“What David Edmonds does so well is to show you that even though Derek Parfit was the great modern philosopher of selflessness—which has been foundational to the effective altruism movement and other modern philosophies—his philosophy was so closely associated with his personality. Edmonds is ve...
The title is taken from lines of William Blake and there are passages throughout where characters celebrate Blake’s ideas and philosophies. So it’s incredibly rich, and it’s really transportive, both metaphysically and physically. You feel like you’re inhabiting the spaces and landscapes ...
It also requires new business philosophies. As a global company that operates in over 170 countries and regions, we will fully integrate the best resources from around the world to build a global value chain. Then, the value produced by each node of the value chain can be shared with ...
His studies are comprehensive. He published more than 600 books, explaining his philosophy with beautiful rhetoric, poetry, and sense of humor and offering his view on the most known philosophies and religions in the world. Osho taught people that they each had an inner Buddha that could respond...
of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Through analyzing people’s ratings of themselves and others on these traits using a statistical technique called factor analysis, which groups characteristics together based on how strongly they’re related, researchers found five major clusters ...
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their candidates, and never visit them at home. They see their major role as stimulating a process of work improvement and they guide their candidates to grow as scientists. Several types of expertise can be differentiated, and hence this role of expert guide has quite a number...
It would have been a major contender for the list. And I suspect there are others this year that I’ve missed that are excellent books. There is no way I could read all the philosophy books that come out, so this is only my personal choice, focussed on books accessible to a general ...
and how they practised their philosophies. There is nothing in any of these biographies or in any of their writings that suggests that they behaved in a Spock-like way and suppressed their emotions in order to think about things rationally. What they did, and they were very explicit about th...