[{"id":114649,"title":"The Ten Rules of Spiritual and Professional Fulfillment","subtitle":null,"description":"For centuries, most discussions of spirituality in Western culture have concentrated on the precepts and practices of the Judeo-Christian tradition. For more than 2000 years, any consideration of the spiritual life fell within the privileged domain of organized religion. But the rise of modern secularism in the 18th and 19th centuries severely compromised the credibility of the religious path, raising a serious dilemma for the modern West-the spiritual imperatives of life continue to demand our attention at a time when traditional mechanisms for addressing these needs have become increasingly dysfunctional and ineffective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA potential source of remedy for this situation lies in an appeal to a distinctively different tradition, one that does not rely upon faith but instead seeks to arrive at spiritual insight by the alternative route of rational inquiry. Reason can confer its own unique spiritual discernments, even in the absence of mitre and chalice. The ten rules which follow represent enduring features of the Greek wisdom. In a very real sense, they are defiant of time and place and represent insights which remain profoundly relevant for contemporary culture. They can serve as antidotes for an age in which much that is true and valuable has been obscured by falsity and misconception. Accordingly, these ancient aphorisms are offered to all those interested in rubbing the dust from their eyes.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b117237.jpg","isbn":"960-209-986-0","isbn13":"978-960-209-986-5","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":106,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2011-01-07","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":505,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":117237,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-ten-rules-of-spiritual-and-professional-fulfillment.json"},{"id":86049,"title":"The Song of Hellas","subtitle":null,"description":"There is no denying the generosity with which early commentators treated the ancient Greeks. No other people received more praise for their courage, their curiosity, and their genius. Too often, though, these adulations were excessive and operated in neglect of accuracy. Accordingly, more recent scholars are to be commended for having tempered our enthusiasms for the Greek Miracle; for reminding us that far from being a race of demi-gods, the Hellenes were in many respects \"all too human.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday there is a new challenge. We no longer need concern ourselves with retrieving the Greeks from some Olympian height - quite the contrary. The present task is to remedy a distortion born of neglect and misrendering that has minimalized much of the Hellenic legacy. This book seeks, therefore, to remind its readers that there is more to the Greek patrimony than a handful of sculptures and a collection of polytheistic folktales. Specifically, it attempts to trace the journey of an audacious little people who forever altered the course of world history by daring to unleash the energies of the human spirit.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b88093.jpg","isbn":"960-209-786-8","isbn13":"978-960-209-786-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":408,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"33.0","price_updated_at":"2011-01-07","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":505,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":88093,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-song-of-hellas.json"}]