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Philosophies of Defeat

Author : Bruno Bosteels
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Philosophies of Defeat written by Bruno Bosteels and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2025-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How radical thought has internalized the experience of defeat A rising star of contemporary critical theory offers an expansive critique on a prominent tradition of thought, 'the jargon of finitude.' Associated with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, over the past few decades this tradition has been able to bolster its credentials as an indispensable contribution in the rethinking of the Left. However, rather than constituting a radical leftist opening in contemporary political thought, these are in many ways philosophies of defeat. Bosteels exmines the paradoxes inherent in materialist thinking and argues against time as the primordial mode of access to a thinking of finitude that today has become the dominant form of a new idealism, parading in the guise of a radical, post-metaphysical, anti-dialectical and hyper-ethical form of materialism.

Epistemic Defeat

Author : Jan Constantin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110730545
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Defeat written by Jan Constantin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of well-developed theories shed light on the question, under what circumstances our beliefs enjoy epistemic justification. Yet, comparatively little is known about epistemic defeat—when new information causes the loss of epistemic justification. This book proposes and defends a detailed account of epistemic defeaters. The main kinds of defeaters are analyzed in detail and integrated into a general framework that aims to explain how beliefs lose justification. It is argued that defeaters introduce incompatibilities into a noetic system and thereby prompt a structured re-evaluation process that makes a justified reinstatement of the defeated belief impossible. The account is then applied to the topic of disagreement, where it is used in an argument for conciliationism, as well as a new explanation for higher-order defeat. Throughout the book, the notion of defeat is the center of attention, while a number of new issues are discussed at the intersections of defeat and justification. Specifically, new problems are raised for broadly internalist accounts of defeat, a fully descriptive reliabilist account of defeat is provided, and the case for normative defeat is revisited.

On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition

Author : Daniele Bolelli
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556439482
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition written by Daniele Bolelli and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and insightful history of martial arts and the role of the warrior, drawing on pop culture, philosophy, mythology, religion, and spirituality The urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. On the Warrior’s Path connects the martial arts with this larger perspective, merging subtle philosophies with no-holds-barred competition, Nietzsche with Bruce Lee, radical Taoism and Buddhism with the Star Wars Trilogy, traditional martial arts with basketball and American Indian culture. At the center of all these phenomena is the warrior. Though this archetype seems to manifest contradictory values, author Daniele Bolelli describes the heart of this tension: how the training of martial technique leads to a renunciation of violence, and how overcoming fear leads to a unique freedom. Aimed at students at any level or tradition of martial arts but also accessible to the armchair warrior, On the Warrior’s Path brings fresh insights to why martial arts remains an enduring and widespread art and discipline. Two new chapters in this second edition focus on spirituality in the martial arts and the author’s personal journey in the field.

The Epistemological Skyhook

Author : Jim Slagle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317230086
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Epistemological Skyhook written by Jim Slagle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout philosophical history, there has been a recurring argument to the effect that determinism, naturalism, or both are self-referentially incoherent. By accepting determinism or naturalism, one allegedly acquires a reason to reject determinism or naturalism. The Epistemological Skyhook brings together, for the first time, the principal expressions of this argument, focusing primarily on the last 150 years. This book addresses the versions of this argument as presented by Arthur Lovejoy, A.E. Taylor, Kurt Gödel, C.S. Lewis, Norman Malcolm, Karl Popper, J.R. Lucas, William Hasker, Thomas Nagel, Alvin Plantinga, and others, along with the objections presented by their many detractors. It concludes by presenting a new version of the argument that synthesizes the best aspects of the others while also rendering the argument immune to some of the most significant objections made to it.

The Phoenix Philosophy

Author : Mikeal Morgan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781436309776
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Phoenix Philosophy written by Mikeal Morgan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will only take you a few hours to read, but it will change your life forever! Throughout life, everyone faces challenges, setbacks and temporary failures. Those who learn to rise from these ashes of defeat are the ones who become truly successful. The word "phoenix" has three primary meanings: 1. A mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself up from its own fire, and later to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope, 2. A person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon. 3. A person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation. Using these three definitions as the driving force for The Phoenix Philosophy, Author Mikeal R. Morgan clearly articulates the proven principles that have allowed him to rise from a poor, uneducated, depressed youth, to a successful husband, father, sales professional, business leader, motivational speaker and President of Phoenix Training Innovations. Mikeal has dedicated years to observing, learning and collecting stories from other successful individuals who have also overcome tough challenges and devastating failures, in order to rise renewed by the will, faith, and strength that resides in each of us. Throughout this book, you will be forced to think and answer tough questions about yourself. Learn to improve, love, and appreciate your life. Learn to rise to success, even from the ashes of defeat, to a smarter, stronger and better you! Please also visit www.phoenixphilosophy.com for information on corporate programs that will allow your entire organization to rise to success.

The Age of Defeat

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993323072
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Defeat written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Age of Defeat, the third volume of the Outsider Cycle, Colin Wilson introduces his New Existentialism as the basis for the revolution in thought that we need to bring about; a revolt against insignificance and ordinariness. The New Existentialism is a practical and strong-willed philosophy that will renew the concept of Man as hero. It emphasises the extraordinary in us.The Age of Defeat examines the loss of the hero in Western culture and the implications of that loss for humanity. When it was written in the middle of the 20th century, it was the idea of the hero that was endangered. Today it is Man, his identity and his masculinity, who is verging on extinction. The concept of Man is one of the most ambiguous and puzzling in our culture. It might be a good moment to remember what to be a Man used to imply.

Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy

Author : Frank Schalow
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810859637
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy written by Frank Schalow and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy examines the development of Martin Heidegger's thought in all its nuances and facets. It also casts light on the historical influences that shaped the thinker himself and his era. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and a bibliography that includes key books on Heidegger in several languages, including German, French, Italian, and English. The appendixes offer a comprehensive list of all of Heidegger's writings and lectures courses, along with their corresponding English translations, and the dictionary offers more than 600 cross-referenced entries on concepts, people, works, and technical terms This resource is invaluable for students and scholars. Book jacket.

Badiou and Politics

Author : Bruno Bosteels
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350769
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Badiou and Politics written by Bruno Bosteels and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExamines the political thinking of French philosopher of Alain Badiou, whose theories of ontology and mathematics have set him apart from many of his post-structuralist contemporaries./div

Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies

Author : Constantin V. Boundas
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629297
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies written by Constantin V. Boundas and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western philosophies in the same time frame. Each section discusses the main movements and fields of the discipline throughout the century. The authors have maintained a balance between the historian's commitment to breadth and accuracy with the commitment of the systematic philosopher to the engaged point of view and to critical reflection. The result is a distinctive reference book made up of a series of philosophical studies -an invaluable companion to anyone who is searching for a panoramic but also reliable and challenging presentation of the philosophical ideas which shaped the last century.

The Defeat of the Mind

Author : Alain Finkielkraut
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231080239
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Defeat of the Mind written by Alain Finkielkraut and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defeat of the Mind examines the opposition to Enlightenment thought from the eighteenth century to the present. Finkielkraut asserts that the ostensibly progressive cast of third world anticolonial and anti-Western sentiment, paradoxically, has its antecedent in Eurocentric sources - chiefly the German romantic concept of the Volksgeist, or spirit of the people. Straightforward and succinct, Finkielkraut draws a line between the idea of culture as an expression of the life of the mind and culture as an expression of national spirit. He deplores the appropriation of the concept of the Volksgeist by ethnic nationalists, who employ the notion in justification of such horrors as the Final Solution in Nazi Germany and the current waves of "ethnic cleansing." Equally worrying, he claims, are the seemingly harmless infusions of the Volksgeist into campaigns for ethnic diversity espoused by some social scientists and third world intellectuals. The Defeat of the Mind questions notions of cultural relativism espoused by such intellectual and political leaders as Claude Levi-Strauss and Frantz Fanon. Finkielkraut points to the United Nations and UNESCO - founded to propagate the universalist ideals of Enlightenment Europe, these organizations have co-opted the notion of cultural relativism to a fault, now speaking on behalf of every ethnic prejudice. "The objective remained the same," Finkielkraut maintains of this shift in ideology, "but to achieve its goal, it was no longer a matter of opening others to reason, but of opening ourselves to the reason of others." Defending values that seem absent from many contemporary frames of reference, the book concludes with a chapter challenging post-modernist thought, for Finkielkraut claims that it equates the value of novels by Flaubert with television movies and lacks concern for the survival of culture and reason.

Asian Philosophies

Author : John M. Koller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351217097
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Asian Philosophies written by John M. Koller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an inside view from an expert in the field, solid scholarship, and a clear and engaging writing style, Asian Philosophies invites students and professors to think along with the great thinkers of the Asian traditions. John M. Koller is a scholar and teacher who has devoted his life to understanding Asian thought and practice. He wrote this text to give students and professors access to the rich philosophical and religious ideas of both South and East Asia.

In Praise of Swāmi Vedānta Deśika

Author : Gop?l ?r?niv?san
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 164951879X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Swāmi Vedānta Deśika written by Gop?l ?r?niv?san and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year is the 751th birth anniversary (1268 AD- 1369 AD) of the famous poet, philosopher and dialectical genius, Sw?mi Ved?nta De?ika. He lived for 101 years. By the age of 20 he became proficient in all branches of spiritual knowledge. He had mastered the Ved?s, ??str?s and ?gam?s and the Divya Prabandhams of the ?zhw?rs. His forte was logic, poetry and philosophy. He wrote extensively in Sanskrit, Tamizh, Pr?krit and Maniprav?la and composed numerous devotional hymns which reflected his poetic genius. He received the honorific titles of ‘Ved?nt?c?ryar” from Lord Ra?gan?th? and “Sarvatantra Swatantrar” from the Divine Mother ?r? Ra?gan?yaki. Sw?mi De?ika was a polyglot and an author of 166 granth?s. Besides strengthening and further propagating the Vi?i?ht?dvaitic philosophy of ?r? R?m?nuja, he established beyond any doubt the doctrine of Prapatti (self surrender) as the guaranteed route to m?k?a (liberation). This book is a translation of 73 verses composed in Sanskrit by Prativ?di Bhaya?karam A??angar?c?ry?r Sw?mi (A??an) who was the disciple of N?yan?r?c?ry?r, son of Sw?mi De?ika. This ode on Sw?mi Ved?nta De?ika contains what needs to been known about Sw?mi De?ika’s greatness, the depth of meaning in his works, the faith in him of his devotees and efforts made by his opponents to demean him which boomeranged and put such people to shame. Some of the great ?c?ry?s who came after Sw?mi De?ika quoted several verses from ‘Saptati Ratnamalika’ in their writings and thus gave it a pride of place among other literary works.

Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity

Author : Peter Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144115504X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity written by Peter Osborne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and ethnicity have become two of the most loaded and contested concepts in the contemporary world. Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity aims to disentangle this complexity and guide the reader to a clearer understanding of the debates.Analysing the genealogy, meanings and political uses of the concepts of race and ethnicity, Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity draws on the best scholarship from philosophy, history, post-colonial studies, political theory and literary studies to explore the structure, status and scope of these concepts.Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, Chetan Bhatt, Rey Chow, Rebecca Karl, David Macey, Naoki Sakai, Bill Schwarz, Denise da Silva, Francoise Verges, Robert J. C. Young

Martin Heidegger and the Truth About the Black Notebooks

Author : Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030694968
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Martin Heidegger and the Truth About the Black Notebooks written by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the beginning of 2013, I received reports of passages in the Black Notebooks that offered observations on Jewry, or as the case may be, world Jewry. It immediately became clear to me that the publication of the Black Notebooks would call forth a wide-spread international debate. Already in the Spring of 2013, I had asked Professor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, last private assistant – and in the words of my grandfather, the “chief co-worker of the complete edition”, – if he might review the Notebooks as a whole, based on his profound insight into the thought of Martin Heidegger, and in particular, review those Jewish-related passages that were the focus of the public eye. Publications about the Black Notebooks quickly came to propagate catchy expressions such as “being-historical anti-Semitism” and “metaphysical anti-Semitism”. The first question that obviously arises is: Does the thought of Martin Heidegger exhibit any kind of anti-Semitism at all? In this book Professor von Herrmann now advances his hermeneutic explication. With Professor Francesco Alfieri of the Pontificia Università Lateranense he has found a colleague who has drawn up a comprehensive philological analysis of volumes GA 94 through GA 97 of the Complete Edition. The fact that Heidegger designated the hitherto published “black notebooks” as Ponderings (Überlegungen) and as Observations (Anmerkungen) has been given little consideration. He intentionally placed them at the conclusion of the Complete Edition because without acquaintance with the lectures, and above all, with the being-historical treatises that would come to be published in the framework of the Complete Edition, they would not be comprehensible. (Arnulf Heidegger)

The Waning of Materialism

Author : Robert C. Koons
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614017
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Waning of Materialism written by Robert C. Koons and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defences of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and Chalmers, Jackson’s knowledge argument, Kim’s exclusion problem, and Burge’s anti-individualism all play a part in the building of a powerful cumulative case against the materialist research program. Several papers address the implications of contemporary brain and cognitive research (the psychophysics of color perception, blindsight, and the effects of commissurotomies), adding a posteriori arguments to the classical a priori critique of reductionism. All of the current versions of materialism — reductive and non-reductive, functionalist, eliminativist, and new wave materialism — come under sustained and trenchant attack. In addition, a wide variety of alternatives to the materialist conception of the person receive new and illuminating attention, including anti-materialist versions of naturalism, property dualism, Aristotelian and Thomistic hylomorphism, and non-Cartesian accounts of substance dualism.

Hellenistic Philosophies

Author : Paul Elmer More
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Hellenistic Philosophies written by Paul Elmer More and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy

Author : Selusi Ambrogio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350153575
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy written by Selusi Ambrogio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of what happened to the European understanding of China and India between the late 16th century and the first half of the 18th century. Investigating the description of these two Asian civilizations during a century and a half of histories of philosophy, this book accounts for the change of historiographical paradigms, from Neoplatonic philosophia perennis and Spinozistic atheism to German Eclecticism. Uncovering the reasons for inserting or excluding Chinese and Indian ways of thinking within the field of Philosophy in early modern times, it reveals the origin of the Eurocentric understanding of Philosophy as a Greek-European prerogative. By highlighting how this narrowing and exclusion of non-Western ways of thought was a result of conviction of superiority and religious prejudice, this book provides a new way of thinking about the place of Asian traditions among World philosophies.