Download or read book Theism or Egoism written by Michael Elson and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and revealing study reaches back into ancient Chinese history, before and up to the time of Confucius, and provides a large, complex historical background to the birth of his ideas. When looking at the world of more than 4000 years ago, legend and historical record often merge, and Theism or Egoism unpacks how some of the foundations of modern-day Chinese culture and philosophy were laid down. During this period, humanism and Confucianism started to emerge as a cultural counterbalance to more ancient traditional religion and mythology. This book’s scholarly interpretation of ancient Chinese history and myth will be of interest to all historians, and researchers in Chinese and Asian Studies worldwide.
Download or read book Egoism written by Louis Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egoism a Study in the Social Premises of Religion written by Louis Wallis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Egoism a Study in the Social Premises of Religion This essay falls naturally into three parts, taking its main title from the first. The thesis of the first division is not in any sense original, although the treatment possibly has points of novelty. The idea that all human activity is either directly or indirectly egoistic, or selfish, is not new. We lay this down as a universal fact of history in the proposition: "Egoism is the only 'force' propelling the social machine." The second and largest part of the essay illustrates this proposition from a quarter which, we maintain, offers the most dramatic evidence in its favor - biblical history. We hold that the Bible, interpreted from the standpoint of so-called higher criticism, brings us more directly and vividly into relation with the fundamental facts of personality (i. e., the struggle of the ego for life) than anything else. The egoistic proposition is within the domain of sociology; and if we would grasp the significance of the Bible, we must approach it, first of all, as a social phenomenon. The logical ultimate of higher criticism is, that the total body of religious conception in the Bible arose out of, and in dependence upon, the so-called secular experience of Israel. The critical movement has been approaching this position for some time, although deficient sociological insight has impeded its progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Humanism Versus Theism Or Solipsism Egoism written by Robert Lewins and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ego and Its Own written by Max Stirner and published by Pattern Books. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ego and Its Own is an 1844 work by Max Stirner. It presents a radically nominalist and individualist critique of, on the one hand, Christianity, nationalism and traditional morality, and on the other, humanism, utilitarianism, liberalism and much of the then-burgeoning socialist movement, advocating instead an amoral (although importantly not inherently immoral or antisocial) egoism. Ego emphasizes owness as self-description, past fixed conceptions of the Self and Other, through the recognition of power relations and self-discovery of mind. Johann Kaspar Schmidt (1806-1856), also known as Max Stirner, was a German philosopher who is often considered as one of the pioneers in anarchism, nihilism, existentialism, and postmodernism, and one of the many people who Karl Marx wrote an entire book on just to publicly criticize denounce.
Download or read book Egoism written by Louis Wallis and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 138 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.
Download or read book Egotism in German Philosophy written by George Santayana and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Santayana in this book talks about the soul of German philosophy – Egotism. He considered it as a subjectivity in thought and willfulness in morals which is by no means a gratuitous thing. It discusses the pathetic situation that German philosophy has inculcated in its people.
Download or read book Humaism Versus Theism Or Solipsism egoism written by Robert Lewins and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bible Not Borrowed from the Neighbors Essays and Aphorisms on Egoism written by Kevin I. Slaughter and published by Underworld Amusements. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underworld Amusements has released a compilation of Essays and Aphorisms on Egoism, edited by Kevin I. Slaughter. The writings collected here are from the contemporaries of Ragnar Redbeard, radical thinkers who went against the herd with all their might. They upheld themselves as Gods, all other concerns come after that. Blasphemous, mocking and visceral, they are the children of Nietzsche, Stirner and Thoreau. Though often overlapping with Anarchists, they are too individualistic for many modern anarchists who are often just Socialist-minded egalitarian Utopians. Contents DEFINITION Definitions of Egoism & Altruism THE PHILOSOPHY OF EGOISM The Philosophy of Egoism -James L. Walker Biographical Sketch of James L. Walker -Henry Replogle QUOTES, APHORISMS, MAXIMS Testimony of the Apostles of Egoism Egoism as Taught by Thoreau Via Hellorosa The Eagle & The Serpent Wisdom & Wickedness of La Rochefoucauld Wisdom & Wickedness of Chamfort Flashes of Lightning from Nietzsche ESSAYS, EPISTLES, ASSAULTS Nietzsche on Atheism, Pessimism, Schopenhauer -Translated by Thomas Common Darwinism In Sociology: A Reply to Nietzsche's Critics. -Thomas Common The Land of the Altruists: A Parable for the Infant Class. -John Beverley Robinson Why Women Need Egoism -Fraulein Lepper An Apppreciation of Stirner -John Henry Mackay That Blessed Word Altruism -John Erwin McCall Aeschylus at Marathon: Are We Saved by Love or by Hate? -John Erwin McCall The Religion of Egoism: A Prayer for More Bitterness. -John Erwin McCall
Download or read book Good God written by David Baggett and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to reinvigorate discussions of moral arguments for God's existence. To open this debate, Baggett and Walls argue that God's love and moral goodness are perfect, without defect, necessary, and recognizable. After integrating insights from the literature of both moral apologetics and theistic ethics, they defend theistic ethics against a variety of objections and, in so doing, bolster the case for the moral argument for God's existence. It is the intention of the authors to see this aspect of natural theology resume its rightful place of prominence, by showing how a worldview predicated on the God of both classical theism and historical Christian orthodoxy has more than adequate resources to answer the Euthyphro Dilemma, speak to the problem of evil, illumine natural law, and highlight the moral significance of the incarnation and resurrection of Christ. Ultimately, the authors argue, there is principled reason to believe that morality itself provides excellent reasons to look for a transcendent source of its authority and reality, and a source that is more than an abstract principle.
Download or read book Egotism in German Philosophy written by G Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No philosophical writer has happier aperçus - or expresses them more incisively - than the author of this brilliant book. Once heard, his phrases - and they are found on every page - are not forgotten: but he has arrived "ex errore per veritatem ad errorem;" the epigram is as true of him as it is of Sohm. For few writers are so inconclusive and so unsystematic; his is a critical, not a constructive, mind. Latin thought is fundamentally skeptical; seldom does it get beyond the question, "Chi lo sa?" Whereas German thought is dogmatic. It replaces systems by systems: "an Amurath an Amurath succeeds." Professor Santayana represents the Latin genius; and this has now a unique opportunity. In its lower forms, it connects the present world-war with the Reformation - this is the contention of the clerical press; in its higher, with that German philosophy which, in pre-Tractarian Oxford, a University preacher is said to have wished at the bottom of the German Ocean. Professor Santayana, it seems, echoes the wish."I am not going to lay hands on my father Parmenides." In the province of ideas we owe too much to Germany to dismiss her speculative constructions so summarily. "The whole transcendental philosophy, if made ultimate, is false, and nothing but a private perspective." But what if there is no such thing as an ultimate in speculation, and no finality in thought? In this case the "transcendental" philosophy may be a milestone, momentous and inevitable, on the path of mind. For of thought, as of life, it may be said "Here we have no abiding city." Our shelters, serviceable as they are, are temporary; we "seek one to come." Philosophers and pietists alike, while they deny this in words, recognize it in fact; indeed without such recognition neither philosophy nor piety could subsist among men. Each system, as it comes, "thinks itself true, and final; but, in spite of itself, it suggests some next thing."Protestantism is uncongenial to the Latin temperament. Professor Santayana has more understanding of, than sympathy with, it; like Balaam he blesses, even while he comes to curse."Protestantism was not a reformation by accident, because it happened to find the Church corrupt; it is a reformation essentially, in that every individual must reinterpret the Bible and the practices of the Church in his own spirit. If he accepted them without renewing them in the light of his personal religious experience, he could never have what Protestantism thinks living religion. German Philosophy has inherited this characteristic; it is not accumulative science that can be transmitted ready made."This is to say that the one is religion and the other thought. Neither can be vicarious; we must live and think "on our own." And when we are told that, "favourable as Protestantism is to investigation and learning, it is almost incompatible with clearness of thought and fundamental freedom of attitude," we can only reconcile the two statements by remembering that to the classic thought of Greece Reason was a Limit; and that "they see not clearliest who see all things clear." But this is not the Professor's meaning, though it is perhaps the lesson of his very suggestive but somewhat irritating book-"International Journal of Ethics," Volume 27 [1917]No philosophical writer has happier aperçus - or expresses them more incisively - than the author of this brilliant book. Once heard, his phrases - and they are found on every page - are not forgotten: but he has arrived "ex errore per veritatem ad errorem;" the epigram is as true of him as it is of Sohm. For few writers are so inconclusive and so unsystematic; his is a critical, not a constructive, mind. Latin thought is fundamentally skeptical; seldom does it get beyond the question, "Chi lo sa?" Whereas German thought is dogmatic. It replaces systems by systems: "an Amurath an Amurath succeeds." Professor Santayana represents the Latin genius; and this has now a unique opportunity...
Download or read book Sacro Egoism written by John S. Knox and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacro-Egoism: The Rise of Religious Individualism in the West discusses the relationship between secularization, participation in religious practices and belief, and the emergence of radical individualized expressions of faith in the West. Using McMinnville, Oregon, as a case study, it presents the data collected and analyzed from several churches, denominations, and spiritual settings in that unassuming town, and compares it to the results of Heelas and Woodhead's "Spiritual Revolution" project, arriving at a provocative conclusion. Rather than abandoning Christianity for alternative spirituality practices, McMinnville citizens still feel strongly about their Christian faith, taking their spiritual walk to a more personal level than ever before in church history. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research, along with personal stories of faith and exploration from McMinnville residents themselves, Sacro-Egoism: The Rise of Religious Individualism in the West tells a story of radical individualists who have become the highest religious authority in their lives--even over the church, the Bible, and traditional Christian society.
Download or read book Theism and Humanism written by Arthur James Balfour and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur James Balfour (1848 – 1930) served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, but his true love was philosophy. Theism and Humanism (1915) was based on his first series of Gifford Lectures given in 1914. In 1962, writer C. S. Lewis told Christian Century magazine named Theism and Humanism as one of the ten books that had most influenced him.
Download or read book Self and Others written by Jan Österberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. The Aim of This Essay Ethical Egoism, the doctrine that, roughly speaking, one should promote one's own good, has been a live issue since the very beginnings of moral philosophy. Historically, it is the most widely held normative theory, and, next to Utilitarianism, it is the most intensely debated one. What is at stake in this debate is a fundamental question of ethics: 'Is there any reason, except self-interest, for considering the interests of other people?' The ethical egoist answers No to this question, thus rejecting the received conception of morality. Is Ethical Egoism an acceptable position? There are many forms of Ethical Egoism, and each may be interpreted in several different ways. So the relevant question is rather, 'Is there an acceptable version of Ethical It is the main aim of this essay to answer this question. This Egoism?' means that I will be confronted with many other controversial questions, for example, 'What is a moral principle?', 'Is value objective or subjec tive?', 'What is the nature of the self?' For the acceptability of most ver sions of Ethical Egoism, it has been alleged, depends on what answers are given to questions such as these. (I will show that in some of these cases there is in fact no such dependence. ) It is, of course, impossible to ad equately discuss all these questions within the compass of my essay.
Download or read book Egocentricity and Mysticism written by Ernst Tugendhat and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egocentricity and Mysticism is a philosophical milestone that clarifies our relationship to language, social interaction, and mortality. Ernst Tugendhat casts mysticism as an innate facet of what it means to be human--a response to an existential need for peace of mind.
Download or read book Theism and Humanism written by Arthur James Balfour and published by Inkling Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, Christian Century asked C. S. Lewis to name the books that had most influenced his thought. Among those Lewis listed was Theism and Humanism, the published version of Arthur J. Balfour's 1914 Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow. Long out of print, the book is now available in this newly typeset and greatly enhanced edition.
