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Mais d’où vient donc que, dans ce que l’on a pu percevoir et décrire comme une « effervescence éthique », les discours des éthiques partout, depuis quelque temps, prolifèrent ? « Être éthique ou ne pas être, écrit Monique Canto-Sperber, c’est l’injonction contemporaine. Achetez éthique, parlez éthique, placez éthique, gouvernez éthique. Quant à ce que veut dire au juste éthique dans tous ces emplois, nul ne juge utile de le préciser. On se retranche derrière un silence prudent et lourd de sous-entendus. Tout le monde est censé savoir ce qu’est l’éthique.

Toutes les œuvres de Henri Bergson réunies en un seul ebook. Découvrez l'œuvre de Henri Bergson dans son ensemble et emmenez-la partout avec vous. À propos de la collection GrandsClassiques.com : la collection GrandsClassiques.com a pour objectif de mettre à disposition des lecteurs les œuvres complètes des incontournables de la littérature. Un soin tout particulier est apporté à ces versions afin de garantir une qualité de lecture optimale.

"Si je ne suis pas moi, qui le sera ?" Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) est né et mort à Concord, un village du Massachusetts. Fils d'un modeste artisan, il poursuivit ses études à Harvard, étudia le grec et le latin, et plutôt que de tenter une carrière, revint au foyer paternel. Ses premiers textes, écrits sous le parrainage d'Emerson et de Hawthorne, le situent dans la mouvance transcendantaliste.

Professeur de philosophie au niveau collégial, Jérôme Cotte s'intéresse à ce que les grands philosophes de toutes les époques ont dit ou écrit sur l'humour; il fait des liens avec ce que font ou disent les humoristes modernes du Québec ou d'ailleurs.

This interdisciplinary book develops a dialectical narrative about the beginning of the universe by combining Hegel's philosophy with texts about the Big Bang theory. Scientific accounts of the Big Bang indicate that the first second of existence was an eventful period in which the universe progressed through six different epochs.

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there's always another solution—from the acclaimed writer and professor of philosophy, based on his viral essay, "I'm Still Here." "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody who is being honest with themselves knows at least a little bit about the subject.

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.

WHY WE MEDITATE by Daniel Goleman, the New York Times-bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and many other books, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, an internationally recognized and beloved spiritual guide in the Tibetan Buddhist community, presents scientifically backed and time-proven Eastern meditation practices that offer an antidote to the forces of frenzy and stress that awash us.

If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Including accessible primers on: - The early Ancient Greek philosophers and the "big three": Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - Key schools of philosophy and their impact on modern life - Insights into the main questions philosophers have explored over the years: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Do I have free will? - Practical applications for the theories of Descartes, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Nietzsche, and many more.

Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten's inspiring parable of the importance of music and the threats that it faces in today's world. We may not realize it as we listen to the soundtrack of our lives through tiny earbuds, but music and all that it encompasses is disappearing all around us. In this fable-like story three musicians from around the world are mysteriously summoned to Nashville, the Music City, to join together with Victor to do battle against the "Phasers," whose blinking "music-cancelling" headphones silence and destroy all musical sound.