12-08-2011, 04:18 PM
"'The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature' is a book written by the German philosopher Karl Marx as his university thesis. Completed in 1841, it was on the basis of this work that he earned his Ph.D."
Is there a copy in English that can be acquired digitally or in print? Yes, right here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22759637/Karl-...-of-Nature
I shall endeavor to read it later, perhaps over a few bottles of Blackberry Witbier ["Being fond of alcoholic beverages, at Bonn [Marx] joined the Trier Tavern Club drinking society (Landsmannschaft der Treveraner) and at one point served as its co-president."] since the state of Massachusetts (once described as "The People's Republic of Cambridge"] may soon radically diminish the abilities of Sam Adams to brew such things.
"The essay has been described as "a daring and original piece of work in which he set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy"...[33]
From my bibliography:
Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine and the Metaphysics of Healing, Chip Brown, Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam), New York 1998. [A journalist, a skeptic by profession who, if he did not become a True Believer, at least came to understand that it starts with belief.
Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch, Lama Surya Das, Broadway Books, Random House, New York. 1999
Better, Atul Gawande, Henry Holt, Metropolitan, 2007. [Notable for a discussion about due diligence en route to positive deviance.]
Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience, James P.. Carse, HarperOne, San Franciso, 1994. [A delightful read by a retired professor of the history of literature and religion.]
The Break-Out Principle, Herbert Benson, M.D. and William Proctor, Scribner, New York 2003. [How to activate your accessible biomechanical "trigger" to power up creativity, insight, stress-reduction, and top-notch performance, by the author of The Relaxation Response.]
Counter Clockwise: mindful health and the power of possibility, Ellen Langer, Ballantine Books, NY 2009.
Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, Matthew Fox, Tarcher/Putnam, New York 2002.
Emergence: The Connected Lives, of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, Steven Johnson, Touchstone Books, 2002. [On the evolution of organizations.]
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotions in the Making of Consciousness, Antonio Damasio, Harcourt, 1999.
God in Many Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing, ed. by Lucinda Vardey, Pantheon Books, New York, 1995.


God and the Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution, by James Redfield, Michael Murphy and Sylvia Timbers, Tarcher/Putnam, New York 2002. [A profound book with a stunning premise, something more than just its thorough yet simple review of the wisdoms of sages, mystics and scientists, it is an exploration of the range of extraordinary capabilities available to the human body/mind/spirit, and it is a call to personal action. Redfield is the author of The Celestine Prophecy, The Tenth Insight and The Celestine Vision. Murphy, the founder of the Esalen Institute, is the author of In the Zone (with Rhea Murphy), The Future of the Body, and The Life We are Given (with George Leonard). Timbers has been involved in consciousness studies and training for 20 years and a multimedia producer of projects focused on psychological and spiritual development. The book also contains a 66-page guide to the literature of transformative practice and a 28-page series of simple suggested practices that will deepen anyone's abilities in personal development of body/mind/spirit unity.]
Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind, Larry Dossey, M.D., Shambhala, Boston 2001.
Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit In Everyday Life, Sam Keen, Bantam, NY 1995.
Liars, Lovers and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are, Steven R. Quartz, Ph.D. and Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D., HarperCollins/Wm. Morrow, New York 2002. [Quartz is the director of the Social Cognitive NeuroScience Lab at the California Institute of Technology. Sejnowski is regarded as the foremost theoretical brain scientist; he directs the Computational Biology Lab at the Salk Institute.]
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Steven Johnson, Scribner, NY, 2004. [Neuroscience for the rest of us….]
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, Bill Plotkin, New World Library, Novato, CA 2008. {A major work on developmental psychology and ecopsychology.]
The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Thomas Moore, HarperPerennial 1997. [Written by a monk/theologist/psychologist, this is about the ways in which soulful living invests ordinary experiences with magic and enchantment.]
Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America, Eugene Taylor, Counterpoint Press, Washington, DC 1999. [The author holds an MA in psychology and a PhD. in the history of philosophy and psychology, is a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard, and is a senior psychologist at Massachusetts General, an author of books on William James as well as the psychology of spiritual healing, and is the chief instructor at the Harvard University Aikido Club.]
The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, Joseph LeDoux, Viking Books, New York 2002. [A synthesis of the latest insights from neuroscience.]
Thinking With Your Soul: Spiritual Intelligence and Why It Matters, 
Richard Wolman, Ph.D., Random House/Harmony Books, New York 2001.
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention and the Four Theaters of the Brain, John J. Ratey, M.D., Random House/Pantheon, New York, New York 2001. [A fascinating book that ranges across the neurosciences, psychology, pharmacology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and education in the subjects of development, perception, attention, consciousness, movement, memory, emotion, language, the social brain, brain function, identity/behavior, and the care and feeding of the brain.] 


Walking in this World: The Practical Art of Creativity, Julia Cameron, Tarcher/Putnam 2002. [A follow-up to The Artists' Way, this book is about rediscovering our senses of origin, proportion, perspective, adventure, personal territory, boundaries, momentum, discernment, resiliency, camaraderie, authenticity and dignity. Her list of recommended reading is remarkable.]
A Way of Working (D. M. Dooling, editor), Anchor Books, 1979.
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There's a lot of God, spirit, meditation, and theology in there for a book that is supposed to be about "socialist man" based on Marx. I don't see any references to Hegelianism, any works written by anyone listed in the Wikipedia entry that were inspired by him. It says in that Wikipedia entry that "Marx sees the social function of religion in terms of highlighting/preserving political and economic status quo and inequality", but perhaps you can enlighten me about how the books i have noted or the excerpts from them you cannot have seen highlights or preserves economic status quo and inequality.
Is there a copy in English that can be acquired digitally or in print? Yes, right here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22759637/Karl-...-of-Nature
I shall endeavor to read it later, perhaps over a few bottles of Blackberry Witbier ["Being fond of alcoholic beverages, at Bonn [Marx] joined the Trier Tavern Club drinking society (Landsmannschaft der Treveraner) and at one point served as its co-president."] since the state of Massachusetts (once described as "The People's Republic of Cambridge"] may soon radically diminish the abilities of Sam Adams to brew such things.
"The essay has been described as "a daring and original piece of work in which he set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy"...[33]
From my bibliography:
Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine and the Metaphysics of Healing, Chip Brown, Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam), New York 1998. [A journalist, a skeptic by profession who, if he did not become a True Believer, at least came to understand that it starts with belief.
Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch, Lama Surya Das, Broadway Books, Random House, New York. 1999
Better, Atul Gawande, Henry Holt, Metropolitan, 2007. [Notable for a discussion about due diligence en route to positive deviance.]
Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience, James P.. Carse, HarperOne, San Franciso, 1994. [A delightful read by a retired professor of the history of literature and religion.]
The Break-Out Principle, Herbert Benson, M.D. and William Proctor, Scribner, New York 2003. [How to activate your accessible biomechanical "trigger" to power up creativity, insight, stress-reduction, and top-notch performance, by the author of The Relaxation Response.]
Counter Clockwise: mindful health and the power of possibility, Ellen Langer, Ballantine Books, NY 2009.
Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet, Matthew Fox, Tarcher/Putnam, New York 2002.
Emergence: The Connected Lives, of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software, Steven Johnson, Touchstone Books, 2002. [On the evolution of organizations.]
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotions in the Making of Consciousness, Antonio Damasio, Harcourt, 1999.
God in Many Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing, ed. by Lucinda Vardey, Pantheon Books, New York, 1995.


God and the Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution, by James Redfield, Michael Murphy and Sylvia Timbers, Tarcher/Putnam, New York 2002. [A profound book with a stunning premise, something more than just its thorough yet simple review of the wisdoms of sages, mystics and scientists, it is an exploration of the range of extraordinary capabilities available to the human body/mind/spirit, and it is a call to personal action. Redfield is the author of The Celestine Prophecy, The Tenth Insight and The Celestine Vision. Murphy, the founder of the Esalen Institute, is the author of In the Zone (with Rhea Murphy), The Future of the Body, and The Life We are Given (with George Leonard). Timbers has been involved in consciousness studies and training for 20 years and a multimedia producer of projects focused on psychological and spiritual development. The book also contains a 66-page guide to the literature of transformative practice and a 28-page series of simple suggested practices that will deepen anyone's abilities in personal development of body/mind/spirit unity.]
Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind, Larry Dossey, M.D., Shambhala, Boston 2001.
Hymns to an Unknown God: Awakening the Spirit In Everyday Life, Sam Keen, Bantam, NY 1995.
Liars, Lovers and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are, Steven R. Quartz, Ph.D. and Terrence J. Sejnowski, Ph.D., HarperCollins/Wm. Morrow, New York 2002. [Quartz is the director of the Social Cognitive NeuroScience Lab at the California Institute of Technology. Sejnowski is regarded as the foremost theoretical brain scientist; he directs the Computational Biology Lab at the Salk Institute.]
Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Steven Johnson, Scribner, NY, 2004. [Neuroscience for the rest of us….]
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, Bill Plotkin, New World Library, Novato, CA 2008. {A major work on developmental psychology and ecopsychology.]
The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Thomas Moore, HarperPerennial 1997. [Written by a monk/theologist/psychologist, this is about the ways in which soulful living invests ordinary experiences with magic and enchantment.]
Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America, Eugene Taylor, Counterpoint Press, Washington, DC 1999. [The author holds an MA in psychology and a PhD. in the history of philosophy and psychology, is a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard, and is a senior psychologist at Massachusetts General, an author of books on William James as well as the psychology of spiritual healing, and is the chief instructor at the Harvard University Aikido Club.]
The Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, Joseph LeDoux, Viking Books, New York 2002. [A synthesis of the latest insights from neuroscience.]
Thinking With Your Soul: Spiritual Intelligence and Why It Matters, 
Richard Wolman, Ph.D., Random House/Harmony Books, New York 2001.
A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention and the Four Theaters of the Brain, John J. Ratey, M.D., Random House/Pantheon, New York, New York 2001. [A fascinating book that ranges across the neurosciences, psychology, pharmacology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and education in the subjects of development, perception, attention, consciousness, movement, memory, emotion, language, the social brain, brain function, identity/behavior, and the care and feeding of the brain.] 


Walking in this World: The Practical Art of Creativity, Julia Cameron, Tarcher/Putnam 2002. [A follow-up to The Artists' Way, this book is about rediscovering our senses of origin, proportion, perspective, adventure, personal territory, boundaries, momentum, discernment, resiliency, camaraderie, authenticity and dignity. Her list of recommended reading is remarkable.]
A Way of Working (D. M. Dooling, editor), Anchor Books, 1979.
***
There's a lot of God, spirit, meditation, and theology in there for a book that is supposed to be about "socialist man" based on Marx. I don't see any references to Hegelianism, any works written by anyone listed in the Wikipedia entry that were inspired by him. It says in that Wikipedia entry that "Marx sees the social function of religion in terms of highlighting/preserving political and economic status quo and inequality", but perhaps you can enlighten me about how the books i have noted or the excerpts from them you cannot have seen highlights or preserves economic status quo and inequality.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"