Buku ini membahas kebijaksanaan hidup yang digali dari wasiat dan petuah Ki Ageng Suryomentaram. Melalui buku ini pembaca akan diajak untuk mengenali dan kemudian mengalami kehidupan yang bebas, damai, bahagia, murni, bersih, dan benar. Sehingga kelak pembaca pun dapat memahami arti "manusia baru" yang hidup menurut atau sesuai dengan inti pribadinya dan segala tindakannya akan benar dan jitu.
What is the nature of the fundamental relation we have to ourselves that makes each of us a self? To answer this question, Charles Larmore develops a systematic theory of the self, challenging the widespread view that the self’s defining relation to itself is to have an immediate knowledge of its own thoughts. On the contrary, Larmore maintains, our essential relation to ourselves is practica…
The winning entry in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences, Schopenhauer's 1839 essay brought its author international recognition. Its brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism elevated it to a classic of Western philosophy, and its penetrating reflections still remain relevant. Schopenhauer makes a distinction between freedom of acting (which he en…
In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action. Ekstrom argues that incompatibilism concerning free will and causal determinism is true and thus the right account of the nature of free action must be indeterminist in nature. She examines a variety …
Kebebasan ternyata bukan soal penting bagi manusia. Sebab, ia tak pernah ada dalam kenyataan. Kebebasan ternyata memiliki ancamannya sendiri, paling tidak menurut Erich Fromm, penulis buku ini. Dalam salah satu karya klasiknya yang berjudul asli Escape from Freedom ini (terbit pertama kali pada 1941), Fromm menelanjangi kontradiksi kebebasan manusia modern yang dianggap menjadi nilai terpenting…
The Book of Causes, highly influential in the medieval university, was commonly but incorrectly understood to be the completion of Aristotle's metaphysics. It was Thomas Aquinas who first judged it to have been abstracted from Proclus's Elements of Theology, presumably by an unknown Arabic author, who added to it ideas of his own. The Book of Causes is of particular interest because themes tha…
A collection of recent essays from the American philosopher and Chair of the Santayana Society. The subjects discussed include the philosophy of travel, the politics of religion, friendship, appearance and reality, and the false steps of philosophy.