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Author : Dwight D. Murphey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : LCCN:78061119
Author : George Scialabba
Publisher : Pressed Wafer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0983197563
Nonfiction. Politics. Literary Criticism THE MODERN PREDICAMENT is George Scialabba's second essay collection, following his acclaimed WHAT ARE INTELLECTUALS GOOD FOR? (Pressed Wafer, 2009). In 23 compact, lucid essays ranging across philosophy (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche), literature (D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot), history (Michael Foucault, Christopher Lasch) and politics (Michael Harrington), Scialabba poses a number of searching questions, directly and eloquently, continually returning to one: Is moral progress possible, and at what price? In her introduction Barbara Ehrenreich writes, "As long as we exist as a species, we'll be debating what constitutes morality and virtue, and we could hardly have a better guide than George Scialabba." James Woods hails THE MODERN PREDICAMENT as a stimulating encounter with "one of America's best all-round intellects."
Author : Paton, H J
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317852681
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Paton, H J
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317852674
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Hj Paton
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355722063
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederick Henry Heinemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:184874447
Author : David A. Palmer,Elijah Siegler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226484983
Over the past few decades, Daoism has become a recognizable part of Western “alternative” spiritual life. Now, that Westernized version of Daoism is going full circle, traveling back from America and Europe to influence Daoism in China. Dream Trippers draws on more than a decade of ethnographic work with Daoist monks and Western seekers to trace the spread of Westernized Daoism in contemporary China. David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler take us into the daily life of the monastic community atop the mountain of Huashan and explore its relationship to the socialist state. They follow the international circuit of Daoist "energy tourism," which connects a number of sites throughout China, and examine the controversies around Western scholars who become practitioners and promoters of Daoism. Throughout are lively portrayals of encounters among the book’s various characters—Chinese hermits and monks, Western seekers, and scholar-practitioners—as they interact with each other in obtuse, often humorous, and yet sometimes enlightening and transformative ways. Dream Trippers untangles the anxieties, confusions, and ambiguities that arise as Chinese and American practitioners balance cosmological attunement and radical spiritual individualism in their search for authenticity in a globalized world.
Author : Herbert James Paton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Religion
ISBN : OCLC:500372895
Author : Bassam Tibi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134013418
This book presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved. Looking at modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author analyses issues such as law, knowledge and human rights.
Author : D. C. Schindler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781532648731
The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of “reality” is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim it makes on us, a claim that Iris Murdoch once described as the essence of love. In response to this postmodern predicament, the present book aims to draw on the classical philosophical tradition in order to articulate a robust philosophical anthropology, and a new appreciation of the importance of the “transcendental properties” of being: beauty, goodness, and truth. The book begins with a reflection on the importance of metaphysics in our contemporary setting, and then presents the human person’s relation to the world under the signs of the transcendentals: beauty is the gracious invitation into reality, goodness is the self-gift of freedom in response to this invitation, and truth is the consummation of our relation to the real in knowledge. The book culminates in an argument for why love is ultimately a matter of being, and why metaphysical reason in indispensable in faith.
Author : H. J. Paton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138870870
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : H J 1887- Paton
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1378632508
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : H. J. 1887- Paton
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134111743X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Dwight D. Murphey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002998600
Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231530866
Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations. The modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. By Islamic standards, the state's technologies of the self are severely lacking in moral substance, and today's Islamic state, as Hallaq shows, has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine Shari'a governance. The Islamists' constitutional battles in Egypt and Pakistan, the Islamic legal and political failures of the Iranian Revolution, and similar disappointments underscore this fact. Nevertheless, the state remains the favored template of the Islamists and the ulama (Muslim clergymen). Providing Muslims with a path toward realizing the good life, Hallaq turns to the rich moral resources of Islamic history. Along the way, he proves political and other "crises of Islam" are not unique to the Islamic world nor to the Muslim religion. These crises are integral to the modern condition of both East and West, and by acknowledging these parallels, Muslims can engage more productively with their Western counterparts.
