Multiplicity In Unity

Author : Carlos M. Herrera
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226327952

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Multiplicity in Unity by Carlos M. Herrera Pdf

Plants produce a considerable number of structures of one kind, like leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds, and this reiteration is a quintessential feature of the body plan of higher plants. But since not all structures of the same kind produced by a plant are identical—for instance, different branches on a plant may be male or female, leaf sizes in the sun differ from those in the shade, and fruit sizes can vary depending on patterns of physiological allocation among branches—a single plant genotype generally produces a multiplicity of phenotypic versions of the same organ. Multiplicity in Unity uses this subindividual variation to deepen our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary factors involved in plant-animal interactions. On one hand, phenotypic variation at the subindividual scale has diverse ecological implications for animals that eat plants. On the other hand, by choosing which plants to consume, these animals may constrain or modify plant ontogenetic patterns, developmental stability, and the extent to which feasible phenotypic variants are expressed by individuals. An innovative study of the ecology, morphology, and evolution of modular organisms, Multiplicity in Unity addresses a topic central to our understanding of the diversity of life and the ways in which organisms have coevolved to cope with variable environments.

Author : John O. Beahrs
Publisher : Bruner Meisel U
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0876302738

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Unity and Multiplicity by John O. Beahrs Pdf

Author : Tim Bayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191639883

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The Unity of Consciousness by Tim Bayne Pdf

In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the book Bayne develops an account of what it means to say that consciousness is unified. Part II applies this account to a variety of cases - drawn from both normal and pathological forms of experience - in which the unity of consciousness is said to break down. Bayne argues that the unity of consciousness remains intact in each of these cases. Part III explores the implications of the unity of consciousness for theories of consciousness, for the sense of embodiment, and for accounts of the self. In one of the most comprehensive examinations of the topic available, The Unity of Consciousness draws on a wide range of findings within philosophy and the sciences of the mind to construct an account of the unity of consciousness that is both conceptually sophisticated and scientifically informed.

Author : David Svoboda
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783868385632

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Aquinas on One and Many by David Svoboda Pdf

The quest for unity and multiplicity is one of the most important concerns in the history of human thought. Since the origins of the history of philosophy up to the present, we can observe more or less unceasing interest in the issue. The same holds of the writings of Thomas Aquinas, to whose conception this work is devoted. Since the problem of unity and multitude is closely linked to many other key metaphysical issues, such as the doctrine of transcendental concepts, the mode of composition of being qua being, as well as substantial and accidental being, or the doctrine of whole and part, we believe that its proper interpretation not only can clarify some partial metaphysical problem, but will also contribute to understanding the metaphysical thought of the Angelic Doctor as a whole.

Author : James Tully
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521476941

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Strange Multiplicity by James Tully Pdf

In the inaugural set of Seeley Lectures, the distinguished political philosopher James Tully addresses the demands for cultural recognition that constitute the major conflicts of today: supranational associations, nationalism and federalism, linguistic and ethnic minorities, feminism, multiculturalism and aboriginal self government. Neither modern nor post-modern constitutionalism can adjudicate such claims justly. However, by surveying 400 years of constitutional practice, with special attention to the American aboriginal peoples, Tully develops a new philosophy of constitutionalism based on dialogues of conciliation which, he argues, have the capacity to mediate contemporary conflicts and bring peace to the twenty-first century. Strange Multiplicity brings profound historical, critical and philosophical perspectives to our most pressing contemporary conflicts, and provides an authoritative guide to constitutional possibilities in a multicultural age.

Author : Chris Boesel,S. Wesley Ariarajah
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823253975

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Divine Multiplicity by Chris Boesel,S. Wesley Ariarajah Pdf

The essays in this volume ask if and how trinitarian and pluralist discourses can enter into fruitful conversation with one another. Can trinitarian conceptions of divine multiplicity open the Christian tradition to more creative and affirming visions of creaturely identities, difference, and relationality—including the specific difference of religious plurality? Where might the triadic patterning evident in the Christian theological tradition have always exceeded the boundaries of Christian thought and experience? Can this help us to inhabit other religious traditions’ conceptions of divine and/or creaturely reality? The volume also interrogates the possibilities of various discourses on pluralism by putting them in a concrete pluralist context and asking to what extent pluralist discourse can collect within itself a convergent diversity of orthodox, heterodox, postcolonial, process, poststructuralist, liberationist, and feminist sensibilities while avoiding irruptions of conflict, competition, or the logic of mutual exclusion.

Author : Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Lester E. Embree,Jitendranath Mohanty
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791406628

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Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy by Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya,Lester E. Embree,Jitendranath Mohanty Pdf

Addresses not only the basic theme of phenomenology, but its aesthetic, social, psychological, scientific, and technological aspects as well.

Author : Svetla Slaveva-Griffin,Pauliina Remes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317591368

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The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism by Svetla Slaveva-Griffin,Pauliina Remes Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts: (Re)sources, instruction and interaction Methods and Styles of Exegesis Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics The legacy of Neoplatonism. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy, as well as researchers in the philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics and religion.

Author : Said Nursi
Publisher : www.nurpublishers.com
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9789754320251

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From the Risale-i Nur Collection: The words by Said Nursi Pdf

Author : Fethullah Gülen
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932099239

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Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism by Fethullah Gülen Pdf

The origin of Sufism -- Self criticism; Reflection; Privacy and seclusion; Heart; Hope or expectation; Asceticism. People follow the Sufi path when they sense that Islam has a deeper dimension. The resulting self-purification leads to this inner dimension of Islamic rituals, a deeper understanding of the Divine acts, and a greater knowledge and love of Him. After this, God draws the novice to Himself. With the help of a spiritual guide, the novice begins the life-long journey back to God. This continual process of spiritual development along a path of the innate human poverty, helplessness, and powerlessness before God is undertaken in the knowledge that everything comes from God. Each novice does what is necessary to grow spiritually, and God bestows the appropriate blessings and stations. "The highest aim of creation and its most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God. The most radiant happiness and sweetest bounty for jinn and humanity is love of God contained within the knowledge of God; the purest joy for the human spirit and the purest delight for the human heart is spiritual ecstasy contained within the love of God. Indeed, all true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God." And Sufism is the school where people can realise the highest aim of creation.

Author : Dhanjibhai Jamshedji Medhora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Iran
ISBN : BSB:BSB11608251

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The Desatir by Dhanjibhai Jamshedji Medhora Pdf

Author : A. Toscano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230514195

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The Theatre of Production by A. Toscano Pdf

This book provides a historical analysis of the philosophical problem of individuation, and a new trajectory in its treatment. Drawing on the work of Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce and Gilbert Simondon, the problem of individuation is taken into the realm of modernity. This is a vibrant contribution to contemporary debates in European philosophy.

Author : Ota Gál
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004510203

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Plotinus on Beauty by Ota Gál Pdf

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate “beauty” at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul’s ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself.

Author : Jussi Backman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438456508

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Complicated Presence by Jussi Backman Pdf

A synthetic assessment of Heidegger’s entire path of thinking as a radical attempt to thematize and rethink the fundamental notions of unity dominating the Western metaphysical tradition. From its Presocratic beginnings, Western philosophy concerned itself with a quest for unity both in terms of the systematization of knowledge and as a metaphysical search for a unity of being—two trends that can be regarded as converging and culminating in Hegel’s system of absolute idealism. Since Hegel, however, the philosophical quest for unity has become increasingly problematic. Jussi Backman returns to that question in this book, examining the place of the unity of being in the work of Heidegger. Backman sketches a consistent picture of Heidegger as a thinker of unity who throughout his career in different ways attempted to come to terms with both Parmenides’s and Aristotle’s fundamental questions concerning the singularity or multiplicity of being—attempting to do so, however, in a “postmetaphysical” manner rooted in rather than above and beyond particular, situated beings. Through his analysis, Backman offers a new way of understanding the basic continuity of Heidegger’s philosophical project and the interconnectedness of such key Heideggerian concepts as ecstatic temporality, the ontological difference, the turn (Kehre), the event (Ereignis), the fourfold (Geviert), and the analysis of modern technology. Jussi Backman is University Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Author : Khaled El-Rouayheb,Sabine Schmidtke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199917396

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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy by Khaled El-Rouayheb,Sabine Schmidtke Pdf

The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that, unlike other reference works, the Oxford Handbook has striven to give roughly equal weight to every century, from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook is also unique in that its 30 chapters are work-centered rather than person- or theme-centered, in particular taking advantage of recent new editions and translations that have renewed interest and debate around the Islamic philosophical canon. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy gives both the advanced student and active scholar in Islamic philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, a strong sense of what a work in Islamic philosophy looks like and a deep view of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at stake. Most importantly, it provides an up-to-date portrait of contemporary scholarship on Islamic philosophy.