Rational Spirituality And Divine Virtue In Plato

Author : Michael LaFargue
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438460253

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Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato by Michael LaFargue Pdf

Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today. Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Plato’s legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Plato’s Virtue-Forms are transcendent in their goodness, ideals that Platonists can use to improve character and become like God so far as is humanly possible. LaFargue constructs a model of inductive Socratic reasoning capable of acquiring knowledge of these perfect Virtue-Forms, then scales back claims about these Forms to what can be supported by this kind of reasoning. This is a critical theory, but also a pluralistic one that accommodates modern cultural diversity. A how-to chapter provides detailed descriptions of the rules of Socratic reasoning basic to this spirituality, which any interested individual can practice today. LaFargue supports his interpretation by a close reading of the Greek text of key passages in Plato’s dialogues. The work also undertakes a broader philosophical consideration, discussing the philosophical foundations proposed for this Platonism in relation to the thought of G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Rorty.

Author : Michael LaFargue
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438460260

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Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato by Michael LaFargue Pdf

Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today. Michael LaFargue presents an important and accessible aspect of Plato’s legacy largely overlooked today: a variety of personal spirituality based on reason and centered on virtue. Plato’s Virtue-Forms are transcendent in their goodness, ideals that Platonists can use to improve character and become like God so far as is humanly possible. LaFargue constructs a model of inductive Socratic reasoning capable of acquiring knowledge of these perfect Virtue-Forms, then scales back claims about these Forms to what can be supported by this kind of reasoning. This is a critical theory, but also a pluralistic one that accommodates modern cultural diversity. A how-to chapter provides detailed descriptions of the rules of Socratic reasoning basic to this spirituality, which any interested individual can practice today. LaFargue supports his interpretation by a close reading of the Greek text of key passages in Plato’s dialogues. The work also undertakes a broader philosophical consideration, discussing the philosophical foundations proposed for this Platonism in relation to the thought of G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Richard Rorty. Michael LaFargue is former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His books include The Tao of the Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentary; Tao and Method: A Reasoned Approach to the Tao Te Ching; and Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching, all published by SUNY Press.

Author : Muhammad Umar Faruque
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472132621

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Sculpting the Self by Muhammad Umar Faruque Pdf

Sculpting the Self addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought. Alongside detailed analyses of three major Islamic thinkers (Mullā Ṣadrā, Shāh Walī Allāh, and Muhammad Iqbal), this study also situates their writings on selfhood within the wider constellation of related discussions in late modern and contemporary thought, engaging the seminal theoretical insights on the self by William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. This allows the book to develop its inquiry within a spectrum theory of selfhood, incorporating bio-physiological, socio-cultural, and ethico-spiritual modes of discourse and meaning-construction. Weaving together insights from several disciplines such as religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, critical theory, and neuroscience, and arguing against views that narrowly restrict the self to a set of cognitive functions and abilities, this study proposes a multidimensional account of the self that offers new options for addressing central issues in the contemporary world, including spirituality, human flourishing, and meaning in life. This is the first book-length treatment of selfhood in Islamic thought that draws on a wealth of primary source texts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Greek, and other languages. Muhammad U. Faruque’s interdisciplinary approach makes a significant contribution to the growing field of cross-cultural dialogue, as it opens up the way for engaging premodern and modern Islamic sources from a contemporary perspective by going beyond the exegesis of historical materials. He initiates a critical conversation between new insights into human nature as developed in neuroscience and modern philosophical literature and millennia-old Islamic perspectives on the self, consciousness, and human flourishing as developed in Islamic philosophical, mystical, and literary traditions.

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476640754

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Advancement in Ancient Civilizations by Harald Haarmann Pdf

Traditional scholarship on how ancient civilizations emerged is outmoded and new insights call for revision. According to the well-established paradigm, Mesopotamia is considered the cradle of civilization. Following the cliche of ex oriente lux ("light from the East") all major achievements of humankind spread from the Middle East. Modern archaeology, cultural science and historical linguistics indicate civilizations did not originate from a single prototype. Several models produced divergent patterns of advanced culture, developing both hierarchical and egalitarian societies. This study outlines a panorama of ancient civilizations, including the still little-known Danube civilization, now identified as the oldest advanced culture in Europe. In a comparative view, a new paradigm of research and a new cultural chronology of civilizations in the Old and New Worlds emerges, with climate change shown to be a continual influence on human lifeways.

Author : Salisbury, Mark
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781799879572

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Socrates Digital™ for Learning and Problem Solving by Salisbury, Mark Pdf

There is a tremendous need for computer scientists, data scientists, and software developers to learn how to develop Socratic problem-solving applications. While the amount of data and information processing has been accelerating, our ability to learn and problem-solve with that data has fallen behind. Meanwhile, problems have become too complex to solve in the workplace without a concerted effort to follow a problem-solving process. This problem-solving process must be able to deal with big and disparate data. Furthermore, it must solve problems that do not have a “rule” to apply in solving them. Moreover, it must deal with ambiguity and help humans use informed judgment to build on previous steps and create new understanding. Computer-based Socratic problem-solving systems answer this need for a problem-solving process using big and disparate data. Furthermore, computer scientists, data scientists, and software developers need the knowledge to develop these systems. Socrates Digital™ for Learning and Problem Solving presents the rationale for developing a Socratic problem-solving application. It describes how a computer-based Socratic problem-solving system called Socrates Digital™ can keep problem-solvers on track, document the outcome of a problem-solving session, and share those results with problem-solvers and larger audiences. In addition, Socrates Digital™ assists problem-solvers in combining evidence about their quality of reasoning for individual problem-solving steps and their overall confidence in the solution. Socrates Digital™ also captures, manages, and distributes this knowledge across organizations to improve problem-solving. This book also presents how to build a Socrates Digital™ system by detailing the four phases of design and development: understand, explore, materialize, and realize. The details include flow charts and pseudo-code for readers to implement Socrates Digital™ in a general-purpose programming language. The completion of the design and development process results in a Socrates Digital™ system that leverages artificial intelligence services from providers that include Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Amazon. In addition, an appendix provides a demonstration of a no-code implementation of Socrates Digital™ in Microsoft Power Virtual Agent.

Author : James Kern Feibleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134112708

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Religious Platonism by James Kern Feibleman Pdf

In Plato’s Laws is the earliest surviving fully developed cosmological argument. His influence on the philosophy of religion is wide ranging and this book examines both that and the influence of religion on Plato. Central to Plato’s thought is the theory of forms, which holds that there exists a realm of forms, perfect ideals of which things in this world are but imperfect copies. In this book, originally published in 1959, Feibleman finds two diverse strands in Plato’s philosophy: an idealism centered upon the Forms denying full ontological status to the realm of becoming, and a moderate realism granting actuality equal reality with Forms. For each strand Plato developed a conception of religion: a supernatural one derived from Orphism, and a naturalistic religion revering the traditional Olympian deities.

Author : Erik Nis Ostenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3896656945

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Human Wisdom by Erik Nis Ostenfeld Pdf

Author : Adolf Wuttke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4KCJ

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Christian Ethics by Adolf Wuttke Pdf

Author : Dr. Adolf Wuttke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773563749

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Christian Ethics Two Volumes in One Revised by Dr. Adolf Wuttke Pdf

Author : American Philosophical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCD:31175036036898

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Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association by American Philosophical Association Pdf

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Author : Richard Bodeus,Richard Bodéüs,Richard Bodéü s
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791447278

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Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals by Richard Bodeus,Richard Bodéüs,Richard Bodéü s Pdf

Bodeus argues that Aristotle is more closely aligned with popular Greek religion than is usually thought, and attention to the ethical and political writings reveals more about Aristotle's resources for conceiving the gods than study of his theoretical works.".

Author : S. G. Shanker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438419527

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Philosophy in Britain Today by S. G. Shanker Pdf

These essays offer a fascinating and lively synopsis of the work of some of the most important thinkers in Britain today. The authors represent a wide cross-section of BritainÕs current philosophical spectrum, resulting in a stimulating intellectual profile of the leaders of a community which dominated Western philosophy for much of the twentieth century. What makes a man or woman a philosopher? What are the new directions being pursued by British philosophy today? How do philosophers see their own development, and what are the roots of their distinctive contributions? What are the major problems which preoccupy British philosophers today? The distinguished philosophers who have contributed to this book address these questions as well as other topics of interest. All have provided brief 'intellectual autobiographies,' including sketches of their individual concerns and how those concerns have developed throughout their careers.

Author : Nicholas D. Smith,Pierre Destrée
Publisher : Kelowna, BC : Academic Print. & Pub.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0920980910

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Socrates' Divine Sign by Nicholas D. Smith,Pierre Destrée Pdf

Author : Mor Segev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108415255

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Aristotle on Religion by Mor Segev Pdf

Provides a comprehensive account of the socio-political role Aristotle attributes to traditional religion, despite rejecting its content.

Author : Julie K. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316519417

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Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle by Julie K. Ward Pdf

Ward investigates the conceptual connections between two meanings of theoria in ancient Greece: attendance at religious festivals and philosophical contemplation.