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I Drink Therefore I Am

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408194694
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book I Drink Therefore I Am written by Roger Scruton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts. This good-humoured book offers an antidote to the pretentious clap-trap that is written about wine today and a profound apology for the drink on which civilisation has been founded. In vino veritas.

Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004429565
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy will find a collection of authoritative papers from across the Neoplatonic and Eastern Christian traditions. It is only recently that scholars have started to take notice of the Eastern Christian engagement with late antique philosophical texts. This volume builds upon this new interest in order to show the dynamic nature of Neoplatonism and Eastern Christianity at a time when both faced a variety of challenges. The legacy of Greek philosophy in the Christian East fills the gap between the schools of Alexandria and Baghdad and brings into focus the intellectual history of the period. The aim of the volume is to stimulate interest in late antique philosophy and its reception in the Christian East.

Drunk

Author : Edward Slingerland
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316453374
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Drunk written by Edward Slingerland and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization—and the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised). While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, social psychology, literature, and genetics, Drunk shows that our taste for chemical intoxicants is not an evolutionary mistake, as we are so often told. In fact, intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers. Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication. From marauding Vikings and bacchanalian orgies to sex-starved fruit flies, blind cave fish, and problem-solving crows, Drunk is packed with fascinating case studies and engaging science, as well as practical takeaways for individuals and communities. The result is a captivating and long overdue investigation into humanity's oldest indulgence—one that explains not only why we want to get drunk, but also how it might actually be good for us to tie one on now and then.

The Drunken Silenus

Author : Morgan Meis
Publisher : Slant Books
ISBN 13 : 1639820566
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Drunken Silenus written by Morgan Meis and published by Slant Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of the figure from Greek mythology who is mentor to Dionysus, god of wine and excess of every kind. We learn who this obscure, minor god is--why he must attend on the god who dies and must be re-born and educated all over again--and why Rubens depicted him not as a character out of a farce, but as one whose plight evokes pity and compassion. The narrative spirals out from there, taking in the history of Antwerp, bloody seventeenth-century religious wars, tales of Rubens's father's near-execution for sleeping with William of Orange's wife, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and the impossibility of there being any meaning to human life, and the destruction of all civilization by nefarious forces within ourselves. All of this is conveyed in language that crackles with intelligence, wit, and dark humor--a voice that at times sounds a bit tipsy and garrulous, but which ultimately asks us to confront the deepest questions of meaning, purpose, and hope in the face of death and tragedy.

Hitler's Philosophers

Author : Yvonne Sherratt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300151934
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Philosophers written by Yvonne Sherratt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of the philosophers who supported Hitler's rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime

Distilled Spirits

Author : Don Lattin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520272323
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Distilled Spirits written by Don Lattin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the experiences of the author, a religion reporter, and his friendships with Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, three men who had profound effects on the religion and spirituality of the twentieth century.

Classical Philosophy

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199674531
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Classical Philosophy written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world

The Virtues

Author : Peter Geach
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521213509
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Virtues written by Peter Geach and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-04-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity. Claims moral precepts are absolute, utilitarianism is to be shunned, and sex apart from marriage is poison.

Whiskey and Philosophy

Author : Fritz Allhoff
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470615621
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Whiskey and Philosophy written by Fritz Allhoff and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful essays on the history, significance, and pleasures of whiskey Everyone becomes a philosopher with a drink in hand, but Whiskey & Philosophy takes this natural pairing to a new level. It explores a range of philosophical topics related to whiskey through engaging reflections written by philosophers, whiskey writers, and others. You will learn things that are both practical (how do tasting notes vary across guides and whiskey brands?) and thought provoking (why is there the popular conception that drinking whiskey makes people mean, and is it true?). Whether your interest lies in the drink itself or in the philosophical issues surrounding it, you'll find something to interest you in this unusual book. Covers subjects ranging from geographical origin to stylistic differences between whiskey and Scotch Explores philosophical ideas such as the aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of whiskey and whiskey drinking Includes contributions from academics, journalists, and whiskey specialists, all written in an engaging and accessible style Whether you prefer your whiskey neat or in a Manhattan, from the United States, Scotland, or elsewhere, Whiskey & Philosophy is your perfect drinking companion.

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 Philosophy Book

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465441069
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how our big social, political and ethical ideas are formed with The Philosophy Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Philosophy in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Philosophy Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Philosophy, with: - Key quotes from more than 100 of the great thinkers of philosophy - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Philosophy Book is the perfect introduction to philosophy, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you'll discover how key concepts in philosophy have shaped our world, with authoritative articles that explore big ideas. Learn about everyone who's contributed to the flow of world philosophy, from antiquity to the modern age, through superb mind maps explaining the line of thought. Your Philosophical Questions, Simply Explained If you thought it was difficult to learn philosophy and its many concepts, The Philosophy Book presents the key ideas in a clear layout. Find out what philosophers thought about the nature of reality, and the fundamental questions we ask ourselves; What is the meaning of life? What is the Universe made of? And work your way through the different branches of philosophy such as metaphysics and ethics, from ancient and modern thinkers. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Philosophy Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Intoxication

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823267741
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Intoxication written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plato’s Symposium to Hegel’s truth as a “Bacchanalian revel,” from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and navigates their proximities and differences. For Nancy, intoxication constitutes an excess that both fascinates and questions philosophy’s sober ambitions for appropriate forms of philosophical behavior and conceptual lucidity. At the same time, intoxication displaces a number of established dualities—reason and passion, mind and body, rationality and desire, rigor and excess, clarity and confusion, logic and eros. Taking its point of departure from Baudelaire’s categorical imperative to understand modernity—“be drunk always”—Nancy’s little book is composed in fragments, quotations, drunken asides, and inebriated repetitions. His contemporary “banquet” addresses a range of related themes, including the role of alcohol and intoxication in rituals, myths, divine sacrifice, and religious symbolism, all those toasts to the sacred “spirits” involving libations and different forms of speech and enunciation—to the gods, to modernity, to the Absolute. Affecting both mind and body, Nancy’s subject becomes intoxicated: Ego sum, ego existo ebrius—I am, I exist—drunk.

The Philosopher's Stone

Author : Johannes Anker Larsen
Publisher : Macmillan Company of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Stone written by Johannes Anker Larsen and published by Macmillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1924 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Games

Author : C. Thi Nguyen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190052082
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Games written by C. Thi Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games are a unique art form. They do not just tell stories, nor are they simply conceptual art. They are the art form that works in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be in games and what to care about; they designate the player's in-game abilities and motivations. In other words, designers create alternate agencies, and players submerge themselves in those agencies. Games let us explore alternate forms of agency. The fact that we play games demonstrates something remarkable about the nature of our own agency: we are capable of incredible fluidity with our own motivations and rationality. This volume presents a new theory of games which insists on games' unique value in human life. C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are an integral part of how we become mature, free people. Bridging aesthetics and practical reasoning, he gives an account of the special motivational structure involved in playing games. We can pursue goals, not for their own value, but for the sake of the struggle. Playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life, and the fact that we can engage in this motivational inversion lets us use games to experience forms of agency we might never have developed on our own. Games, then, are a special medium for communication. They are the technology that allows us to write down and transmit forms of agency. Thus, the body of games forms a "library of agency" which we can use to help develop our freedom and autonomy. Nguyen also presents a new theory of the aesthetics of games. Games sculpt our practical activities, allowing us to experience the beauty of our own actions and reasoning. They are unlike traditional artworks in that they are designed to sculpt activities - and to promote their players' aesthetic appreciation of their own activity.

The Cambridge Companion to Socrates

Author : Donald R. Morrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521833426
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Socrates written by Donald R. Morrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from a diverse group of experts providing a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher.

The Philosophy Book

Author : DK Publishing
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756688671
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy Book written by DK Publishing and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the complete novice, learning about philosophy can be a cause for dread—“I won’t understand” is a common reaction to the mere mention of the subject, which is often assumed to be too complex and confusing for the average reader. DK’s The Philosophy Book will show that philosophy doesn't have to be a daunting subject. With the use of easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, this book cuts through the haze of misunderstanding surrounding the subject, untangling knotty theories and shedding light on abstract concepts. The book is organized as a history of philosophy. Each idea—and the philosopher who first voiced it—is placed chronologically, and is cross-referenced to earlier and later ideas. Contents The Ideas (336PP) Siddhartha Gautama Thales: “Know Thyself” Pythagoras Lao Tzu: “The Tao That Can Be Told Is Not The Eternal Tao” Confucius Heraclitus Parmenides Protagoras: “Man Is The Measure Of All Things” Zeno of Elea Socrates Plato: “Everything Is Becoming, Nothing Is” Aristotle Epicurus Zeno of Citium: “Happiness Is A Good Flow Of Life” Han Feizi Plotinus Augustine: “There Is No Salvation Outside The Church” Avicenna Averroës Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Niccolò Machiavelli: “Reprehensible Actions May Be Justified By Their Effects” Francisco de Vitoria Francisco Suárez Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes René Descartes: “I Think, Therefore I Am” Benedictus Spinoza John Locke Gottfried Leibniz George Berkeley David Hume: “Reason Is The Slave Of The Passions” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Edmund Burke Jeremy Bentham: “Every Law Is Contrary To Liberty” Johann Gottlieb Fichte Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: “Only In The State Does Man Have A Rational Existence” Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Auguste Comte Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Every Natural Fact Is A Symbol Of Some Spiritual Fact” Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach John Stuart Mill Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Karl Marx: “From Each According To His Ability, To Each According To His Need” Charles Sanders Peirce William James Friedrich Nietzsche: “Man Is Something To Be Surpassed” Gottlob Frege Edmund Husserl Henri Bergson Nishido Katara Bertrand Russell José Ortega y Gasset Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The Limits Of My Language Are The Limits Of My World” Martin Heidegger Rudolf Carnap Hans-Georg Gadamer Gilbert Ryle Karl Popper Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Jean-Paul Sartre: “Man Is Condemned To Be Free” Willard Van Orman Quine Arne Dekke Eide Naess John Rawls Thomas Samuel Kuhn Michel Foucault Noam Chomsky: “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously” Jurgen Habermas Jacques Derrida: “There Is Nothing Outside Of The Text” Richard Rorty Saul Kripke

The Philosopher's Handbook

Author : Stanley Rosen
Publisher : Random House Reference
ISBN 13 : 0307559076
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Handbook written by Stanley Rosen and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal introduction for the casual reader and a beneficial reference for the student, The Philosopher's Handbook features the writings of some of the world's most influential philosophers. Based on the premise that all human beings are curious about their existence, Rosen's collection brings together primary excerpts from the works of prominent thinkers such as Plato, Nietzsche, Descartes, Machiavelli, and Kant. Experts in each field have carefully selected the sources and provided brief introductions to help readers gain insight into the readings. Newly revised in order to emphasize its broad appeal, The Philosopher's Handbook is a solid introduction to Western philosophy for all inquiring minds.