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Author : Firmin DeBrabander
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826493934
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Spinoza and the Stoics written by Firmin DeBrabander and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Spinoza's moral and political philosophy and his engagement with Stoicism.
Author : Lars Tønder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190203234
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Tolerance written by Lars Tønder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tolerance, Lars Tønder offers a thought-provoking theory on what tolerance means in pluralistic societies. Tønder begins by showing the limitations of the way democratic theory currently understands tolerance: either as a form of restraint or as benevolence, but always divorced from what it is that the tolerant person really senses. According to Tønder, what is missing from current theories of tolerance is the idea of pain, or the lived experience of what it means to become tolerant. Introducing what he calls a "sensorial orientation to politics" and a "theory of active tolerance," he argues that the act of becoming tolerant (and the reasoning it entails) depends on sensing the world in an expansive manner attentive to the new and unforeseen. In order to illustrate, he engages with a number of theorists, from Seneca, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Marcuse to Locke, Kant and Mill, and he draws upon a wide range of examples, including the 2005 controversy over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Dave Chappelle's comedy, and methods of torture used in the war on terror. Tolerance is at once a sweeping account of the history of political thought and an invitation to rethink the meaning of tolerance within the sensorial conditions that define twenty first century democratic politics.
Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192587153
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Spinoza on Reason, Passions, and the Supreme Good written by Andrea Sangiacomo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's thought is at the centre of an ever growing interest. Spinoza's moral philosophy, in particular, points to a radical way of understanding how human beings can become free and enjoy supreme happiness. And yet, there is still much disagreement about how exactly Spinoza's recipe is supposed to work. For long time, Spinoza has been presented as an arch rationalist who would identify in the purely intellectual cultivation of reason the key for ethical progress. Andrea Sangiacomo offers a new understanding of Spinoza's project, by showing how he himself struggled during his career to develop a moral philosophy that could speak to human beings as they actually are (imperfect, passionate, often not very rational). Spinoza's views significantly evolved over time. In his early writings, Spinoza's account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions may support the individual's pursuit of the Supreme Good, achieving it does not depend essentially on social factors. In Spinoza's later writings, however, the emphasis shifts towards the mind's need to rely on appropriate forms of social cooperation. Reason becomes the mental expression of the way the human body interacts with external causes on the basis of some degree of agreement in nature with them. The greater the agreement, the greater the power of reason to adequately understand universal features as well as more specific traits of the external causes. In the case of human beings, certain kinds of social cooperation are crucial for the development of reason. This view has crucial ramifications for Spinoza's account of how individuals can progress towards the Supreme Good and how a political science based on Spinoza's principles can contribute to this goal.
Author : Frederic Lordon
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786636425
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Imperium written by Frederic Lordon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into what makes the consistency of political groupings What should we do with the ideals of internationalism, the withering away of state and horizontality? Probably start by thinking seriously about them. That is to say, about their conditions of possibility (or impossibility), rather than sticking to the wishful thinking which believes that for them to happen it is enough to want them. Humanity exists neither as a dust cloud of separate individuals nor as a unified world political community. It exists fragmented into distinct finite wholes, the forms of which have varied considerably throughout history - the nation-state being only one among many, and certainly not the last. What are the forces that produce this fragmentation, engender such groupings and prevent them from being perfectly horizontal, but also lead them to disappear, merge, or change form? It is questions such as these that this book explores, drawing on Spinoza's political philosophy and especially his two central concepts of multitudo and imperium.
Author : Ian Packer
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1921817909
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Bonhoeffer Down Under written by Ian Packer and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Protestants had saints, Dietrich Bonhoeffer--martyred under Hitler on April 9, 1945 just days before the Allies reached his concentration camp--would be one of the first canonised. Not just his unsought martyr's death, but his life's movement from privilege to growing identification with the suffering, his courageous return from the safety and beckoning success of the US to Germany, his work with the Confessing Church and, more controversially, with the underground resistance in the plot to assassinate Hitler, all argue his case for canonisation. Bonhoeffer is among ten twentieth-century martyrs above the Great West Door at Westminster Cathedral, where their portraits of ten tell more about the artists and their age than the saint and theirs, the movement of their lives and the movements they belonged to or founded. This is certainly true of Bonhoeffer and the Church of his anguished age. This collection of essays is from 'Down Under', for with the exception of the paper by UK theologian Keith Clements, are all the papers are by writers who live and work in the southern hemisphere. They include former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, South African theologian, John de Gruchy, and a number of Australian writers. These include papers by historian John Moses, and theologians Gordon Preece, Brian Rosner, Bruce Barber, Max Chamption and Neil Holm. Kevin Rudd writes in this volume that 'Bonhoeffer is, without doubt, the man I admire most in the history of the twentieth century. He was a man of faith. He was a man of reason ... He was never a nationalist, always an internationalist'. For tormented twenty-first century humanity Bonhoeffer is still one of our best guides to that new humanity being birthed by the Spirit of Christ in the midst of those seeing from and suffering below.
Author : Ron Welters
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303005294X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Towards a Sustainable Philosophy of Endurance Sport written by Ron Welters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths. It builds on a continental philosophical tradition, i.e. the philosophy of among others Peter Sloterdijk, but also on “ecosophy” and American pragmatism to explore the idea of sport as a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Since ancient times, human beings have been involved in practices of the Self in order to work on themselves and improve themselves, for instance by strengthening their physical condition and performance through sport. In the contemporary world, millions of individuals engage in endurance sports such as running, swimming and cycling, to get or keep themselves in shape. This study focuses on the ethical dimension of long-distance sport, notably cycling, as a way to become better citizens, but also to contribute to a more sustainable society and healthier planet. Dominant world-views are challenged and an alternative vision is presented. Discourse analysis and conceptual analysis are combined with phenomenology and self-observations of a dedicated practitioner of endurance sport. This book is a great source for philosophers, sport philosophers, environmental philosophers, sport scientists, policy makers, sport journalists, and endurance sport practitioners.
Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019874871X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy written by Daniel Garber and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.
Author : Risto Saarinen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199606811
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought written by Risto Saarinen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why people act against their better judgment has always been prominent in philosophy. Risto Saarinen presents the first study of ideas about weakness of the will between 1350 and 1650. He shows how the understanding of human conduct and free will changed in this formative period between medieval times and modernity.
Author : Daniel Garber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198748728
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VII written by Daniel Garber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.
Author : Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451406789
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Letters and Papers from Prison written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer¿s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting ideas of religionless Christianity, his open and honest theological appraisal of Christian doctrines, and his sturdy, if sorely tried, faith in face of uncertainty and doubt.This splendid volume, in many ways the capstone of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, is the first unabridged collection of Bonhoeffer¿s 1943¿1945 prison letters and theological writings. Here are over 200 documents that include extensive correspondence with his family and Eberhard Bethge (much of it in English for the first time), as well as his theological notes, and his prison poems. The volume offers an illuminating introduction by editor John de Gruchy and an historical Afterword by the editors of the original German volume: Christian Gremmels, Eberhard Bethge, and Renate Bethge.
Author : Lydia B. Amir
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438449372
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy written by Lydia B. Amir and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications. By exploring the works of both Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Søren Kierkegaard, Lydia B. Amir finds a rich tapestry of ideas about the comic, the tragic, humor, and related concepts such as irony, ridicule, and wit. Amir focuses chiefly on these two thinkers, but she also includes Johann Georg Hamann, an influence of Kierkegaards who was himself influenced by Shaftesbury. All three thinkers were devout Christians but were intensely critical of the organized Christianity of their milieux, and humor played an important role in their responses. The author examines the epistemological, ethical, and religious roles of humor in their philosophies and proposes a secular philosophy of humor in which humor helps attain the philosophic ideals of self-knowledge, truth, rationality, virtue, and wisdom, as well as the more ambitious goals of liberation, joy, and wisdom.
Author : Thomas John Hastings
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031429028
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Views of Nature and Dualism written by Thomas John Hastings and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of the anthropogenic threats to the singular planetary habitat we share with other human beings and non-human species, humanities scholars feel a renewed sense of urgency 1) to acknowledge the ways our species has funded particular histories of environmental exploitation, alienation, and collapse, 2) to unpack inherited assumptions that impact our views of nature and interspecies relations, and 3) to suggest ways of thinking and acting that seek to repair the damage and promote mutual flourishing for all of earth inhabitants. This volume brings together scholars in philosophy, theology, and religion who take up this urgent ethical task from a broad range of perspectives and locations.
Author : Harold Mattingly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Roman Imperial Coinage: Vespasian to Hadrian written by Harold Mattingly and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Archaeologia Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simina Anamaria Lörincz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031599594
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Architectonics of Poiēsis written by Simina Anamaria Lörincz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel McCann
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786833328
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Soul-Health written by Daniel McCann and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. This study is a new, contextually sensitive methodology for pinpointing the emotional aspects of medieval texts. 2. It is a unique appraisal of the therapeutic significance of medieval religious literature: the largest body of writing in the period. 3. A move beyond the limitations of emotions studies and medical humanities, showing the interactions between literature and medicine in the period, and the importance of composite and layered emotional states.
Author : Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Roman Imperial Coinage: Vespasian to Hadrian written by Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
