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"The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument" is a treatise written by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, first published in 1831. In this work, Schopenhauer delves into the strategies and tactics individuals can employ to successfully argue and prevail in debates or discussions.

Schopenhauer's approach to argumentation is deeply rooted in the psychology of persuasion and the dynamics of human interaction. He categorizes the various methods of argumentation into 38 distinct strategies, each designed to exploit different weaknesses in an opponent's reasoning or rhetorical style.

A crença em Deus é um ato de fé que necessita estar enraizado na experiência pessoal.

Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around.

In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe--our own--from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader's ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal.

The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.

From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere -- and they are fundamental to everyday life.Seventeen Equations that Changed the World examines seventeen ground-breaking equations that have altered the course of human history. He explores how Pythagoras's Theorem led to GPS and Satnav; how logarithms are applied in architecture; why imaginary numbers were important in the development of the digital camera, and what is really going on with Schrödinger's cat.
Entertaining, surprising and vastly informative, Seventeen Equations that Changed the World is a highly original exploration -- and explanation -- of life on earth.

Um dos trabalhos filosóficos mais lidos e influentes de todos os tempos, Assim falou Zaratustra talvez deva sua extraordinária fortuna ao seu caráter híbrido: filosofia, religião e literatura nele se juntam de maneira complexa e atraente. Ao publicar Além do bem e do mal, livro imediatamente posterior, Nietzsche revelou ao amigo Jacob Burckhardt que a nova publicação continha “as mesmas coisas que havia dito antes pela boca de Zaratustra, mas de modo diferente, bem diferente”. De fato, o leitor reconhecerá, na linguagem metafórica e alegórica dos discursos e diálogos de Zaratustra, muitas das ideias que seriam desenvolvidas em prosa reflexiva nas obras posteriores ― ou que já haviam sido abordadas em Aurora e A gaia ciência, livros aos quais ele chegou a se referir como “comentários ao Zaratustra antes que ele aparecesse”.