Reintroducing Philosophy Thinking As The Gathering Of Civilization

Author : Anthony F. Shaker
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648890918

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Reintroducing Philosophy: Thinking as the Gathering of Civilization by Anthony F. Shaker Pdf

That we are now entering a post-Western world is no longer merely a thesis in international studies. But what does the dissolution of “Western” hegemony signify for humanity’s rich learning traditions and the civilizing quest for wisdom? How can this human inheritance assist us today? "Reintroducing Philosophy" seeks a more realistic framework for discourse on these questions than offered by the Western-centric worldview, which continues to be taught in schools almost by rote. It analyzes themes from several world traditions in logic, knowledge and metaphysics connected with the quest for completeness of thinking and practice. Its examination of the relation of knowing and being is based on sources as varied as Leibniz and Frege, Qūnawī and Ṣadrā, ancient Greek and classical Indian and Chinese thought. Shaker brings into the discussion the paradigm (unmūzaj) that Ṣadrā presented as that of man’s being in the world, encapsulating philosophy’s longstanding view of thinking as the gathering of civilization. "Reintroducing Philosophy" is based on a concentrated reading of all these sources, simply because human civilization had already been global and advanced before the present age.

Author : Anthony F. Shaker
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1648892353

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Reintroducing Philosophy by Anthony F. Shaker Pdf

That we are now entering a post-Western world is no longer merely a thesis in international studies. But what does the dissolution of "Western" hegemony signify for humanity's rich learning traditions and the civilizing quest for wisdom? How can this human inheritance assist us today? Reintroducing Philosophy seeks a more realistic framework for discourse on these questions than offered by the Western-centric worldview, which continues to be taught in schools almost by rote. It analyzes themes from several world traditions in logic, knowledge and metaphysics connected with the quest for completeness of thinking and practice. Its examination of the relation of knowing and being is based on sources as varied as Leibniz and Frege, Qūnawī and Ṣadrā, ancient Greek and classical Indian and Chinese thought. Shaker brings into the discussion the paradigm (unmūzaj) that Ṣadrā presented as that of man's being in the world, encapsulating philosophy's longstanding view of thinking as the gathering of civilization. Reintroducing Philosophy is based on a concentrated reading of all these sources, simply because human civilization had already been global and advanced before the present age.

Author : Anthony F Shaker
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1622738373

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Reintroducing Philosophy by Anthony F Shaker Pdf

That we are now entering a post-Western world is no longer merely a thesis in international studies. But what does the dissolution of "Western" hegemony signify for humanity's rich learning traditions and the civilizing quest for wisdom? How can this human inheritance assist us today? Reintroducing Philosophy seeks a more realistic framework for discourse on these questions than offered by the Western-centric worldview, which continues to be taught in schools almost by rote. It analyzes themes from several world traditions in logic, knowledge and metaphysics connected with the quest for completeness of thinking and practice. Its examination of the relation of knowing and being is based on sources as varied as Leibniz and Frege, Qūnawī and Ṣadrā, ancient Greek and classical Indian and Chinese thought. Shaker brings into the discussion the paradigm (unmūzaj) that Ṣadrā presented as that of man's being in the world, encapsulating philosophy's longstanding view of thinking as the gathering of civilization. Reintroducing Philosophy is based on a concentrated reading of all these sources, simply because human civilization had already been global and advanced before the present age.

Author : Antonia LoLordo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190634407

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Persons by Antonia LoLordo Pdf

What is a person? Why do we count certain beings as persons and others not? How is the concept of a person distinct from the concept of a human being, or from the concept of the self? When and why did the concept of a person come into existence? What is the relationship between moral personhood and metaphysical personhood? How has their relationship changed over the last two millennia? This volume presents a genealogy of the concept of a person. It demonstrates how personhood--like the other central concepts of philosophy, law, and everyday life--has gained its significance not through definition but through the accretion of layers of meaning over centuries. We can only fully understand the concept by knowing its history. Essays show further how the concept of a person has five main strands: persons are particulars, roles, entities with special moral significance, rational beings, and selves. Thus, to count someone or something as a person is simultaneously to describe it--as a particular, a role, a rational being, and a self--and to prescribe certain norms concerning how it may act and how others may act towards it. A group of distinguished thinkers and philosophers here untangle these and other insights about personhood, asking us to reconsider our most fundamental assumptions of the self.

Author : Anthony F. Shaker; Anthony F. Shaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800504160

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The Limits of Discursive Interpretation by Anthony F. Shaker; Anthony F. Shaker Pdf

Author : Thomas Molnar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138518905

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Archetypes of Thought by Thomas Molnar Pdf

In Archetypes of Thought, originally published in 1991 with the title Philosophical Grounds, Thomas Molnar follows seven basic themes of Western philosophical speculation from their development in the earliest times of systematic thought through their evolution through the centuries and civilizations to the present. Some of the themes are origin and its reflection, guilt of being, one and the multiple, the temptation of mechanization, and nocturnal man. The book is neither a chronological treatment of issues nor a list of philosophical schools and movements. Rather, it reaches for the archetypes of philosophical reasoning.Molnar shows the presence of modern themes in the entire history of thinking, traces technology to the first stirrings of rationalism, and evinces modern man's feeling of culpability. Throughout, the soul is perceived as the keeper of God's and man's secret, one which reflects reality and also tries to organize it according to an ontologically implanted rhythm.In his new introduction, Molnar explains and re-examines his reasons for writing the book. While the themes he covers have been widely dealt with in contemporary thought, they are brought together to form an original combination of philosophical concepts. Archetypes of Thought is an intriguing study of the evolution of philosophical thinking. It is essential reading for both students and professionals of philosophy, history, and sociology.

Author : Elie Maynard Adams
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UCAL:B3894915

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Philosophy and the Modern Mind by Elie Maynard Adams Pdf

In this unique philosophical critique of modern Western civilization, Adams argues that contemporary culture is deranged by false assumptions about the human mind. He sees a growing gap between the subjectivistic culture and the structure of reality which has not only produced Originally published 1975. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Albert Schweitzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258948664

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The Philosophy of Civilization, Part 1-2 by Albert Schweitzer Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.

Author : Barry Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 0367316501

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Knowledge and Civilization by Barry Allen Pdf

Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philosophy of technology and civilization. Rejecting theories that confine knowledge to language or discourse, Allen situates knowledge in the greater field

Author : Thomas Molnar
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1560008482

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Archetypes of Thought by Thomas Molnar Pdf

In Archetypes of Thought, originally published in 1991 with the title Philosophical Grounds, Thomas Molnar follows seven basic themes of Western philosophical speculation from their development in the earliest times of systematic thought through their evolution through the centuries and civilizations to the present. Some of the themes are origin and its reflection, guilt of being, one and the multiple, the temptation of mechanization, and nocturnal man. The book is neither a chronological treatment of issues nor a list of philosophical schools and movements. Rather, it reaches for the archetypes of philosophical reasoning.Molnar shows the presence of modern themes in the entire history of thinking, traces technology to the first stirrings of rationalism, and evinces modern man's feeling of culpability. Throughout, the soul is perceived as the keeper of God's and man's secret, one which reflects reality and also tries to organize it according to an ontologically implanted rhythm.In his new introduction, Molnar explains and re-examines his reasons for writing the book. While the themes he covers have been widely dealt with in contemporary thought, they are brought together to form an original combination of philosophical concepts. Archetypes of Thought is an intriguing study of the evolution of philosophical thinking. It is essential reading for both students and professionals of philosophy, history, and sociology.

Author : Sterling Power Lamprecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258354640

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Our Philosophical Traditions by Sterling Power Lamprecht Pdf

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781582340401

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After Progress by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

An important, bold challenge to our attitude toward progress. As we stand on the brink of the third millennium, we are very much in thrall to the idea that civilization is moving forward in a progressive direction, and that overall in the world things are getting better. In After Progress, philosopher Anthony O'Hear argues that we need to temper our optimism and self-assurance, that progress has not been attained without some loss. The gains of the past two or three centuries, particularly in the fields of science and democratic politics, have resulted in losses in areas once thought of as allied to religion, such as art, education, morality and philosophy. O'Hear asks the basic question: why does it seem there are more unhappy people today in the US and in Britain when we are living in a time of unprecedented individual affluence, health and human rights? O'Hear sets out to find out how we might re-examine our lives of progress by looking back on what we have learned from the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers of the past. After Progress serves as an introduction to the ideas of major thinkers from Plato to Wittgenstein, as well as providing a new way to think about the present, by not ignoring the lessons from the past.

Author : Frederick Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548608610

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A History of Ancient Philosophy by Frederick Mayer Pdf

Frederick Mayer's History of Ancient Philosophy focuses on the development of philosophical thought in Greece and Rome during what is known as the classical period-that is from the dawn of civilization in Greece until the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West in 476 A.D. Using ample selections from primary sources, Mayer skillfully presents the major philosophical developments of this period as well as the dynamic interplay and tensions among the great philosophers of the ancient world.

Author : Elie Maynard Adams
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0819147540

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Philosophy and the Modern Mind by Elie Maynard Adams Pdf

Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Pdf

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.