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All of Health
A Philosophical Dialogue
In the course of a larger discussion about health, a philosopher and a physician arrive at the notion of symbiosis ; a living together to the advantage of each. And isn’t a good conversation a sort of living together to the advantage of each?

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Aristocrat, and The Community
Two Philosophical Dialogues
“Aristocrat” and “The Community” are dialogues that take place among friends through the course of a night. Aristocrat is concerned with what it means to want to rule, with the comparison of aristocracy to democracy, and with duty.

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Belief and Integrity: Philosophical Dialogues
Join the discussion among friends as they take a fresh look at two concepts whose meaning and definitions we may all too often take for granted. Belief. The dialogues in this section deal with both the positives and negatives of belief. How do you know what to believe?

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Essays in Subjectivity, Individuality and Autonomy
Eschewing �??’hair-splitting for the sport of it,�??’? Gonzalez takes a fresh look at the notion of subjectivity and the nature of the self, in seven essays.

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Kindness: A Philosophical Dialogue
Kindness is a philosophical dialogue that begins with a simple question: What is kindness? From that starting point, a searching conversation unfolds between two sharply different minds. One approaches life through philosophy, questioning beliefs and probing for truth.

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On Authority
A Philosophical Dialogue
We hear quite a lot from “authorities” these days, and often they contradict one another. How do we decide which ones to follow? How do we decide who is a real authority on any given question?

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Ortega’s ‘The Revolt of the Masses’
and the Triumph of the New Man
This book is first and foremost a detailed and meticulous study of Ortega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses (1930). No other relevant, up-to-date books explore this thinker and his great work.

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Re-Founding the World
A Western Testament
Is it time to dump Western capitalism’s values?Or on the contrary, to re-found our market-based society by dumping its distortions and returning to the fundamental values of our Greek-Judeo-Christian heritage?

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