La filosofía de Napoleón Hill: una reflexión crítica


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Napoleón Hill (1883-1970) fue un autor estadounidense que se hizo conocido por su libro "Piense y hágase rico", publicado en 1937. Hill creía que el éxito es una cuestión de elección y que cualquiera puede lograrlo si está dispuesto a trabajar. duro y seguir las leyes del éxito. Este libro explora la filosofía de Hill sobre el éxito. El libro analiza las implicaciones filosóficas y morales de la filosofía de Hill, así como su aplicabilidad en un mundo complejo y desigual.




Stolen Legacy


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For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.




Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society


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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life at a global level. Contemporary literature on war is mainly devoted to recent changes in the theory and practice of warfare, particular those in which terrorists or insurgents are involved (for example, the 'revolution in military affairs', 'small wars', and so on). On the other hand, today's research on security is focused, among other themes, on the effects of the war on terrorism, and on civil liberties and social control. This volume connects these two fields of research, showing how 'war' and 'security' tend to exchange targets and forms of action as well as personnel (for instance, the spreading use of private contractors in wars and of military experts in the 'struggle for security') in modern society. This shows how, contrary to Clausewitz's belief war should be conceived of as a "continuation of politics by other means", the opposite statement is also true: that politics, insofar as it concerns security, can be defined as the 'continuation of war by other means'. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, war and conflict studies, terrorism studies, sociology and IR in general. Salvatore Palidda is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Education at the University of Genoa. Alessandro Dal Lago is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Genoa.




The Law in Cervantes and Shakespeare


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"Building on her earlier work, 'Law and literature,' María José Falcón y Tella's new study takes a look at the law in the works of Cervantes and Shakespeare. In doing so, she examines subjects as wide ranging as: individual rights and freedoms, government and the administration of justice, criminal law, civil law, labor law, commercial law, and the treatment of mental illness, among others"--




Más inteligente que el método de Napoleón Hill: Desafiando las ideas de éxito del libro "Más inteligente que el diablo" - Volumen 07


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El libro "Más inteligente que el diablo", de Napoleón Hill, es un clásico de la literatura de autoayuda . Vendió millones de copias e influyó en la vida de innumerables personas. Sin embargo, la visión que Hill tiene del éxito es simplista y, en algunos casos, incluso perjudicial. Este libro electrónico tiene como objetivo desentrañar los mitos del éxito propagados por Hill y ofrecer una visión holística más realista y completa. La visión de Napoleón Hill sobre el éxito Hill define el éxito como "el cumplimiento de un deseo específico". Él cree que cualquiera puede lograr el éxito si sigue los principios que describe en su libro. Estos principios incluyen: •Deseo ardiente •Fe •Persistencia •Autodisciplina •Iniciativa •Entusiasmo •Positividad •Planificación •Cooperación •Hábito de ahorrar •Tolerancia •El poder del subconsciente Críticas a Hill's View Si bien algunos de los principios de Hill son válidos, su visión del éxito es simplista y poco realista. Ignora los factores sociales, económicos y estructurales que pueden influir en el éxito de una persona. Mitos del éxito propagados por Hill •Cualquiera puede alcanzar el éxito si trabaja lo suficiente. Eso no es verdad. El éxito está influenciado por una serie de factores, incluidos el talento, la suerte y las oportunidades. •El éxito es sólo una cuestión de deseo y fe. Tener un deseo ardiente y fe en uno mismo es importante, pero no es suficiente para garantizar el éxito. •Las personas exitosas siempre son positivas y entusiastas. Eso no es verdad. Las personas exitosas también experimentan dudas y fracasos. •El éxito es sólo cuestión de seguir un plan. La vida es impredecible y los planes no siempre salen como se espera. Una visión holística del éxito El éxito es un concepto complejo y multifacético. No existe una definición única de éxito que se adapte a todos. Una visión holística del éxito tiene en cuenta los siguientes factores: •Factores individuales: Talento, habilidades, conocimientos, personalidad, valores, creencias y motivaciones. •Factores sociales: Familia, amigos, comunidad, cultura y clase social. •Factores económicos: Empleo, educación, salud y oportunidades de ingresos. •Factores estructurales: Discriminación, desigualdad social y política. Aprenda mucho más...




They Forged the Signature of God


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This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.




Crisis and Critique


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Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture, the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and how it actually works; it opens itself to question. Based on this claim, this book reconsiders the place of the notions of crisis and critique as fundamental means to grasp the fragile condition of the social and challenges the normalization and dissolution of these ‘concepts’ in contemporary social theory. It draws on fundamental insights from Hegel, Marx, and Adorno as to recover the importance of the critique of concepts for the critique of society, and engages in a series of studies on the work of Habermas, Koselleck, Arendt, and Foucault as to consider anew the relationship of crisis and critique as immanent to the political and economic forms of modernity. Moving from crisis to critique and from critique to crisis, the book shows that fragility is a price to be paid for accepting the relational constitution of the social world as a human domain without secure foundations, but also for wishing to break free from all attempts at giving closure to social life as an identity without question. This book will engage students of sociology, political theory and social philosophy alike.




Borges and Dante


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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctorate--University College, London, 2001).




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Crossfire


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The marriage of philosophy and fiction in the first third of Spain's twentieth century was a fertile one. It produced some truly notable offspring—novels that cross genre boundaries to find innovative forms, and treatises that fuse literature and philosophy in new ways. In her illuminating interdisciplinary study of Spanish fiction of the "Silver Age," Roberta Johnson places this important body of Spanish literature in context through a synthesis of social, literary, and philosophical history. Her examination of the work of Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja, Azorin, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Gabriel Miro, Pedro Salinas, Rosa Chacel, and Benjamin Jarnes brings to light philosophical frictions and debates and opens new interpersonal and intertextual perspectives on many of the period's most canonical novels. Johnson reformulates the traditional discussion of generations and "isms" by viewing the period as an intergenerational complex in which writers with similar philosophical and personal interests constituted dynamic groupings that interacted and constantly defined and redefined one another. Current narratological theories, including those of Todorov, Genette, Bakhtin, and Martinez Bonati, assist in teasing out the intertextual maneuvers and philosophical conflicts embedded in the novels of the period, while the sociological and biographical material bridges the philosophical and literary analyses. The result, solidly grounded in original archival research, is a convincingly complete picture of Spain's intellectual world in the first thirty years of this century. Crossfire should revolutionize thinking about the Generation of '98 and the Generation of '14 by identifying the heterogeneous philosophical sources of each and the writers' reactions to them in fiction.