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The Power of your Subconscious Mind and Other Works

This book compiles various essays and studies that delve into the profound impact of the subconscious mind on human behavior and thought processes. more

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Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy

Joseph Murphy was a renowned author known for his research on dreams and the subconscious. His works delve into the symbolic meanings of dreams and their role in personal growth. more

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“Belief in humankind's sinful nature also provides a tidy explanation for the existence of evil. When confronted with hatred or selfishness, you can tell yourself, 'Oh, well, that's just human nature.' But if you believe that people are essentially good, you have to question why evil exists at all. It implies that engagement and resistance are worthwhile, and it imposes an obligation to act.”

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Book:Humankind: A Hopeful History
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“To speak evil' is to speak this fateful, paradoxical situation that is the reversible concatenation of good and evil. That is to say that the irresistible pursuit of good, the movement of Integral Reality - for this is what good is: it is the movement towards integrality, towards an integral order of the world - is immoral. The eschatological perspective of a better world is in itself immoral. For the reason that our technical mastery of the world, our technical approach to good, having become an automatic and irresistible mechanism, none of this is any longer of the order of morality or of any kind of finality. Nor is to speak and read evil the same thing as vulgar nihilism, the nihilism of a denunciation of all values, that of the prophets of doom. To denounce the reality contract or the reality 'conspiracy' is not at all nihilistic. It is not in any sense to deny an obvious fact, in the style of 'All is sign, nothing is real - nothing is true, everything is simulacrum' - an absurd proposition since it is also a realist one! It is one thing to note the vanishing of the real into the Virtual, another to deny it so as to pass beyond the real and the Virtual. It is one thing to reject morality in the name of a vulgar immoralism, another to do so, like Nietzsche so as to pass beyond good and evil. To be 'nihilistic' is to deny things at their greatest degree of intensity, not in their lowest versions. Now, existence and self-evidence have always been the lowest forms. If there is nihilism, then, it is not a nihilism of value, but a nihilism of form. It is to speak the world in its radicality, in its dual, reversible form, and this has never meant banking on catastrophe, any more than on violence. No finality, either positive or negative, is ever the last word in the story. And the Apocalypse itself is a facile solution.”

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Book:The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
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“Το να σκοτώνεις στο όνομα του Θεού ή στο όνομα του μέλλοντος είναι το ίδιο. Όταν η αιτία είναι κάποια ιδεολογία, η ενσυναίσθηση και η συμπόνεια εξαφανίζονται. Σκοτώνουμε ψυχρά, δίχως να επηρεάζεται η συνείδηση, σαν το αδικαιολόγητο έγκλημα ενός ψυχοπαθούς.”

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Book:Jo confesso
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