Offers an introduction to existentialism and how readers can use the lessons of its proponents to improve their lives and become more emotionally attuned human beings.

First published in 1882 and revised in 1887, "The Gay Science" was written at the peak of Nietzsche's intellectual abilities. It includes a large number of poems and an appendix of songs, all written with the intent of encouraging freedom of the mind. With praise for the benefits of science, intellectual discipline, and skepticism, "The Gay Science" also exhibits an enthusiastic affirmation of life, drawing from the influence of the Provencal tradition....

After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" that fosters herd like quiescence and stigmatizes the...

In summary, We challenge the nature of our truth. Truth in nature, and truth in science, is only relevant from the perspective of the participant. Our goal is to limit the ground clutter of human existence and to find bridges that direct us along the journey. "Those bridges should best lead us to our own version of heaven."

Selección Doce Uvas ofrece doce pequeños grandes libros cada año. Nace de las numerosas sugerencias de decenas de intelectuales que han propuesto títulos de lectura indispensable. Los discursos aquí seleccionados proceden de la época más madura del autor. En ellos hace referencia al Sermón de la Montaña donde, a propósito de los lirios y las aves, Jesús habla del servicio a Dios y la confianza en Él. Sin la ironía y el espíritu combativo...

Existentialism For Beginners is an entertaining romp through the history of a philosophical movement that has had a broad and enduring influence on Western culture. From the middle of the Nineteenth Century through the late Twentieth Century, existentialism informed our politics and art, and still exerts its influence today. Tracing the movement's beginnings with close-up views of seminal figures like Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche, Existentialism...

All of the work of Joseph Smalkowski, also known as the performer and philosophical rock poet, Copernicus, has been contained in four unpublished books, a thousand unpublished poems, and thirteen world internationally acclaimed philosophical art rock albums. In "Immediate Eternity," Copernicus goes brain first into the atomic and subatomic world, the world he calls MAGOVA, and struggles to extract a vision of reality and bring that vision back into...

Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855) fue un filósofo y teólogo danés, considerado el padre del existencialismo. Su filosofía se centra en la condición de la existencia humana, en el individuo y la subjetividad, en la libertad y la responsabilidad, en la desesperación y la angustia, El concepto de la Angustia es el libro más conocido de Soren Kierkegaard y en él se articulan algunos de los conceptos en los que se apoya el existencialismo cristiano....

An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought. In Beyond the Subject Gianni Vattimo offers a reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that shows how the premises to overcome the metaphysical Subject were already embedded in their thought. Vattimo makes a case for a Nietzsche who is not concerned with the structure and glorification of the Overman, but rather with its opposite, by showing how...