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Adam Smith
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Adam Smith (172390) studied under Francis Hutcheson at the University of Glasgow, befriended David Hume while lecturing on rhetoric and jurisprudence in Edinburgh, was elected Professor of Logic, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Vice-rector, and eventually Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, and,...
Open to New Light
Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This book is about “the meaning of life” or “the spiritual quest”. It offers a selective and critical evaluation of some central strands of Western religious and philosophical thought over two and a half thousand years. It starts with Socrates’ philosophy of life, and the Greek tradition...
Beyond Patriotism
From Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Beyond Patriotism argues that some millions of Americans have become “post-national” people who put the good of humanity ahead of patriotism or national honour. It discusses the decisions that led them from the Vietnamese War, to the attempt to put Pol Pot back into power, to the sanctions against...
Healing, Hype or Harm?
A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The scientists, academics and practitioners writing this book are not 'against' complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), but they are very much 'for' evidence-based medicine and single standards. They aim to counter-balance the many uncritical books on CAM and to stimulate intelligent, well-informed...
by Michael Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Universities and Colleges with a Christian affiliation have in recent years sought to renew and redefine their identities and almost all have rearticulated their mission for the modern age after a long and serious process of reappraisal. This process has been accompanied by an ongoing discussion of the...
John Macmurray
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The philosophy of John Macmurray is only now receiving the attention it deserves. It is in the contemporary climate of dissatisfaction with individualism that Macmurray's emphasis on the relations of persons has come to the fore. Moreover, Macmurray's recognition of the central importance of acknowledging...
by Humberto Maturana Romesín
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors’ basic question is: ‘How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?’ The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing...
Self and Society
Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
A series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq.The enlarged new edition contains extra essays and...
Sensibility and Sense
The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an...
Spinoza
Basic Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His Ethics is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious...
Situated Aesthetics
Art Beyond the Skin
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This book focuses on externalist approaches to art. It is the first fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009, where leading scholars in the emerging field of psychology of art compared their different approaches using a neutral language and discussing freely their goals.The event threw up...
by Mia Kerick
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Chance César is fabulously gay, but his gender identity—or, as he phrases it, “being stuck in the gray area between girl and boy”—remains confusing. Nonetheless, he struts his stuff on the catwalk in black patent leather pumps and a snug-in-all-the-right (wrong)-places orange tuxedo as the...
Metapsychology of the Creative Process
Continuous Novelty as the Ground of Creative Advance
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Many are fascinated by the phenomenon of genius and search for an understanding of its nature. Modern research is not especially helpful in elucidating the inner process or its relation to ordinary thought. The present work comes from clinical studies of focal brain injuries that dissect unconscious...
by Jovita efehi Obadolagbonyi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Tales of an African child is a dramatic and moving tale of Useh. A lad who is victim of a broken home. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he ends up as a street urchin and rogue.
His quest for survival potrays the true spirit and penchant of the deprived African child who is determined...