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Pragmatic Rationalism: An Introduction

By: Frank Robert Vivelo

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Pragmatic Rationalism: An Introduction

By: Frank Robert Vivelo

Pragmatic rationalism is a coherent blend of elements from Epicureanism, Stoicism, Empiricism, and Existentialism. It holds that the ultimate goal of life is happiness-individual happiness identified as psychic tranquility or untroubledness-and attempts to pursue that goal in the most practical, efficacious manner possible. Accordingly, it emphasizes investing this pursuit in the only things we each control, our thoughts and feelings, and minimizing desire for and reliance on all things external to us and therefore not under our control, such as wealth and fame. It insists that individuals choose, and therefore are responsible for, all they think and feel. It rejects all emotionalism and belief systems and, instead, relies on induction and probability to guide decision making and behavior. Though an egoistic and hedonistic philosophy from the individual's perspective, it nevertheless advocates the Golden Rule as the most useful guiding principle in interaction with others.

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1304236994

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Getting What You Want from Others: A New Collection of Lessons for Success from Lord Chesterfield

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Getting What You Want from Others: A New Collection of Lessons for Success from Lord Chesterfield

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From their first publication, Chesterfield's letters were considered scandalous. Samuel Johnson said they taught the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master. In reality, Chesterfield advocated a strict morality that condemned lying, rudeness, cheating, corruption, vanity, idleness, ridiculing others, and vulgarity. In their place, he recommended good manners, respect for the beliefs and opinions of others, propriety, generosity, charity, eloquence, grace, amiability, good humor, self-control, common sense, and the Golden Rule to woo others, win their hearts, and advance one's own agenda. The purpose of this book is to encapsulate Chesterfield's teachings in presentations accessible and easily understood by today's readers. Advice on similar topics is extracted from several letters, brought together, given headings, and arranged where possible in point-by-point format.

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1304237028

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Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

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Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

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This may be the oddest book of its kind that you'll ever read. It's a memoir of a sort, an autobiography, in much the same way that crumbs dropped on the forest floor are a pathway to the old hag's hut where Hansel and Gretel are held. If you collect the crumbs as you walk, you'll have a sum greater than its parts at the end of your trek-a surprisingly coherent account of a unique personality, an incorrigible individualist, fiercely independent, defiant of tradition, who is sometimes profound and insightful and sometimes trite and narrow-minded, highly original but not necessarily admirable. Most important, the author is someone who thinks, which challenges readers to think. And whether or not you're sympathetic to his way of thinking, one thing is clear: he is above all else rational.

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1387304127

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Michael Deal

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Michael Deal

By: Frank Robert Vivelo

Michael Deal is a novel about one man's struggle to find his place in the human community. The structure of the book reflects its theme. Every action sequence, every series of events, every chapter, as well as the entire book as an organic whole, exhibits the identical structure as its protagonist attempts to "fit in," is frustrated and fails, and reacts in one of two ways, withdrawal or attack, until at the very end of the novel he finds his own way of coming to terms with the issue. This blending of structure and theme is masterfully accomplished in the Africa sequence, which constitutes most of chapter two, the longest of the novel's three chapters. The theme of finding one's place may not be unique; but Vivelo's voice, as well as his manner of presenting this perennial concern, is decidedly different from that of any other novelist.

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0595260462

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Endnotes: The Final Journal

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Endnotes: The Final Journal

By: Frank Robert Vivelo

Commentary of various lengths on a variety of topics including religion, social practices, language, having babies, keeping pets, suicide, education, art, and philosophy--most of which is irreverent or iconoclastic yet instructive.

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1257798081

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How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

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How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

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Simple, practical presentation of basic principles of effective leadership for senior managers, presidents, and CEOs. Candid... Unconventional... Provocative... Entertaining... But, most of all, useful... with realistic advice and concrete examples.

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Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

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How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

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Pragmatic Rationalism: An Introduction

Pragmatic Rationalism: An Introduction

Getting What You Want from Others: A New Collection of Lessons for Success from Lord Chesterfield

Getting What You Want from Others: A New Collection of Lessons for Success from Lord Chesterfield

Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

Michael Deal

Michael Deal

Endnotes: The Final Journal

Endnotes: The Final Journal

How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

Misanthrope! Autobiographical Notes

Pragmatic Rationalism: An Introduction

Pragmatic Rationalism: An Introduction

How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

How to Eat an Elephant: A Primer on Leadership

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