Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility
This is the seventh volume in the St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs, and is subtitled 'happiness in philosophical and economic thought.' On…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Consciousness and its Place in Nature
This volume, whose title echoes C.D. Broad's 'The Mind and its Place in Nature' of 80 years ago asks if physicalism entails panpsychism. It consists…… Read More »
The Future for Philosophy
The title of this book is unusual in using the conjunction 'for' rather than 'of'. It is a collection of articles that aims to assess…… Read More »
One Self: Life as a Means of Transformation
Non-duality is one of those deceptively simple ideas which appeal to many of us and which we think we understand, but which, on reflection, we…… Read More »
LOVE, LIFE, GOETHE – how to be happy in an imperfect world
While he is a man of great interest to many Network members, so much has already been written about him that some readers may sigh,…… Read More »
Gurdjieff: a Master in Life
With this problematical chaplet of forty-nine personal souvenirs and homilies Tcheslaw Konstantinovitch Tchekhovitch is introduced to an English-speaking readership as a full-blown apologist of the…… Read More »
A Pocket Guide to Ethical Issues
The author of this highly informative book is an Anglican priest who teaches ethics at a theological college in Oxford. He begins by observing how…… Read More »
Persephone Wakes
Subtitled 'of minds, machines and immortality', this is a novel set in the far future in which a conscious android, Persephone, creates problems with her…… Read More »
Alone in the World?
This is a series of Gifford lectures about human uniqueness in science and theology, specifically in the fields of theological anthropology and paleoanthropology. The author…… Read More »
The Essential Gnostic Gospels
Alan Jacobs is a very good guide and translator this selection of the gnostic gospels. As a poet and mystic himself (he is the editor…… Read More »