A Dialogue with Oneself
Title | A Dialogue with Oneself PDF eBook |
Author | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
Publisher | Castrovilli Giuseppe |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Love |
ISBN |
Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato
Title | Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Long |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2013-04-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199695350 |
A. G. Long presents a new account of the importance of conversation in Plato's philosophy. He provides close studies of eight dialogues, including some of Plato's most famous works, and traces the emergence of internal dialogue or self-questioning as an alternative to the Socratic conversation from which Plato starts.
A Light to Yourself
Title | A Light to Yourself PDF eBook |
Author | J Krishnamurti |
Publisher | Krishnamurti Foundation America |
Total Pages | 555 |
Release | 2019-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1912875004 |
In these talks, given in Europe and India, Krishnamurti goes into the importance of going into problems openly, without conclusions. "..because we approach our problems partially, through all these various forms of conditioning, it seems to me that we are thereby not understanding them. I feel that the approach to any problem is of much more significance than the problem itself, and that if we could approach our many difficulties without any particular form of conditioning or prejudice, then perhaps we would come to a fundamental understanding of them." An extensive compendium of Krishnamurti's talks and discussions in the USA, Europe, India, New Zealand, and South Africa from 1933 to 1967—the Collected Works have been carefully authenticated against existing transcripts and tapes. Each volume includes a frontispiece photograph of Krishnamurti , with question and subject indexes at the end. The content of each volume is not limited to the subject of the title, but rather offers a unique view of Krishnamurti's extraordinary teachings in selected years. The Collected Works offers the reader the opportunity to explore the early writings and dialogues in their most complete and authentic form.
This Light in Oneself
Title | This Light in Oneself PDF eBook |
Author | J. Krishnamurti |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 1999-03-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0834825503 |
A leading spiritual teacher of the twentieth century presents meditation as a tool for better understanding not just ourselves but the world around us These selections present the core of Krishnamurti's teaching on meditation, taken from discussions with small groups, as well as from public talks to large audiences. His main theme is the essential need to look inward, to know ourselves, in order really to understand our own—and the world's—conflicts. We are the world, says Krishnamurti, and it is our individual chaos that creates social disorder. He offers timeless insights into the source of true freedom and wisdom.
Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues
Title | Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Nightingale |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2021-05-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108837301 |
Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.
Giving an Account of Oneself
Title | Giving an Account of Oneself PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Butler |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 235 |
Release | 2009-08-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0823225054 |
What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. Butler takes as her starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” She shows that these question can be answered only by asking a prior question, “Who is this ‘I’ who is under an obligation to give an account of itself and to act in certain ways?” Because I find that I cannot give an account of myself without accounting for the social conditions under which I emerge, ethical reflection requires a turn to social theory. In three powerfully crafted and lucidly written chapters, Butler demonstrates how difficult it is to give an account of oneself, and how this lack of self-transparency and narratibility is crucial to an ethical understanding of the human. In brilliant dialogue with Adorno, Levinas, Foucault, and other thinkers, she eloquently argues the limits, possibilities, and dangers of contemporary ethical thought. Butler offers a critique of the moral self, arguing that the transparent, rational, and continuous ethical subject is an impossible construct that seeks to deny the specificity of what it is to be human. We can know ourselves only incompletely, and only in relation to a broader social world that has always preceded us and already shaped us in ways we cannot grasp. If inevitably we are partially opaque to ourselves, how can giving an account of ourselves define the ethical act? And doesn’t an ethical system that holds us impossibly accountable for full self-knowledge and self-consistency inflict a kind of psychic violence, leading to a culture of self-beratement and cruelty? How does the turn to social theory offer us a chance to understand the specifically social character of our own unknowingness about ourselves? In this invaluable book, by recasting ethics as a project in which being ethical means becoming critical of norms under which we are asked to act, but which we can never fully choose, Butler illuminates what it means for us as “fallible creatures” to create and share an ethics of vulnerability, humility, and ethical responsiveness.
Love
Title | Love PDF eBook |
Author | Jiddu Krishnamurti |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 11 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Love |
ISBN |