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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Who Practices the Actions We Perform?: An Enquiry on the Pragmatic Theory of Action. Book.

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Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce and sought after issue of Global Architecture, Special issue number 01 featuring masterpieces of home building over 284 pgs from many acknowledged master architects. Superbly illustrated, mostly in bland & white photos and sketches, with occasional color, as well as text in Japanese and English. Lovely copy, immaculate. Binding solid, strong, sturdy. Wraps excellent, clean, teeniest tiniest wear at corners but hardly so. Interior is bright, clean, nearly as new. Now covered in protective mylar. Top copy.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Samsara é o fluxo contínuo de nascimentos, vidas, mortes e renascimentos. O ensinamento budista diz que todos os seres sencientes estão presos nele, em um ciclo recorrente, e que o sofrimento é sua característica universal. A finalidade última do dharma, a verdade subjacente à aparência da realidade, é capacitar os seres humanos a escapar do Samsara e alcançar o Nirvana, a libertação final da ilusão e do sofrimento. O budismo prescreve a meditação, a prática da compaixão e o cultivo da sabedoria como instrumentos para alcançar esse fim.Nós, seres humanos, temos um anseio inexaurível por explicações, e palavras, pensamentos e raciocínios são os instrumentos que temos para nos comunicarmos. Por isso, criamos filosofias como substitutas intelectuais da experiência. Porém, essa é uma substituição insatisfatória, pois tentamos falar do que não pode ser dito e, intelectualmente, captar o que só se alcança por meio de uma experiência incomunicável.Isso não é uma empreitada intelectual, embora numerosos mestres budistas tenham reiteradamente tentado justificar seus ensinamentos, o que culminou em sofisticada construção filosófica cuja compreensão está longe de ser trivial. Ela implica um paradoxo: se a realidade percebida é irreal, tudo o que sabemos padece de uma imperfeição intrínseca, e até nós mesmos, os conhecedores, não somos o que imaginamos.Tal sutileza explica por que os princípios do budismo podem parecer complicados, paradoxais ou um contrassenso: eles procuram transmitir algo que pode ser experimentado, mas não pode ser descrito. Então, o melhor modo de transmitir essas ideias é por meio de metáforas ou imagens paradoxais. Esse conhecimento, embora razoável, pode parecer irracional.Este livro é uma tentativa de apresentar algumas reflexões em torno dessas questões.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Samsara means the continuous flow of births, lives, deaths, and rebirths. Buddhist teachings assert that all sentient beings are trapped in a recurring cycle and that suffering is a universal characteristic of them. The ultimate aim of dharma, the truth about what remains below the appearance of reality, is to allow human beings to evade Samsara and reach Nirvana, the final liberation from illusion and suffering. Among the tools for achieving this goal, Buddhism prescribes meditation, compassion, and the cultivation of wisdom to overcome ignorance. We, humans, have an inexhaustible craving for justification, and words, thoughts, and reasoning are the tools we have to communicate. That's why we create philosophies as intellectual substitutes for experience. Yet this is a poor substitution because we attempt to speak about the unspeakable and to intellectually grasp what can only be achieved through an uncommunicable experience. That's not an intellectual endeavor, even though the repeated attempts by many Buddhist masters to justify their teachings culminated in a sophisticated philosophical construction whose understanding is far from trivial. It harbors a paradox: if reality as we perceive it is unreal, everything we may know is flawed by an intrinsic imperfection, and even we ourselves, the knowers, are not what we may imagine to be. That subtlety explains why engaging with the tenets of Buddhist teachings may appear convoluted, paradoxical, or nonsensical: they seek to convey something that must be experienced rather than described. Then, metaphorical narratives, or paradoxical questions, are often the best way to convey a kind of knowledge that, being reasonable, looks irrational. This book is a tentative offering of some reflections on and around these issues. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Actions are essential to giving meaning to any human experience. They are twofold concepts that bridge the subjective world of the individual's consciousness with the objective world, where their actions produce changes. Actions stem from interests and power: the interest in the actions' consequences and the power to act. Interests create motivations, and motivations promote actions. However, performing actions implies changing the world, which may challenge others' interests. Then, one may suppose there will be reactions. Even if not, the sheer inertia of situations is a hindrance to be overcome. That's why power is necessary to act.Examining actions' objective consequences, we may infer the subjective motives that, because they are subjective, cannot be observed otherwise. The pragmatic theory of action is a theory of meaning; it's the use of the pragmatic criterion of meaning to assess human action and its consequences, plus the acknowledgment that meaning is essential to every human endeavor.The core of the pragmatic theory of action is Peirce's pragmatism-the idea that the meaning of any action is given-and is only given-by its consequences. However, we soon discover that we cannot go without the subjective attribution of meaning and its related assessment. We deal with strategic actions, understood as purposeful. Then, it's essential to the interaction that each actor assesses the actions' results in the face of how they affect these actors' interests, which again requires attribution of meaning in a subjective procedure. So, we must understand the pragmatic principle as a departure from a metaphysical ground for meaning in favor of a practical, strategic one.To develop these considerations, we make a distinction between agents, who perform actions, and actors, entities whose will commands their performative agents. That's very easy to understand in formal organizations, mainly strongly hierarchical ones, like in the military. However, we are all performative agents for formal and informal actors in society. How much our actions are our own or result from other actors' influence is the book's main focus. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Samsara e o fluxo continuo de nascimentos, vidas, mortes e renascimentos. O ensinamento budista diz que todos os seres sencientes estao presos nele, em um ciclo recorrente, e que o sofrimento e sua caracteristica universal. A finalidade ultima do dharma, a verdade subjacente a aparencia da realidade, e capacitar os seres humanos a escapar do Samsara e alcancar o Nirvana, a libertacao final da ilusao e do sofrimento. O budismo prescreve a meditacao, a pratica da compaixao e o cultivo da sabedoria como instrumentos para alcancar esse fim.Nos, seres humanos, temos um anseio inexaurivel por explicacoes, e palavras, pensamentos e raciocinios sao os instrumentos que temos para nos comunicarmos. Por isso, criamos filosofias como substitutas intelectuais da experiencia. Porem, essa e uma substituicao insatisfatoria, pois tentamos falar do que nao pode ser dito e, intelectualmente, captar o que so se alcanca por meio de uma experiencia incomunicavel.Isso nao e uma empreitada intelectual, embora numerosos mestres budistas tenham reiteradamente tentado justificar seus ensinamentos, o que culminou em sofisticada construcao filosofica cuja compreensao esta longe de ser trivial. Ela implica um paradoxo: se a realidade percebida e irreal, tudo o que sabemos padece de uma imperfeicao intrinseca, e ate nos mesmos, os conhecedores, nao somos o que imaginamos.Tal sutileza explica por que os principios do budismo podem parecer complicados, paradoxais ou um contrassenso: eles procuram transmitir algo que pode ser experimentado, mas nao pode ser descrito. Entao, o melhor modo de transmitir essas ideias e por meio de metaforas ou imagens paradoxais. Esse conhecimento, embora razoavel, pode parecer irracional.Este livro e uma tentativa de apresentar algumas reflexoes em torno dessas questoes. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.