Download or read book Living Beyond Materialism written by Ben Okwu Eboh and published by University of Nigeria Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Materialism written by Sergio Rijo and published by SERGIO RIJO. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a society consumed by consumerism, "Beyond Materialism: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a Consumerist World" presents an enlightening odyssey that transcends the ephemeral allure of possessions. This thought-provoking book unveils the intricate interplay between material wealth and genuine happiness, illuminating alternative avenues to a life of lasting fulfillment. Diving into the psychological intricacies, the book dissects the modern consumerist culture and the illusion that material possessions hold the key to happiness. Through meticulously researched insights, it explores the shortcomings of relying solely on material wealth for contentment, laying bare the fleeting nature of such pursuits. Each chapter unfurls a new dimension of happiness, offering practical wisdom that resonates deeply with the essence of our humanity. From nurturing relationships to exploring personal growth, from the power of experiences to the art of mindfulness, the book offers a comprehensive map for navigating the journey to genuine well-being. The reader embarks on a transformative expedition, guided by the philosophy that happiness emerges from within, cultivated through meaningful connections, purposeful pursuits, and self-discovery. The tapestry of chapters weaves a holistic view of well-being—encompassing emotional resilience, creative expression, spiritual alignment, and the transcendence of adversity. Throughout this narrative, the book's resounding call to action is evident: to embrace a life that transcends the superficial allure of materialism. It beckons readers to reevaluate their priorities, to nurture relationships, to savor experiences, and to connect with their inner selves. "Beyond Materialism: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a Consumerist World" stands as an indispensable guide for those seeking a life of depth, purpose, and enduring happiness. It is an invitation to step beyond the confines of possessions and embrace the full spectrum of human experience—a journey toward a life rich in meaning, connection, and the profound beauty of true happiness.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Global Media s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity Culture and Government written by Schafer, Stephen Brock and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends of the last few years, including global health crises, political division, and the ongoing threat to social-environmental survival, have been continually obscured by disinformation and misinformation and therefore created a need for stronger global technological media policy. It is no longer acceptable or moral to support a global communication network based only on market factors and propaganda. The Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government views preternatural healing of the media-sphere from a variety of perspectives on the dynamic of heart-coherent entertainment. Specifically, it addresses the subject of a healthy media from a variety of fractal perspectives. Covering topics such as collective unconscious, mediated reality, and government media trust, this major reference work is an essential resource for librarians, media specialists, media analysts, sociologists, government employees, communications specialists, psychologists, researchers, educators, academicians, and students.
Download or read book Beyond Materialism written by Sergio Rijo and published by Sergio Rijo. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a society consumed by consumerism, "Beyond Materialism: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a Consumerist World" presents an enlightening odyssey that transcends the ephemeral allure of possessions. This thought-provoking book unveils the intricate interplay between material wealth and genuine happiness, illuminating alternative avenues to a life of lasting fulfillment. Diving into the psychological intricacies, the book dissects the modern consumerist culture and the illusion that material possessions hold the key to happiness. Through meticulously researched insights, it explores the shortcomings of relying solely on material wealth for contentment, laying bare the fleeting nature of such pursuits. Each chapter unfurls a new dimension of happiness, offering practical wisdom that resonates deeply with the essence of our humanity. From nurturing relationships to exploring personal growth, from the power of experiences to the art of mindfulness, the book offers a comprehensive map for navigating the journey to genuine well-being. The reader embarks on a transformative expedition, guided by the philosophy that happiness emerges from within, cultivated through meaningful connections, purposeful pursuits, and self-discovery. The tapestry of chapters weaves a holistic view of well-being--encompassing emotional resilience, creative expression, spiritual alignment, and the transcendence of adversity. Throughout this narrative, the book's resounding call to action is evident: to embrace a life that transcends the superficial allure of materialism. It beckons readers to reevaluate their priorities, to nurture relationships, to savor experiences, and to connect with their inner selves. "Beyond Materialism: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a Consumerist World" stands as an indispensable guide for those seeking a life of depth, purpose, and enduring happiness. It is an invitation to step beyond the confines of possessions and embrace the full spectrum of human experience--a journey toward a life rich in meaning, connection, and the profound beauty of true happiness.
Download or read book Beyond Marx written by Marcel van der Linden and published by Historical Materialism. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide ranging and deeply engaged examination of the role slaves and unfree workers play in the global capitalist economy.
Download or read book Beyond Material written by Davorin Kuljasevic and published by New In Chess. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to win a game of chess you very often have to sacrifice material. Gathering the courage to do so while accurately assessing the potential benefits is a real challenge. The big question is always: what’s my compensation? Generations of chess players grew up with the idea that a sacrifice was correct if the material was swiftly returned, with interest. Almost by reflex, they spent lots of time counting, quantifying the static value of their pieces. But is that really the best way to determine the correctness of a sacrifice? In this book, Grandmaster Davorin Kuljasevic teaches you how to look beyond the material balance when you evaluate positions. With loads of instructive examples he shows how the actual value of your pieces fluctuates during the game, depending on many non-material factors. Some of those factors are space-related, such as mobility, harmony, outposts, structures, files and diagonals. Other factors are related to time, and to the way the moves unfold: tempo, initiative, a threat, an attack. Modern chess players need to be able to suppress their need for immediate gratification. In order to gain the upper hand you often have to live with uncertain compensation. With many fascinating examples, Kuljasevic teaches you the essential skill of taking calculated risks. After studying Beyond Material, winning games by sacrificing material will become second nature to you.
Download or read book Redefining Success Beyond Materialism written by Barbara Health and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining Success Beyond Materialism: Pursuing More than Just the Material World In a world obsessed with wealth, brands, and glittering possessions, do you ever feel a deeper longing, a whisper that success might be more than just the next big purchase? Dive into a transformative exploration that challenges the societal norms of success, taking you on a journey beyond the tangible to discover the rich tapestry of genuine fulfillment. What You'll Find in This Book: The Historical Mirage: Understand how societal evolution has tethered our sense of achievement to material gains. Inner Wealth Blueprint: Techniques to cultivate lasting contentment and peace amidst the chaos. Relationship Reboot: Strategies to deepen connections, placing value on transformative relationships over transactional ones. Legacy Building: Insights on crafting an impact that outlives and outshines material accumulations. Minimalistic Magic: Embrace the power of living more with less, finding richness in simplicity. Purpose-Driven Work: Move beyond paychecks to find deep fulfillment in what you do. Nature's Healing Touch: Reconnect with the environment for holistic well-being. Step into a world where success is not just measured by the weight of one's wallet but the weight of one's soul. "Redefining Success Beyond Materialism" isn't just a book-it's a movement, an awakening, a call to remember what truly matters. Unlock the secrets to a life of passion, purpose, and profound fulfillment. Dive in and redefine what success means to you.
Download or read book Consciousness Unbound written by Edward F. Kelly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to address the most recent advances in the psychology of consciousness. Currently emerging as a middle ground between warring fundamentalisms of religion andscience, an expanded science-based understanding of nature finally accommodates empirical realities of spiritual sorts while also rejecting rationally untenable overbeliefs. The vision sketched here provides an antidote to the prevailing postmodern disenchantment of the world and demeaning of human possibilities. It not only more accurately and fully reflects our human condition but engenders hope and encourages ego-surpassing forms of human flourishing. It offers reasons for us to believe that freedom is real, that our human choices matter, and that we have barely scratched the surface of our human potentials. It also addresses the urgent need for a greater sense of worldwide community and interdependence - a sustainable ethos - by demonstrating that under the surface we and the world are much more extensively interconnected than previously recognized.
Download or read book Contemporary Materialism Its Ontology and Epistemology written by Gustavo E. Romero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge. Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often defined in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological significance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today’s leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities.
Download or read book The Government of Things written by Thomas Lemke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"--
Download or read book A Universe Full of Magical Things written by David A. Yeats and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional science holds that everything that exists starts with matter, but this undocumented belief must be false, according to Quantum Mechanics. It has to be! QM demonstrates that
• There is no such thing as matter or space or time
• A conscious observer is a necessary condition for anything to exist.
• There is only subjectivity without any objective truth.
• The world we experience, therefore, must be an illusion, like a holodeck program or a virtual game.
And no one disputes the conclusions of this mysterious science—Quantum Mechanics underlies all of reality. This virtual experience we are having is nevertheless alive and conscious and deliberately makes choices. Life has always been latent in the universe; every species is aware, intelligent, and chooses; and existence—according to spiritual and scientific conclusions alike—is one unified evolving and emerging intelligent being, purposefully partnering with the universe in influencing what it is to become. Sound strange? What is far stranger is the materialist notion that existence burst forth out of absolutely nothing! That’s why this book “matters.” The life we live is not based in some mindless and mechanical machine. The life we live is filled with purpose and meaning, and we humans have work to do to bring our world along. Join in on this astonishing unfolding journey which we participate in fashioning: The Greatest Story Ever Told!
Download or read book Revisiting Gramsci s Notebooks written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks offers a rich collection of studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century, from a global network of scholars confronting the actuality of our ‘great and terrible’ world.
Download or read book Cultural Materialism written by Marvin Harris and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available again after a hiatus, this edition of Cultural Materialism contains the complete text of the original book plus a new introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson that updates his ideas and examines the impact that the book and theory have had on anthropological theorizing.
Download or read book Ontology and Closeness in Human Nature Relationships written by Neil H. Kessler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world. He has written an accessible work of environmental philosophy, with a focus on the ontology of human-nature relationships. In it, he contends that large-scale environmental problems are intimate and relational in origin. He also challenges the deeply embedded, modernist assumptions about the relational limitations of more-than-human beings, ones which place erroneous limitations on the possibilities for human/more-than-human closeness. Diverging from the posthumanist literature and its frequent reliance on new materialist ontology, the arguments in the book attempt to sweep away what ecofeminists call “human/nature dualisms. In doing so, conceptual avenues open up that have the power to radically alter how we engage in our daily interactions with the more-than-human world all around us. Given the diversity of fields and disciplines focused on the human-nature relationship, the topics of this book vary quite broadly, but always converge at the nexus of what is possible between humans and more-than-human beings. The discussion interweaves the influence of human/nature dualisms with the limitations of Deleuzian becoming and posthumanism’s new materialism and agential realism. It leverages interhuman interdependence theory, Charles Peirce’s synechism of feeling and various treatments of Theory of Mind while exploring the influence of human/nature dualisms on sustainability, place attachment, common worlds pedagogy, emergence, and critical animal studies. It also explores the implications of plant electrical activity, plant intelligence, and plant “neurobiology” for possibilities of relational capacities in plants while even grappling with theories of animism to challenge the animate/inanimate divide. The result is an engaging, novel treatment of human-nature relational ontology that will encourage the reader to look at the world in a whole new way.
Download or read book Sustainable Materialism written by David Schlosberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in everyday life. This book focuses on sustainable materialism, and examines the political and social motivations of activists and movement groups involved in this growing and expanding practice.
Download or read book Realism Materialism Art written by Christoph Cox and published by Sternberg Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Realism materialism art (RMA) introduces a diverse selection of new realist and materialist philosophies and examines their ramifications on the arts. Encompassing neo-materialist theories, object-oriented ontologies, and neo-rationalist philosophies, RMA serves as a primer on "speculative realism," considering its conceptual innovations as spurs to artistic thinking and practice and beyond."--From publisher's description.
Download or read book Body And Soul written by Kelly Nicholson and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are certain questions that lie at the heart of our existence: Who are we? What is this life in which we find ourselves engaged? Is “reality” as intelligible as what is before our eyes, or is there something more beyond? Philosophers have, in response to these questions, tended to favor one of two antithetical approaches: an understanding of the material world through the lens of science or a model based on the existence of a spiritual realm, a world beyond the senses.Although Nicholson does not claim to disprove a materialist account of reality, he argues that our allegiance to certain commonsense assumption about ourselves and the world—that, for example, we are rational and purposive creatures; that some courses of action are truly better than others; that human experience, on the whole, is basically trustworthy—involves us implicitly in a worldview that is spiritual in its basis, nonmaterialistic at the core.Nicholson's book is a philosophically astute exploration into the nature of human existence. In presenting the topic, he examines at length issues in ethics, philosophy of the mind, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He introduces readers to such concepts as mind-body dualism, moral relativism, logical positivism, naturalism, and reductionism as well as to the key thinkers in these debates, from the ancient Greek philosophers to Hume, Ayer, Searle, and Swinburne.
