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Book Synopsis Paradoxes of Peace, Or, The Presence of Infinity by : Nicholas Mosley
Download or read book Paradoxes of Peace, Or, The Presence of Infinity written by Nicholas Mosley and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should inform them--custom? need? duty? ambition? desire? Forces pull in different directions--fidelity versus adventurousness, probity versus fun. During the war, Mosley found himself having to combine fondness for his father, Oswald Mosley, with the need to speak out against his post-war politics. In times of peace, his love for his wife and children, too, seemed riddled with paradoxes. He sought answers in Christianity, but came to see organized religion as primarily a social institution. How does caring not become a trap?
Book Synopsis Infinity, Causation, and Paradox by : Alexander R. Pruss
Download or read book Infinity, Causation, and Paradox written by Alexander R. Pruss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infinity is paradoxical in many ways. Some paradoxes involve deterministic supertasks, such as Thomson's Lamp, where a switch is toggled an infinite number of times over a finite period of time, or the Grim Reaper, where it seems that infinitely many reapers can produce a result without doing anything. Others involve infinite lotteries. If you get two tickets from an infinite fair lottery where tickets are numbered from 1, no matter what number you saw on the first ticket, it is almost certain that the other ticket has a bigger number on it. And others center on paradoxical results in decision theory, such as the surprising observation that if you perform a sequence of fair coin flips that goes infinitely far back into the past but only finitely into the future, you can leverage information about past coin flips to predict future ones with only finitely many mistakes. Alexander R. Pruss examines this seemingly large family of paradoxes in Infinity, Causation and Paradox. He establishes that these paradoxes and numerous others all have a common structure: their most natural embodiment involves an infinite number of items causally impinging on a single output. These paradoxes, he argues, can all be resolved by embracing 'causal finitism', the view that it is impossible for a single output to have an infinite causal history. Throughout the book, Pruss exposits such paradoxes, defends causal finitism at length, and considers connections with the philosophy of physics (where causal finitism favors but does not require discretist theories of space and time) and the philosophy of religion (with a cosmological argument for a first cause).
Book Synopsis Paradoxes of the Infinite by : Bernard Bolzano
Download or read book Paradoxes of the Infinite written by Bernard Bolzano and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vicious Circles and Infinity by : Patrick Hughes
Download or read book Vicious Circles and Infinity written by Patrick Hughes and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1976 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradox written by Tom Vine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life’s paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life? Contrary to the supposedly sublime linear logic that underpins our prevalent modes of theoretical and empirical enquiry, in this fascinating book, organizational anthropologist Tom Vine charts the pervasiveness of paradox across the academy: from arithmetic to zoology. In so doing, he reflects on the concept of paradox as a widespread existential ‘pattern’, a pattern which holds significant metatheoretical and pedagogical potential. Paradoxes, he argues, are not inconveniences or ‘fault lines in our common-sense world’ but are coded into our very existence. Paradoxes thus present their own vital logics that shape our lives: they thwart moral and ideological uniformity; they even out subjective experience between ‘the haves’ and ‘the have nots’; and they shed light on the opaque concepts of consciousness and agency. This book will appeal to anybody with a curious mind, particularly scholars and students with an interest in one or more of the following: complexity theory, critical pedagogies, ethnography, nonlinear dynamics, organization theory, and systems theory.
Book Synopsis The Infinity Paradox: A Sci-Fi Novella by : Rick Anthony
Download or read book The Infinity Paradox: A Sci-Fi Novella written by Rick Anthony and published by Rick Anthony. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a universe where the boundaries of time and space are no longer unyielding barriers, the cosmos extends beyond the limits of human imagination, revealing a multiverse that encompasses an infinity of realities. The concept of a single timeline gives way to a vast, interconnected web of alternate universes, each shaped by the choices, actions, and mere existence of countless beings. This ever-evolving dance of creation and destruction is bound together by a delicate balance that holds the fabric of reality together, an intricate interplay of forces that allows life to flourish in a myriad of forms and manifestations. "The Infinity Paradox" is a tale of adventure, discovery, and sacrifice, exploring the journey of a brilliant scientist, Dr. Isabella Reyes, who inadvertently finds herself entangled in the infinite possibilities of the multiverse. Through her groundbreaking work in the field of time travel, Isabella unwittingly opens a doorway to a cosmic web of parallel universes, each a unique reflection of the choices and actions of their inhabitants. As she navigates the boundless realms of existence, Isabella is confronted with the consequences of her actions, forced to question her own morals, values, and the responsibilities that come with the knowledge she has uncovered. Along her journey, she encounters alternate versions of herself, lost travelers, and tormented souls, each of whom provide her with invaluable insights, wisdom, and a deeper understanding of her own character and the true nature of the multiverse. "The Infinity Paradox" is a story of self-discovery, courage, and the enduring power of hope, empathy, and compassion. As Isabella explores the cosmic web and seeks to restore balance to the multiverse, she uncovers the profound impact that a single individual can have on the fate of countless lives and realities. Through her experiences, she learns that the true measure of her success lies not in the pursuit of scientific achievement, but in the connections she forms and the lives she touches along the way. In this sweeping narrative, we are invited to join Isabella on her journey through the infinity paradox, to venture alongside her into the endless expanse of the multiverse and to bear witness to the transformative power of hope, empathy, and compassion. As we delve into the infinite possibilities that await her, we are reminded of the boundless potential for growth, change, and the indomitable spirit of life that exists within us all. Embark on this thrilling adventure through the cosmic web and explore the depths of the human spirit, as we follow Dr. Isabella Reyes on her quest to unravel the mysteries of the multiverse, to restore balance to the delicate fabric of reality, and to discover the true meaning of courage, sacrifice, and self-discovery in the process. The infinity paradox awaits.
Download or read book Infinity written by Ian Stewart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Stewart considers the concept of infinity and the profound role it plays in mathematics, logic, physics, cosmology, and philosophy. He shows that working with infinity is not just an abstract, intellectual exercise, and analyses its important practical everyday applications.
Book Synopsis A Garden of Trees by : Nicholas Mosley
Download or read book A Garden of Trees written by Nicholas Mosley and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to London from a trip to the West Indies, an aspiring writer encounters a bewitching trio of friends whose magic lies in their ability to turn any situation into fantasy. Previously out of place in the world, the narrator falls in love with the young brother-sister pair of Peter and Annabelle, as well as the older, more political Marius. Reality soon encroaches upon the foursome, however, in the form of Marius's ailing wife, forcing the narrator to confront the dark emptiness and fear at the heart of his friends' joie de vivre. In this, his second novel—written in the '50s and never before published—Nicholas Mosley weighs questions of responsibility and sacrifice against those of love and earthly desire, the spirit versus the flesh.
Book Synopsis From Chaos to Catastrophe? by : K. Ludwig Pfeiffer
Download or read book From Chaos to Catastrophe? written by K. Ludwig Pfeiffer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the tensions between processes of consciousness and their products like worldviews, theories, models of thought etc. Staying close to their technical meanings in chaos and catastrophe theory, chaotic processes are described in mainly neurobiological and evolutionary terms while products are delineated in their evolutionary logic. Given both a relative opacity of processes of the mind and of the outside world, the dramatic quality of the processes, a certain closeness to ‘hysterical’ and ‘schizophrenic’ tendencies and, within the context of the weakening orientating power of worldviews, an alarming catastrophic potential emerge. As a consequence, the book aims at a comparative cost-benefit analysis of the transitionality between ‘chaotic’ processes of consciousness and the often ‘catastrophic’ implications of their products within historical frameworks. The central thesis consists in the increasing failure in the orientation of action which cannot be contained by systems of ethics. Materials for this analysis are mainly drawn from texts normally called literary in which the tension between biographical and historical dimensions provides profiles of chaos and catastrophe.
Book Synopsis The Presence of the Infinite by : Steve McIntosh
Download or read book The Presence of the Infinite written by Steve McIntosh and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presence of the Infinite sheds new light on the important subject of spiritual experience. Using the emerging insights of evolutionary spirituality, integral philosopher Steve McIntosh enlarges readers’ capacity to have spiritual experience more abundantly and use it more effectively to improve their lives and the world around them. The Presence of the Infinite starts by providing a timely cultural analysis and critique of the various forms of spirituality that are vying for influence in contemporary American society. Building on this context, McIntosh shows how evolutionary spirituality overcomes the limitations of religious, secular, and New Age spirituality by better harmonizing science and spirit. Evolutionary spirituality’s transcendent potential is found in its deepening realization of the essentially spiritual qualities of beauty, truth, and goodness. McIntosh then uses evolutionary spirituality’s enlarged understanding of what spiritual experience is and how it works to consider the question of ultimate reality. This leads to an examination of conflicting ideas that regard spirit as either formless and nondual, or as loving and creative. By working to harmonize and integrate these alternative conceptions of ultimate reality, McIntosh shows how evolutionary spirituality can achieve a synthesis of nondual and theistic teachings of truth that can produce a spiritual renaissance in America and beyond. The Presence of the Infinite is destined to become a definitive text in the exciting new field of evolutionary spirituality.
Book Synopsis The Paradox of Hope by : Justin D. Klassen
Download or read book The Paradox of Hope written by Justin D. Klassen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary public discourse, the supposedly comprehensive explanatory power of reason is used to justify a thoroughgoing suspicion of religion. In recent decades, the critiques of postmodernism have generated a different kind of suspicion by construing history as a process that is too arbitrary to be narrated--either by modern reason or by religion. In light of these developments, a question arises regarding the appropriate theological response to such forms of suspicion, both of which threaten not just religion but our sense of human agency as such. Does the retrieval of a meaningful religious subjectivity in a climate of suspicion demand a renewed emphasis upon theology's rhetorical persuasiveness, as Radical Orthodoxy has recently proposed? Or does identifying the believing subject with theology's "grammar" fail to attend to some of the challenges posed by such suspicion? The Paradox of Hope answers these questions in an original and provocative way by clarifying the complex relationship between post-secular theology and the work of Soren Kierkegaard. Ultimately, Klassen argues that Kierkegaard's influence is crucial, albeit obscured, in current post-secular theological imperatives, and that the Dane's eschewal of persuasion in favor of hope's inexplicable resolve provides a more adequate response to the nihilism of contemporary suspicion than do the rhetorical proposals currently on offer. In light of this argument, The Paradox of Hope also rehabilitates some of the voices typically excluded by contemporary theology's rhetoric, including those of Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity by : Graham Oppy
Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity written by Graham Oppy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of philosophical questions about infinity. Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordinary thoughts about the world. He also analyses the many puzzles and paradoxes that follow in the train of the infinite. Even simple notions, such as counting, adding and maximising present serious difficulties. Other topics examined include the nature of space and time, infinities in physical science, infinities in theories of probability and decision, the nature of part/whole relations, mathematical theories of the infinite, and infinite regression and principles of sufficient reason.
Book Synopsis An exposition of the Second epistle to the Corinthians by : Charles Hodge
Download or read book An exposition of the Second epistle to the Corinthians written by Charles Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthains by : Charles Hodge
Download or read book An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthains written by Charles Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Word Speak's to the Faustian Man by : Som Raj Gupta
Download or read book The Word Speak's to the Faustian Man written by Som Raj Gupta and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chandogya Upanisad: The culture it reflects is remote and archaic, the texture of its ritualistic and contemplative symbolism thick and dense-virtually a closed book for us moderns. A sustained self-submitting attentiveness, however, discloses its language as resonating disturbingly modern notes, focusing our attention on many of our pathologies as well as our possibilities, pathologies and possibilities that have escaped the notice of us moderns. The spirit of quiet hermeneutics that characterizes this study illumines many an opaque spot in this text, solves many an interpretive puzzle, turns many of its 'archaic naivetes' into living and compelling profundities. We are made to realize that what some moderns call Gestell is far more primordial than they would envisage it to be, far more ominous and primitive, tragic and persistent. A radical transformation is required, an ontological transformation. Not mere 'a masterly exposition' of an ancient text is, therefore, this study, but 'an authentic springboard for fresh philosophical thinking fecundating (the) two shores of the human experience: East and West'. The first three (published) Vols. are on (i) Isa, Kena, Katha and Prasna Upanisads; (ii) Mundaka and Mandukya Upanisad with Gaudapada Karika; (iii) Taittiriya and Aitareya Upanisads.
Book Synopsis Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry by : Feng Dong
Download or read book Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry written by Feng Dong and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet’s entire oeuvre. His analysis foregrounds what Merwin calls “the other side of despair,” the opposite of humans’ articulated personal and social agonies. Feng finds these presences in Merwin’s evocations of what lingers on the edge of constantly updated socio-symbolic frameworks: surreal encounters, spiritual ecstasies, and abyssal freedoms. By examining Merwin’s lifelong engagement with psychic fantasies, anonymous holiness, entities both natural and supernatural, and ghostly ancestors, Feng uncovers a precarious relation with the unarticulated, unrealized side of existence. Drawing on theories from Lacan, Žižek, Levinas, and Heidegger, Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin’s Poetry reads a metaphysical possibility into the poet’s work at the intersection between contemporary poetics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Book Synopsis Eigen in Seoul Volume Three by : Michael Eigen
Download or read book Eigen in Seoul Volume Three written by Michael Eigen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2007 and 2011, Michael Eigen gave three seminars in Seoul, each running over three days and covering different aspects of psychoanalysis, spirituality and the human psyche. This book is based on a transcription of the third seminar, which took place in 2011, on the subject of Pain and Beauty. The first two were published as Madness and Murder (2010) and Faith and Transformation (2011). A conjunction of the pain that shatters and beauty that heals is made by many authors, including Bion, Winnicott, Milner, Meltzer, Perls, Ehrenzweig, Matte-Blanco, Schneur Zalman, Chuang-Tzu, Buber, Castaneda, and Levinas. These and others are used as windows of the psyche, adding to possibilities of experience and opening dimensions that bring us life. Eigen explores challenges of the human psyche, what we are up against and the resources difficulties can stimulate. This work spans many dimensions of human experience with interplay, fusions and oppositions of pain, beauty, terror, and wonder, and makes use of poetic and philosophical expressions of experience. It will be vital reading for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and all those with an interest in psychoanalytic and spiritual psychology.
