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Philosophy and the Human Paradox

Author : Alan Montefiore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000765717
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Human Paradox written by Alan Montefiore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects essays by Alan Montefiore on the role philosophy plays in the formation of the self, and how philosophical questions regarding the nature of reason, truth, and identity inform ethics and politics. It offers a comprehensive overview of Montefiore’s influential, non-dogmatic philosophical voice. Throughout his 70-year career, Montefiore sought to bridge the analytic/continental divide and develop a new way of thinking about philosophy. He defines philosophy as the search for a higher-order understanding of whatever the situation or activity in which one may be involved or engaged, an understanding which may be achieved and expressed by and in a variety of different forms of philosophical persuasion, and which may serve to shed new light on particular problems. The book’s essays, half of which are previously unpublished, are divided into two thematic sections. The first focuses on the nature of philosophy, while the second addresses the relationship between philosophy and moral and political responsibilities. Philosophy and the Human Paradox will be of interest to philosophers and students who work on ethics, Kantian and post-Kantian continental philosophy, and political philosophy.

The Human Paradox

Author : Ralph Heintzman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487541538
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Human Paradox written by Ralph Heintzman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a human being? What does it mean to be human? How can you lead your life in ways that best fulfil your own nature? In The Human Paradox, Ralph Heintzman explores these vital questions and offers an exciting new vision of the nature of the human. The Human Paradox aims to counter or correct several contemporary assumptions about the nature of the human, especially the tendency of Western culture, since the seventeenth century, to identify the human with rationality and the rational mind. Using the lens of the virtues, The Human Paradox shows how rediscovering the nature of the human can help not just to understand one’s own paradoxical nature but to act in ways that are more consistent with its full reality. Offering accessible insight from both traditional and contemporary thought, The Human Paradox shows how a fuller, richer vision of the human can help address urgent contemporary problems, including the challenges of cultural and religious diversity, human migration and human rights, the role of the market, artificial intelligence, the future of democracy, and global climate change. This fresh perspective on the Western past will guide readers into what it means to be human and open new possibilities for the future.

A Brief History of the Paradox

Author : Roy Sorensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190289317
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the Paradox written by Roy Sorensen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Ockham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox, looking for, and sometimes finding, a way out. Filled with illuminating anecdotes and vividly written, A Brief History of the Paradox will appeal to anyone who finds trying to answer unanswerable questions a paradoxically pleasant endeavor.

Plato on the Human Paradox

Author : Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823211869
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Plato on the Human Paradox written by Robert J. O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato on the Human Paradox

Author : Robert J. O'Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823296385
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Plato on the Human Paradox written by Robert J. O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great thinker once said that "all philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato."Through Plato, Father O'Connell provides us here with an introduction to all philosophy. Designed for beginning students in philosophy, Plato on the Human Paradox examines and confronts human nature and the eternal questions concerning human nature through the dialogues of Plato, focusing on the Apology, Phaedo, Books III-VI of the Republic, Meno, Symposium, and O'Connell presents us here with an introduction to Plato through the philosopher's quest to define "human excellence" or arete in terms of defining what "human being" is body and soul, focusing on Plato's preoccupations with the questions of how and what it means to have a "good life" in relation to or as opposed to a "moral life."

"Infini Rien"

Author : Leslie Armour
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press : Published for the Journal of the History of Philosophy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book "Infini Rien" written by Leslie Armour and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press : Published for the Journal of the History of Philosophy. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wager fragment in Blaise Pascal's Penseés opens with the phrase "infini rien"--"infinite nothing"--which is meant to describe the human condition. Pascal was responding to what was, even in the seventeenth century, becoming a pressing human problem: we seem to be able to know much about the world but less about ourselves. The traditional European view of human beings as creatures made in the image of God and potentially capable of a mystical union with God was increasingly confounded by the difficulty of finding God in nature. Despite his own scientific work, however, Pascal argued that if one does not know whether or not God exists, one should bet that he does: if one is right the rewards are infinitely good and, if one is wrong, what one has lost is, by comparison, utterly trivial. The argument behind this wager is one of the most celebrated--and disputed--in the history of philosophy. It has been seen in terms of the calculus of probabilities, as a piece of religious apologetic, as an event in the religious and psychological life of Pascal himself, and as an event in the life of the Jansenist movement and its various expressions at Port-Royal. In this book, Leslie Armour explores the underlying logic of ideas brought to the surface by the intersection of two philosophical lines of thought. He shows that Pascal had come to philosophy by way of two particular strands of Platonism, one strongly mystical, associated with the founder of the French Oratorian order, Pierre de Bérulle, and the other the Augustinian Platonism associated with Duvergier de Hauranne and Cornelius Jansen. At the same time Pascal was engaged in an internal struggle with skepticism. While he agreed that it is difficult to find God in physical nature, he disagreed with the claim that we know nothing of nature. The problem is that the human being is both infinite and nothing. Thus, Armour locates Pascal's wager within the confluence of a vital neo-Platonism and an intellectually powerful skepticism. He concludes that even today, "If we must act and cannot know enough, we must bet."

The Paradox of Self-consciousness

Author : José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522779
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Self-consciousness written by José Luis Bermúdez and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jos� Luis Berm�dez addesses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of fully fledged self-conscious thought and language in terms of more fundamental capacities? (2) Can we explain how fully fledged self-conscious thought and language can arise in the normal course of human development? Berm�dez argues that a paradox (the paradox of self-consciousness) arises from the apparent strict interdependence between self-conscious thought and linguistic self-reference. The paradox renders circular all theories that define self-consciousness in terms of linguistic mastery of the first-person pronoun. It seems to follow from the paradox of self-consciousness that no such account or explanation can be given. Drawing on recent work in empirical psychology and philosophy, the author argues that any explanation of fully fledged self-consciousness that answers these two questions requires attention to primitive forms of self-consciousness that are prelinguistic and preconceptual. Such primitive forms of self-consciousness are to be found in somatic proprioception, the structure of exteroceptive perception, and prelinguistic forms of social interaction. The author uses these primitive forms of self-consciousness to dissolve the paradox of self-consciousness and to show how the two questions can be given an affirmative answer.

The Philosophy of Horror

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113596503X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Horror written by Noel Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a philosophical perspective, he tries to account for how people can find pleasure in having their wits scared out of them. What, after all, are those "paradoxes of the heart" that make us want to be horrified?

Nietzsche and Paradox

Author : Rogerio Miranda de Almeida
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481123
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche and Paradox written by Rogerio Miranda de Almeida and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the French, this book analyzes the paradoxes that fundamentally characterize Nietzsche’s philosophy and texts.

Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

Author : Garrett Pendergraft
Publisher : Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy
ISBN 13 : 9780367641948
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments written by Garrett Pendergraft and published by Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new kind of entrée to discussions of free will and human agency, Pendergraft illuminates 50 puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with the topic, each chapter describes a case, explains the questions that it raises, summarizes some of the key responses, and provides suggested readings.

Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, And The Power Of Human Choice

Author : Andreas Wagner
Publisher : Dar El Kalema Publishing House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, And The Power Of Human Choice written by Andreas Wagner and published by Dar El Kalema Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, itâ€™s an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagnerâ€™s ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge. Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs as mind-matter, self-other, and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately serves a radicalâ€”and optimisticâ€”outlook for humans and the world we help create. (20100201)

The Great Silence

Author : Milan M. Ćirković
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192552872
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Great Silence written by Milan M. Ćirković and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and even everyday life. It aims to establish the strongest possible version of the problem, to dispel many related confusions, obfuscations, and prejudices, as well as to offer a novel point of entry to the many solutions proposed in existing literature. Ćirković argues that any evolutionary worldview cannot avoid resolving the Great Silence problem in one guise or another.

The Paradoxical Structure of Existence

Author : Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351477706
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Paradoxical Structure of Existence written by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which makes all things actually to be. As the act of existence makes things to be, essence makes them to be what they are. Essence and the act of existence, in other words, are really distinct yet together they compose each of the things that are.Such an understanding involves a number of paradoxes, and Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's articulation of them reveals his philosophical genius. These paradoxes include the fact that the act of existence does not exist, that it can be thought but not conceived by the mind, and that truths about God can be known while He himself remains absolutely unknown. Wilhelmsen argues the notion that the Christian faith and philosophical reason harmonize while remaining completely distinct from each other.Writing in a captivating style, Wilhelmsen begins with a discussion of the development, strengths, and limitations of the ancient Greek philosophical accounts of being. Following that, he develops such key topics as the problem of existence, St. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of being, critical analyses of Hegel's and Heidegger's doctrines of being, existence as "towards God," and a metaphysical approach to the human person. The final two chapters develop the sense in which metaphysical thinking is and is not shaped by historical and social factors.

Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy

Author : David Pears
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199247706
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy written by David Pears and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Paradoxes in Probability Theory

Author : William Eckhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400751400
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes in Probability Theory written by William Eckhardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradoxes provide a vehicle for exposing misinterpretations and misapplications of accepted principles. This book discusses seven paradoxes surrounding probability theory. Some remain the focus of controversy; others have allegedly been solved, however the accepted solutions are demonstrably incorrect. Each paradox is shown to rest on one or more fallacies. Instead of the esoteric, idiosyncratic, and untested methods that have been brought to bear on these problems, the book invokes uncontroversial probability principles, acceptable both to frequentists and subjectivists. The philosophical disputation inspired by these paradoxes is shown to be misguided and unnecessary; for instance, startling claims concerning human destiny and the nature of reality are directly related to fallacious reasoning in a betting paradox, and a problem analyzed in philosophy journals is resolved by means of a computer program.

The Paradox of Power and Weakness

Author : George Kunz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438409788
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Power and Weakness written by George Kunz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-07-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metaethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas challenges Western egocentrism by describing the self as egoic yet nevertheless ethically called to transcend its own obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, and to respect and serve others. While power is powerful and weakness is weak, power can sabotage itself, and the weakness of others has power to command our attention and service. Levinas makes distinctions that offer psychology the basis for an alternative paradigm open to paradox. In The Paradox of Power and Weakness, George Kunz shows how the analyses of hagiography, cynicism, and limits on altruistic behavior by radical altruism contribute to this psychology of ethical responsibility for social sciences.

Philosophy

Author : Thomas A. Shipka
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780070425255
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy written by Thomas A. Shipka and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1996 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many adopters of Philosophy: Paradox and Discovery fourth edition by Thomas A. Shipka and Arthur J. Minton, should appreciate the new edition of this popular reader for introductory philosophy courses. Philosophy: Paradox and Discovery presents philosophy as an immediate, vital and challenging process of discovery. The text has been specifically designed to help students evaluate their beliefs on basic issues and to see philosophy as a process of discovering and examining the paradoxes inherent in those issues. The 41 readings in this book are drawn from classic and contemporary sources.