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Philosophical Chronicles

Jean-Luc Nancy
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Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823227594

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In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher’s rough and ready account of some of the pressing questions of our day and addresses chronic issues within philosophical inquiry. The fundamental question, which recurs again and again, is whether philosophy is conditioned by the world the philosopher inhabits, or whether it must remain unconditioned by that world. Nancy discusses: terror in relation to religion and capitalism; the relevance of philosophy to life (whether philosophy can be a form of life); the status of god in monotheism; the relevance of “politics” as it is defined today; the “Heidegger affair” and its consequences for philosophy; war, especially in the context of the invasion of Iraq; the role of negativity in philosophical and cultural discourses; “art” and the variability of its meanings; the predominance of the metaphor of the sun. The essays can be read separately, but together they amount to the striking vision of a philosopher sensitive to the world of his times and attempting to open his own path within it.

The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy

Gregory Bassham,Jerry L. Walls
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Author : Gregory Bassham,Jerry L. Walls
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812695885

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Farewell to shadowlands : believing, doubting, and knowing -- The Tao in Narnia : ethics -- Further up and further in : metaphysics -- The deepest magic : religion and the transcendent.

The Guru Chronicles

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Himalayan Academy Publications
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781934145401

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Anyone on the spiritual path knows it's rare that the illumined lives of yogis and gurus are laid before us. We have but a handful: Autobiography of a Yogi; Milarepa: Tibet's Great Yogi; Ramakrishna and His Disciples and a few of others. Now comes an amazing book, The Guru Chronicles, filled with the magical and highly mystical stories of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, his Sri Lankan guru Siva Yogaswami and five preceding masters, who all held truth in the palm of their hand and inspired slumbering souls to "Know thy Self."

The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy

Gregory Bassham,Jerry L. Walls,William Irwin
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Author : Gregory Bassham,Jerry L. Walls,William Irwin
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698091

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The Chronicles of Narnia series has entertained millions of readers, both children and adults, since the appearance of the first book in 1950. Here, scholars turn the lens of philosophy on these timeless tales. Engagingly written for a lay audience, these essays consider a wealth of topics centered on the ethical, spiritual, mythic, and moral resonances in the adventures of Aslan, the Pevensie children, and the rest of the colorful cast. Do the spectacular events in Narnia give readers a simplistic view of human choice and decision making? Does Aslan offer a solution to the problem of evil? What does the character of Susan tell readers about Lewis’s view of gender? How does Lewis address the Nietzschean “master morality” embraced by most of the villains of the Chronicles? With these and a wide range of other questions, this provocative book takes a fresh view of the world of Narnia and expands readers’ experience of it.

The Twin Earth Chronicles

Andrew Pessin,Sanford Goldberg
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Author : Andrew Pessin,Sanford Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315284798

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The Twin Earth Chronicles by Andrew Pessin,Sanford Goldberg Pdf

In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The article's Twin Earth conclusions about meaning, thought and knowledge were shocking. This work contains writings on the subject of Twin Earth.

Animals and Their Moral Standing

Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R. L. Clark
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Author : Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R. L. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134779277

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Animals and Their Moral Standing by Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R. L. Clark Pdf

Twenty years ago, people thought only cranks or sentimentalists could be seriously concerned about the treatment of non-human animals. However, since then philosophers, scientists and welfarists have raised public awareness of the issue; and they have begun to lay the foundations for an enormous change in human practice. This book is a record of the development of 'animal rights' through the eyes of one highly-respected and well-known thinker. This book brings together for the first time Stephen R.L. Clark's major essays in one volume. Written with characteristic clarity and persuasion, Animals and Their Moral Standing will be essential reading for both philosophers and scientists, as well as the general reader concerned by the debates over animal rights and treatment.

A Handbook of the History of Philosophy

Ernest Belfort Bax
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Author : Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5DSD

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Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences

George Henry Lewes
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Author : George Henry Lewes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Positivism
ISBN : WISC:89094651171

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News of War

Rachel Galvin
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Author : Rachel Galvin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190623944

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News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets Rachel Galvin discusses-W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Raymond Queneau, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and César Vallejo-all wrote memorably about war, but still they felt they did not have authority to write about what they had not experienced firsthand. Consequently, these writers developed a wartime poetics engaging with both classical rhetoric and the daily news in texts that encourage readers to take critical distance from war culture. News of War is the first book to address the complex relationship between poetry and journalism. In two chapters on civilian literatures of the Spanish Civil War, five chapters on World War II, and an epilogue on contemporary poetry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Galvin combines analysis of poetic form with attention to socio-historical context, drawing on rare archival sources and furnishing new translations. In comparing how poets wrestled with the limits of bodily experience, and with the ethical, political, and aesthetic problems they faced, Galvin theorizes the concept of meta-rhetoric, a type of ethical self-interference. She argues that civilian writers employed strategies drawn from journalism precisely to question the objectivity and facticity of war reporting. Civilian poetics of the 1930s and 1940s was born from writers' desire to acknowledge their own socio-historical position and to write poems that responded ethically to the gravest events of their day.

The Book Of Dead Philosophers

Simon Critchley
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Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847085429

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Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley looks at the strange circumstances in which some philosophers have died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good death' means and how to live with the knowledge of death. The book consists of short entries on various philosophers, cataloguing the manner of their demises and linking this to their central ideas, from the Pre-Socratics to Rousseau, Kant and Nietzsche among many others. The book concludes with Critchley's thoughts on the ideal of the philosophical death as a way of denouncing contemporary delusions and sophistries, what Francis Bacon saw as the Idols of the Tribe, the Den, the Market-Place and the Theatre (incidentally, Bacon died in a particularly cold winter in London in 1626 from a cold contracted after trying to stuff a chicken with snow as an experiment in refrigeration).

Inconsistencies

Marcus Steinweg
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Author : Marcus Steinweg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262534352

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Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality. Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure. —Inconsistencies These 130 short texts—aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing—target a perennial philosophical problem: Our consciousness and our experience of reality are inconsistent, fragmentary, and unstable; God is dead, and our identity as subjects discordant. How can we establish a new mode of thought that does not cling to new gods or the false security of rationality? Marcus Steinweg, as he did in his earlier book The Terror of Evidence, constructs a philosophical position from fragments, maxims, meditations, and notes, formulating a philosophy of thought that expresses and enacts the inconsistency of our reality. Steinweg considers, among other topics, life as a game (“To think is to play because no thought is firmly grounded”); sexuality (“wasteful, contradictory, and contingent”); desire (”Desire has a thousand names; It's earned none of them”); reality (“overdetermined and excessively complex”); and world (“a nonconcept”). He disposes of philosophy in one sentence (“Philosophy is a continual process of its own redefinition.”) but spends multiple pages on “A Tear in Immanence,” invoking Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and others. He describes “Wandering with Foucault” (“Thought entails wandering as well as straying into madness”) and brings together Derrida and Debord. He poses a question: “Why should a cat be more mysterious than a dog?” and later answers one: “Beauty is truth because truth is beauty.” By the end, we have accompanied Steinweg on converging trains of thought. “Thinking means continuing to think,” he writes, adding “But thinking can only pose questions by answering others.” The question of inconsistency? Asked and answered, and asked.