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Download or read book Dynamic Secularization written by William Sims Bainbridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses secularization, arguing that it may be more complex and significant than is generally recognized. Using a number of online exploration methods, the author provides insights into how religion may be changing, and how information technology might be energized in this process. Working from the premise that the relationship between science and religion is complex, the author demonstrates that while science has contradicted some specific religious beliefs, science itself may have been facilitated by beliefs formed many centuries ago. Science assists engineers in the development of powerful new technologies, and asserts that the universe is based on a set of fundamental principles that can be understood by humans through the assistance of mathematics. The challenging ideas discussed will benefit readers through sharing a variety of Internet-based research methods and cultural discoveries. The book provides a balance between quantitative methods, illustrated by 24 tables of statistics, and qualitative methods, illustrated by 30 screenshots of computer-generated virtual worlds. Analysis interweaves with description, creating a sense of involvement in the experience of exploring online realities at the same time as radical insights are shared.

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Download or read book Taste and the Household written by Janet McCracken and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By exploring the connections between aesthetic sensitivity and moral character, this book connects them both to the larger cultural malaise. It locates the relationship between human nature and moral reasoning in what the author calls "domestic aesthetic skill," bringing together moral and aesthetic judgment about little things that are close to home—food, clothing, and furniture. McCracken combines the study of modern moral theory with the study of modern economics, contemporary popular culture, advertising, and design, to help understand how heady theories become translated into everyday actions.

Download or read book The Socialist Reader written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key texts in the history of socialist theory and practice, selections from Victor Berger, Elizabeth Blackwell, Eugene Victor Debs, Ron Dellums, Havelock Ellis, the Fabian Society, William Godwin, Moses Hess, Mother Jones, Dennis Kucinich, Meyer London, Ramsay MacDonald, Cynthia McKinney, Robert Owen, Emmeline Pankhurst, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Arnold Ruge, Henri de Saint-Simon, Bernie Sanders, George Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Elizabeth Warren, Julius Augustus Wayland, Beatrice Webb, and Sidney Webb.

Download or read book The Basis and Policy of Socialism written by Sidney Webb and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Economics of Herbert Spencer written by W. C. Owen and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Spencer was a major figure in the intellectual life of the Victorian era. He was one of the principal proponents of evolutionary theory in the mid-nineteenth century, and his reputation at the time rivaled that of Charles Darwin. Spencer was initially best known for developing and applying evolutionary theory to philosophy, psychology and the study of society - what he called his "synthetic philosophy".Today, however, he is usually remembered in philosophical circles for his political thought, primarily for his defense of natural rights and for criticisms of utilitarian positivism, and Spencer's views have been invoked by 'libertarian' thinkers such as Robert Nozick.The Economics of Herbert Spencer by W. C. Owen presents a wide description of Spencer's economic, philosophical and political ideas. This book offers a comprehensible explanation of Spencer's methodology based on individualism; through this schema of thinking Spencer won his reputation as one of the leading apostles of the philosophy of freedom.

Download or read book Staying Alive written by Jason K. Swedene and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the desire to live forever, which manifests itself in many forms. The author's self-expressed 'aim has been, simply, to write a readable book that will afford the reader an increased sensitivity to the many ways the desire for immortality has shaped history, philosophy, art, and literature.'

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