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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OXFORD:N10897982
Author : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520071711
Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me." In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631224262
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.
Author : David Tracy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226811260
In Plurality and Ambiguity, David Tracy lays the philosophical groundwork for a practical application of hermeneutics, while constructing an innovative model of theological interpretation developed out of the notions of conversation and argument. He concludes with an appraisal of the religious significance of hope in an age of radically different voices and constantly shifting meanings.
Author : BERNARD DE. FONTENELLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033464228
Author : María Constanza Guzmán,Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780228009559
Cultural and linguistic diversity and plurality are seen as markers of our time, linked to discourses about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the context of economic globalization in the late twentieth century. It is often monolingualism, however, that informs understanding and policies regulating the relationship between languages, nations, and communities. Grounded by the idea of language as lived experience, Negotiating Linguistic Plurality assumes linguistic plurality to be a continuing human condition and offers a novel transnational and comparative perspective on it. The essays featured cover concepts and praxis in which linguistic plurality surfaces in the public sphere through institutional and individual practices. The collection adopts a critical view of language policies and foregrounds distances and dissonances between policy and language practices by presenting lived experiences of multilingualism. Translation, seen as constitutive to the relations inherent to linguistic plurality, is at the core of the volume. Contributors explore a range of social and institutional aspects of the relationship between translation and linguistic plurality, foregrounding less documented experiences and minoritized practices. Presenting knowledge that spans regions, languages, and territories, Negotiating Linguistic Plurality is a thoughtful consideration of what constitutes language plurality: what its limits are, as well as its possibilities.
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1758
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OCLC:38663921
Author : Peter Jonkers,Oliver J. Wiertz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429671135
This book deals with the intellectual aspects of having diverse religious expressions in proximity and the socio-political consequences. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on this complex subject, cross-fertilizing work on religious plurality with truth-claims from theologians as well as philosophers from the continental and analytic traditions. The book includes three major parts. Part 1 explores the ideas around religious diversity and truth; Part 2 draws out the epistemic import of religious diversity; and Part 3 concludes the volume by examining the practical and social aspects of religious diversity. Bringing a transdisciplinary perspective to a topic that remains at the forefront of conversation around the religious life of the world, this book will be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Theology and the Philosophy of Religion.
Author : Dave Harvey
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433571572
Building and Sustaining a Thriving Leadership Culture Essential to every healthy church is a biblical model of leadership. In the New Testament, church leadership is built around a team of elders working together, each bringing his own unique skills and gifts to the cause of shepherding the flock God entrusted to them. However, in many churches today the principle of plurality in leadership is often misunderstood, mistakenly applied, or completely ignored. Dave Harvey encourages church leaders to prioritize plurality for the surprising ways that it helps churches to flourish. This book not only builds a compelling case for churches to adopt and maintain biblical elder pluralities guided by solid leadership but also supplies practical tools to help elders work together for transformation. Download the free study guide.
Author : Karlo Basta,John McGarry,Richard Simeon
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774828208
Territorial pluralism is a form of political autonomy designed to accommodate national, ethnic, or linguistic differences within a state. It has the potential to provide for the peaceful, democratic, and just management of difference. But given traditional concerns about state sovereignty and unity, how realistic is it to expect that a state will agree to recognize and empower distinct substate communities? The contributors to this book answer this question by examining a wide variety of cases, including in developing and industrialized states and democratic and authoritarian regimes. They find that territorial pluralism remains a legitimate and effective means for managing difference in multinational states.
Author : Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 1904799574
Author : Stephen Okey
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814684429
Sometimes described as “a theologian’s theologian,” David Tracy’s scholarship has impacted countless thinkers around the globe. The complexity of his thought, however, has often made engaging his work into a daunting challenge. Combining analysis of the most influential features of Tracy’s theology (theological method, the religious classic, public theology) with a retrieval of his more overlooked interests (Christology, God), Stephen Okey presents the essential themes of Tracy’s career in accessible and insightful prose.
Author : Richard J. Plantinga
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780631209140
This selection of source readings brings together diverse materials from the Christian tradition in order to help students think theologically about the implications of religious plurality.
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1715
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OXFORD:N10268384
Author : Sonia Sedivy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474255769
Beauty and the End of Art shows how a resurgence of interest in beauty and a sense of ending in Western art are challenging us to rethink art, beauty and their relationship. By arguing that Wittgenstein's later work and contemporary theory of perception offer just what we need for a unified approach to art and beauty, Sonia Sedivy provides new answers to these contemporary challenges. These new accounts also provide support for the Wittgensteinian realism and theory of perception that make them possible. Wittgenstein's subtle form of realism explains artworks in terms of norm governed practices that have their own varied constitutive norms and values. Wittgensteinian realism also suggests that diverse beauties become available and compelling in different cultural eras and bring a shared 'higher-order' value into view. With this framework in place, Sedivy argues that perception is a form of engagement with the world that draws on our conceptual capacities. This approach explains how perceptual experience and the perceptible presence of the world are of value, helping to account for the diversity of beauties that are available in different historical contexts and why the many faces of beauty allow us to experience the value of the world's perceptible presence. Carefully examining contemporary debates about art, aesthetics and perception, Beauty and the End of Art presents an original approach. Insights from such diverse thinkers as Immanuel Kant, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Arthur Danto, Alexander Nehamas, Elaine Scarry and Dave Hickey are woven together to reveal how they make good sense if we bring contemporary theory of perception and Wittgensteinian realism into the conversation.