Infinite Progress

Author : Byron Reese
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608324057

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For years we’ve been inundated with bleak forecasts about the future. But in this electrifying new book, author Byron Reese debunks the pessimistic outlook as dangerous, and shows instead how technology will soon create a dramatically better world for every person on earth, beyond anything we have dared to imagine. With the art of a storyteller, Reese synthesizes history, technology, and sociology into an exciting, fast-moving narrative that shows how technological change has had dramatic effects on humanity in the past. He then looks forward at the technological changes we know are coming—from genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and many other fields—and explores how they will vastly increase wealth, prolong our lifespans, redefine human rights, and alter the social fabric of the world. Reese explains how the Internet, human ingenuity, and technological innovation will help us forever end the five historic plagues of human existence: ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war. With a rational and researched optimism, Reese sees the future not as a world in a downward spiral, but as destined for progress beyond our imaginations. As Reese looks forward, he notes that “we are gaining speed, not winding down. We are blooming, not withering, as we leverage the greatest natural resource on the planet: the human mind.” The future of Earth’s inhabitants has never been brighter. If you want to get excited about the future, then this is the book for you.

Author : Elizabeth Brient
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813210895

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The Immanence of the Infinite by Elizabeth Brient Pdf

Most scholars would agree that there is an epochal threshold between the world of the Middle Ages and the modern world. Agreement on the nature and dynamic structure of that threshold is harder to come by. Hans Blumenberg's original and compelling account of the transition from medieval to modern, given in his 1966 work The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, has received wide attention. Elizabeth Brient begins her own account of the transition with an extensive, critical assessment of central aspects of Blumenberg's work. She elucidates his "dialogical" method of historical explanation, then discusses the shortcomings of his defense of the "legitimacy" of modernity. The transition to the modern world is marked by the process of making infinite the finite medieval cosmos. Whereas Blumenberg focused on the spatial infinitization of the universe, Brient claims that the process must be understood intensively as well as extensively. In the now-infinite universe of the new science, the problem of finding a measure for man's self-assertive activity, and for human knowledge, comes to the fore. The second half of the book focuses on the way in which this difficulty is addressed with conceptual resources developed in the tradition of late medieval Neoplatonism, in particular in the speculative thought of Meister Eckart and Nicholas of Cusa. Specific attention is given to the way in which Cusanus' notion of the immanence of the infinite in the finite responds to the need for a regulative ideal for human knowing. This is the first book-length treatment of Blumenberg to appear in English and will be a most welcome resource for readers engaged by debates concerning the status of modernity. It will be of equal interest to students of Eckhart and Cusanus, and to those generally concerned with the transition between the medieval and the modern world. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Elizabeth Brient is Assistant Professor of philosophy at The University of Georgia. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "Blumenberg could not have wished for a more reverent critique of his achievements or a more exacting textual exegesis regarding the sources of their philosophical content, all written in a lucid style that is forthright in the defense of the depth of thought during the Middle Ages but also pleasing in its subtle irony with respect to Blumenberg's and the author's own metaphysical creed."- Walter F. Veit, Speculum "Brient's analysis of Blumenberg's philosophy sheds significant light in the debate concerning modernity. . . ." --Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, German Studies Review

Author : Wm. T. Harris,Edited By.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555031202

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THE JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSPHY by Wm. T. Harris,Edited By. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCAL:B3088642

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The Journal of Speculative Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Calderwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Infinite
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019389345

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The Philosophy of the Infinite by Henry Calderwood Pdf

Author : Stephen Snyder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319940724

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End-of-Art Philosophy in Hegel, Nietzsche and Danto by Stephen Snyder Pdf

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However, at a deeper level, it relates to a transformation in how we philosophically understand our relation to the ‘world’. Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto each strive philosophically to overcome Cartesian dualism, redrawing the traditional lines between mind and matter. Hegel sees the overcoming of the material in the ideal, Nietzsche levels the two worlds into one, and Danto divides the world into representing and non-representing material. These attempts to overcome dualism necessitate notions of the self that differ significantly from traditional accounts; the redrawn boundaries show that art and philosophy grasp essential but different aspects of human existence. Neither perspective, however, fully grasps the duality. The appearance of art’s end occurs when one aspect is given priority: for Hegel and Danto, it is the essentialist lens of philosophy, and, in Nietzsche’s case, the transformative power of artistic creativity. Thus, the book makes the case that the end-of-art claim is avoided if a theory of art links the internal practice of artistic creation to all of art’s historical forms.

Author : L. Guzman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137454508

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Relating Hegel's Science of Logic to Contemporary Philosophy by L. Guzman Pdf

This book offers an interpretation of certain Hegelian concepts, and their relevance to various themes in contemporary philosophy, which will allow for a non-metaphysical understanding of his thought, further strengthening his relevance to philosophy today by placing him in the midst of current debates.

Author : Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804770958

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Europe, or The Infinite Task by Rodolphe Gasché Pdf

What exactly does "Europe" mean for philosophy today? Putting aside both Eurocentrism and anti-Eurocentrism, Gasché returns to the old name "Europe" to examine it as a concept or idea in the work of four philosophers from the phenomenological tradition: Husserl, Heidegger, Patočka, and Derrida. Beginning with Husserl, the idea of Europe became central to such issues as rationality, universality, openness to the other, and responsibility. Europe, or The Infinite Task tracks the changes these issues have undergone in phenomenology in order to investigate "Europe's" continuing potential for critical and enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of global market economics. Rather than giving up on the idea of Europe as an anachronism, Gasché aims to show that it still has philosophical legs.

Author : Hudson Tuttle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Animal magnetism
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajn1715:0001.001

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Arcana of Nature by Hudson Tuttle Pdf

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401716581

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Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

What essentially is a garden? Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favorite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? Or is it a symbol, a mirror, a reflection of our human passions? The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness in natural life, transposing dreams, nostalgias, and enchantments.

Author : David Borthwick
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319338774

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Spectral Theory of Infinite-Area Hyperbolic Surfaces by David Borthwick Pdf

This text introduces geometric spectral theory in the context of infinite-area Riemann surfaces, providing a comprehensive account of the most recent developments in the field. For the second edition the context has been extended to general surfaces with hyperbolic ends, which provides a natural setting for development of the spectral theory while still keeping technical difficulties to a minimum. All of the material from the first edition is included and updated, and new sections have been added. Topics covered include an introduction to the geometry of hyperbolic surfaces, analysis of the resolvent of the Laplacian, scattering theory, resonances and scattering poles, the Selberg zeta function, the Poisson formula, distribution of resonances, the inverse scattering problem, Patterson-Sullivan theory, and the dynamical approach to the zeta function. The new sections cover the latest developments in the field, including the spectral gap, resonance asymptotics near the critical line, and sharp geometric constants for resonance bounds. A new chapter introduces recently developed techniques for resonance calculation that illuminate the existing results and conjectures on resonance distribution. The spectral theory of hyperbolic surfaces is a point of intersection for a great variety of areas, including quantum physics, discrete groups, differential geometry, number theory, complex analysis, and ergodic theory. This book will serve as a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers from these and other related fields. Review of the first edition: "The exposition is very clear and thorough, and essentially self-contained; the proofs are detailed...The book gathers together some material which is not always easily available in the literature...To conclude, the book is certainly at a level accessible to graduate students and researchers from a rather large range of fields. Clearly, the reader...would certainly benefit greatly from it." (Colin Guillarmou, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 h)

Author : Josiah Royce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Philosophy and religion
ISBN : UCD:31175008500483

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The Religious Aspect of Philosophy by Josiah Royce Pdf

Author : Hudson Tuttle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Creation
ISBN : OSU:32435064327869

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Arcana of Nature; Or, The History and Laws of Creation by Hudson Tuttle Pdf

Author : Sir William Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Logic
ISBN : WISC:89064362429

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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic: Metaphysics by Sir William Hamilton Pdf

Author : Sir William Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : MINN:31951002285312R

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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by Sir William Hamilton Pdf