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Book The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man

Download or read book The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man written by Maine De Biran and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man

Download or read book The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man written by Pierre Maine de Biran and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Maine de Biran's work has had an enormous influence on the development of French Philosophy ? Henri Bergson called him the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes and Malebranche, Jules Lachelier referred to him as the French Kant, and Royer-Collard called him simply 'the master of us all' ? and yet the philosopher and his work remain unknown to many English speaking readers. From Ravaisson and Bergson, through to the phenomenology of major figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Henry, and Paul Ricoeur, Biran's influence is evident and acknowledged as a major contribution. The notion of corps propre , so important to phenomenology in the twentieth century, originates in his thought. His work also had a huge impact on the distinction between the virtual and the actual as well as the concepts of effort and puissance , enormously important to the development of Deleuze's and Foucault's work. This volume, the first English translation of Maine de Biran in nearly a century, introduces Anglophone readers to the work of this seminal thinker. The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man is an expression of Biran's mature 'spiritualism' and philosophy of the will as well as perhaps the clearest articulation of his understanding of what would later come to be called the mind-body problem. In this text Biran sets out forcefully his case for the autonomy of mental or spiritual life against the reductive explanatory power of the physicalist natural sciences. The translation is accompanied by critical essays from experts in France and the United Kingdom, situating Biran's work and its reception in its proper historical and intellectual context."--

Book The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man

Download or read book The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man written by Maine de Biran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine de Biran's work has had an enormous influence on the development of French Philosophy – Henri Bergson called him the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes and Malebranche, Jules Lachelier referred to him as the French Kant, and Royer-Collard called him simply 'the master of us all' – and yet the philosopher and his work remain unknown to many English speaking readers. From Ravaisson and Bergson, through to the phenomenology of major figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Henry, and Paul Ricoeur, Biran's influence is evident and acknowledged as a major contribution. The notion of corps propre, so important to phenomenology in the twentieth century, originates in his thought. His work also had a huge impact on the distinction between the virtual and the actual as well as the concepts of effort and puissance, enormously important to the development of Deleuze's and Foucault's work. This volume, the first English translation of Maine de Biran in nearly a century, introduces Anglophone readers to the work of this seminal thinker. The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man is an expression of Biran's mature 'spiritualism' and philosophy of the will as well as perhaps the clearest articulation of his understanding of what would later come to be called the mind-body problem. In this text Biran sets out forcefully his case for the autonomy of mental or spiritual life against the reductive explanatory power of the physicalist natural sciences. The translation is accompanied by critical essays from experts in France and the United Kingdom, situating Biran's work and its reception in its proper historical and intellectual context.

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  • Author : Elizabeth A. Williams
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-08-08
  • ISBN : 9780521524629
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Physical and the Moral written by Elizabeth A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the tradition of the "science of man" in French medicine of the era 1750-1850, focusing on controversies about the nature of the "physical-moral" relation and their effects on the role of medicine in French society. Its chief purpose is to recover the history of a holistic tradition in French medicine that has been neglected, because it lay outside the mainstream themes of modern medicine, which include experimental, reductionist, and localistic conceptions of health and disease. Professor Williams also challenges existing historiography, which holds that the "anthropological" approach to medicine was a short-term by-product of the leftist politics of the French Revolution. This work argues instead that the medical science of man long outlived the revolution, that it spanned traditional ideological divisions, and that it reflected the shared aim of French physicians, whatever their politics, to claim broad cultural authority in French society.

Book The Method of Divine Government  Physical and Moral      Second Edition

Download or read book The Method of Divine Government Physical and Moral Second Edition written by James McCosh and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Physiology of Human Nature  being an investigation of the physical and moral condition of man in his relations to the inspired word of God

Download or read book Physiology of Human Nature being an investigation of the physical and moral condition of man in his relations to the inspired word of God written by Robert CROSS (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Physical Training

Download or read book Physical Training written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mind of Man  Being a Natural System of Mental Philosophy     Illustrated  Etc

Download or read book The Mind of Man Being a Natural System of Mental Philosophy Illustrated Etc written by Alfred SMEE (F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Association Men

Download or read book Association Men written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fantasies of Identification

Download or read book Fantasies of Identification written by Ellen Samuels and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the “fantasy of identification”—the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society. Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language for claimed objective fact. From its early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question of sex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity.

Book Satire in Narrative

Download or read book Satire in Narrative written by Frank Palmeri and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and that of its opponents, offering its own distinctive critical perspective. This theory of satire builds on the idea of dialogical parody in the work of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, while revising Bakhtin's estimate of carnival. In Palmeri's view, the carnivalesque offers only an inverted mirror image of authoritative discourse, while parodic narrative satire suggests an alternative to both the official world and its inverted opposite. Palmeri applies this theory of narrative satire to five works of world literature, each of which has generated sharp controversy about the genre to which it rightly belongs: Petronius' Satyricon, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. He analyzes the features that link these works and shows how the changing pairs of alternatives that are parodied in these satires reflect changes in the terms of social and cultural oppositions. Satire in Narrative will appeal to comparatists, specialists in eighteenth-century and American literature, and others interested in theories of genre and the relations between literary forms and social history.

Book On the Difference Between Physical and Moral Law  The Fernly Lecture of 1883

Download or read book On the Difference Between Physical and Moral Law The Fernly Lecture of 1883 written by William Arthur and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book A Brief History of Physical Education

Download or read book A Brief History of Physical Education written by Emmett Ainsworth Rice and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Enquiry into Moral Notions  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book An Enquiry into Moral Notions Routledge Revivals written by John Laird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1935, this book compares and examines what John Laird termed the ‘three most important notions in ethical science’: the concepts of virtue, duty and well-being. Laird poses the question of whether any one of these three concepts is capable of being the foundation of ethics and of supporting the other two. This is an interesting reissue, which will be of particular value to students researching the philosophy of ethics and morality.

Book The Philosophy of Human Nature  in Its Physical  Intellectual  and Moral Relations

Download or read book The Philosophy of Human Nature in Its Physical Intellectual and Moral Relations written by Henry M'Cormac and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: