economic individualism.

En una investigación inteligente y apasionante, el historiador y ex organizador de Occupy Wall Street, Mark Bray, proporciona un estudio detallado de la historia completa del antifascismo desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días: la primera historia transnacional del antifascismo de posguerra. Basado en entrevistas con antifascistas de todo el mundo, Antifa detalla las tácticas del movimiento y la filosofía detrás de él, ofreciendo una idea de la creciente pero poco comprendida resistencia que lucha contra el fascismo en todas sus formas.