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Book Synopsis The New Metaphysicals by : Courtney Bender
Download or read book The New Metaphysicals written by Courtney Bender and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American spirituality—with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration—is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as The New Metaphysicals makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots in the nineteenth century and a great deal in common with traditional religious movements. To explore this world, Courtney Bender combines research into the history of the movement with fieldwork in Cambridge, Massachusetts—a key site of alternative religious inquiry from Emerson and William James to today. Through her ethnographic analysis, Bender discovers that a focus on the new, on progress, and on the way spiritual beliefs intersect with science obscures the historical roots of spirituality from its practitioners and those who study it alike—and shape an enduring set of modern religious possibilities in the process.
Book Synopsis Elements of the New Metaphysics and Other Writings of the Last Philosopher by : Loren Berengere
Download or read book Elements of the New Metaphysics and Other Writings of the Last Philosopher written by Loren Berengere and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also by this author: Essays on Time and Space Infinity and the Supermen The New Politics: the spirit and fate of conservatism and progressivism Political Mythologies of the Right and the Left are Detected and Overthrown The Sixteen Satires Productions already written: Berengere contra Nietzsche Jeremiads from the Bottom of a Mousehole: reply to Søren Kierkegaard, and other close encounters with the history of theology The Relation of the Artwork to Time and Space: Notes on Aesthetics (excerpted in this volume) Exemplary Epigrams for the Smart Set Elements of the New Sovereignty
Book Synopsis A Republic of Mind and Spirit by : Catherine L. Albanese
Download or read book A Republic of Mind and Spirit written by Catherine L. Albanese and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a 'wild' frontier were stymied by labour struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.-Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.
Book Synopsis The Realms of Metaphysics and The New Leaders of the World by : Mohammad Taksayeh
Download or read book The Realms of Metaphysics and The New Leaders of the World written by Mohammad Taksayeh and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Through this book, I will be writing about my feelings through the Spiritual Journey which I have gone through enormously. These made me to approach many resources including Divine Eastern Books and Abrahamic religion, up to the Metaphysics studies, scientific research and findings. I have faced with Angelic Miracles which truly changed my Spiritual path to the better understanding of God, Evil and effects in all human lives whether they notice this or not. My happenings are all based on scenarios which lead me to elaborate further and deeper into contemplation, meditation and applying my energies into it.
Book Synopsis Metaphysics and the New Age by : Peter Daley
Download or read book Metaphysics and the New Age written by Peter Daley and published by Peter Henry Daley. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes the dangers faced in the last half of the 20th.century, and the ways by which we were able to survive attacks from Outer Space; and from Hell itself which could have entered the physical world, at one stage. The rest of the book contains details of Occultism and Mysticism which challenge the veracity of Church dogma, which has denied and suppressed as heresy for 2000 years. In these days we face a challenge unprecedented in human history. Things are changing as the spiritualisation of the Earth proceeds at an increasing rate. There will be no overt assistance from the planets until the atomic bombs are dismantled. Meanwhile subtle means are deployed which can be related, but which require sacrifices from those who have reached a higher level of evolution. The material world is a shadow, a reflection of inner worlds. As its prisoners we do not know we are confined, but there are ways of perceiving some facets of TRUTH, which is STRANGER THAN FICTION!
Book Synopsis New Essays in Metaphysics by : Robert C. Neville
Download or read book New Essays in Metaphysics written by Robert C. Neville and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume displays fifteen of the many lively options in the field of metaphysics. The authors, having finished their formal education in the 1960s or later, belong to the generation of philosophers whose rebellion was against those who thought they saw metaphysics in the grand sense to be passe or impossible. The authors also share a commitment to the importance of metaphysics for the social and cultural life of our time. Despite the diversity of argued opinions on the fundamental array of metaphysical topics, these essays display the zest of a reborn enterprise, at once appropriating a rich and honorable past and moving into new areas only recently thought illegitimate for philosophy.
Book Synopsis The Iranian Metaphysicals by : Alireza Doostdar
Download or read book The Iranian Metaphysicals written by Alireza Doostdar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the occult sciences, séances with the souls of the dead, and appeals to saintly powers have to do with rationality? Since the late nineteenth century, modernizing intellectuals, religious leaders, and statesmen in Iran have attempted to curtail many such practices as "superstitious," instead encouraging the development of rational religious sensibilities and dispositions. However, far from diminishing the diverse methods through which Iranians engage with the immaterial realm, these rationalizing processes have multiplied the possibilities for metaphysical experimentation. The Iranian Metaphysicals examines these experiments and their transformations over the past century. Drawing on years of ethnographic and archival research, Alireza Doostdar shows that metaphysical experimentation lies at the center of some of the most influential intellectual and religious movements in modern Iran. These forms of exploration have not only produced a plurality of rational orientations toward metaphysical phenomena but have also fundamentally shaped what is understood as orthodox Shi‘i Islam, including the forms of Islamic rationality at the heart of projects for building and sustaining an Islamic Republic. Delving into frequently neglected aspects of Iranian spirituality, politics, and intellectual inquiry, The Iranian Metaphysicals challenges widely held assumptions about Islam, rationality, and the relationship between science and religion.
Book Synopsis Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics by : Raymond T. Shorthouse
Download or read book Textual Narratives and a New Metaphysics written by Raymond T. Shorthouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Drawing extensively upon recent developments in post-phenomenological philosophy, especially 'the textual turn' exemplified by Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this book explores the role that textual narratives have in the possibility of reasonably affirming the intelligibility of the world. Shorthouse reveals how textual narratives can play a primary role in affirming rational meaning in a continuing hermeneutical process. Offering a radically new approach to metaphysics, Shorthouse demonstrates that rational meaning is ontologically grounded in terms of a transcendental viewpoint or perspective. It is this grounding which transcends the language and the self in a hermeneutical movement towards the affirmation of rational meaning. Revealing that the critical characteristic of reading a narrative is rhythm, Shorthouse explains how each narrative has a rhythmic structure, or prose rhythm, in relation to its semantic and figurative characteristics, activity and mood. Two key questions are explored: what kind of rational unity may be affirmed which does not close or suspend reflection? and what kind of linguistic mediation may generate an extralinguistic, or transcendental element in establishing an ontological grounding for this affirmation? The response to both these questions is presented in terms of textual sonority, where Shorthouse draws upon, and develops, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of sonorous being.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by : Vine Deloria, Jr.
Download or read book The Metaphysics of Modern Existence written by Vine Deloria, Jr. and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.
Book Synopsis Practical Metaphysics by : Eric Butterworth
Download or read book Practical Metaphysics written by Eric Butterworth and published by Unity Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Butterworth has earned the trust of millions with his sound, hard-hitting advice on how to make life better through the practice of metaphysics. This adaptation from A Course in Practical Metaphysics is packed with insights, activities, and meditations which will increase your spiritual awareness and help you live a more fulfilling life. Learn about the background of metaphysics, the aspects of God, the will of God, Jesus, spiritual awakening, and how words and thought affect your life. Explore the practicality of metaphysics focusing on subjects such as faith, the presence and power of God, love, prayer, healing, prosperity, and mroe. Compiled by Mark Hicks from A Course in Practical Metaphysics and edited by Michael A. Maday.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysical Club by : Louis Menand
Download or read book The Metaphysical Club written by Louis Menand and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-04-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea -- an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. Holmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things "out there" waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent -- like knives and forks and microchips -- to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely dependent-- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea deps not on its immutability but on its adaptability. The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. It begins with the Civil War and s in 1919 with Justice Holmes's dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. v. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. The first four sections of the book focus on Holmes, James, Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life.
Book Synopsis The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings by : Michael J. Almeida
Download or read book The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings written by Michael J. Almeida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness, the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace, the theory of dynamic or sequential choice, the logic of moral and rational dilemmas, and metaethical theory provide the resources to formulate the new challenges and the Anselmian responses with an unusual degree of precision. Almeida shows that the challenges arising in the unusual contexts involving unlimited options sometimes produce metaphysical surprise.
Book Synopsis Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics by : Aribiah David Attoe
Download or read book Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics written by Aribiah David Attoe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed “African metaphysics” remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity. African ideas about the nature of being, God, causality, death, etc., have largely remained the same and unchallenged, mainly due to the hesitancy of some African scholars to question these suppositions or build beyond them. In this book, Aribiah David Attoe presents a unified African metaphysics that first interrogates important notions held by many traditional African thinkers, and then builds upon them to propose a largely materialistic account of African metaphysics. The book re-imagines and reconstructs the idea of God, being, causality and death in African metaphysics, tackling some of the problems associated with these concepts in African thought. It also opens up new vistas of thought, while engaging and encouraging African metaphysicians to explore a previously ignored perspective.
Download or read book The Metaphysics written by Aristotle and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.
Download or read book Emergence written by Mariusz Tabaczek and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last several decades, the theories of emergence and downward causation have become arguably the most popular conceptual tools in scientific and philosophical attempts to explain the nature and character of global organization observed in various biological phenomena, from individual cell organization to ecological systems. The theory of emergence acknowledges the reality of layered strata or levels of systems, which are consequences of the appearance of an interacting range of novel qualities. A closer analysis of emergentism, however, reveals a number of philosophical problems facing this theory. In Emergence, Mariusz Tabaczek offers a thorough analysis of these problems and a constructive proposal of a new metaphysical foundation for both the classic downward causation-based and the new dynamical depth accounts of emergence theory, developed by Terrence Deacon. Tabaczek suggests ways in which both theoretical models of emergentism can be grounded in the classical and the new (dispositionalist) versions of Aristotelianism. This book will have an eager audience in metaphysicians working both in the analytic and the Thomistic traditions, as well as philosophers of science and biology interested in emergence theory and causation.
Download or read book Metaphysics written by Michael Loux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Metaphysics' is aimed at students of metaphysics who have already completed an introductory philosophy course. This third edition provides a fresh look at the key topics in metaphysics and includes new chapters on time and causation.
Book Synopsis African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic by : Jonathan O. Chimakonam
Download or read book African Metaphysics, Epistemology and a New Logic written by Jonathan O. Chimakonam and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on African metaphysics and epistemology, and is an exercise in decoloniality. The authors describe their approach to "decoloniality" as an intellectual repudiation of coloniality, using the method of conversational thinking grounded in Ezumezu logic. Focusing specifically on both African metaphysics and African epistemology, the authors put forward theories formulated to stimulate fresh debates and extend the frontiers of learning in the field. They emphasize that this book is not a project in comparative philosophy, nor is it geared towards making Africa/ns the object/subjects of philosophy. Rather, the book highlights and discusses philosophical insights that have been produced from the African perspective, which the authors argue must be further developed in order to achieve decoloniality in the field of philosophy more broadly.
