The Quest For Being And Other Studies In Naturalism And Humanism

Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:1016310210

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The Quest for Being by Sidney Hook Pdf

Author : St Martins
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355741246

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Sidney Hook the Quest for Beingand Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism by St Martins Pdf

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Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144706

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Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers by John R. Shook Pdf

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, and a large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected. It includes those intellectuals involved in the development of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology, political science, and several other fields, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading. While all the major post-Civil War philosophers are present, the most valuable feature of this dictionary is its coverage of a huge range of less well-known writers, including hundreds of presently obscure thinkers. In many cases, the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of modern American thought.

Author : Kelly James Clark
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118657607

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The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism by Kelly James Clark Pdf

The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought. Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy in the Western academy Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating contemporary debates on naturalism Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, science, knowledge, truth, mathematics, free will, and ethics viewed through a naturalist lens

Author : Armen T. Marsoobian,John Ryder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405142960

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The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy by Armen T. Marsoobian,John Ryder Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the mostambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought. Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought inAmerica. Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leadingscholars in American philosophy. Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- andtwentieth-century philosophical movements in America includingidealism, pragmatism and naturalism. Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophicalthought. Includes useful bibliographies.

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780313390036

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The Courage to Become by Paul Kurtz Pdf

Does life have meaning if one rejects belief in God? This book responds affirmatively to that question. Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist, provides a powerful defense of the humanist alternative, rejecting both religious spirituality and nihilism. In this inspirational book, Kurtz outlines the basic virtues of the secular humanist outlook. These virtues include courage, not simply to be or to survive, but to overcome and become; that is, to fulfill our highest aspirations and ideals in the face of obstacles. The two other virtues Kurtz identifies are cognition (reason and science in establishing truth) and moral caring (compassion and benevolence in our relationships with others.) Kurtz offers an optimistic appraisal of the human prospect and outlines a philosophy both for the individual and the global community.

Author : Dermot Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134424030

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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy by Dermot Moran Pdf

Featuring twenty-two chapters written by leading international scholars, this major publication covers all the key figures and movements from Frege to Derrida and philosophy of language to feminist philosophy.

Author : Anne L.C. Runehov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319443928

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The Human Being, the World and God by Anne L.C. Runehov Pdf

This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on the idea that in order to understand the common, one has to study the specific. The book shows how the self is thought of as a three-fold emergent self, comprising a relationship between an objective neural segment, a subjective neural segment and a subjective transcendent segment. It explains that the self in the world tackles philosophical problems such as the problem of free will, the problem of evil, the problem of human uniqueness and empathy. It demonstrates how the problem of time also has its place here. For many people, the world includes ultimate reality; hence the book provides an analysis and evaluation of different relationships between human beings and Ultimate Reality (God). The book presents an answer to the philosophical problem of how one could understand divine action in the world.

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472570567

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America by John R. Shook Pdf

For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work. Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this condensed edition includes key contributors to philosophical thought. From 1600 to the present day, entries cover psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology and political science, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy. Clear and accessible, each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings and suggestions for further reading. Featuring a new preface by the editor and a comprehensive introduction, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America includes 30 new entries on twenty-first century thinkers including Martha Nussbaum and Patricia Churchland. With in-depth overviews of Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Noah Porter, Frederick Rauch, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, this is an invaluable one-stop research volume to understanding leading figures in American thought and the development of American intellectual history.

Author : Hans-Johann Glock,Kathrin Glüer,Geert Keil
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042009489

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Fifty Years of Quine's "Two Dogmas" by Hans-Johann Glock,Kathrin Glüer,Geert Keil Pdf

W. V. Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", first published in 1951, is one of the most influential articles in the history of analytic philosophy. It does not just question central semantic and epistemological views of logical positivism and early analytic philosophy, it also marks a momentous challenge to the ideas that conceptual analysis is a main task of philosophy and that philosophy is an a priori discipline which differs in principle from the empirical sciences. These ideas dominated early analytic philosophy, but similar views are to be found in the Kantian tradition, in phenomenology and in philosophical hermeneutics. In questioning this consensus from the perspective of a radical empiricism, Quine's article has had a sustained and lasting impact across all these philosophical divisions. Quine himself moved from the abandonment of the analytic/synthetic distinction to a thoroughgoing naturalism, and many analytic philosophers have followed his lead. The current collection differs from other anthologies devoted to Quine in two respects. On the one hand, it focuses on his attack on analyticity, apriority and necessity; on the other, it considers implications of that attack that far transcend the limits of Quine scholarship, and lie at the heart of the current self-understanding of philosophy. The contributors include both opponents and proponents of the dichotomies attacked by Quine. Furthermore, they include both eminent figures such as Boghossian, Burge, and Davidson, and up and coming younger philosophers.

Author : Alexander Max Bauer,Malte Meyerhuber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110612141

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Empirical Research and Normative Theory by Alexander Max Bauer,Malte Meyerhuber Pdf

Two questions often shape our view of the world. On the one hand, we ask what there is, on the other hand, we ask what there ought to be. Empirical research and normative theory, the methodological traditions concerned with these questions, entered a difficult relationship, from at least as early as around the time of the advent of modern sciences. To this day, there remains a strong separation between the two domains, with both tending to neglect discourses and results from the other. Contrary to a verdict of strict segregation between "is" and "ought," there are, nowadays, various attempts to integrate both theoretical approaches. This calls for a discourse on the relation between empirical research and normative theory. In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – including psychology, sociology, economics, and philosophy – discuss the possible desired or undesired influences on, and limits of, the integration of these two approaches.

Author : George Pattison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191506901

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God and Being by George Pattison Pdf

Western theology has long regarded 'Being' as a category pre-eminently applicable to God, the supreme Being who is also the source of all existence. This idea was challenged in the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger and identified with the position he called 'ontotheology'. Heidegger's critique was repeated and radicalized in so-called postmodern thought, to the point that many theologians and philosophers of religion now want to talk instead of God as 'beyond Being' or 'without Being'. Against this background, God and Being attempts to look again at why the ideas of God and Being got associated in the first place and to investigate whether the critique of ontotheology really does require us to abandon this link. After exploring how this apparently abstract idea has informed Christian views of salvation and of the relationship between God and world, George Pattison examines how such categories as time, space, language, human relationships and embodiment affect our understanding of God and Being. Pattison concludes that whilst Heidegger's critique has considerable force, it remains legitimate to speak of God as Being under certain restricted conditions. The most important of these is that God is better conceived in terms of purely possible Being rather than (as in classic Christian theology) 'actual' Being. This leaves open possibilities of dialogue with, e.g., non-theistic religious traditions and with science that are foreclosed by traditional conceptions. Ultimately, however, all basic religious ideas must issue from and be seen to serve the requirements of embodied love.

Author : Martin Woessner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139494403

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Heidegger in America by Martin Woessner Pdf

Heidegger in America explores the surprising legacy of his life and thought in the United States of America. As a critic of modern life, Heidegger often lamented the growing global influence of all things American. However, it was precisely in America where his thought inspired the work of generations of thinkers – not only philosophers but also theologians, architects, novelists, and even pundits. As a result, the reception and dissemination of Heidegger's philosophical writings transformed the intellectual and cultural history of the United States at a time when American influence was itself transforming the world. A case study in the complex and sometimes contradictory process of transnational exchange, Heidegger in America recasts the scope and methods of contemporary intellectual and cultural history in the age of globalization, challenging what we think we know about Heidegger and American ideas simultaneously.

Author : Hugh P. McDonald
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791486214

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John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy by Hugh P. McDonald Pdf

Hugh P. McDonald's John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy breaks new ground by applying Dewey's insights to a new approach to philosophy of the environment; the concern for the rights of animals; the preservation of rare species, habitats, and landscapes; and the health of the whole ecology. The book summarizes much of the current literature on environmental ethics, concentrating on the writings of major figures in the movement: Tom Regan, J. Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston, and Bryan Norton. The heart of the book consists of a detailed analysis of Dewey's ethics, his theory of intrinsic value, and his holistic approach to moral justification. Arguing against the idea that Dewey's philosophy is anthropocentric, McDonald makes a strong case that using Dewey's philosophy will result in a superior framework for environmental ethics.

Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196086

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American Jewry by Eli Lederhendler Pdf

In the United States, Jews have bridged minority and majority cultures - their history illustrates the diversity of the American experience.