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The Philosophy of the Western

Author : Jennifer L. McMahon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081317385X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of the Western written by Jennifer L. McMahon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western embodies America and its values. In recent years, scholars had declared the western genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western themes in literature, film, and television has reestablished the genre as one of the most important. In The Philosophy of the Western, editors Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki examine philosophical themes in the western genre. Investigating subjects of nature, ethics, identity, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a wide range of westerns including the recent popular and critical successes Unforgiven (1992), All the Pretty Horses (2000), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and No Country for Old Men (2007), as well as literature and television serials such as Deadwood. The Philosophy of the Western reveals the influence of the western on the American psyche, filling a void in the current scholarship of the genre.

World Philosophy

Author : H. Gene Blocker
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book World Philosophy written by H. Gene Blocker and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique introduction to comparative philosophy brings together Chinese, Indian, and Western philosophers of roughly the same sort, of comparable stature, on the same philosophical topics and issues. Discussions are arranged in traditional clusters -- logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Compares equals to equals -- logicians with logicians, metaphysicians with metaphysicians, ethicists with ethicists -- e.g., compares Indian, Chinese and Western empiricists, utilitarians, hedonists, egoists, atheists, theists, monists, pluralists, idealists, materialists, dualists, skeptics, relativists, political realists, etc. Treats the strictly philosophical arguments as roughly similar across cultures, but presents the larger cultural contexts in which they occur as considerably different. For anyone interested in comparative philosophy.

An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

Author : Karen Warren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742559246
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy written by Karen Warren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical exclusion of women's voices has diminished academic disciplines, including philosophy. In this groundbreaking new account of Western philosophy throughout the past 2,600 years, Karen J. Warren has paired sixteen women philosophers along-side their historical male contemporaries in conversations on philosophy. An overview essay, together with chapter introductions, primary readings, and expert commentaries, offer a rich description and evaluation of each philosopher's vital contributions to Western philosophy. Book jacket.

Philosophy in the American West

Author : Josh Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000092410
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in the American West written by Josh Hayes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy in the American West explores the physical, ecological, cultural, and narrative environments associated with the western United States, reflecting on the relationship between people and the places that sustain them. The American West has long been recognized as having significance. From Crèvecoeur’s early observations in Letters from an American Farmer (1782), to Thoreau’s reflections in Walden (1854), to twentieth-century thoughts on the legacy of a vanishing frontier, "the West" has played a pivotal role in the American narrative and in the American sense of self. But while the nature of "westernness" has been touched on by historians, sociologists, and, especially, novelists and poets, this collection represents the first attempt to think philosophically about the nature of "the West" and its influence on us. The contributors take up thinkers that have been associated with Continental Philosophy and pair them with writers, poets, and artists of "the West". And while this collection seeks to loosen the cords that tie philosophy to Europe, the traditions of "continental" philosophy—phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and others—offer deep resources for thinking through the particularity of place. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, as well as those working in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities more broadly.

History of Western Philosophy

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789393592163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book History of Western Philosophy written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Continental Philosophy

Author : David West
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074564581X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Continental Philosophy written by David West and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Žižek. At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account of the development of continental philosophy since the Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, the Enlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, there is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey, Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The new edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental philosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. Continental Philosophy: An Introduction is an invaluable introductory text for courses on continental philosophy as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences dealing with major figures or influential approaches within that tradition.

History of Philosophy

Author : William S. Sahakian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book History of Philosophy written by William S. Sahakian and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Just the Arguments

Author : Michael Bruce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344412
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Just the Arguments written by Michael Bruce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. Just the Arguments is an invaluable one-stop argument shop. A concise, formally structured summation of 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy The first book of its kind to present the most important and influential philosophical arguments in a clear premise/conclusion format, the language that philosophers use and students are expected to know Offers succinct expositions of key philosophical arguments without bogging them down in commentary Translates difficult texts to core arguments Designed to provides a quick and compact reference to everything from Aquinas’ “Five Ways” to prove the existence of God, to the metaphysical possibilities of a zombie world

The Story of Western Philosophy

Author : Frank Mitchell
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781625100702
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Western Philosophy written by Frank Mitchell and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic treatment of philosophy and Christianity... Volume II of The Story of Western Philosophy: The Rise and Fall and Return of Reason continues the theme of Rational knowledge truth claims concerning both the Natural Revelation of Reason and the Special Revelation of the Bible, and these themes are explored in terms of Augustine's classic work The City of God and its implication for philosophy, history, good government, and true religion in spirit and truth. All of these things raise the question of what is Kingdom Era Christianity as defined and prophesied in the Bible from the promises made to Abraham to the book of Revelation, where ""the kingdoms (or nations) of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ."" Again, in Volume II, this study is done in terms of Justin Martyr's Logos Christology where the Logos of Heraclitus is the Wisdom of Solomon, is the Logos of John, is the second Person of the Trinity, and when this Logos Rationality rules over the nations on earth, this is the reign of Christ in a Kingdom Era under ""the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD."" This volume looks at length at the three main currents of philosophy and religion that came out of the Renaissance Reformation era, namely, atheistic humanism, Protestant Bible Christianity, and Roman Catholicism and how each of these three philosophical worldviews had an attendant political theory for a supposedly desirable state, as seen in the American (Protestant Christian) Revolution of 1776 and in the French (atheist humanist) Revolution of 1789 against the Roman Catholic Church and its absolute monarchy. Further, after the 18th century Enlightenment, the validity of the Bible revelation in its main story line (the Creation, Sinai, and the Resurrection) is called into question by what is called ""higher criticism."" This position is generally the basis for today's Christian and Jewish Liberalism as well as today's political Liberalism.

Short History W Philosoph

Author : Johannes Hirschberger
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short History W Philosoph written by Johannes Hirschberger and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1977-04-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers

Author : J. O. Urmson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415078830
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers written by J. O. Urmson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised third edition of this Concise Encyclopedia brings it completely up-to-date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction.

The American Evasion of Philosophy

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299119637
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The American Evasion of Philosophy written by Cornel West and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1989-05-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West’s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West’s "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author’s conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture. "West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation."—The Nation "The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation—appreciative yet far from uncritical—of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement."—Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wisconsin Project on American Writers Frank Lentricchia, General Editor

Understanding Non-Western Philosophy

Author : Daniel A. Bonevac
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Non-Western Philosophy written by Daniel A. Bonevac and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of important readings in African, Asian, and Southern Mediterranean philosophy is the perfect supplement for instructors who wish to introduce non-Western materials to their students. The readings are presented chronologically within four sections covering the following geographical areas: Africa, West Asia, North Africa, Islamic Spain, South Asia, and East Asia.

A History of Western Philosophy

Author : C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830873694
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Philosophy written by C. Stephen Evans and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel. These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledge, every student of philosophy needs to know the history of the philosophical discourse such giants have bequeathed us. Noted philosopher C. Stephen Evans brings his expertise to this daunting task as he surveys the history of Western philosophy, from the Pre-Socratics to Nietzsche and postmodernism—and every major figure and movement in between.

Philosophy in the Modern World

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199546371
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in the Modern World written by Anthony Kenny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the concluding volume of Sir Anthony Kenny's monumental four-volume history of philosophy, the first major single-author narrative history to appear for several decades.Here Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the end of the millennium. Alongside extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the mostintriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have transformed our understanding of ourselves and our world. In the first part of the book, Kenny offers a lively narrative introducing the major thinkers in their historical context. Among those we meet are the great figures ofcontinental European philosophy, from Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche to Heidegger, Sartre, and Derrida; the Pragmatists such as C.S. Pierce and William James; Marx, Darwin, and Freud, the non-philosophers; and Wittgenstein and Russell, friends and colleagues who set the agenda for analyticphilosophy in the twentieth century. Kenny then proceeds to guide the reader lucidly through the nine main areas of philosophical work in the period, offering a serious engagement with ideas and arguments about logic, language, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, politics, and theexistence of God.

The Dilemma of Western Philosophy

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351624717
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Dilemma of Western Philosophy written by Michael A. Peters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection takes a multifaceted approach to the various limitations and achievements of Western philosophy. Considered on its own, Western philosophy is a highly contentious name. The contributors question its validity as a label and take to task its grand appearance within education. However, part of the problem with Western philosophy is that it has less conventional as well as dominant manifestations. The writers consider both forms of Western philosophy, devoting significant thought and time to it in its own right, but always referring it to the more specific issue of education. This book adds to a growing corpus that sketches the relationship between education and philosophy, showing that they are deeply intertwined, and it is indeed philosophy (and especially its Western variation) that supports Western education and allows it to flourish in the first instance. It is fitting, then, that at various points this book depicts education as a hegemonic vehicle of a deeper phenomenon – that of dominant Western philosophy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy

Author : A. L. Macfie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy written by A. L. Macfie and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. It is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental influence upon European thinkers.