The Philosophy And Common Sense Reader

Author : Markar Melkonian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350073753

Get Book

The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader by Markar Melkonian Pdf

What might common sense be? Is it a mental capacity? Or does it consist of just truisms and precepts? If the latter is the case, is this knowledge innate or empirical? Or is it like “human nature”-a term that has played its role in rhetoric, but that does not appear to have a definite, agreed-upon meaning? Indeed we can learn a great deal about some of the most influential modern philosophers, from the Enlightenment to Ludwig Wittgenstein and W.V.O. Quine, by examining what they have to say about common sense, whilst the anthropologist Clifford Geertz observed that common sense “has become a central category, almost the central category, in a wide range of modern philosophical systems.” This book investigates the nature of common sense through a selection of key writings on epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, meta-ethics and the philosophy of economics and political philosophy. The authors included are representative of the Scottish School, such as David Hume, the Ordinary Language School, and members of the Analytic tradition, including Karl Popper, but they also incorporate thinkers like John Dewey from the American pragmatist tradition, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, recent popular writers on economics, and even pamphleteers, from Thomas Paine to contemporary engaged journalists. This is the first reader to provide such a comprehensive overview of the central writings on common sense. It features review questions and further reading lists at the end of each section.

Author : Piotr Stankiewicz
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622739448

Get Book

Manual of Reformed Stoicism by Piotr Stankiewicz Pdf

This book is a manifesto of reformed Stoicism. It proposes a system of life which is bullet-proof, universal, viable and effective in every cosmic setting. It holds in every possible universe, under any government and within any economic system. We can be reformed Stoics no matter what we believe in. Reformed Stoicism is about enjoying and exercising our agency. In other words, it’s about the flow of making autonomous and right decisions, and about celebrating our ability to make them. With no reliance on nature, with the recalibration of metaphysical positions, with skepticism towards grand discourses and universal answers, with an emphasis on the usefulness instead of truthfulness of narratives, with no reference to the vanity argument, with criticism of both conservative and ascetic misinterpretations of Stoicism, with an overall softer and more empathic approach, we can no longer be defined by the generic term “Stoicism”. Our time, in short, calls for a fresh interpretation of Stoicism. It is time for a new generation of Stoics. Thus: reformed Stoicism.

Author : C. E. M. Joad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649229878

Get Book

Essays in Common Sense Philosophy by C. E. M. Joad Pdf

Author : Marc Pilisuk,Phyllis Pilisuk
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412831520

Get Book

Poor Americans by Marc Pilisuk,Phyllis Pilisuk Pdf

Author : Charles Bradford Bow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198783909

Get Book

Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment by Charles Bradford Bow Pdf

Common sense philosophy was one of the Scottish Enlightenment's most original intellectual products. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the philosophical and historical significance of this school of thought, recovering the ways in which it developed during the long eighteenth century.

Author : Soman Chainani
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008587787

Get Book

The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani Pdf

Author : Antonio Livi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Common sense
ISBN : 9791935790906

Get Book

A Philosophy of Common Sense by Antonio Livi Pdf

Author : Lt. Gen. Arthur S. Collins, Jr.
Publisher : Presidio Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307788528

Get Book

Common Sense Training by Lt. Gen. Arthur S. Collins, Jr. Pdf

Leadership is so much a part of the conduct of training that at times it is difficult to tell where one stops and the other starts. . . . “The best book on military training from platoon to division level that has been published in any army.”—Army magazine “His message is that whatever works and gets results by the most direct and efficient means is good. All else should be eliminated.”—Air University Review “A utilitarian book that talks intelligently of leadership, management and common sense.”—ARMOR magazine “A hardhitting and unvarnished . . . authoritative work that should be read and reread by everyone who aspires to be a truly professional soldier.”—General Bruce Palmer, U.S. Army (Ret.) “A gem, with few peers, invaluable . . . [Arthur Collins'] advice is always performance oriented. Don't talk so much about it, he says, Don't make so many fancy charts about training. Instead, do it. Teach it. Perform it.”—Parameters

Author : Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645851097

Get Book

Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Pdf

Despite living in an “information age,” we are confronted by the clash of ideologies and a crisis of universal knowledge. The Church is not unaffected by the world’s weariness and similarly faces what Fr. Mauro Gagliardi describes as “the lack of truth, or perhaps better, the disinterest in it.” Today’s philosophical and doctrinal decline are the results of the loss of first principles and a relativistic view of doctrinal development. As Matthew Levering writes in the Foreword, this first-time English translation of Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s Le sens commun: La philosophie de l’être et les formules dogmatiques by the acclaimed translator Matthew Minerd “arrives at an auspicious time.” This book sees the great Dominican master address a variety of fundamental topics that we need to return to and relearn in our day: the relationship between common sense and both philosophy and faith; the proper defense for philosophical realism; the subordination and coordination of philosophical first principles; our natural capacity for knowing God’s existence; and, at length, the problem of dogmatic development. Although originally written during the Catholic Modernist crisis at the turn of the twentieth century, Thomistic Common Sense is no mere relic of past controversies. Jacques Maritain, for example, while reflecting on his formation as a Thomist, cited it as particularly influential. In our own time, this book serves as a foundational textbook of Thomistic philosophy, communicating its wisdom with clarity, power, and perennial resonance.

Author : F. L. van Holthoon,David R. Olson
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819165042

Get Book

Common Sense by F. L. van Holthoon,David R. Olson Pdf

NOTE: Series number is not an integer: n/a

Author : Winton Russell Bates
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761872672

Get Book

Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing by Winton Russell Bates Pdf

What does it mean to be a flourishing human in a Western liberal democracy in the twenty-first century? In Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing, Winton Bates aims to provide a better framework for thinking about the relationship between freedom, progress, and human flourishing. Bates asserts that freedom enables individuals to flourish in different ways without colliding, allows for a growth of opportunities, and supports personal development by enabling individuals to exercise self-direction. The importance of self-direction is a central theme in the book, and Bates explores throughout why wise and well-informed self-direction is integral to flourishing because it helps individuals attain health and longevity, positive human relationships, psychological well-being, and an ability to live in harmony with nature.

Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0399246916

Get Book

Things that are by Andrew Clements Pdf

Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.

Author : Rik Peels,René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108476003

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy by Rik Peels,René van Woudenberg Pdf

A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.

Author : Frederic Harrison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0365166774

Get Book

The Philosophy of Common Sense (Classic Reprint) by Frederic Harrison Pdf

"Why should we trouble with philosophy at all? What good will it do to us?" These are some of the questions that author Frederic Harrison posed in his lengthy introductory statement, which could very well be considered the first of 23 essays compiled in The Philosophy of Common Sense, which is his published attempt to answer those questions. Released in 1907, this volume is said to be the second of a series of studies collected by Harrison and is designed to summarize the "philosophical grounds" on which his previous work was based. It aims to present the main points of various philosophical arguments without the verbose descriptions that usually accompany them. This edition also includes some autobiographical elements that reveal how the author came up with his conclusions on various philosophical standpoints, in order to illustrate that "philosophy, like Religion, is much more simple, more practical, closer to a strenuous life on earth, than philosophers are thought to admit." A Positivist and a disciple of Comtean thought, Mr. Harrison uses Comte's standpoint in analyzing and criticizing various philosophies. You will also notice his penchant for referring to religion, as well as his efforts to arrive at the truth in the arguments presented in his essays. Those who have a yen for nineteenth century philosophy, as well as history, will find this book a compelling read and reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674057814

Get Book

Common Sense by Sophia Rosenfeld Pdf

Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.