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The Secular Saints
And Why Morals Are Not Just Subjective[View...]This book provides “brief lives” and thoughts of some leading candidates for the term secular saint. All of them have much to teach us about how we lead our lives and think about the fundamental questions we all face.
This book also offers a conclusion: that morals and ethics are not just subjective, that they are grounded in very objective realities.
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Pharmocracy II
How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations are Bankrupting America—and What to do About It[View...]Our healthcare system is irretrievably broken, and now is devastating the US financially. Pharmocracy II, like its predecessor Pharmocracy, uncovers egregious FDA incompetence, abuse, and corruption. It shows how over-regulation causes lifesaving medications to be delayed or suppressed altogether, while approving vastly expensive, minimally effective, and often dangerous drugs. Faloon lays out a completely different approach to healthcare, one that would greatly improve American health while also rescuing the economy.
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The Essence of Socrates
[View...]Socrates is important to us for many reasons. First, he recognized the value of logic and showed us how to use it to discover truth. Second, he led an exemplary and courageous life which cannot fail to inspire anyone who reads about it.
Fortunately his pupils Plato and Xenophon recorded his sayings for posterity. Indeed the connection between Socrates and Plato is so close that this little book could alternatively have been titled The Essence of Plato.
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The Essence of Edward Gibbon on Christianity
[View...]Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) became world famous as the author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Of the early Christian era, he wrote: “The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.” He described the theme of his work as “the triumph of barbarism and religion.”
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Economics in Three Lessons & One Hundred Economic Laws
[View...]Two works in one volume:
Economics in Three Lessons
Henry Hazlitt’s 1946 book Economics in One Lesson sold more than a million copies. It is perhaps the best selling economics book of all time. In this book, Hunter Lewis, a Hazlitt admirer and student, provides a sequel and update.
The great merit of this work is its brevity and simplicity. Anyone can read and understand it. It is an ideal introduction to economics.
One Hundred Economic Laws
In this groundbreaking work, Lewis does what no one has attempted to do. It collects in one place some of the most important laws of economics.
Everyone understands the importance of the laws of physics. Are there also laws of economics? Can understanding them also make our lives better? Lewis answers with a resounding yes.
This short work is also a complete course in economics written in a lively style.
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Where Bernie Went Wrong
And Why His Remedies Will Just Make Crony Capitalism Worse[View...]When self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders ran for president, a 73-year-old reached out to the young to mount a “revolution” against the existing political and economic establishment. Would Sanders’s program work? Where Bernie Went Wrong considers this question and concludes that while Sanders is right in calling for a revolution against today’s political and economic elites, his proposed solutions would actually make the plight of the poor and middle class even worse.
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A Question of Values
Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices that Shape Our Lives[View...]What personal values are. How we decide about them. What the alternatives are. Seventy-eight value systems featured. Used in classrooms at Harvard and around the world. Praised by educators from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Virginia, Berea College and elsewhere.
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The Essence of David Hume on Religion, Morals, and Economics
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. This newest volume in the series is dedicated to David Hume who is ranked as one of the greatest Western philosophers and economists. You will find three main sections on Hume (Religion, Morals, and Economics) as well as a section on his life.
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The Poor Me Manual
Perfecting Self-Pity—My Own Story[View...]This is a rollicking fictional memoir that takes us through the ups and downs of the mysterious author’s life. And what a life it is, full to the brim with every imaginable kind of neurotic behavior. You will often laugh out loud. But you will also learn a great deal about the emotions and about which emotional strategies work and which don’t.
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Moral Foundations
An Introduction to Ethics[View...]Alexander Skutch’s Moral Foundations, offered by Axios Press in English for the first time, embodies Skutch’s lifelong inquiry into the structure of moral relations and the sources of morality. Skutch—world famous naturalist, ornithologist, philosopher and author of over 30 books—believed that in order to build a satisfying moral edifice we need to establish an ample and firm foundation. Moral Foundations brilliantly lays out for the reader the myriad ways in which we are products of “harmonization,” a process that unites the crude elements of the world in harmonious patterns. Not only does life depend on the harmonious integration of body and mind, it demands a high degree of concord with the environment in all its aspects. The culmination of Skutch’s life’s work, Moral Foundations is a tour de force of analysis, research and critical thinking and an important contribution to the study of ethics and philosophy.
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Crony Capitalism in America
2008-2012[View...]We see it everywhere: shady deals between politicians, regulators, and powerful private interests. Increasingly this is how our economy is run. If we are going to do anything about our present economic problems, and give the poor a chance, we need to eliminate crony capitalism. Although full of hair-raising stories, this book is also about solutions. It tells us in clear and simple terms what is wrong and what needs to be done about it.
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The Essence of Spinoza’s Ethics
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Goethe: ” [In his] Ethics …, I found the serenity to calm my passions….” This new edition makes Spinoza’s own words understandable by everyone.
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The Essence of Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Kant may be the greatest Western philosopher. In this extraordinary little book, one of the most influential in history, he offers an ethics based on universal logic. This edition makes his own words both readable and understandable.
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The Essence of George Fox’s Journal
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. George Fox founded The Religious Society of Friends, better known as Quakers, a form of Christianity which has had an immense influence throughout the world. The story contained in his journal is gripping and hard to put down.
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The Essence of Jane Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull House
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Jane Addams was arguably the most influential woman in American history. Her mission as a public intellectual, social activist and reformer shines forth brightly in her inspiring and easy-to-read autobiography. In her time, she was as famous as a president.
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Pharmocracy
How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations are Bankrupting America—and What to do About It[View...]Our healthcare system is irretrievably broken, and now it is devastating the US financially. Pharmocracy uncovers egregious FDA incompetence and abuse, and shows how over-regulation causes lifesaving medications to be delayed or suppressed altogether, and makes consumers pay inflated prices for FDA-approved therapies that are only minimally effective and often dangerous. A free market approach to healthcare, Faloon argues, would spare Medicare and Medicaid from insolvency, while significantly improving the health of the American public.
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Death by Medicine
[View...]The medical environment has become a labyrinth of interlocking corporate, hospital, and governmental boards of directors, infiltrated by the drug companies. Drug company representatives write glowing articles about pharmaceuticals, which are then signed by physicians paid handsomely for their cooperation, though they may not know the adverse side effects of the drugs they promote. The most toxic substances are often approved first, while milder and more natural alternatives are ignored for financial reasons. It’s death by medicine.
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Where Keynes Went Wrong
And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts[View...]In responding to the financial crash of 2008, both the Bush and the Obama Administrations have relied on prescriptions developed by John Maynard Keynes, the most important economist since Marx. But should we be relying on Keynes? What did Keynes actually say? Hunter Lewis concludes in his criticism of Keynesian economics that he did not. If Keynes economics was wrong then so are the economic policies of virtually all world governments today, and are opposed to libertarian ideas like those of Ron Paul and the Tea Party movement.
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The Essence of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Usually regarded as a bible of free market capitalism, this famous work is also a stinging indictment of what is today called crony capitalism.
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The Essence of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
[View...]Axios’s Essence of … Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. Aristotle formulated a unique way of looking at the good life. The motto: moderation in all things is completely Aristotelian, although he would probably have added: moderation in all things including moderation.
