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Author : Irving I. Polonoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Force, Cosmos, Monads written by Irving I. Polonoff and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mohamed Haj Yousef
Publisher : Mohamed Haj Yousef
ISBN 13 : 1499779844
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos written by Mohamed Haj Yousef and published by Mohamed Haj Yousef. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ibn Arabi is the only scholar who was able to formulate a unique cosmological model that is capable of explaining our observations as well as many phenomena in physics and cosmology, and even solve some perplexing modern and historical riddles in science and philosophy such as the EPR paradox and Zeno paradoxes of motion. Moreover, the Single Monad Model explains for the first time in history the importance of the “week” as a basic unit of space and time together. This prodigious theory is based on the notion of the intertwining days where Ibn Arabi shows that at every instance of time there is indeed one full week of creation that takes place in the globe. Since its publication in 2008, this book has triggered an overwhelming response, and I hope this expanded edition will help promote further Ibn Arabi's wisdom that is still buried in his multitudes of books and treatises.Ibn 'Arabî is one of the most prominent figures in Islamic history, especially in relation to Sufism and Islamic philosophy and theology. In this book, we want to explore his cosmology and in particular his view of time in that cosmological context, comparing his approaches to the relevant conclusions and principles of modern physics whenever possible. We shall see that Ibn 'Arabî had a unique and comprehensive view of time which has never been discussed by any other philosopher or scientist, before or even after Ibn 'Arabî. In the final two chapters, we shall discuss some of the ways his novel view of time and cosmology may be used to build a complete model of the cosmos that may deepen and extend our understanding of the world, while potentially solving some of the drawbacks and paradoxes in the current cosmological models of modern physics. As we discuss in the opening chapter, there is no doubt that time is one of the most important issues in physics, cosmology, philosophy and theology, and hundreds of books and articles have been published in these fields. However, none of these studies have fully developed Ibn 'Arabî's unique view of time in its cosmological dimensions, although his conception of time is indeed central to understanding, for example, his controversial theory of the 'oneness of being'. One possible reason for this relative neglect is the difficult symbolic language he usually used. Also, he didn't discuss this subject at length in any single place in his extant works--not even in chapters 59, 291 and 390 of the Futûhât whose titles relate directly to time--so we must piece together his overall cosmological understanding of time from his scattered treatments in many works and different contexts within his magnum opus, the Futûhât, and other books. Therefore this book may be considered the first comprehensive attempt to set forth all the relevant dimensions of time in Ibn 'Arabî's wider cosmology and cosmogony. To start with, Ibn 'Arabî considers time to be a product of our human 'imagination', without any real, separately existing entity. Nevertheless, he still considers it to be one of the four main constituents of existence. We need this imagined conception of 'time' to chronologically arrange events and what for us are the practically defining motions of the celestial orbs and other physical objects, but for Ibn 'Arabî, real existence is attributable only to the actually existing thing that moves, not to motion nor to time (nor space) in which this motion is observed. Thus Ibn 'Arabî distinguishes between two kinds of time: natural and para-natural, and he explains that they both originate from the two forces of the soul: the active force and the intellective force, respectively. Then he explains that this imaginary time is cyclical, circular, relative, discrete and inhomogeneous. Ibn 'Arabî also gives a precise definition--drawing on the specific usage of the Qur'an and earlier Arab conceptions of time--of the day, daytime and night, showing how these definitions are related to the relative motions of the celestial orbs (including the earth), where every orb has its own 'day', and those days are normally measured by our normal observable day that we count on the earth.
Author : William Clark
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226109404
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Sciences in Enlightened Europe written by William Clark and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radically reorienting our understanding of the Enlightenment, this book explores the complex relations between "englightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge. Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academics and boisterous clubs, plans for violent wars and for universal peace, are all relocated in the landscape of enlightened Europe. The contributors show how changing forms of discipline, machinery, and instrumentation affected the emergence of new kinds of knowledge; consider how institutions of public rate taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe. Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, both in the principal European countries and in areas peripheral to Europe, the book also includes ample illustrations and an extensive bibliography. Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today. Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book gives us an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment. -- from back cover.
Author : Sorin Baiasu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100090394X
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Kantian Mind written by Sorin Baiasu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thought of Immanuel Kant is fundamental to understanding Western philosophy. Spanning epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and religion, the sheer scope and originality of Kant’s ideas have decisively shaped the history of modern philosophy. The Kantian Mind is an outstanding guide and reference source to Kant's thought and a major new publication in Kant scholarship. Comprising forty-five chapters by a stellar team of contributors, the collection is divided into four clear parts: Background to the Critical Philosophy Transcendental Philosophy (Critique and Doctrine) Posthumous Writings and Lectures Kant and Contemporary Kantians. In addition to coverage of Kant's main works, the volume contains chapters on a broad range of topics including Kant's views on logic, mathematics, the natural sciences, anthropology, religion, politics, and education. The concluding chapters cover the influence of Kant's thought on contemporary analytic and continental philosophy. Including suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, The Kantian Mind is essential reading for all students and scholars of Kant and contemporary Kantian thought. It will also be extremely helpful to those in related humanities and social sciences disciplines such as religion, history, politics, and literature.
Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139824899
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Kant written by Paul Guyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-31 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic principles of the natural science are imposed on reality by human sensibility and understanding, and thus that human beings are also free to impose their own free and rational agency on the world. This 1992 volume is the only systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Kant's writings available, and the first major overview of his work to be published in more than a dozen years. An internationally recognised team of Kant scholars explore Kant's conceptual revolution in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion.
Author : Peter Fenves
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501734520
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Peculiar Fate written by Peter Fenves and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Fenves here investigates Kant's ongoing effort to bring metaphysical and strictly historical concepts of the world together in his presentation of world-history. Fenves argues that, far from being a mere illustration of his metaphysical principles, Kant's attempt to present history in its entirety played a vital role in the transformation of his concept of philosophy. A Peculiar Fate demonstrates for the first time how Kant's concern with history motivates and gives shape to his "discovery" that a systematic philosophical inquiry must rest on human freedom.
Author : Emily Carson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402040407
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Intuition and the Axiomatic Method written by Emily Carson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following developments in modern geometry, logic and physics, many scientists and philosophers in the modern era considered Kant’s theory of intuition to be obsolete. But this only represents one side of the story concerning Kant, intuition and twentieth century science. Several prominent mathematicians and physicists were convinced that the formal tools of modern logic, set theory and the axiomatic method are not sufficient for providing mathematics and physics with satisfactory foundations. All of Hilbert, Gödel, Poincaré, Weyl and Bohr thought that intuition was an indispensable element in describing the foundations of science. They had very different reasons for thinking this, and they had very different accounts of what they called intuition. But they had in common that their views of mathematics and physics were significantly influenced by their readings of Kant. In the present volume, various views of intuition and the axiomatic method are explored, beginning with Kant’s own approach. By way of these investigations, we hope to understand better the rationale behind Kant’s theory of intuition, as well as to grasp many facets of the relations between theories of intuition and the axiomatic method, dealing with both their strengths and limitations; in short, the volume covers logical and non-logical, historical and systematic issues in both mathematics and physics.
Author : Horatio Willis Dresser
Publisher : New York Y. Crowell Company [c1928]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Philosophy written by Horatio Willis Dresser and published by New York Y. Crowell Company [c1928]. This book was released on 1928 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Harold Theerman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134469
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Action and Reaction written by Paul Harold Theerman and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume opens with an essay by Richard S. Westfall that justifies claims that Newton was the "culmination of the scientific revolution." The I. Bernard Cohen essay that follows illustrates the difference between "mathematical principles" and "natural philosophy." Two complementary papers give new insights into the Newtonian foundations of celestial mechanics: William Harper analyzes Newton's argument for universal gravitation from the perspective of a philosopher of science; Michael S. Mahoney discusses the mathematical aspects of Newton's use of force law to determine planetary orbits.
Author : Brandon C. Look
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472524853
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz written by Brandon C. Look and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz presents a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the life, thought and work of one of the great polymaths of the modern world, G.W. Leibniz. This guide enriches the reader's understanding of Leibniz by establishing the philosophies of, and Leibniz's reactions to, his most important philosophical contemporaries from Descartes to Malebranche. While addressing current philosophical research in Leibniz studies such as his metaphysics, logic and theory of free will, a leading team of experts in the field demonstrate that Leibniz's work was wider in scope. Examining new directions in this field they cover a number of Leibniz's concerns outside of philosophy including mathematics, physics, and the life sciences. The Companion concludes by offering analysis of Leibniz's legacy; his impact on further study, particularly on his successor Immanuel Kant, and how he has subsequently been understood. Together with extended biographical sketches and an up-to-date and fully comprehensive bibliography, The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz is an extremely valuable study tool for students and scholars interested in Leibniz and the era in which he wrote.
Author : Jeffrey Edwards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520922808
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Substance, Force, and the Possibility of Knowledge written by Jeffrey Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new understanding of Kant’s theory of a priori knowledge and his natural philosophy emerges from Jeffrey Edwards’s mature and penetrating study. In the Third Analogy of Experience, Kant argues for the existence of a dynamical plenum in space. This argument against empty space demonstrates that the dynamical plenum furnishes an a priori necessary condition for our experience and knowledge of an objective world. Such an a priori existence proof, however, transgresses the limits Kant otherwise places on transcendental arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason because it establishes a material transcendental condition of possible experience. This finding motivates Edwards to examine the broader context of Kant’s views about matter, substance, causal influence, and physical aether in connection with the developmental history of his theory of transcendental idealism. Against the backdrop of early modern metaphysics and contemporaneous physical theory, Edwards explicates the origins of the Third Analogy in Kant’s early work on the metaphysics of nature. The argument against empty space presented in the Third Analogy reveals a central aspect of Kant’s transcendental theory of experience that Edwards explains lucidly. By clarifying the epistemological standpoint at issue in the Third Analogy, he shows that the fundamental revisions to which Kant subjects his theory of knowledge in the Opus postumum not only originate in his precritical metaphysics of nature but are developments of an argument central to the Critique of Pure Reason itself. Edwards’s work is important to scholars working in the history of philosophy and the history and philosophy of science, as well as to Kant specialists.
Author : Rae Langton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198236535
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Kantian Humility written by Rae Langton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langton offers an interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. He aims to vindicate Kant's scientific realism, and show his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521363942
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Kant: Natural Science written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together work by Kant never before available in English, along with new translations of his most important publications in natural science. The volume is rich in material for the student and the scholar, with extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, editorial introductions and a glossary of key terms.
Author : Y. Masih
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120812420
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (124 download)
Download or read book A Critical History of Western Philosophy written by Y. Masih and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the enlarged edition of a Critical History of Modern Philosophy. In this new edition Greek and Medieval Philosophies have been added. The book also includes a critical and comparative account of the major contributions of eight modern thinkers. To this exposition the idealism of Hegel and Bradley has been introduced. Recent discussions concerning Hume, Kant, Hegel and Bradley have also been incorporated. Whilst giving fully an analytic account of topics, the author maintains that philosophy is a holistic enterprise of man, as we find it in Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Bradley.The book has turned out to be a reliable and useful to the students of the subject throughout India. This thoroughly revised and enlarged edition will prove to be all the more serviceable in general.
Author : Thomas Anand Holden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199263264
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Matter written by Thomas Anand Holden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holden presents a study of theories of the internal architecture of matter in the 17th & 18th centuries. He offers a synthesis of discussions by Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Kant, amongst others, and gives his own interpretation of the debate.
Author : Herbert Ernest Cushman
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book A Beginner's History of Philosophy (Vol. 1&2) written by Herbert Ernest Cushman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Ernest Cushman's 'A Beginner's History of Philosophy' (Vol. 1&2) is an essential introduction to the world of philosophy, offering a comprehensive overview of key philosophical ideas and thinkers. Cushman skillfully navigates through the complex history of philosophy, presenting the material in a clear and accessible manner suitable for beginners. The inclusion of both volumes ensures that readers are equipped with a well-rounded understanding of the evolution of philosophical thought. Cushman's writing style is engaging and informative, making this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in exploring the foundations of philosophy. The book is enriched with detailed explanations and thought-provoking insights that invite readers to delve deeper into the subject matter. This work is a valuable contribution to the field of philosophy, offering a solid foundation for further study and reflection.
Author : Michael J. Crowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145018
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900 written by Michael J. Crowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed, scholarly study examines the ideas that developed between 1750 and 1900 regarding the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, including those of Kant, Herschel, Voltaire, Lowell, many others. 16 illustrations.
