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Author : Alfred Rupert Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052152489X
A blow-by-blow account of the celebrated controversy over the invention of the calculus.
Author : Sun Tzu,Lao-Tzu,Confucius,Mencius
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626868205
The words of the ancient Chinese sages are as timeless as they are wise. The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years, and continue to shape our ideas today. The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy includes translations of Sun Tzu's Art of War, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the teachings of the master sage Confucius, and the writings of Mencius. From insights on warfare and diplomacy to advice on how to deal with one's neighbors and colleagues, this collection of classical Eastern philosophy will provide readers with countless nuggets of wisdom. IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner 2017!
Author : Eric Patterson
Publisher : Stone Tower Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798985255300
Author : Tom Miller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476778167
The first book in a new series and a thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher’s Flight is an epic historical fantasy set in a World-War-I-era America that “[begins] with rollicking fierceness that grabs readers from its opening lines and doesn’t loosen its grip or lessen its hold all the way through. Miller’s writing is intoxicating” (Associated Press). HE’S ALWAYS WANTED TO FLY LIKE A GIRL. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes is one of the few men who practice empirical philosophy—an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, heal the injured, and even fly. He’s always dreamed of being the first man to join the US Sigilry Corps’ Rescue and Evacuation Department, an elite team of flying medics, but everyone knows that’s impossible: men can barely get off the ground. When a shocking tragedy puts Robert’s philosophical abilities to the test, he rises to the occasion and wins a scholarship to study philosophy at Radcliffe College—an all-women’s school. At Radcliffe, Robert hones his flying skills and strives to win the respect of his classmates, a host of formidable and unruly women. Robert falls hard for Danielle Hardin, a disillusioned young hero of the Great War turned political radical. But Danielle’s activism and Robert’s recklessness attract the attention of the same fanatical anti-philosophical group that Robert’s mother fought against decades before. With their lives in mounting danger, Robert and Danielle band together with a team of unlikely heroes to fight for Robert’s place among the next generation of empirical philosophers—and for philosophy’s very survival against the men who would destroy it. “Part thriller, part romance, part coming-of-age fantasy, The Philosopher’s Flight…is as fun a read as you’ll come across… Miller has already set a high bar for any book vying to be the most entertaining novel of [the year]” (BookPage). Tom Miller writes with unrivaled imagination, ambition, and humor. The Philosopher’s Flight is both a fantastical reimagining of American history and a beautifully composed coming-of-age tale for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.
Author : Daniel Coetzee,Lee W. Eysturlid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313070334
This user-friendly reference systematically covers the entire intellectual history of strategy and war, in all cultures and all times. Each culture has had its Machiavelli, its Sun Tzu; its own Mohammed-like or Napoleonic figure. This encyclopedia ranges across the world to provide entries on every significant military and strategic thinker in human history as well as a number of military cultures, covering Chinese, Western, Indian, Islamic, and other cultures. Each entry supplies a brief biography, a synopsis of the writer's theories, their success or failure, and their impact on other thinkers and military practitioners. The unique coverage allows readers to cross cultural barriers and gain access to sources in languages as diverse as Arabic and German, and to note key similarities and contrasts. The relative importance and contribution of each individual to intellectual progress is noted, as is the greater significance of specific schools of thought and debates.
Author : Alexander Moseley
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875861838
"War's origins are complex: they are found in the nebulous systems of thoughts generated in cultures over time. But while reason and explication can unravel those origins - and explain why man wages war - the task of abolishing war can never be completed.
Author : Jenny Teichman
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845405366
This book considers historical and current events from the standpoint of moral philosophy. It describes: real wars and the ways in which they have or have not been fought according to principles of justice; terrorism, torture and the effects of scientific discoveries on the way war is conducted; peace movements and the influences of religion on the ideology surrounding warfare. The book criticises the ethical theories of analytical philosophers in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Author : Walter Bryce Gallie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878177936
Author : Lou Marinoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761871064
On Human Conflict excavates the philosophical foundations of war and peace in order to determine whether wars can ever be ended. It ranges over relevant mathematical models, Hobbes’s natural philosophy, theories of causality, biological and cultural evolution, general systems theory, Buddhism, globalization, and futurology.
Author : Eric Patterson
Publisher : Stone Tower Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9798985255300
Author : David Fisher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191615825
With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality; and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of the twenty-first century.
Author : John McCumber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226396385
This book presents John McCumber s extensive researches into the fascinating story of how a New and Improved Philosophy was born during the early Cold War period. McCumber argues that underlying the search for truth through the application of logic and mathematics to experience was the repressive politics of the McCarthy Era. Utilizing ideas from both Kuhn and Foucault he uncovers the origins of the paradigm of philosophy as a science which came to dominate much of American intellectual life in general and the teaching of philosophy in particular in the years 1947-1959 and whose effects are still felt today. McCumber argues outward from the particularly egregious example of how philosophy came to be taught at UCLA during this period to discussions of the rise of analytic philosophy, rational choice theory, and reductionistic theories of the stratified sciences. Tellingly, he identifies stealth philosophy as one aspect of Cold War mentality: philosophy professors just didn t talk about certain things (such as Marxism) or publicly take them seriously for fear that the general public could not handle it. As a consequence they preferred to stay out of the public eye as much as possible, and even out of the life of the rest of the university. Philosophy departments across the country became hermetically sealed bastions of politically inconsequential conceptual analysis. This bold and original work makes an important contribution to the history of American philosophy and Cold War studies."
Author : W. B. Gallie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521217792
Intellectual eminence apart, what did Kant, Clausewitz, Marx and Engels, and Tolstoy have in common? Professor Gallic argues that they made contributions to 'international theory' - to the understanding of the character and causes of war and of the possibility of peace between nations - which were of unrivalled originality in their own times and remain of undiminished importance in ours. But these contributions have been either ignored or much misunderstood ; chiefly because, as with all intellectual efforts in unexplored fields, they were often imperfectly expressed, and were also overshadowed by their author's more striking achievements. Professor Gallic has sorted out, compared and contrasted, criticised and re-phrased the teachings of his chosen authors on peace and war.
Author : Gregory M. Reichberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107019904
The first book-length study of Aquinas's teaching on just war, its antecedents, and its reception by subsequent thinkers.
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Vices and Virtues
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Guerre
ISBN : 0300234457
War in history and theory -- Ancient war -- Medieval to modern war -- Theories of war and war's more recent history -- The causes and effects of war -- The causes of war -- The effects of war -- Ethics, law and war -- The future of war.
