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The Moral Symmetry of Good and Evil

Author : Ken Levi
Publisher : Ken Levi
ISBN 13 : 0463655591
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Symmetry of Good and Evil written by Ken Levi and published by Ken Levi. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I love to kill people. I love watching them die.” So said Richard Ramirez, the notorious Los Angeles “Night Stalker.” Can we say that he, and others like him, are pure evil? Or, is that just a matter of personal opinion? This book is about morality. It’s about proving good and evil are real; that they’re not just an opinion; that they are based on a measurable standard; that the measurable standard comes not from religion, not from philosophy, but from science. What is that scientific standard? Symmetry. It’s how things work in physics, in aesthetics, and even in ethics. The same symmetry that governs the interaction among subatomic particles, that forms the wings of a butterfly, that determines the genius of a snowflake, also has fashioned you and me as moral beings, and has given us the choice between what’s evil and what’s good. That’s what I explain.

American Hitler: Trump and His Cult of Followers

Author : Ken Levi
Publisher : Ken Levi
ISBN 13 : 1005161267
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book American Hitler: Trump and His Cult of Followers written by Ken Levi and published by Ken Levi. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not about Donald Trump. It’s about his diehard followers. How could they so zealously and single-mindedly revere someone whom we see as monumentally unfit for his job? How is it that so many people were beguiled by a vision of hate and discord, of intolerance and violence, of authoritarianism and lawlessness, of coarseness and mendacity, and of simple basic meanness? In light of all Trump’s transgressions, listed in Chapter One from “a” to “z,” how is it that people remained so devoted to this man, that they would professedly “die for him”? That is the subject of this book. Several years ago, I published Violence and Religious Commitment: Implications of Jim Jones’s People’s Temple Movement. Contributors to that book include leading experts in the field of extremist cults. Now, I bring their expertise to bear in a demographical, sociological, and psychological analysis of what I term the “American Hitler” and his bewildering cult of followers.

Proving God Exists

Author : Ken Levi
Publisher : Ken Levi
ISBN 13 : 137064986X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Proving God Exists written by Ken Levi and published by Ken Levi. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is real. The evidence is solid and extensive. It’s not based on blind faith or wishful thinking, but on hard science. The starting point is to strip away layers of mysticism and superstition surrounding the question of a Supreme Being; then, to ask: what do we really mean by “God”? How can we describe Him? What evidence do we have such a Being exists? In addressing these questions, the book relies on physics and cosmology; on Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, Black Hole Theory, Thermodynamics, Loop Quantum Gravity, and others. Ultimately, the scientific evidence leads to a provocative conclusion: the ubiquity of a Universal Mind.

Scandal in the American Orchid Society

Author : Luis A Valdez
Publisher : Ken Levi
ISBN 13 : 1005641412
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Scandal in the American Orchid Society written by Luis A Valdez and published by Ken Levi. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the explosive, true-life exposé about an orchid lover’s journey, and about the people who shot him down. It’s about me, Luis Valdez, and how I rose to become the first Hispanic President of the Alamo Orchid Society in San Antonio, Texas. It’s about how I was unanimously elected and re-elected for two terms in office, and then how the President who succeeded me kicked me out of the Club. In a larger sense, it’s a tell-all tale about gross mismanagement in a voluntary society, and it reflects not only on the ineptitude of the current AOS leaders, but also on the culpability of the American Orchid Society, their parent organization.

King Lear and the Gods

Author : William R. Elton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813161304
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book King Lear and the Gods written by William R. Elton and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critics hold that Shakespeare's King Lear is primarily a drama of meaningful suffering and redemption within a just universe ruled by providential higher powers. William Elton's King Lear and the Gods challenges the validity of this widespread optimistic view. Testing the prevailing view against the play's acknowledged sources, and analyzing the functions of the double plot, the characters, and the play's implicit ironies, Elton concludes that this standard interpretation constitutes a serious misreading of the tragedy.

The Science of Good and Evil

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429996757
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Good and Evil written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the very nature of humanity. In The Science of Good and Evil, science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates; how and why morality motivates the human animal; and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans. As he closes the divide between science and morality, Shermer draws on stories from the Yanamamö, infamously known as the "fierce people" of the tropical rain forest, to the Stanford studies on jailers' behavior in prisons. The Science of Good and Evil is ultimately a profound look at the moral animal, belief, and the scientific pursuit of truth.

Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft

Author : Eric Patterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003833306
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Military Necessity and Just War Statecraft written by Eric Patterson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the concept of military necessity and just war thinking, and argues that it should be seen as a vital moral principle for leaders. The principle of military necessity is well-understood in the manuals of modern militaries and is recognized in the war convention. It is the idea that battlefield commanders should make every effort to win on a local battlefield, within legal means, and using proportionate and discriminating weapons and tactics. Every legal textbook on war includes military necessity as a foundational principle within the jus in bello (ethics of fighting war) alongside principles of proportionality and distinction, and it is taught in every Western military academy. Even the International Committee of the Red Cross lauds the concept as a cardinal principle of warfare. However, unlike legal scholarship, pick up a book by almost any just war thinker in philosophy, theology, or the social sciences, and the concept is missing altogether. This volume returns military necessity to just war thinking and lays out the argument for doing so. Each contributor taps into one of the many dimensions of military necessity, such as its relationship to jus ad bellum (ethics of going to war) categories (e.g. right intention), its relationship to jus in bello categories, or its application in foreign policy and military doctrine. Case studies in the book point out the practical moral dimensions of military necessity in cases from the targeted killing of terrorists to battlefield decisions that led to the use of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima. This book will be of interest to students of just war theory, military ethics, statecraft and International Relations.

Faith, Reason, and Compassion

Author : James Earl Gilman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742552708
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Reason, and Compassion written by James Earl Gilman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between faith and reason? How should faith and reason situate themselves in relation to each other? These are the chief questions that James Gilman seeks to address inFaith, Reason, and Compassion A Philosophy of the Chrisitian Faith. An innovative new book in philosophy of religion, it treats the problems typical of the discipline in an untypical way, with a methodology that presupposes a particular religious tradition, in this case Christianity, and that reenfranchises emotions (e.g., compassion) as crucial to shaping solutions to philosophical problems. What is the relationship between faith and reason? How should faith and reason situate themselves in relation to each other? These are the chief questions that James Gilman seeks to address inFaith, Reason, and Compassion A Philosophy of the Chrisitian Faith. An innovative new book in philosophy of religion, it treats the problems typical of the discipline in an untypical way, with a methodology that presupposes a particular religious tradition, in this case Christianity, and that reenfranchises emotions (e.g., compassion) as crucial to shaping solutions to philosophical problems.

Tales Told Sometimes in Earnest 2nd Edition

Author : David J. Pilling
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426973136
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Tales Told Sometimes in Earnest 2nd Edition written by David J. Pilling and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the human mind? What is its template? The mind reveals itself in what it does. Do not to ask what the mind is but ask what it does and be not preoccupied how it does it. A piece of wood with metal attach to one end does not tell us the nature of the hammer. But driving a nail with such a metal/wood object reveals the nature of the hammer. So it is with the mind. Its nature is revealed in what it does. But who is the human mind? Is it your being or your features? Three hundred an fifty stories bring us closer to the answer. The mind is put to work because we are drawn inexorably into the future and always with a degree of uncertainty: sometimes watchful, other times unaware of what will happen next and many times not wanting to know. The purpose of the mind is to know what will happen next.

Doing Philosophy

Author : Gerald Rochelle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000089940
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Philosophy written by Gerald Rochelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2012, Doing Philosophy presents the basics of how ‘to do’ philosophy — what philosophy is, how we can think, the nature of logic, some special terms — in a straightforward and easy to understand style. Then, using questions and exercises as well as everyday examples, the author takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour of key philosophical topics which, as well as the ‘standard fare’ of logic, epistemology, mind, God etc., also includes ethical, social, scientific, cultural and human issues such as time, cosmology, war, animal rights, euthanasia, abortion, genetics, evolution, and the meaning of life. The author’s emphasis throughout is that philosophy is accessible to anyone keen enough to try and do it and that, as a subject, philosophy is practical, fascinating and exciting. By encouraging independent critical thinking and being succinct yet informative, the book involves the reader with the history, the breadth of subject matter, the skills of philosophising and the benefits that philosophy can offer to the enquiring individual. The book accesses major philosophical topics briefly, breaking them down into convenient points, with challenging questions throughout and exercise questions at the end of each chapter, whilst introducing major thinkers and their ideas. There is an extensive further reading list to help those who wish to take this absorbing subject further.

The Theory of Good and Evil

Author : Hastings Rashdall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Good and Evil written by Hastings Rashdall and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Good and Evil

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good and Evil written by Raimond Gaita and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raimond Gaita's Good and Evil is one of the most important, original and provocative books on the nature of morality to have been published in recent years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in what it means to talk about good and evil. Gaita argues that questions about morality are inseparable from the preciousness of each human being, an issue we can only address if we place the idea of remorse at the centre of moral life. Drawing on an astonishing range of thinkers and writers, including Plato, Wittgenstein, George Orwell and Primo Levi, Gaita also reflects on the place of reason and truth in morality and ultimately how questions about good and evil are connected to the meaning of our lives. This revised edition of Good and Evil includes a substantial new preface and afterword by the author.

The Theory of Development

Author : James Bowling Mozley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Development written by James Bowling Mozley and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introducing Philosophy Through Film

Author : Richard Fumerton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405171022
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Philosophy Through Film written by Richard Fumerton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy Through Film offers a uniquely engaging and effective approach to introductory philosophy by combining an anthology of classical and contemporary philosophical readings with a discussion of philosophical concepts illustrated in popular films. Pairs 50 classical and contemporary readings with popular films - from Monty Python and The Matrix to Casablanca and A Clockwork Orange Addresses key areas in philosophy, including topics in ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, free will and determinism, the problem of perception, and philosophy of time Each unit begins with an extensive introduction by the editors and ends with study questions linking readings to films Features chapter by chapter discussion of clips from films that vividly illustrate the critical philosophical arguments and positions raised in the readings

Doing Evil to Achieve Good

Author : Richard A. McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Doing Evil to Achieve Good written by Richard A. McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drawing Morals

Author : Thomas Hurka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199876703
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Drawing Morals written by Thomas Hurka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains selected essays in moral and political philosophy by Thomas Hurka. The essays address a wide variety of topics, from the well-rounded life and the value of playing games to proportionality in war and the ethics of nationalism. They also share a common aim: to illuminate the surprising richness and subtlety of our everyday moral thought by revealing its underlying structure, which they often do by representing that structure on graphs. More specifically, the essays all give what the first in the volume calls "structural" as against "foundational" analyses of moral views. Eschewing the grander ambition of grounding our ideas about, say, virtue or desert in claims that use different concepts and concern some other, allegedly more fundamental topic, they examine these ideas in their own right and with close attention to their details. As well as illuminating their individual topics, the essays illustrate the insights this structural method can yield.

Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain

Author : Stephen Grossberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190070579
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain written by Stephen Grossberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After all, how can a mind understand itself? How can you understand something as complex as the tool that is being used to understand it? This book provides an introductory and self-contained description of some of the exciting answers to these questions that modern theories of mind and brain have recently proposed. Stephen Grossberg is broadly acknowledged to be the most important pioneer and current research leader who has, for the past 50 years, modelled how brains give rise to minds, notably how neural circuits in multiple brain regions interact together to generate psychological functions. This research has led to a unified understanding of how, where, and why our brains can consciously see, hear, feel, and know about the world, and effectively plan and act within it. The work embodies revolutionary Principia of Mind that clarify how autonomous adaptive intelligence is achieved. It provides mechanistic explanations of multiple mental disorders, including symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, autism, amnesia, and sleep disorders; biological bases of morality and religion, including why our brains are biased towards the good so that values are not purely relative; perplexing aspects of the human condition, including why many decisions are irrational and self-defeating despite evolution's selection of adaptive behaviors; and solutions to large-scale problems in machine learning, technology, and Artificial Intelligence that provide a blueprint for autonomously intelligent algorithms and robots. Because brains embody a universal developmental code, unifying insights also emerge about shared laws that are found in all living cellular tissues, from the most primitive to the most advanced, notably how the laws governing networks of interacting cells support developmental and learning processes in all species. The fundamental brain design principles of complementarity, uncertainty, and resonance that Grossberg has discovered also reflect laws of the physical world with which our brains ceaselessly interact, and which enable our brains to incrementally learn to understand those laws, thereby enabling humans to understand the world scientifically. Accessibly written, and lavishly illustrated, Conscious Mind/Resonant Brain is the magnum opus of one of the most influential scientists of the past 50 years, and will appeal to a broad readership across the sciences and humanities.