The Determinate World

Author : David Jalal Hyder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110183917

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The Determinate World by David Jalal Hyder Pdf

This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz's work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz's Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature "completely comprehensible", which implies that all physical magnitudes must be relations among empirically given phenomena. This conviction eventually forced Helmholtz to explain how geometry itself could be so construed. Hyder shows how Helmholtz answered this question by drawing on the theory of magnitudes developed in his research on the colour-space. He argues against the dominant interpretation of Helmholtz's work by suggesting that for the latter, it is less the inductive character of geometry that makes it empirical, and rather the regulative requirement that the system of natural science be empirically closed.

Author : Terje Sparby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004284616

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Hegel's Conception of the Determinate Negation by Terje Sparby Pdf

“The determinate negation” has by Robert Brandom been called Hegel’s most fundamental conceptual tool. In this book, Terje Sparby agrees about the importance of the term, but rejects Brandom’s interpretation of it. Hegel’s actual use of the term may at first seem to be inconsistent, something that is reflected in the scholarship. However, on closer inspection, three forms of determinate negations can be discerned in Hegel’s texts: A nothing that is something, a moment of transformation through loss (like the Phoenix rising from the ashes), and a unity of opposites. Through an in-depth interpretation of Hegel’s work, a comprehensive account of the determinate negation is developed in which these philosophically challenging ideas are seen as parts of one overarching process.

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192564931

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Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World by Jon Stewart Pdf

In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "the determinate religion." This is a part of his corpus that has traditionally been neglected since scholars have struggled to understand what philosophical work it is supposed to do. In Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World, Jon Stewart argues that Hegel's rich analyses of Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Egyptian and Greek polytheism, and the Roman religion are not simply irrelevant historical material, as is often thought. Instead, they play a central role in Hegel's argument for what he regards as the truth of Christianity. Hegel believes that the different conceptions of the gods in the world religions are reflections of individual peoples at specific periods in history. These conceptions might at first glance appear random and chaotic, but there is, Hegel claims, a discernible logic in them. Simultaneously, a theory of mythology, history, and philosophical anthropology, Hegel's account of the world religions goes far beyond the field of philosophy of religion. The controversial issues surrounding his treatment of the non-European religions are still very much with us today and make his account of religion an issue of continued topicality in the academic landscape of the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert C. Neville
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791447170

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Boston Confucianism by Robert C. Neville Pdf

Argues that Confucianism can be important to the contemporary, global conversation of philosophy and should not be confined to an East Asian context.

Author : James Bowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136501241

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Hist West Educ:Modern West V3 by James Bowen Pdf

Volume Three of three, this is a reprint of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s. Volume Three: The Modern West: Europe and the New World. The final volume covers the period of educational dissent, which became conspicuous in the early seventeenth century and reached crisis proportions in the late twentieth, when the dominant ideologies of progress and equality, generated at the beginning of the nineteenth century, were questioned for the first time on a widespread, popular scale.

Author : Suzanne Hidi,Pietro Boscolo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781849508216

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Writing and Motivation by Suzanne Hidi,Pietro Boscolo Pdf

The aim of this volume is to bring together contributions from international research on writing and motivation. It not only addresses the basic question of how motivation to write can be fostered, but also provides analyses of conceptual and theoretical issues at the intersection of the topics of motivation and writing. What emerges from the various chapters is that the motivational aspects of writing represent a rich, productive and partially still unexplored research field. This volume is a step in the direction of a more systematic analysis of the problems as well as an effort to present and compare various models, perspectives and methods of motivation and writing. It addresses the implications of writing instruction based on the 2 main approaches to writing research: cognitive and socio-cultural. It provides systematic analysis of the various models, perspectives, and methods of motivation and writing. It brings together the international research available in this burgeoning field.

Author : Andreas Gotzmann,Christian Wiese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004152892

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Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness by Andreas Gotzmann,Christian Wiese Pdf

Written by leading authors in their respective fields, this first comprehensive handbook on the relationship between modern Judaism and historical thinking contributes to a differentiated interpretation of Jewish historiography and its interaction with other academic disciplines since the Enlightenment.

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501371196

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Feminism as World Literature by Robin Truth Goodman Pdf

The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, among others. What if there is another way to trace the lineage, starting with Simone de Beauvoir and moving through Hannah Arendt, Assia Djebar, Octavia Butler, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Gayatri Spivak? What ideas and issues get left out of the current foundations that have institutionalized World Literature, and what can be added, challenged, or changed with this tweaking of the referential terminology? Feminism as World Literature redefines the thematic and theoretical contents of World Literature in feminist terms as well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses, frameworks, and concepts in a World Literature context. Other ideas built into World Literature and its criticism are viewed here by feminist framings, including the environment, technology, immigration, translation, work, race, governance, image, sound, religion, affect, violence, media, future, and history. The authors recognize genres, strategies, and themes of World Literature that demonstrate feminism as integral to the world-making gestures of literary form and production. In other words, this volume looks to readings and modes of reading that expose how the historical worldliness of texts allows for feminist interventions that might not sit clearly or comfortably on the surfaces.

Author : Benjamin T. Conner
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802866110

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Practicing Witness by Benjamin T. Conner Pdf

How might a church infused with missional theology change the way it approaches Christian practices? Interacting both with the missional theology of George Hunsberger and Darrell Guder and with the theology of Christian practices laid out by Craig Dykstra and Dorothy Bass, Benjamin T. Conner argues that allowing these two disciplines to inform one another can enhance the nature of the church s witness, its congregational discipleship, and its theological education. Framing his work with real-world narratives and applications inspired by his work as a minister to adolescents with special needs, Conner shows how a practical missional mindset can redefine and reinvigorate the spirit and purpose of a congregation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191619274

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Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I by Anonim Pdf

This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of lectures (1822-23). These works treat the core of human history as the inexorable advance towards the establishment of a political state with just institutions-a state that consists of individuals with a free and fully-developed self-consciousness. Hegel interweaves major themes of spirit and culture-including social life, political systems, commerce, art and architecture, religion, and philosophy-with an historical account of peoples, dates, and events. Following spirit's quest for self-realization, the lectures presented here offer an imaginative voyage around the world, from the paternalistic, static realm of China to the cultural traditions of India; the vast but flawed political organization of the Persian Empire to Egypt and then the Orient; and the birth of freedom in the West to the Christian revelation of free political institutions emerging in the medieval and modern Germanic world. Brown and Hodgson's new translation is an essential resource for the English reader, and provides a fascinating account of the world as it was conceived by one of history's most influential philosophers. The Editorial Introduction surveys the history of the texts and provides an analytic summary of them, and editorial footnotes introduce readers to Hegel's many sources and allusions. For the first time an edition is made available that permits critical scholarly study, and translates to the needs of the general reader.

Author : Randall E. Auxier,Gary L. Herstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351792479

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The Quantum of Explanation by Randall E. Auxier,Gary L. Herstein Pdf

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead’s philosophy to problems in the interpretation of science, empirical knowledge, and nature. It develops a new account of philosophical naturalism that will contribute to the current naturalism debate in both Analytic and Continental philosophy. Auxier and Herstein also draw attention to some of the most important differences between the process theology tradition and Whitehead’s thought, arguing in favor of a Whiteheadian naturalism that is more or less independent of theological concerns. This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy and is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in American philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and physics, and issues associated with naturalism, explanation and radical empiricism.

Author : Axel Hägerström
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317851295

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Philosophy and Religion by Axel Hägerström Pdf

The present volumes makes some of Hägerström’s most important writings available to English readers. At the same time, because of Hägerström’s influence, it should contribute to an increased awareness of the nature of Swedish philosophical reflection in the twentieth century. This edition first published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ludwig Feuerbach
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9781565431027

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The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach Pdf

Author : William McKenna,Robert M. Harlan,Laurence E. Winters
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9024723752

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Apriori and World by William McKenna,Robert M. Harlan,Laurence E. Winters Pdf

Author : Leopold Damrosch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520059751

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The Imaginative World of Alexander Pope by Leopold Damrosch Pdf