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La vie se poursuit-elle après la mort ? Sous quelle forme et dans quel but ? Telles sont les interrogations d’un professeur d’université de médecine d’aujourd’hui. Le grand apport de ce livre réside dans la qualité de l’échange entre le disparu - grand prix de la recherche scientifique – qui, de la Maison des morts, livre à son fils rationaliste des réponses d’une haute teneur philosophique et scientifique.

Qui ici dit Aphorisme en appelle à la pensée en équilibre, sagesse et réflexion, avec un goût évident d’espérer en l’humanité, parfois malgré elle.

Sur les murs familiers de ma vie au jour le jour sont épinglés comme des papillons-penseurs. Lis. Écoute l’esprit. Il te parlera.

C’est bon de lire ces réflexions libres et généreuses, toutes et chacune à l’écoute de notre humanité en recherche de bonheur.

Des bons mots, des intuitions sur la politique, la vie à partager, l’apprentissage de la liberté.

Plutôt que le regard fragmenté des spécialistes, c’est un regard global que Denis Blondin pose sur l’argent, sur sa magie, aussi bien que sur sa sorcellerie. La Mort de l’argent ne propose pas une avalanche de chiffres ou de faits, mais une collection d’idées et de points de vue sur la société, sur l’être humain, sur la forme sociale dans laquelle se sont incarnés l’Occident et l’univers mondialisé qui s’est trouvé placé sous sa gouverne.

Author Gyorgyi Szabo was Ervin Laszlo’s Personal Assistant for many years and travelled around the globe with him on numerous occasions. A highly accomplished Hungarian-born world citizen herself, Gyorgyi participated in the lectures and seminars with Ervin and met with countless fascinating thought-leaders from all walks of life. She undertook to recount these experiences in a story-telling style that is both witty and profound.

Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right' Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the unexpected level of political irrationality among leading contemporary philosophers. The body of the book presents a detailed analysis of extreme leftist views of a number of famous philosophers and their occasional descent into apology for-and occasionally even active participation in-totalitarian politics.

Among the topics explored in David Bowie and Philosophy are the nature of Bowie as an institution; Bowie's work in many platforms, including movies and TV; Bowie's spanning of low and high art, and his relation to Warhol; the influence of Buddhism and Kabuki theater; the recurring theme of Bowie as a space alien, including "Space Oddity" and The Man Who Fell to Earth; the dystopian element in Bowie's thinking, displayed in "1984" and the album Outside; the role of fashion in Bowie's creativity; personal identity as preserved over various divergent per

Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern.

In Discworld, unlike our own frustrating Roundworld, everything makes sense. The world is held up by elephants standing on the back of a swimming turtle who knows where he's going, the sun goes round the world every day, so it doesn't have to be very hot, and things always happen because someone intends them to happen. Millions of fans are addicted to Pratchett's Discworld, and the interest has only intensified since Pratchett's recent death and the release of his final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, in September 2015.

Batman or Superman' Which of these heroic figures is morally superior' Which is more dramatically effective' Which is more democratic' Which shows us the better way to fight crime' Who is a morally better person' Whose actions lead to the better outcomes' Superman vs. Batman and Philosophy tries to decide "for" and "against" these two superheroes by comparing their contrasting approaches to a wide range of issues. Twenty-six philosophers evaluate Superman vs.

In The Walking Dead, human beings are pushed to their limits by a zombie apocalypse and have to decide what really matters. Good and evil, freedom and slavery, when one life has to be sacrificed for another, even the nature of religion-all the ultimate questions of human existence are posed afresh as the old society crumbles away and a new form of society emerges, with new beliefs and new rules. The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy brings together twenty philosophers with different perspectives on the imagined world of this addictive TV show.