In Defense of Common Sense

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032699
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis In Defense of Common Sense by : Lodi Nauta

Download or read book In Defense of Common Sense written by Lodi Nauta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism. This study examines Valla's attack on major tenets of Aristotelian metaphysics, showing how Valla employed common sense and linguistic usage as his guides. It then explicates Valla's critique of Aristotelian psychology and natural philosophy and discusses his moral and religious views, including Valla's notorious identification of Christian beatitude with Epicurean pleasure and his daring views on the Trinity. Finally, it takes up Valla's humanist dialectic, which seeks to transform logic into a practical tool measured by persuasiveness and effectiveness. Nauta firmly places Valla's arguments and ideas within the contexts of ancient and medieval philosophical traditions as well as renewed interest in ancient rhetoric in the Renaissance. He also demonstrates the relevance of Valla's conviction that the philosophical problems of the scholastics are rooted in a misunderstanding of language. Combining philosophical exegesis and historical scholarship, this book offers a new approach to a major Renaissance thinker.

Common Sense

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521837842
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (378 download)

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Book Synopsis Common Sense by : Noah Lemos

Download or read book Common Sense written by Noah Lemos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah Lemos defends the common sense tradition--the view that permits us to justify the philosophical inquiry of many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of this tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm in a text that will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.

In Defense of Common Sense

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Publisher : Schiller Inst
ISBN 13 : 9780962109539
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis In Defense of Common Sense by : Lyndon H. LaRouche

Download or read book In Defense of Common Sense written by Lyndon H. LaRouche and published by Schiller Inst. This book was released on 1989 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moore and Wittgenstein

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023028969X
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Moore and Wittgenstein by : A. Coliva

Download or read book Moore and Wittgenstein written by A. Coliva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does scepticism threaten our common sense picture of the world? Does it really undermine our deep-rooted certainties? Answers to these questions are offered through a comparative study of the epistemological work of two key figures in the history of analytic philosophy, G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Common Sense Self-Defense

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ISBN 13 : 9781578260904
Total Pages : 87 pages
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Book Synopsis Common Sense Self-Defense by : David Garcia

Download or read book Common Sense Self-Defense written by David Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a basic program of self-defense to help teach effective physical, psychological, and verbal and non-verbal techniques to avoid and survive dangerous situations.

Commonsense Anticommunism

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807869899
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Book Synopsis Commonsense Anticommunism by : Jennifer Luff

Download or read book Commonsense Anticommunism written by Jennifer Luff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's "first line of defense" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL's "commonsense anticommunism," she argues, steered a middle course between the American Legion and the ACLU, helping to check campaigns for federal sedition laws. But in the 1930s, frustration with the New Deal order led labor conservatives to redbait the Roosevelt administration and liberal unionists and abandon their reluctant civil libertarianism for red scare politics. That frustration contributed to the legal architecture of federal anticommunism that culminated with the McCarthyist fervor of the 1950s. Relying on untapped archival sources, Luff reveals how labor conservatives and the emerging civil liberties movement debated the proper role of the state in policing radicals and grappled with the challenges to the existing political order posed by Communist organizers. Surprising conclusions about familiar figures, like J. Edgar Hoover, and unfamiliar episodes, like a German plot to disrupt American munitions manufacture, make Luff's story a fresh retelling of the interwar years.

Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198783906
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Book Synopsis Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment by : Charles Bradford Bow

Download or read book Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Charles Bradford Bow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476007
Total Pages : 389 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy written by Rik Peels and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.

Common Sense

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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Book Synopsis Common Sense by : Thomas Paine

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The Heresy of Heresies

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725255758
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis The Heresy of Heresies by : Timothy M. Mosteller

Download or read book The Heresy of Heresies written by Timothy M. Mosteller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The heresy of heresies was common sense." --George Orwell, 1984. This book is a defense of common-sense realism, which is the greatest heresy of our time. Following common-sense philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and J. P. Moreland, this book defends a common-sense vision of reality within the Christian tradition. Mosteller shows how common-sense realism is more reasonable than the materialist, idealist, pragmatist, existentialist, and relativist spirits of our age. It maintains that we can know the nature of reality through common-sense experience and that this knowledge has profound implication for living the good life and being a good person.

Common Sense 101

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586171399
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis Common Sense 101 by : Dale Ahlquist

Download or read book Common Sense 101 written by Dale Ahlquist and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale Ahlquist, the President of the American Chesterton Society, and author of G. K. Chesterton -The Apostle of Common Sense, presents a book of wonderful insights on how to look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton. Since, as he says, Chesterton wrote about everything, there is an ocean of his material to benefit from GKC's insights on a kaleidoscope of many important topics. Chesterton wrote a hundred books on a variety of themes, thousands of essays for London newspapers, penned epic poetry, delighted in detective fiction, drew illustrations, and made everyone laugh by his keen humor. Everyone who knew Chesterton loved him, even those he debated with. His unique writing style that combines philosophy, spirituality, history, humor, and paradox have made him one of the most widely read authors of modern times. As Ahlquist shows in his engaging volume, this most quoted writer of the 20th century has much to share with us on topics covering politics, art, education, wonder, marriage, fads, poetry, faith, charity and much more.

Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine

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Publisher : Emmaus Academic
ISBN 13 : 1645851095
Total Pages : 391 pages
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Book Synopsis Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine by : Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

Download or read book Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine written by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Philosophy in Defense of Common Sense

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Publisher : Ford Oxaal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Common Sense

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521143455
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Book Synopsis Common Sense by : Noah Lemos

Download or read book Common Sense written by Noah Lemos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah Lemos defends the common sense tradition--the view that permits us to justify the philosophical inquiry of many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of this tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm in a text that will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.

Manual of Reformed Stoicism

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Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622739442
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Book Synopsis Manual of Reformed Stoicism by : Piotr Stankiewicz

Download or read book Manual of Reformed Stoicism written by Piotr Stankiewicz and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Defense of Realism

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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Defense of Realism by : Elmer Daniel Klemke

Download or read book A Defense of Realism written by Elmer Daniel Klemke and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English philosopher George Edward Moore (1873-1958) developed the chief modern theory of ethics, Ideal Utilitarianism. A Defense of Realism examines Moore's conception of philosophy and his views on the importance of metaphysics, presenting and evaluating the Principia Ethica author's criticisms and refutations of certain philosophical positions, especially idealism, naive realism, phenomenalism, and pragmatism. Klemke gives a detailed analysis and an appraisal of Moore's defense of common sense, and concentrates on Moore's realism, beginning with the reality of entities in the natural universe, and proofs of the external world. Finally, Klemke analyzes and enhances through personal argument Moore's views on the reality of various nonnatural entities crucial to Moore's defense of philosophical realism.

Common Sense Mathematics: Second Edition

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Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 147046134X
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Book Synopsis Common Sense Mathematics: Second Edition by : Ethan D. Bolker

Download or read book Common Sense Mathematics: Second Edition written by Ethan D. Bolker and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years from now, what do you want or expect your students to remember from your course? We realized that in ten years what matters will be how students approach a problem using the tools they carry with them—common sense and common knowledge—not the particular mathematics we chose for the curriculum. Using our text, students work regularly with real data in moderately complex everyday contexts, using mathematics as a tool and common sense as a guide. The focus is on problems suggested by the news of the day and topics that matter to students, like inflation, credit card debt, and loans. We use search engines, calculators, and spreadsheet programs as tools to reduce drudgery, explore patterns, and get information. Technology is an integral part of today's world—this text helps students use it thoughtfully and wisely. This second edition contains revised chapters and additional sections, updated examples and exercises, and complete rewrites of critical material based on feedback from students and teachers who have used this text. Our focus remains the same: to help students to think carefully—and critically—about numerical information in everyday contexts.