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Book The Quest for Being

Download or read book The Quest for Being written by Sidney Hook and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quest for Being  and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism

Download or read book The Quest for Being and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism written by Martin Scheele and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quest for Being  and Studies in Naturalism and Humanism

Download or read book The Quest for Being and Studies in Naturalism and Humanism written by Sidney Hook and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism

Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism written by Kelly James Clark and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought. Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities Explores the historical development of naturalism and its ascension to the dominant orthodoxy in the Western academy Juxtaposes theoretical criticisms with impassioned defenses, encapsulating contemporary debates on naturalism Includes discussions of metaphysics, realism, feminism, science, knowledge, truth, mathematics, free will, and ethics viewed through a naturalist lens

Book Sidney Hook the Quest for Beingand Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism

Download or read book Sidney Hook the Quest for Beingand Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism written by St Martins and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Science  Humanism  and Religion

Download or read book Science Humanism and Religion written by Matthias Jung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with reality in which all these cultural activities are rooted. Human beings have to relate themselves to the entirety of their lives to achieve orientation. This relation involves a non-methodical, meaningful experience that exhibits the crucial features for understanding worldviews: it comprises cognition, volition, and emotion, is embodied, action-oriented, and expressive. From this starting-point, religious and secular worldviews articulate what is experienced as ultimately meaningful. Yet the plurality and one-sidedness of these life stances necessitates critical engagement for which philosophy provides indispensable means. In the end, some worldviews can be ruled out, but we are still left with a plurality of genuine options for orientation.

Book The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America written by John R. Shook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work. Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, this condensed edition includes key contributors to philosophical thought. From 1600 to the present day, entries cover psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology and political science, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy. Clear and accessible, each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings and suggestions for further reading. Featuring a new preface by the editor and a comprehensive introduction, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America includes 30 new entries on twenty-first century thinkers including Martha Nussbaum and Patricia Churchland. With in-depth overviews of Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Noah Porter, Frederick Rauch, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, this is an invaluable one-stop research volume to understanding leading figures in American thought and the development of American intellectual history.

Book God and Being

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Pattison
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2013-03-29
  • ISBN : 0191506907
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book God and Being written by George Pattison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western theology has long regarded 'Being' as a category pre-eminently applicable to God, the supreme Being who is also the source of all existence. This idea was challenged in the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger and identified with the position he called 'ontotheology'. Heidegger's critique was repeated and radicalized in so-called postmodern thought, to the point that many theologians and philosophers of religion now want to talk instead of God as 'beyond Being' or 'without Being'. Against this background, God and Being attempts to look again at why the ideas of God and Being got associated in the first place and to investigate whether the critique of ontotheology really does require us to abandon this link. After exploring how this apparently abstract idea has informed Christian views of salvation and of the relationship between God and world, George Pattison examines how such categories as time, space, language, human relationships and embodiment affect our understanding of God and Being. Pattison concludes that whilst Heidegger's critique has considerable force, it remains legitimate to speak of God as Being under certain restricted conditions. The most important of these is that God is better conceived in terms of purely possible Being rather than (as in classic Christian theology) 'actual' Being. This leaves open possibilities of dialogue with, e.g., non-theistic religious traditions and with science that are foreclosed by traditional conceptions. Ultimately, however, all basic religious ideas must issue from and be seen to serve the requirements of embodied love.

Book The Courage to Become

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  • Author : Paul Kurtz
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1997-06-30
  • ISBN : 0313390037
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book The Courage to Become written by Paul Kurtz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does life have meaning if one rejects belief in God? This book responds affirmatively to that question. Paul Kurtz, America's leading secular humanist, provides a powerful defense of the humanist alternative, rejecting both religious spirituality and nihilism. In this inspirational book, Kurtz outlines the basic virtues of the secular humanist outlook. These virtues include courage, not simply to be or to survive, but to overcome and become; that is, to fulfill our highest aspirations and ideals in the face of obstacles. The two other virtues Kurtz identifies are cognition (reason and science in establishing truth) and moral caring (compassion and benevolence in our relationships with others.) Kurtz offers an optimistic appraisal of the human prospect and outlines a philosophy both for the individual and the global community.

Book The Emergence of Naturalism

Download or read book The Emergence of Naturalism written by Roy Wood Sellars and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Human Being  the World and God

Download or read book The Human Being the World and God written by Anne L.C. Runehov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on the idea that in order to understand the common, one has to study the specific. The book shows how the self is thought of as a three-fold emergent self, comprising a relationship between an objective neural segment, a subjective neural segment and a subjective transcendent segment. It explains that the self in the world tackles philosophical problems such as the problem of free will, the problem of evil, the problem of human uniqueness and empathy. It demonstrates how the problem of time also has its place here. For many people, the world includes ultimate reality; hence the book provides an analysis and evaluation of different relationships between human beings and Ultimate Reality (God). The book presents an answer to the philosophical problem of how one could understand divine action in the world.

Book Naturalism and Religion

Download or read book Naturalism and Religion written by Kai Nielsen and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elucidation and defense of naturalism argues that an uncompromising secular orientation is the best framework for the search for meaning and interprets religion in purely naturalistic terms. Part One seeks to demonstrate that religious symbols arise from facts about human beings and the societies in which they live, specifically our needs, fears, and aspirations. Part Two examines arguments for and against naturalism, including the defenses of naturalism by Sidney Hook, Ernest Nagel, Antony Flew, and critical reactions to their views. The forceful and rigorously analytical case made by Jean Hampton against naturalism is also examined, resulting in a clarification of the substantial and sound methodological grounds for naturalism and atheism. Part Three considers the strongest intellectual challenge to secularism and naturalism, namely that of Ludwig Wittgenstein and some of his followers - Norman Malcolm, D. Z. Phillips, Hilary Putnam, Rush Rhees, and Peter Winch. Nielsen concludes that none of these critiques diminish the cogency and viability of naturalism as the most reasonable basis for viewing our world today.

Book The Quest for Being

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  • Author : Sidney Hook
  • Publisher : Great Books in Philosophy
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book The Quest for Being written by Sidney Hook and published by Great Books in Philosophy. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's best known social and political philosophers, Sidney Hook, compiled this fascinating combination of essays, popular and technical, addressing questions by professionals and lay readers alike. Written between 1934 and 1960, these controversial essays generated heated discussion and polemic, the echoes of which are still being heard. Championing secularism, humanism, and naturalism, Hook eloquently argues against the claim that religious experience and metaphysical insight alone can discover truths about existence and reality that rest outside the domain of scientific method or inquiry. Crucial philosophical questions are discussed: What is the role of philosophy in life? Is "philosophical knowledge" possible, as distinct from scientific and commonsense knowledge? Does determinism vacate moral responsibility? Do religious and metaphysical beliefs possess cognitive meaning? What is the core dispute between materialism and idealism? Hook's provocative analyses will not only clarify these questions but stimulate readers to reassess their own views.

Book John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy

Download or read book John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy written by Hugh P. McDonald and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh P. McDonald's John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy breaks new ground by applying Dewey's insights to a new approach to philosophy of the environment; the concern for the rights of animals; the preservation of rare species, habitats, and landscapes; and the health of the whole ecology. The book summarizes much of the current literature on environmental ethics, concentrating on the writings of major figures in the movement: Tom Regan, J. Baird Callicott, Holmes Rolston, and Bryan Norton. The heart of the book consists of a detailed analysis of Dewey's ethics, his theory of intrinsic value, and his holistic approach to moral justification. Arguing against the idea that Dewey's philosophy is anthropocentric, McDonald makes a strong case that using Dewey's philosophy will result in a superior framework for environmental ethics.

Book Identity and Civilization

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mordechai Nisan
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780761813569
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Identity and Civilization written by Mordechai Nisan and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 22 essays centered around an exploration of the three religions and their political self-images. Nisan (Middle Eastern studies, Hebrew U., Jerusalem) explores a number of topics, but seems especially concerned with the preservation of the state of Israel against what he views as the implacably hostile world of Islam. Among the subjects he touches upon are a critique of Edward Said's Orientalism, the ways in which the base philosophies of the religions manifest themselves politically, and the Christian West's view of the Middle East. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers

Download or read book Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers written by John R. Shook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, and a large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected. It includes those intellectuals involved in the development of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology, political science, and several other fields, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading. While all the major post-Civil War philosophers are present, the most valuable feature of this dictionary is its coverage of a huge range of less well-known writers, including hundreds of presently obscure thinkers. In many cases, the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of modern American thought.

Book The Quest for Being  and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism

Download or read book The Quest for Being and Other Studies in Naturalism and Humanism written by Sidney Hook and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by a contemporary American philosopher on secularism, religion, moral freedom, etc., published in journals covering the years 1934-1960.