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Author : Martha Craven Nussbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George E. McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847677146
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Marx and Aristotle written by George E. McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The work is an interesting and unusual collection of writings on a subject about which little has been written.' s RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW
Author : Michael Krausz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144113
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Relativism written by Michael Krausz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume grapple with one of the most intriguing, enduring, and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age. Relativism comes in many varieties. It is often defined as the belief that truth, goodness, or beauty is relative& mdash;relative, that is, to some context or frame of reference& mdash;and that no absolute standards can adjudicate between competing reference frames. This anthology captures the significance and range of relativistic doctrines, rehearsing their virtues and vices and reflecting a spectrum of attitudes toward relativism. Invoking diverse philosophical orientations, these doctrines concern conceptions of relativism in relation to pluralism and moral relativism; facts and conceptual schemes; realism and objectivity; solidarity and rationality; universalism and foundationalism; and feminism and poststructuralism. The thirty-three essays in this book include nine original works and many classical articles.
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466854294
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Argumentative Indian written by Amartya Sen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native country India is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long argumentative tradition. The millenia-old texts and interpretations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, agnostic, and atheistic Indian thought demonstrate, Sen reminds us, ancient and well-respected rules for conducting debates and disputations, and for appreciating not only the richness of India's diversity but its need for toleration. Though Westerners have often perceived India as a place of endless spirituality and unreasoning mysticism, he underlines its long tradition of skepticism and reasoning, not to mention its secular contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and political economy. Sen discusses many aspects of India's rich intellectual and political heritage, including philosophies of governance from Kautilya's and Ashoka's in the fourth and third centuries BCE to Akbar's in the 1590s; the history and continuing relevance of India's relations with China more than a millennium ago; its old and well-organized calendars; the films of Satyajit Ray and the debates between Gandhi and the visionary poet Tagore about India's past, present, and future. The success of India's democracy and defense of its secular politics depend, Sen argues, on understanding and using this rich argumentative tradition. It is also essential to removing the inequalities (whether of caste, gender, class, or community) that mar Indian life, to stabilizing the now precarious conditions of a nuclear-armed subcontinent, and to correcting what Sen calls the politics of deprivation. His invaluable book concludes with his meditations on pluralism, on dialogue and dialectics in the pursuit of social justice, and on the nature of the Indian identity.
Author : Cynthia A. Freeland
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043845
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle written by Cynthia A. Freeland and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle still influences our abstract thinking, our search for principles, and our reflections on virtue, nature, essence, and sexual difference. Feminists here concede that they too philosophize within the tradition founded by the ancient Greeks. The contributors to this volume enter into new, creative, and subtle dimensions of inquiry about Aristotle from a broader feminist perspective.
Author : John Kuada
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137534451
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Private Enterprise-Led Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa written by John Kuada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Enterprise-Led Development in Sub-Saharan Africa provides a novel theoretical and conceptual model to guide research into Africa's economic development. It endorses the view that private enterprise-led growth will help reduce poverty since it strengthens individuals' capacity to care for themselves and their families.
Author : Amartya K. Sen
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 9788437023175
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Nueva economía del bienestar written by Amartya K. Sen and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 1995 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra contribuye al homenaje que la Universitat de València rindió al profesor Amartya Kumar Sen con motivo de su investidura como Doctor Honoris Causa. La cuidada selección de artículos preparada por el profesor Casas Pardo, precedida de un estudio introductorio sobre su obra, recoge las aportaciones más importantes, originales y creativas del Dr. Sen a la economía, la ética y al pensamiento social en general.
Author : Jonardon Ganeri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441143831
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Identity as Reasoned Choice written by Jonardon Ganeri and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly multi-religious and multi-ethnic world, identity has become something actively chosen rather than merely acquired at birth. This book essentially analyzes the resources available to make such a choice. Looking into the world of intellectual India, this unique comparative survey focuses on the identity resources offered by India's traditions of reasoning and public debate. Arguing that identity is a formation of reason, it draws on Indian theory to claim that identities are constructed from exercises of reason as derivation from exemplary cases. The book demonstrates that contemporary debates on global governance and cosmopolitan identities can benefit from these Indian resources, which were developed within an intercultural pluralism context with an emphasis on consensual resolution of conflict. This groundbreaking work builds on themes developed by Amartya Sen to provide a creative pursuit of Indian reasoning that will appeal to anyone studying politics, philosophy, and Asian political thought.
Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509534644
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Civilizational State written by Christopher Coker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics – from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In this pioneering book, the renowned political philosopher Christopher Coker looks in depth at two countries that now claim this title: Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. He also discusses the Islamic caliphate, a virtual and aspirational civilizational state that is unlikely to fade despite the recent setbacks suffered by ISIS. The civilizational state, he contends, is an idea whose time has come. For, while civilizations themselves may not clash, civilizational states appear to be set on challenging the rules of the international order that the West takes for granted. China seems anxious to revise them, Russia to break them, while Islamists would like to throw away the rule book altogether. Coker argues that, when seen in the round, these challenges could be enough to give birth to a new post-liberal international order.
Author : Richard M. Zinman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585463220
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Public Intellectual written by Richard M. Zinman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether intellectuals are counter-cultural escapists corrupting the young or secular prophets leading us to prosperity, they are a fixture of modern political life. In The Public Intellectual: Between Philosophy and Politics, Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman bring together a wide variety of noted scholars to discuss the characteristics, nature, and role of public thinkers. By looking at scholarly life in the West, this work explores the relationship between thought and action, ideas and events, reason and history.
Author : Yorghos Apostolopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313013640
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Island Tourism and Sustainable Development written by Yorghos Apostolopoulos and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume dicusses the impact of tourism on sustainable development in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars, development practitioners, international experts, and professionals, the contributors discuss the issues from a holistic and transnational perspective. This work provides a much-needed, thorough understanding of the interplay among economic, cultural, environmental, and public health parameters. The contributors provide a workable definition of sustainable development that can be understood, conveyed, and implemented by policy makers, development practitioners, and tourism professionals. Among the special issues addressed here are the role of women in tourism, the contradictions inherent in cultural tourism, the hegemony of tour operators, disease mapping and risk assessment, and island community involvement in tourism-related land-use planning.
Author : Lorraine Besser-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135096694
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics written by Lorraine Besser-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world. This volume uniquely emphasizes non-Western varieties of virtue ethics at the same time that it includes work in the many different fields or areas of philosophy where virtue ethics has recently spread its wings. Just as significantly, several chapters make comparisons between virtue ethics and other ways of approaching ethics or political philosophy or show how virtue ethics can be applied to "real world" problems.
Author : Simon Caney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429967306
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book National Rights, International Obligations written by Simon Caney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism is once again rising and spreading. Nationlist movements are active throughout the world, demanding political recognition of their nations' identity. Yet the current revival of nationalism has taken place alongside claims that nation-states are becoming obsolete in an increasingly globalized world. In addition, now perhaps more than ever, people are conscious of humanity as a whole and are ready to take seriously the international dimensions of morality.In this collection of timely essays, distinguished moral and political philosophers examine issues raised by the competing claims of nationhood and internationalism from a variety of perspectives, and defend a variety of answers. Questions discussed include: Is humanity really divided into nations or are nations invented by nationalists? Does a nation have the right to be self-determining? If so, must each nation form a separate and sovereign state? Do our obligations stop at national boundaries? Do we not have obligations to human beings as such? Why then should we be less concerned about ?foreigners? than about our compatriots? Can we be concerned for social justice within societies yet not across the world as a whole? If we embrace ideas of human rights and global obligations, how do we establish what those rights and obligations actually are? Is it proper, plausible, or practical to aspire to such universal moral principles in a world characterized by national diversity and cultural difference?
Author : Irina Kuznetsova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317121929
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue written by Irina Kuznetsova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion. These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether the self can be said to exist at all, arguments that can substantiate any position on this question, how the ordinary reality of individual persons can be explained, and the consequences of each position. At a time when comparable issues are at the forefront of contemporary Western philosophy, in both analytic and continental traditions (as well as in their interaction), these classical and medieval Indian debates widen and globalise such discussions. This book brings to a wider audience the sophisticated range of positions held by various systems of thought in classical India.
Author : Philip J. Kain
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483134
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Hegel and the Other written by Philip J. Kain and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume by Philip J. Kain is one of the most accessibly written books on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit available. Avoiding technical jargon without diluting Hegel's thought, Kain shows the Phenomenology responding to Kant in far more places than are usually recognized. This perspective makes Hegel's text easier to understand. Kain also argues against the traditional understanding of the absolute and touches on Hegel's relation to contemporary feminist and postmodern themes.
Author : Asuncion Lera St. Clair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944746
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Development Ethics written by Asuncion Lera St. Clair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional definition of development ethics considers the 'ethical and value questions posed by development theory, planning and practice' (Goulet 1977: 5). The field parallels the traditional question of ethics 'How ought one to live as an individual?' by asking in addition 'How ought a society exist and move into the future?' This interdisciplinary field is well represented by a substantial collection of previously-published articles and papers. The volume illustrates a wide range of academic and practitioner writings on the theories and concepts of development ethics as well as ethical development policy and practice.
Author : Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191583960
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Decolonizing Knowledge written by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-04-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development failures, environmental degradation and social fragmentation can no longer be regarded as side effects of `externalities'. They are the toxic consequences of pretensions that the modern Western view of knowledge is a universal neutral view, applicable to all people at all times. The very word `development' and its cognates `underdevelopment' and `developing' confidently mark the `first' world's as the future of the `third'. This book argues that the linear evolutionary paradigm of development that comes out of modern Western view of knowledge is a contemporary form of colonialism. The authors - covering topics as diverse as the theory of knowledge underlying the work of John Maynard Keynes, what the renowned British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane was looking for when he migrated to India, the knowledge of Mexican and Indian peasants - propose a pluralistic vision and decolonization of knowledge: the replacement of one-way transfers of knowledge and technology by dialogue and mutual learning.
