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Judgment, Philippe Nonet
Do You Sincerely Want To Be Radical, Phillip Johnson
Do You Sincerely Want To Be Radical, Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson
No abstract provided.
What Is Positive Law, Philippe Nonet
The Politics Of Representation: The Role Of The Gaze In Pornography, Jennifer Jeffers
The Politics Of Representation: The Role Of The Gaze In Pornography, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
An accessible reader/text for beginning students of philosophy, this volume offers a broad scope of diverse classic and contemporary selections – with a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. The readings are grouped around major philosophic themes: logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, and social and political philosophy. It also offers a selection of readings from Eastern philosophy.
Uncharted Space: The End Of Narrative, Jennifer Jeffers
Uncharted Space: The End Of Narrative, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
In the twentieth century painters, playwrights, and novelists began to produce non-representational works that eschewed narrative and were entirely devoted to an achromatic colorscape. Uncharted Space: The End of Narrative overturns critical exegesis that interprets these works as negative or as the «end» of art by offering a new way to think about and to articulate works devoid of narrative and color. When understood from a different critical perspective, art and literature produced at the end of narrative challenge our traditional ways of interpreting all art production. Nominated for Rene Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Deviant Masculinity And Deleuzean Difference In Proust And Beckett, Jennifer Jeffers
Deviant Masculinity And Deleuzean Difference In Proust And Beckett, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
This book is an encounter between Deleuze the philosopher, Proust the novelist, and Beckett the writer creating interdisciplinary and inter-aesthetic bridges between them, covering textual, visual, sonic and performative phenomena, including provocative speculation about how Proust might have responded to Deleuze and Beckett.
Rhetoric And Platonism In Fifth-Century Athens, Damian Caluori
Rhetoric And Platonism In Fifth-Century Athens, Damian Caluori
Damian Caluori
There are reasons to believe that relations between Platonism and rhetoric in Athens during the fifth century CE were rather close. Both were major pillars of pagan culture, or paideia, and thus essential elements in the defense of paganism against increasingly powerful and repressive Christian opponents. It is easy to imagine that, under these circumstances, paganism was closing ranks and that philosophers and orators united in their efforts to save traditional ways and values. Although there is no doubt some truth to this view, a closer look reveals that the relations between philosophy and rhetoric were rather more complicated. In …
Divine Practical Thought In Plotinus, Damian Caluori
Divine Practical Thought In Plotinus, Damian Caluori
Damian Caluori
Plotinus follows the Timaeus and the Platonist tradition before him in postulating the existence of a World Soul whose function it is to care for the sensible world as a whole. It is argued that, since the sensible world is providentially arranged, the World Soul’s care presupposes a sort of practical thinking that is as timeless as intellectual contemplation. To explain why this thinking is practical, the paper discusses Plotinus’ view on Aristotle’s distinction between praxis and poiêsis. To explain why it is timeless, it studies Plotinus’ view on Aristotle’s distinction between complete and incomplete actuality. The focus is on …
Philosophy: A Short Visual Introduction, Scott Paeth
Philosophy: A Short Visual Introduction, Scott Paeth
Scott R. Paeth
Philosophy: A Short, Visual Introduction is the ideal path to understanding the philosophical ideas that influence Christian theology.
Scott Paeth's fast-paced introduction covers the most important movements and thinkers with precision and clarity. The major ideas are creatively illustrated by artist Joseph Novak, whose crisp, modern style brings big concepts to life for readers.
The result is an articulate, no-nonsense approach that guides readers from the ideas of ancient philosophers to contemporary thinkers and movements that impact Christians today.
Philosophy is part of the Christianity and the Liberal Arts series, which recognizes that many Christians are eager to deepen their …
Puzzles, Paradoxes, And Problems: An Introductory Reader For Philosophy, Peter French, Curtis Brown
Puzzles, Paradoxes, And Problems: An Introductory Reader For Philosophy, Peter French, Curtis Brown
Curtis Brown
This anthology features uncommonly interesting readings, both classical and contemporary, which approach central problems of philosophy of the intriguing puzzles, paradoxes, and problems.
Free Will And Agency: A Scoping Review And Map, Paul Fehrmann
Free Will And Agency: A Scoping Review And Map, Paul Fehrmann
Paul Fehrmann
Systematic reviews (SR) are important in the health and social sciences, and could have value for theoretical and philosophical psychology (TPP). Three objectives are addressed in this paper: 1. To identify a SR framework for topics in TPP. 2. To assess current SR methods use in the TPP literature. 3. Scoping is a type of SR, and a third objective is to explore using scoping SR on this broad topic: how is the topic of “free will and agency” addressed in the TPP literature? Corresponding to the three objectives, these methods were used: 1. Major systematic review guidelines and recent …
A Conquering Race: The Birth Of Social Darwinism In Pre-War Germany, Andrew T. Murphree
A Conquering Race: The Birth Of Social Darwinism In Pre-War Germany, Andrew T. Murphree
Andrew T Murphree
Popular opinion suggests that certain political and military leaders throughout history are the primary agents for change in civilization; however, such a conclusion represents a serious oversight regarding the powerful potential of emerging worldviews to dictate epochal moments throughout mankind. Certainly, dynamic figures rise to prominence to lead movements of conservatism, progression, and moderation, but the conduit of ideas serves as the essential catalytic force that ignites and sustains these patterns. The Great War of the twentieth century was a complex global conflict of immense proportions, unlike anything the world had ever known. Historians perhaps express the greatest perplexity in …
Animal Cognition, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Animal Cognition, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Kristin Andrews, PhD
Debates in applied ethics about the proper treatment of animals often refer to empirical data about animal cognition, emotion, and behavior. In addition, there is increasing interest in the question of whether any nonhuman animal could be something like a moral agent.
Stanley Cavell And Criticizing The University From Within, Michael Fischer
Stanley Cavell And Criticizing The University From Within, Michael Fischer
Michael Fischer
This article discusses the views of professor Stanley Cavell on academic philosophy and corporate universality. He regards academic philosophy as the genuine present of the impulse and the history of philosophy which represents in public intellectual life. He is worried whether values and philosophy are teachable in universities and colleges. He stayed in the profession to show how to withstand moral cynicism and respond to the failures of academic institutions.
Wittgenstein As A Modernist Philosopher, Michael Fischer
Wittgenstein As A Modernist Philosopher, Michael Fischer
Michael Fischer
Much attention has recently been given to Martin Heidegger and his disturbing relationship to fascism. I want here to look at another philosopher in this context: Ludwig Wittgenstein. As a source of insight into the politics of modernism, Wittgenstein would seem to have at least three strikes against him. His explicit political pronouncements are rare; his relationship to literary modernism is unclear; and the political implications of his philosophical writings are notoriously difficult to assess. Perhaps for these reasons, discussions of modernism usually omit Wittgenstein, and discussions of Wittgenstein usually ignore modernism. Stanley Cavell is an important exception to this …
Accepting The Romantics As Philosophers, Michael Fischer
Accepting The Romantics As Philosophers, Michael Fischer
Michael Fischer
The Romantics are not widely regarded as philosophers, at least not in philosophy departments, where they are seldom taught. Some of the reasons behind this exclusion of the Romantics involve a general disdain for literature; other reasons suggest a more specific uneasiness with Romanticism itself—with its apparent interest in animism, its self-indulgence, its coolness toward reason, and, perhaps above all, its refusal to abide by Kant's containment of skepticism. These complaints are not the invention of paranoid or obtuse academic philosophers (as some literary critics might like to think). In fact, some of these objections have dogged the Romantics from …
From Aristotle’S Teleology To Darwin’S Genealogy: The Stamp Of Inutility, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (Pdf: Introduction)., Marco Solinas
From Aristotle’S Teleology To Darwin’S Genealogy: The Stamp Of Inutility, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (Pdf: Introduction)., Marco Solinas
Marco Solinas
Carl Cohen’S ‘Kind’ Arguments For Animal Rights And Against Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Carl Cohen’S ‘Kind’ Arguments For Animal Rights And Against Human Rights, Nathan Nobis
Nathan M. Nobis, PhD
Carl Cohen’s arguments against animal rights are shown to be unsound. His strategy entails that animals have rights, that humans do not, the negations of those conclusions, and other false and inconsistent implications. His main premise seems to imply that one can fail all tests and assignments in a class and yet easily pass if one’s peers are passing and that one can become a convicted criminal merely by setting foot in a prison. However, since his moral principles imply that nearly all exploitive uses of animals are wrong anyway, foes of animal rights are advised to seek philosophical consolations …
Rare Books And Social Science, Donald J. Polzella
Rare Books And Social Science, Donald J. Polzella
Donald J. Polzella
An essay on the impact of the works in the Imprints and Impressions: Milestones in Human Progress, an exhibition of rare books from the collection of Stuart Rose. Exhibition was held Sept. 29-Nov. 9, 2014, at the University of Dayton.
Books And Our Human Stories, Paul Benson
Books And Our Human Stories, Paul Benson
Paul H. Benson
An essay on the impact of the works in the Imprints and Impressions: Milestones in Human Progress, an exhibition of rare books from the collection of Stuart Rose. Exhibition was held Sept. 29-Nov. 9, 2014, at the University of Dayton.
Substantial Generation In Physics I 5-7, Devin Henry
Substantial Generation In Physics I 5-7, Devin Henry
Devin Henry
No abstract provided.
Fiction, Science, Or Faith – The Structure Of Scientific Revolution: A Planners Perspective. Another Visit To Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions., Michael A. Rodriguez Ph.D.
Fiction, Science, Or Faith – The Structure Of Scientific Revolution: A Planners Perspective. Another Visit To Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions., Michael A. Rodriguez Ph.D.
Anthony M Rodriguez Ph.D.
Thomas Kuhn and his work in 'The structure of scientific revolutions' is evaluated in the context of faith, science, and what constitute true change. Additionally, the notion of science and faith are contended as important relationships in true change.