Cartea de fa??, pe care cititorul o ?ine acum ?n m?n?, reprezint? o form? – literar vorbind, foarte complex?, fiindc? ea evolueaz? pe mai multe voci narative, dintre care doar unele ?i apar?in ?n mod direct autoarei – de exorcism. Geniul inimii e r?spunsul unui poet la o experien?? personal? plenitudinar?, ?n care bucuria ?i suferin?a se ?ntrep?trund reciproc pentru a exprima, ?mpreun? ?i tensionat, starea de gra?ie. Exist? o voce a experien?ei biografice ?n aceast? carte scris? febril, o alta de martor sau de participant la istorie, tot a?a cum exist? o voce a puterii ?i una a victimei. Deasupra tuturor st?, ?ns?, nu neap?rat triumf?toare, dar lucid-cerebral?, chemarea celor dou? credin?e pentru care merit? s? tr?ie?ti ?i s?-?i rememorezi via?a atunci c?nd ai ajuns cu ea la r?sp?ntie: credin?a ?n cultura modelelor care te-au precedat ?i credin?a deloc ingenu?, ci ivit? din cunoa?tere, ?n sacralitatea profund? a celor tr?ite ?i ?n transcenden??. (?tefan Borbély) A considera un text drept ?carte a ilumin?rilor mele“ ?i a a?eza ca titlu al primei p?r?i a volumului sintagma Povestea subteranei ne plaseaz? sub semnul aproape imposibil al drumului c?tre Sine, al cuprinderii, al denud?rii ?i al efortului de a ?n?elege un obiect al c?rui adev?r se va afla ?ntotdeauna ?n proximitatea pe?terii lui Platon. E un demers perpetuat, dar niciodat? epuizat ?i aproape exclus din plasma comunic?rii, care – ?n situa?ia ?romanului“ Aurei Christi – nu are coresponden?e, nu se apropie de experien?a budhist?, nici de prerogativele ocultismului de New Age, ci ne aduce ?n vecin?tatea ?ndemnului de pe frontispiciul templului lui Apollo din Delphi, preluat apoi, ca solu?ie ?ntre a fi ?i a p?rea, de c?tre Socrate: ?Cunoa?te-te pe tine ?nsu?i!“. Po?i ?nt?lni, pe acest drum, ?i acel daimonion care a str?juit g?ndirea aceluia?i ?n?elept atenian ca alt? fa?? a ?subteranelor“ fiin?ei, acolo unde lumina se ?ngem?neaz? cu ?ntunericul, stare ?poetizat?“ de Goethe, dar pr?bu?it? ?n tragic de Dostoievski. E o cobor?re spre ?n?elegere prin cuprindere ?i, implicit, prin atingerea nelimitatului. (Mircea Braga) Cartea Aurei Christi Geniul inimii pare o st?nc? masiv?, singuratic?, ?ntr-un peisaj ?mioritic“. Geniul inimii are originalitate ?i for??. Prima parte e liric?, a doua (?ntr-un fel) – o comedie negru-satiric?, a treia – predominant epic-narativ?. Prima parte este excelent?; mi-am ?nsemnat un num?r de poezii memorabile. A doua, ?n centrul ei mai ales, are sec?iuni, pasaje extrem de interesant-pl?cute-amuzante, ?n pofida tonului, uneori, foiletonistic. A treia e impresionant? ?n ansamblu, armonios-coerent?, de o sinceritate sf??ietoare. ?n tot volumul, istoricul, religiosul, subiectivul se leag? foarte frumos ?ntre ele. Nu-mi plac laudele la adresa lui Nietzsche! De fapt, cum se leag? acest autor de Biblie, de Evanghelii?! Aura Christi poate fi m?ndr? de o realizare major?, cu totul original?. Probabil, nu l-a citit pe romanticul britanic Wordsworth; dar el e cel care a scris (sau a ?nceput s? scrie) o memorabil? autobiografie ?n versuri. Pu?ini l-au continuat. Am putea spune c? Aura se num?r? printre cei pu?ini. (Virgil Nemoianu)

Dignità o miseria della natura umana? ?C'è un principio supposto prevalere tra molti che è del tutto incompatibile con ogni virtù o senso morale [...] Questo principio è che ogni benevolenza è mera ipocrisia, l'amicizia un inganno, lo spirito pubblico una farsa, la fedeltà un trucco per procurare fiducia e confidenza; e mentre tutti noi, in fondo, perseguiamo solo il nostro interesse privato, indossiamo questi bei travestimenti in modo da abbassare le difese degli altri ed esporli maggiormente alle nostre astuzie e macchinazioni?... Le meditazioni senza tempo di uno dei più grandi filosofi europei. SOMMARIO: Introduzione e avvertenza ai testi / Nota bibliografica: una mappa degli studi (di Fabrizio Pinna) - David Hume: Dignità o miseria della natura umana? / L'Amore di Sé. APPENDICE: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature; Of Self-love; My Own Life & Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq.; Of the Reason of Animals; Of the Immortality of the Soul; Of Superstition and Enthusiasm; Of some Verbal Disputes. LE COLLANE IN/DEFINIZIONI & CON(TRO)TESTI

A fi rom?n? ?E o ru?ine!“, exclama Cioran. ?n ce m?sur? filosoful de la Paris avea dreptate? Ce ?nseamn? ?a fi rom?n“ ?ntr-o fals? tranzi?ie care aparent nu se mai termin?? La aceste ?i multe alte ?ntreb?ri ?ncearc? s? r?spund? scriitorul Ionel Necula ?n opus-ul de fa??, care ?nsumeaz? analize ale r?sturn?rilor sociale evidente, ?nregistrate ?n ultimii ?aptesprezece ani. Nu ?ntotdeauna comod, spiritul coroziv al autorului ??i spune cuv?ntul, av?nd uneori accente incendiare.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, was born at Boston in 1803 into a distinguished family of New England Unitarian ministers. His was the eighth generation to enter the ministry in a dynasty that reached back to the earliest days of Puritan America. Despite the death of his father when Emerson was only eleven, he was able to be educated at Boston Latin School and then Harvard, from which he graduated in 1821. After several years of reluctant school teaching, he returned to the Harvard Divinity School, entering the Unitarian ministry during a period of robust ecclesiastic debate. By 1829 Emerson was married and well on his way to a promising career in the church through his appointment to an important congregation in Boston. However, his career in the ministry did not last long. Following the death of his first wife, Ellen, his private religious doubts led him to announce his resignation to his congregation, claiming he was unable to preach a doctrine he no longer believed and that "to be a good minister it was necessary to leave the ministry."With the modest legacy left him from his first wife, Emerson was able to devote himself to study and travel. In Europe he met many of the important Romantic writers whose ideas on art, philosophy, and literature were transforming the writing of the Nineteenth Century. He also continued to explore his own ideas in a series of voluminous journals which he had kept from his earliest youth and from which virtually all of his literary creation would be generated. Taking up residence in Concord, Massachusetts, Emerson devoted himself to study, writing and a series of public lectures in the growing lyceum movement. From these lyceum addresses Emerson developed and then in 1836 published his most important work, Nature. Its publication also coincided with his organizing role in the Transcendental Club, a group of leading New England educators, clergy, and intellectuals interested in idealistic religion, philosophy, and literature.

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). But the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of the Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings" Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the Mirror of Princes style, it is generally agreed that it was especially innovative, and not only because it was written in Italian rather than Latin. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern 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 how to consider politics and ethics. Although it is relatively short, the treatise is the most remembered of his works and the one most responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term. It also helped make "Old Nick" an English term for the devil, and even contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words "politics" and "politician" in western countries. In terms of subject matter it overlaps with the much longer Discourses on Livy, which was written a few years later. In its use of examples who were politically active Italians who perpetrated criminal deeds for politics, another lesser-known work by Machiavelli which The Prince has been compared to is the Life of Castruccio Castracani. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that ends of princes, such as glory, and indeed survival, can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.

O que somos?De onde viemos?!Para onde vamos? A que caminhos a vida nos leva? Essas e outras quest?es aflitivas e de todos os tempos nos s?o solucionadas por León Denis neste opúsculo. Filho da dor, Denis sabe, como você também, o quanto viver, muitas vezes é sofrer. E por isso apresenta, de modo t?o leve a solu??o espírita, racional, para o problema do existir. Mais do que um livro de Filosofia espírita, você tem em m?os palavras de consolo e estímulo para que cada trope?o do caminho seja compreendido e por assim dizer, aproveitado! Venha acompanhar-nos nesta viagem e descubra, em rápidos parágrafos os porquês de sua vida, da nossa vida, do planeta, do Universo.? Aos poucos, entenderemos com a lógica espírita como tudo esta em seu devido lugar.

汇集了南怀瑾先生讲述佛家经典的著述。内容多样，有的讲如何参禅、禅与生命认知，有的讲经典佛经如《金刚经》《圆觉经》《维摩诘经》等，有的讲佛法修持，有的讲佛教发展的历史。学佛须有善知识指引，南先生以过来人的身份，对于理解佛经常见的障碍和学佛修持中容易出现的疑惑及容易走上的歧途，指点得尤为细致。

A collection of magical stories based on old Greek fairy tales including: The Story of Perseus, The Story of The Argonauts, The Story of Theseus. Written by Charles Kingsley and dedicated to his children Rose, Maurice, and Mary. A little present of old Greek Fairy Tales.

The last of Dickens' picaresque novels which exposes selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel was written after taking a year off during which Charles Dickens visited America. Similarly, young Martin Chuzzlewit, the old man's grandson, goes off to America to live through events which Dickens himself perhaps experienced or observed during his own travels.

Eve's Ransom is the story of a mechanical draughtsman named Maurice Hilliard, who comes into some money, which enables him to live without working. As part of his resulting travels, he meets and falls in love with Eve Madeley, a book keeper.

《新教伦理与资本主义精神》是马克斯•韦伯的代表作之一。 近代以来在世界范围具有支配性力量的资本主义，何以独独从西方文明中孕生出来？韦伯从文化宗教对社会经济发展的制约这一角度提出，近代资本主义以其理性化的持续经营和组织劳动为特征，而资本主义精神中的核心要素，即“天职”思想、为职业劳动献身的工作伦理，与基督新教的禁欲性格具有天然的内在亲和性。新教，尤其是加尔文教派将工作奉为天职，有系统且理性地追求合法利得的人生观，正是资本主义发展*适合的精神动力。新教的人生观促了基于职业理念上的理性化的生活倾向，如今，这已成为现代市民普遍的生活样式。虽然禁欲精神助长了近代经济秩序的诞生，但资本主义在建立起决定一切的秩序后，将自己的根基盘踞在机械文明之上，新教的世禁欲精神，则解体为纯粹的功利主义。褪除了宗教伦理意涵的资本主义，*终走向“无灵魂的专家，无心的享乐人，这空无者竟自负已登上人类前所未达的境界”。

A son was born to a poor peasant. He rejoiced and went to a neighbour to ask him to stand as godfather to the boy. The neighbour refused. He did not want to be godfather to a poor man’s son. So the peasant went to another neighbour and he, too, refused. He walked from house to house, but could find no one who would be godfather to his son, so he set out to another village.

《华严经普贤行愿品》原是唐代般若译的《华严经》四下卷中的*后一卷，因其文理俱优，切于日用，译后不久，便函独成一经，广为流传。经中主要讲述了普贤菩萨的十大行愿，佛教寺院中每日引磬唱诵的《普贤菩萨十大愿》即源于此。本书是台湾著名学者南怀瑾先生有关《普贤行愿品》的讲记。作者以通俗的口语，对该经的趣大意，特别是一般人不易读懂的偈颂作了别生面的讲解，并附列了有关行愿方面的各种资料。本书中的基本信念即是指行愿而言的。

“儒教是宗教”的判断是中华人民共和国成立以后在宗教和传统文化研究领域*重要的创新学说之一，它否定了近百年来学术界一致认为中国古代是“非宗教国”的定论，以丰富的资料，严密的论证、深刻的分析，流畅的语言叙述了儒教从产生到衰亡的历史，揭示了儒教的神祇系统、祭祀制度、教义教理等从创造到被取消的过程，阐明了儒者如何为实现上帝、神祇的意志而治国、修身，并从事相关的理论探讨。内容包括儒教和佛教、道教、中国伊斯兰教、中国基督教等相关关系，涉及宗教、哲学、科学、史学、文学诸文化领域。

“儒教是宗教”的判断是中华人民共和国成立以后在宗教和传统文化研究领域*重要的创新学说之一，它否定了近百年来学术界一致认为中国古代是“非宗教国”的定论，以丰富的资料，严密的论证、深刻的分析，流畅的语言叙述了儒教从产生到衰亡的历史，揭示了儒教的神祇系统、祭祀制度、教义教理等从创造到被取消的过程，阐明了儒者如何为实现上帝、神祇的意志而治国、修身，并从事相关的理论探讨。内容包括儒教和佛教、道教、中国伊斯兰教、中国基督教等相关关系，涉及宗教、哲学、科学、史学、文学诸文化领域。

《三十六计》或称三十六策，是指中国古代三十六个兵法策略，语源于南北朝，它是根据中国古代军事思想和丰富的斗争经验总结而成的兵书，是中华民族悠久非物质文化遗产之一。《三十六计》在众多的兵书中独树一帜、雄踞一流，它是中华民族智慧宝库中的经典，与《孙子兵法》一起，并称为世界军事史上的“双璧”。故古书中称：“用兵如孙子，策谋三十六。”

《墨子》为战国百家中墨家的经典。墨子提倡兼爱、非攻、尚贤、尚同、天志、明鬼、非命、非乐、节葬、节用，对哲学、逻辑学都有研究和贡献。此外，他在军事学、工程学、力 学、几何学、光学上都有相当的研究和贡献，先秦的科学技术成就大都依赖《墨子》以传。

本书没有枯燥无味的说教，作者将自己多年的经历和学员的遭遇作为事例编写其中，这些事例在当今社会具有一定代表性，让大家从故事中有所悟、有所思、有所想，*终有所感。在本书里，作者会直痛，用幸福的理念切实可行地帮助到读者，让读者明白幸福真正的模样。本书没有枯燥无味的说教，作者将自己多年的经历和学员的遭遇作为事例编写其中，这些事例在当今社会具有一定代表性，让大家从故事中有所悟、有所思、有所想，*终有所感。在本书里，作者会直痛，用幸福的理念切实可行地帮助到读者，让读者明白幸福真正的模样。

《礼记》初时据说有一百多篇，后为汉朝学者戴德简化为85篇，世人称之为《大戴礼记》。在编撰过程中，我们从权威版本中筛选出极为经典、实用，且具有文学价值的28个篇章，将其编辑成册。将每篇分为诸多小节，每个小节分为三部分：原文、注释与译文。整本书结构严谨，言简意赅，意蕴深远。

吟诵经典  陶冶情操  采录诸词 脍炙万口 《宋词》是继唐诗后的又一种文学体裁，它兼有文学与音乐两方面的特。宋词是中国古代文学皇冠上光辉夺目的一颗巨钻，在古代文学的阆苑里，她是一块芬芳绚丽的园圃。她以姹紫嫣红、千姿百态的丰神，与唐诗争奇，与元曲斗妍，历来与唐诗并称双绝，都代表一代文学之胜。远从《诗经》《楚辞》及《汉魏六朝诗歌》里汲取营养，又为后来的明清戏剧小说输送了有机成分。直到今天，她仍在陶冶着人们的情操，给我们带来很高的艺术享受。

智慧中的智慧  预测学中的行为学《周易》是群经之首，是经典中之经典，哲学中之哲学，谋略中之谋略。从《周易》中，哲学家看到辩证思维，史学家看到历史兴衰，政治家看到治世方略，军事家可参悟兵法，企业家亦可从中找到经营的方法，同样，芸芸众生也可将其视为为人处世、提高修养的不二法宝。 本书将《周易》的六十四卦分别予以详细解读，每卦独立自成一体，各节皆有原文、译文、启示，每卦之后附有中外著名事例，以期抛砖引玉之效。 《周易》一书作为中国早熟的思想文化体系，它在中国传统思想文化中的重要地位，已为世所公认。《周易》被称为六经之首，就是一种证明。