Created for greatness
The author founded "The Havard Virtuous Leadership Institute" (HVLI), which promotes the classic virtues as the basis of effective leadership. Through seminars to senior business executives or college...
Anthropology
From Temperament to character
Leadership can only be virtuous. If it is not, it is not leadership. When the ancient Greeks discussed leadership, they emphasized the virtues of their leaders. They could not imagine leadership without...
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch journalist, and author of four books on history, philosophy, and economics. This his latest work, Humankind has been translated into over thirty languages and was a New York Times...
Deep Friendship: Moving beyond the Superficial
The author, a Mexican philosopher, has the ability to make philosophy accessible by focusing on the essentials, using a clear and direct style, employing a linear and concise discourse, and following a...
Anchors in the Heavens
The author analyzes the historical decline of mataphysics in Western thought. The result has been nihilism, pessimism, atheism and the preeminence of existence over being, with life as...
Humour
Interesting essay on humor, laughter, jokes and some irony. Laughter is a body language while some forms of humor are mainly intellectual; also humor needs an object which laughter does not need. The book...
The Flight from Woman
Though written in the early 1960s, this book explores an historical trend that has only become more pronounced today. It is, as the original cover blurb states, “a study of the sexes as reflected in the...
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
A very important analysis of modern thinking and behavior. Using Charles Taylor, Alistair MacIntyre, Philipp Rieff, Freud, Rousseau, Nietzsche, New Left, Frankfurt School, Surrealism, Romantic poetry, etc....
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
Who am I? The question today haunts every society in the Western world. Legions of people—especially the young—have become unmoored from a firm sense of self. To compensate, they join the ranks of...
Non avere paura di cadere. La libertà al tempo dell’insicurezza
Questo libro parla della libertà nel contesto della società contemporanea. L'autore, docente universitario, mette in evidenza gli aspetti principali della libertà e il suo evolversi e dispiegarsi nel tempo...