Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for 'egocentric presentism', a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that 'all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me'. Hare, however, goes one step further and claims...(展开全部)

The author of The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat, and The Elephant and the Flea, shares more of his best-selling brand of wisdom concerning the big choices in life. In Charles Handy’s most ambitious book yet, the well-known business guru draws on the lessons of his own life to help us map out the main stages of our lives, and shows us how to navigate through the tough dec...(展开全部)

The author of The Age of Unreason, The Empty Raincoat, and The Elephant and the Flea, shares more of his best-selling brand of wisdom concerning the big choices in life. In Charles Handy’s most ambitious book yet, the well-known business guru draws on the lessons of his own life to help us map out the main stages of our lives, and shows us how to navigate through the tough dec...(展开全部)

Almost a generation before Washington, Henry and Jefferson even were born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honoured ancient name of Cato, wrote newspaper articles condemning tyranny and advancing principles of liberty that immensely influenced American colonists. The Englishmen were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Their prototype was Cato the Younger (95-...(展开全部)

Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions th...(展开全部)

Why I Am Not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought ...(展开全部)

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions th...(展开全部)