DAVID HUME (1711 – 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist. Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic "science of man" that examined the psychological basis of human nature. In stark opposition to the rationalists who preceded him, most notably Descartes, he concluded that desire rather than reason governed human behaviour, saying: "REASON IS, and OUGHT ONLY to BE the SLAVE of the PASSIONS". A prominent figure in the sceptical philosophical tradition and a strong empiricist, he argued against the existence of innate ideas, concluding instead that humans have knowledge only of things they directly experience.. NOTHING is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. It is easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself. Nor is there required such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the rabble without doors may, judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within. There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions. The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision. Disputes are multiplied, as if every thing was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain. Amidst all this bustle it is not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army. From hence in my opinion arises that common prejudice against metaphysical reasonings of all kinds, even amongst those, who profess themselves scholars, and have a just value for every other part of literature. By metaphysical reasonings, they do not understand those on any particular branch of science, but every kind of argument, which is any way abstruse, and requires some attention to be comprehended. We have so often lost our labour in such researches, that we commonly reject them without hesitation, and resolve, if we must for ever be a prey to errors and delusions, that they shall at least be natural and entertaining. And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains..

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.

"Wilde è profetico sin dalle prima righe, quando denuncia la prevalenza dell’emozione sulla razionalità, male principe del nostro tempo, e poi del pietismo sull’emancipazione, male di tanta politica di pseudo sinistra" (dall'Introduzione di Alfredo Sgarlato). Wilde: ?perché la vita raggiunga la sua più elevata perfezione, ci vuole qualche cosa di più. Ciò che ci vuole è l'individualismo?, ?Utopia? Una carta geografica del mondo in cui non sia segnato il paese dell'Utopia, non varrebbe la pena d'essere guardata, perché vi mancherebbe il paese in cui l'Umanità atterra ogni giorno. Ma non appena v'è sbarcata, ella guarda più lontano, scorge una terra ancora più bella, e spiega di nuovo le vele. Progredire significa realizzare l'Utopia?. SOMMARIO: Introduzione (di Alfredo Sgarlato) - Postfazione. Breve biblio-nota ai testi e alla traduzione (di Fabrizio Pinna) - OSCAR WILDE Società e libertà: elogio dell'individualismo - APPENDICE I Oscar Wilde, Rapporti fra il socialismo e l'individualismo (di Luigi Fabbri, 1913) - APPENDICE II The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891). LA COLLANA IN/DEFINIZIONI

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.

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

本书按照“走出疑古时代与古史重建”“重新估价中国古代文明”“孔子之集大成”“出土文献与早期儒学”“孔子思想的传承与传播”等先秦史的重大问题编排，反映了李学勤先生的学术成就，体现了他的学术特，具有较高的学术价值。  

孔子文化奖是由文化部和山东省人民政府设立的国际奖项，每年评选一次，每次评选团体、个人若干名，主要表彰奖励对全球儒学研究和孔子文化传播做出突出贡献的团体、个人和非**组织。这个奖是文化部的zui高奖项之一。本套丛书是自2009年首届孔子文化奖设立以来，历届个人奖获得者的文集汇编，主要有：《杜维明卷》（2009年度），《庞朴卷》（2010年度），《汤一介卷》（2011年度），《牟钟鉴卷》（2012年度），《李学勤卷》和《安乐哲卷》（2013年度）共6本。 每本书的内容以“孔子儒学与传统文化”为核心，选取获奖人zui具学术创见的观点、短语、概念等，选录其zui具学术影响力和学术创新性的文章、著述、学术演讲。

中国佛教中的*大宗派净土宗的核心经典！全本无删减，无障碍阅读，原文精校、译文精准，依据古今高僧大德的论述解读经义！附完整译文、《净土法门五百问答》！ 净土宗系中国佛教中的*大宗派，历史悠久，信徒众多。“五经一论”是净土宗的核心经典，也是中国传统文化中的宝贵遗产。自古以来，多有高僧大德予以积极推广和鼎力弘扬，关于这些经典的注疏可谓汗牛充栋，然而遗憾的是由于时代的久远，其文言已难以适应当代人阅读。直到今天，也鲜有综合前人注疏、完整解读“五经一论”且适合当代人阅读的书籍。《净土五经一论要义通解》填补了这个空白。 本书将通过疏理历*高僧大德的精辟注疏，阐述净土法门要义，揭示其简单中见其思想体系之博大精深。提纲挈领，以窥全豹，帮助我们深入领会净土法门之理念、主旨和精髓。

 今天他将为你启幸福《幸福之路》是罗素的一本经典名著，拥有广泛的读者。在这本书里，罗素不依任何高深的学说，而是把一些经由他自己的经验和观察证实过的通情达理的意见归纳起来，制做出一张良方，希望无数对生活感到困惑和郁闷的男男女女，能够在此找到医治他们病案的方子，能够在以后凭着适当的努力变得幸福。  《幸福之路》浅显易懂，读起来饶有趣味。正如罗素写此书的目的，“希望那些遭受不幸而并未享受幸福的众多男女能够诊断出自己的症状并找出摆脱的方法”。的大门，门外是条布满鲜花的幸福之路！

本书采用精炼而富含哲理的语言，结合生动的事例，对“舍得”这一人生智慧行深浅出的论述，从各方面阐释了“舍得”的真谛，为读者提供了一种健康的人生心态、一种正确的生活态度、一种获得成功与幸福的方法，从而让你能够更好地经营自己的人生。

　　本书是对《省心杂言》的释评，书中全面周详地阐述了立身处世以及人际关系的一系列准则，对现实生活工作学习都极具借鉴意义。

本书通过对创新实践范畴的剖析，从马克思立足于实践观实现了对传统哲学的革命这一事实出发，把实践一步划分为常规实践和创新实践，并指出了创新实践更能体现实践的“自由的自觉的活动”这一人的本质存在方式，正如马克思通过确立实践存在论构建了历史存在论的唯物史观一样，当今时代迫切需要在创新实践基础上一步确立创新实践存在论的唯物史观。在此基础上比较系统地阐述了创新实践与人的本质论、创新实践与历史动力论、创新实践与人民价值论、创新实践与发展本质论等基本问题，力求在创新实践的基础上推以实践生成论为基础的唯物史观的发展，期望助推学界更加深理解马克思实践唯物主义的深邃思想，充分彰显唯物史观的时代意义，深探索唯物史观的当今理论形态。

　　埃斯库罗斯，古希腊悲剧诗人，与索福克勒斯和欧里庇得斯并称为古希腊伟大的悲剧作家，有“悲剧之父”的美誉。本辑重讨论了埃斯库罗斯的三连剧《奥瑞斯忒亚》和《被缚的普罗米修斯》。《奥瑞斯忒亚》既是诗的事件，又是政治的事件。它讲述了一个共同体如何逐渐把目光聚集，见证正义的完成。同时，本辑通过分析《被缚的普罗米修斯》三连剧，试图重够一个新的、更纯一的悲剧之父形象。 　　《奥瑞斯忒亚》既是诗的事件，又是政治的事件。它讲述了这样的故事：一个共同体如何逐渐把目光聚集，见证正义的完成。正因如此，这部戏剧既是对人类——遵守道德和守法的生物——深刻的思考之一；也是对弥补个人，家庭和共同体的必需之物——当他们遭到侵犯时——深刻的思考之一。此外，甚至可以说，这部戏剧不只是在思考争议和惩罚；也不只是在思考如何指引那些想通过制度安排上述问题的人。这部三连剧本身，是为了城邦民/观众而上演的，和法庭一样，他的贡献在于，让正义得到见证。

本书从全球化与东西方哲学对话角度探究比较哲学的理论形态、研究方法、问题意识与创新思路，启中西文化融合、中西马哲学会通与中国文化的世界化视域，并在宗教学与伦理学语境中比较中西哲学传统中的若干重要概念。由于立足比较哲学的学术前沿，从破解比较哲学理论难题的实际需要出发，本书呈现了当前比较哲学与比较文化研究中的重大问题，凸显了比较哲学的创新价值，力图为构建人类命运共同体与实现中国哲学的国际认同贡献绵薄之力。

　　本书以生动的故事向读者传递人生的哲理，经典的故事，启迪你生活的智慧。实用的道理，教会你日常做人的事。本书共分为十九章，在指导对个人的缺、面对成败的态度、面对感情的得失等方面，都有细致、合理的方法呈现。

　　《从孔子到谢灵运：唐前士人精神史探索/陕西师范大学中国语言文学“世界**学科建设”成果》为作者关于唐前士人精神史探索的文章的合集，共分三部分：一、论先秦圣贤、诗哲的理思与痛苦；二、论汉兴百年儒士、赋家的经国品质；三、论晋宋名士的飘逸与痛苦。作者深掘孔子、屈原、贾谊、陶渊明、谢灵运等人的精神历程，探讨中国人世代相续的民族精神。

本书为中央民族大学教授、“孔子文化奖”获得者牟钟鉴先生根据四十多年来学习中华经典积累的经验，结合古代贤哲的论述及今日道德教育建设的现实和需要，详细阐述君子人格养成路径，系统提出“君子六有”说，有仁义，立人之基；有涵养，美人之性；有操守，挺人之脊；有容量，扩人之胸；有坦诚，存人之真；有担当，尽人之责。作者用较多篇幅细讲古今中外的君子在六个方面的人格特质，列举生动的案例，解说蕴藏的内涵，使君子人格培养在现实土壤上具有落地生长的可能性，用真人真事推动道德教化，从不同侧面提炼中华精神，重塑君子人格榜样，推动人文化成，培养时代真君子。

In these talks, given in Europe and India, Krishnamurti goes into the importance of going into problems openly, without conclusions. "..because we approach our problems partially, through all these various forms of conditioning, it seems to me that we are thereby not understanding them. I feel that the approach to any problem is of much more significance than the problem itself, and that if we could approach our many difficulties without any particular form of conditioning or prejudice, then perhaps we would come to a fundamental understanding of them." An extensive compendium of Krishnamurti's talks and discussions in the USA, Europe, India, New Zealand, and South Africa from 1933 to 1967—the Collected Works have been carefully authenticated against existing transcripts and tapes. Each volume includes a frontispiece photograph of Krishnamurti , with question and subject indexes at the end. The content of each volume is not limited to the subject of the title, but rather offers a unique view of Krishnamurti's extraordinary teachings in selected years. The Collected Works offers the reader the opportunity to explore the early writings and dialogues in their most complete and authentic form.

Critica ra?iunii pure, tradus? de Nicolae Bagdasar ?i Elena Moisuc ?n 1969, a ajuns la cea de-a treia edi?ie. Cu acest prilej, profesorul dr. Ilie P?rvu, de la Facultatea de Filosofie a Universit??ii din Bucure?ti a ?ngrijit noua opera?ie de editare, fiind astfel corectate unele erori de tipar ?i unele inconsecven?e terminologice. Totodat?, exist? un motiv ?n plus pentru ca studen?ii care posed? edi?ia a II-a a traducerii, ap?rut? ?n 1995, s? apeleze ?i la cea de-a treia edi?ie: ?n aceasta din urm? au fost indicate diferen?ele dintre edi?ia I german? (din 1781) ?i edi?ia a II-a (din 1787).

The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an aspect of the other. The spiritual and emotional part is elevated into the ideal, to which in the Symposium mankind are described as looking forward, and which in the Phaedrus, as well as in the Phaedo, they are seeking to recover from a former state of existence.