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America the Philosophical

Author : Carlin Romano
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345804708
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book America the Philosophical written by Carlin Romano and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States is an anti-intellectual country. Instead he provides a richly reported overview of American thought, arguing that ordinary Americans see through phony philosophical justifications faster than anyone else, and that the best of our thinkers ditch artificial academic debates for fresh intellectual enterprises. Along the way, Romano seeks to topple philosophy’s most fiercely admired hero, Socrates, asserting that it is Isocrates, the nearly forgotten Greek philosopher who rejected certainty, whom Americans should honor as their intellectual ancestor. America the Philosophical is a rebellious tour de force that both celebrates our country’s unparalleled intellectual energy and promises to bury some of our most hidebound cultural clichés.

America the Philosophical

Author : Carlin Romano
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0679434704
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book America the Philosophical written by Carlin Romano and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With verve and keen intelligence, Romano--Pulitzer Prize finalist and professor of philosophy--takes on the widely held belief that America is an anti-intellectual society. The book is a rebellious tour de force that celebrates our country's unparalleled intellectual energy.

Nature's Man

Author : Maurizio Valsania
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933579
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Nature's Man written by Maurizio Valsania and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although scholars have adequately covered Thomas Jefferson's general ideas about human nature and race, this is the first book to examine what Maurizio Valsania terms Jefferson's "philosophical anthropology"--philosophical in the sense that he concerned himself not with describing how humans are, culturally or otherwise, but with the kind of human being Jefferson thought he was, wanted to become, and wished for citizens to be for the future of the United States. Valsania's exploration of this philosophical anthropology touches on Jefferson's concepts of nationalism, slavery, gender roles, modernity, affiliation, and community. More than that, Nature's Man shows how Jefferson could advocate equality and yet control and own other human beings. A humanist who asserted the right of all people to personal fulfillment, Jefferson nevertheless had a complex philosophy that also acknowledged the dynamism of nature and the limits of human imagination. Despite Jefferson's famous advocacy of apparently individualistic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Valsania argues that both Jefferson's yearning for the human individual to become something good and his fear that this hypothetical being would turn into something bad were rooted in a specific form of communitarianism. Absorbing and responding to certain moral-philosophical currents in Europe, Jefferson's nature-infused vision underscored the connection between the individual and the community.

America in the United States and the United States in America

Author : Gabriel Moran
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532044461
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book America in the United States and the United States in America written by Gabriel Moran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is five hundred years old; the United States is less than half that age. The term America was coined in 1507 to refer to a continent and a dream of a new world. People in the United States, especially government leaders, have a serious problem of regularly speaking as if their country were America. Author Gabriel Moran reflects on the use of the word America in the United States from its beginning to the present. He cites numerous examples to show the importance of distinguishing between the United States and America. The result is a different way of perceiving and understanding the history of the United States. This book is especially relevant to the current political division within the United States and some of the missteps in its foreign policy. The failure to consistently distinguish between the nation of the United States and the continent and dream America underlies nearly every political, cultural and economic problem that the country faces.

America's Philosophical Vision

Author : John E. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226763675
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book America's Philosophical Vision written by John E. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these previously uncollected essays, Smith argues that American philosophers like Peirce, James, Royce, and Dewey have forged a unique philosophical tradition—one that is rich and complex enough to represent a genuine alternative to the analytic, phenomenological, and hermeneutical traditions which have originated in Britain or Europe. "In my judgment, John Smith has no equal today in combining two scholarly qualities: the analysis of philosophical texts with penetration and rigor, and the discernment of what it is in these texts that matters. These qualities are in evidence throughout the essays in America's Philosophical Vision. Whether he is evaluating Rorty's view of Dewey; the pragmatic theory of experience and truth; theories of freedom, creativity, and the self; Royce's conception of community; or synoptic philosophic visions, Smith always succeeds in uniting a comprehensive understanding of philosophic writings with a sure grasp of their import for human culture and aspiration. It is a great benefit to students of American thought that these papers have now been collected into one volume."—James Gouinlock, Emory University

Essays on Philosophical Counseling

Author : Ran Lahav
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819199737
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Philosophical Counseling written by Ran Lahav and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book written in English on this growing field of applied philosophy, Essays on Philosophical Counseling is a collection of 14 articles by leading philosophical counselors from five countries. The book presents the reader with the major approaches to philosophical counseling, by combing theoretical discussions with a large number of case studies. Divided into three parts, Essays on Philosophical Counseling first discusses the theoretical and historical background of philosophical counseling, then deals with the relationship between philosophical counseling and psychotherapy and last, focuses on specific types of problems and predicaments and how they are addressed philosophically. Contents: Philosophical Counseling: The General Picture; A Conceptual Framework for Philosophical Counseling: Worldview Interpretation, Ran Lahav; Philosophical Counseling in Holland: History and Open Issues, Ida Jongsma; The Training of a Philosophical Counselor, Dries Bole; Philosophical Counseling: The Arts of Ecological Relationship and Interpretation, Barbara Norman; Philosophical Counceling and Psychotherapy; Philosophy, Philosophical Practice, and Psychotherapy, Gerd A. Achenbach; Philosophical Counseling as a Critical Examination of Life-Directing Conceptions, Michael Schefczyk; Some Reflections on Philosophical Counseling and Psychotherapy, Ben Mijuskovic; Meaning Crisis: Philosophical Counseling and Psychotherapy, Steven Segal; Philosophical Counseling: Some Roles of Critical Thinking, Elliot D. Cohen; Specific Topics for Counseling; Philosophy in Marriage Counseling, Anette Prins-Bakker; Philosophical Practice, Pastoral Work, and Suicide Survivors, Will A.J.F. Gerbers; The Philosopher in the Business World as a Vision Developer, Ad Hoogendijk; On the Emergence of Ethical Counseling: Considerations and Two Case Studies, Louis Marinoff; Supplement: The Legal Perspective; Legal Issues in Philosophical Counseling, Barton Bernstein and Linda Bolin.

The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus

Author : Mary Beth Ingham
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813213703
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus written by Mary Beth Ingham and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this much-anticipated work, distinguished authors Mary Beth Ingham and Mechthild Dreyer present an accessible introduction to the philosophy of the thirteenth century Franciscan John Duns Scotus

Loving Immigrants in America

Author : Daniel Campos
Publisher : American Philosophy Series
ISBN 13 : 9781498547840
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Loving Immigrants in America written by Daniel Campos and published by American Philosophy Series. This book was released on 2017 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a philosophical account of a Central American immigrant's personal experience in the United States. Narrative and reflective at once, it is written from the standpoint of American philosophy enriched by fiction, poetry, song lyrics and memoirs from the Americas. It recommends an ethic of love--resilient loving--for the interpersonal relations and day-to-day interactions between immigrants and hosts in the United States today.

The Philosophical Life

Author : Arthur P. Urbano
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813221625
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Life written by Arthur P. Urbano and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity

The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice

Author : Ronald R. Sundstrom
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477622
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice written by Ronald R. Sundstrom and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the challenge that the so-called browning of America poses for any discussion of the future of race and social justice. In the philosophy of race there has been little reflection about how the rapid increase in the Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race populations affects the historical demands for racial justice by Native Americans and African Americans. Ronald R. Sundstrom examines how recent demographic shifts bear upon central questions in race theory and social and political philosophy, including color blindness, interracial intimacy, and the future of race. Sundstrom cautions that rather than getting caught up in romantic reveries about the browning of America, we should remain vigilant that longstanding claims for racial justice not be washed away.

American Philosophy

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713111
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book American Philosophy written by John Kaag and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book. The books Kaag discovers in the Hocking library are crawling with insects and full of mold. But he resolves to restore them, as he immediately recognizes their importance. Not only does the library at West Wind contain handwritten notes from Whitman and inscriptions from Frost, but there are startlingly rare first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As Kaag begins to catalog and read through these priceless volumes, he embarks on a thrilling journey that leads him to the life-affirming tenets of American philosophy—self-reliance, pragmatism, and transcendence—and to a brilliant young Kantian who joins him in the restoration of the Hocking books. Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is ultimately about love, freedom, and the role that wisdom can play in turning one’s life around.

America the Philosophical

Author : Carlin Romano
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345804708
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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The Philosophy of Sadhana

Author : Debabrata Sen Sharma
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791403471
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Sadhana written by Debabrata Sen Sharma and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After presenting a general survey of spiritual practice in the different schools of Indian philosophy, the author focuses on the Trika School, popularly called Kashmir Shaivism. He deals clearly and exhaustively with such topics as Shaktipat (the descent of Divine Grace), Diksha (initiation), and the role of the Guru. His treatment of the various paths (upayas) appropriate for the different types of practitioners is especially useful. The book ends with a chapter on enlightenment (jivanmukti). This chapter not only presents the meaning of self-realization-in-this-lifetime, but offers material on this topic for the first time in English.

America's Public Philosopher

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552882
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book America's Public Philosopher written by John Dewey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. His work stands out for its remarkable breadth, and his deep commitment to democracy led him to courageous progressive stances on issues such as war, civil liberties, and racial, class, and gender inequalities. This book collects the clearest and most powerful of his public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today. An introductory essay and short introductions to each of the texts discuss the current relevance and significance of Dewey’s work and legacy. The book includes forty-six essays on topics such as democracy in the United States, political power, education, economic justice, science and society, and philosophy and culture. These essays inspire optimism for the possibility of a more humane public and political culture, in which citizens share in the pursuit of lifelong education through participation in democratic life. The essays in America’s Public Philosopher reveal John Dewey as a powerful example for anyone seeking to address a wider audience and a much-needed voice for all readers in search of intellectual and moral leadership.

Philosophical Writings

Author : Johannes Duns Scotus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872200180
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Writings written by Johannes Duns Scotus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topics such as Concerning Metaphysics, Man's Knowledge of God, The Existence of God, The Unicity of God, Concerning Human Knowledge, and The Spirituality and Immortality of the Human Soul.

The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America

Author : Arnold R. Eiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739181805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America written by Arnold R. Eiser and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America is an analysis of medical care, medical education, and medical professionalism with reference to the cultural touchstones of the postmodern era: consumerism, computerization, destruction of meta-narratives, and "stakeholder late capitalism."

We Who Are Dark

Author : Tommie Shelby
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043529
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book We Who Are Dark written by Tommie Shelby and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity. Tommie Shelby argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. In developing his defense of black solidarity, he draws on the history of black political thought, focusing on the canonical figures of Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois.