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Beyond the Concept of Sport
Beyond the Concept of Sport challenges tired assumptions about athletics to unveil sports’ underestimated yet far-reaching social impact and philosophical significance. While governments downplay its influence, author Robert Griffiths recognizes that sports – especially cricket – deeply channels the human spirit for participants and fans alike. He eschews cliches to deliver fresh insight into sports’ resonance.
This is no dry academic tome, but rather a lively examination blending scholarship with accessibility. Griffiths brings iconoclastic yet sage opinions to unpacking how athletic pursuits shape culture and consciousness. He illuminates the under-appreciated role sports play in forging identity, purpose, inspiration, escapism and more for millions globally. Grappling with issues often overlooked when discussing athletics, Griffiths’ unconventional analysis explores fandom, nationalism, arts, business, and the very meaning woven through sports’ rituals.
Written with passionate intellect, wry wit, and a distaste for the dull, Beyond the Concept of Sport cries out to be read by both die-hard fans and curious sceptics. After all, few human realms spark such fervour and unity across the world’s divides like that of sports. This book captures that emotional impact while elevating sports as a subject worthy of serious yet spirited consideration.
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Talk Like Nature
Nature is the leading speaker, the silent, yet most talented and accurate creator in this realm of physical reality. We observe Nature and, in most encounters, do not grasp the true nature of Nature. Comprehending the manner by which Nature speaks its expression into forms of life, is our personal path towards us mastering our own natural way of life-manifestation.
Talk Like Nature is the stepping stone towards capturing the profound, yet unknown, existing alignment between Nature’s characteristics and specific words in the human language. The book guides its explorers towards the unseen Nature-like manner of pure manifestation by revealing and teaching Nature’s behaviour and by correlating Nature’s outward projection of its inherent characteristics with specific words in our language.
Talk Like Nature leads to the comprehension of which words within our language harbour the most Nature-aligned elements; it allows its readers to become aware of the small, yet very significant nuances within their expressions and accentuates a way of communication oriented in line with Nature’s characteristics.
The personal awareness and utilisation of this natural speaking manner channels the spoken and written words in the most Nature-like, successful fashion, thus establishing a significant improvement and a natural elevation of anyone’s life’s vitality.
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The World as Thought
What explains the existence of the world and our place in it? Is there a primal cause beyond our comprehension because our intelligence is part of the very world we seek to understand? The author asserts that such a cause exists and identifies it as what ancient Indian thinkers termed the End of Knowledge.
Far from simply reporting this concept, the author develops profound insights through inspired discussions, leading to two kinds of startling conclusions. First, these insights offer a new, deeper understanding of our own nature. Second, they present a sweeping revaluation of the nature of universal Space, Time, and Matter. Notably, the author details and explores the profound implications of the idea that time does not progress in a real sense.
This book serves as an introduction to rationality within spiritual belief, paving the way for a harmonious integration of reason and spirituality.
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Are There Any Moral Truths?
We live in crisis-ridden times. Civilization is repeatedly ravaged by diseases, recessions, wars, and international terror, while global climate change and the existence of nuclear weapons could soon put an end to humanity. What are we to do? Serious problems like these raise many moral questions, but people often disagree, sometimes vehemently, about the answers.
Moral disagreements pose a fundamental question: Could some moral opinions be better than others? Are there any moral truths at all, or is right and wrong merely a matter of perspective, depending on the eye of the beholder? Perhaps moral beliefs are nothing but a kind of superstition, like beliefs about vampires or Greek gods and goddesses?
In this refreshingly unorthodox introduction, Danish philosopher Thomas Østergaard deals with these questions in a novel way. Written as a philosophical dialogue, the book makes the various positions come alive through four people’s interchange of ideas and arguments, continuously interspersed with everyday examples as well as intriguing thought experiments. As a witness to this debate, the reader is invited to ponder the nature of morality, the possibility of resolving our moral differences, and the puzzling and provocative question: Why should I care about morality?
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