Download or read book Experiencing Time written by Simon Prosser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our engagement with time is a ubiquitous feature of our lives. We are aware of time on many scales, from the briefest flicker of change to the way our lives unfold over many years. But to what extent does this encounter reveal the true nature of temporal reality? To the extent that temporal reality is as it seems, how do we come to be aware of it? And to the extent that temporal reality is not as it seems, why does it seem that way? These are the central questions addressed by Simon Prosser in Experiencing Time. These questions take on a particular importance in philosophy for two reasons. Firstly, there is a view concerning the metaphysics of time, known as the B-theory of time, according to which the apparently dynamic quality of change, the special status of the present, and even the passage of time are all illusions. Instead, the world is a four-dimensional space-time block, lacking any of the apparent dynamic features of time. If the B-theory is correct, as the book argues, then it must be explained why our experiences seem to tell us otherwise. Secondly, experiences of temporal features such as changes, rates and durations are of independent interest because of certain puzzles that they raise, the solutions to which may shed light on broader issues in the philosophy of mind.
Download or read book Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play written by Marissa Nicosia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars—in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's All is True, Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller's Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell's Conspiracy, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.
Download or read book Imagine written by Lydia Ievleva and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of how we think, feel and behave is dictated by the images of our mind. Imagine is one of the first books on the market to provide a practical and comprehensive guide to understanding and using the power of positive mental imagery to help people achieve goals and reach their full potential. Dr Lydia Ievleva has extensive experience incorporating the application of mental imagery into her work with a wide range of clients, including athletes, business and health professionals. Drawing from her broad experience in Health, Sport and Performance Psychology and Positive Psychology she has effectively used the techniques to facilitate change. She says: You can think of imagery like a screenplay -- you can allow life to play you; or you can take a more active role in your destiny. Actively and consciously creating your inner scripts, by engaging in positive mental imagery will enhance your chances of reaching your full potential, overcoming obstacles, and flourishing. Imagine provides a combination of information and research and practical scripts and guides to show people how to achieve their goals, eliminate obstacles and create their best self. Featuring numerous case examples, it is a practical and accessible book that will appeal to anyone wanting to accelerate change and improve their lives.
Download or read book Just Imagine It written by Jadin S. Hutchinson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to empower the minds of young children, pre-teen like myself and even adults to utilize their minds to achieve their best life. 15 Inspirational thought-provoking stories that were written to nurture the expansion of one’s mind, ignite the creative spirit, and above all else strengthen one’s faith in God & Self! This book is also filled with images, related quotes & activities to inspire the creative process and self- reflection further while promoting the expansion of one’s imaginative mind.
Download or read book Everywhere and Everywhen written by Nick Huggett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written for the general reader, explores the fundamental issues concerning the nature of time and space, and quantum mechanics. It shows how physics and philosophy work together to answer some of the deepest questions ever asked about the world.
Download or read book HOW TO IMAGINE written by Kfir Luzzatto, Ph.D., Dip. Hyp. and published by PINE TEN, LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how happy you are, you deserve to be happier. Your happiness depends on the image of your world that you have built in your mind, and a wrong perception of your place in it will make you less happy. Luckily, you have the innate ability to reset many damaging cognitions using simple and enjoyable methods. Those tools, which rely on the power of your imagination, are readily available to you. The author has a long romance with the mind-body connection and the use it makes of our imagination, as a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, as an inventor, and as a fiction writer. That broad background has prompted him to help many others by demystifying self-help methods that produce results. His popular book HOW TO REVERSE YOUR DIABETES, empowers Type 2 diabetes patients to fight their condition, while THINK AWAY YOUR HAY FEVER highlights the power that your mind has, to stop allergies. In HOW TO IMAGINE, the author details practical strategies, which employ your imagination to clean up wrong cognitions and memories, and create a better, happier life in a simple and readily accessible way.
Download or read book The Ethics written by Benedict de Spinoza and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardic descent. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of The Enlightenment, and The Ethics is his most famous work.
Download or read book Only Imagine written by Kathleen Stock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'. The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism'; the idea that the fictional content of a particular work is equivalent to exactly what the author of the work intended the reader to imagine. Historically, this sort of view has been highly unpopular. Literary theorists and philosophers alike have poured scorn upon it. The first half of this book attempts to argue that it should in fact be taken very seriously as an adequate account of fictional truth: better, in fact, than many of its more popular rivals. The second half explores various explanatory benefits of extreme intentionalism for other issues in the philosophy of fiction and imagination. Namely, can fiction give us reliable knowledge? Why do we 'resist' imagining certain fictions? What, in fact, is a fiction? And, how should the imagination be characterised?
Download or read book Imagine the God of Heaven written by John Burke and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people around the world have reported a near-death experience. Do they prove the existence of a loving God? Never in history, until now, have we been able to hear from so many people around the world who have been brought back from clinical death. Modern medical resuscitation and digital communication have revealed a goldmine of intriguing near-death experiences (NDEs) that show us the character of God. John Burke has spent the last three decades studying the commonalities of more than 1000 NDEs. His investigative journey started as a skeptical agnostic, when his own father was dying from cancer. When he first read these eyewitness accounts, he couldn’t help asking himself: “Could this be real evidence--even possible proof of God’s existence?” In this book, you will discover: Analysis of 1000+ near-death experiences and how they reveal the wondrous attributes of God and correlate with the Bible Follow up research to Burke’s exploration of the afterlife, Imagine Heaven, a New York Times best-seller of over 1 million copies True stories from nearly 70 people from every continent who have died, been resuscitated, and now testify to having been more alive than ever in the presence of a loving God they never wanted to leave People of all ethnicities and backgrounds—including doctors, engineers, and CEO—experience the same God. John Burke unveils the love story and characteristics of this God of all nations, revealed throughout history and in Scripture, now illustrated by these thrilling encounters. You will realize God’s love, power, compassion, friendship, and guidance are closer than you could ever imagine. And for such a time as this, people need to know a loving God is within their reach.
Download or read book Ethics written by and published by Commodius Vicus. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagination written by Mary Warnock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-10-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination is an outstanding contribution to a notoriously elusive and confusing subject. It skillfully interrelates problems in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism, tracing the evolution of the concept of imagination from Hume and Kant in the eighteenth century to Ryle, Sartre and Wittgenstein in the twentieth. She strongly belies that the cultivation of imagination should be the chief aim of education and one of her objectives in writing the book has been to put forward reasons why this is so. Purely philosophical treatment of the concept is shown to be related to its use in the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth, who she considers to be the creators of a new kind of awareness with more than literary implications. The purpose of her historical account is to suggest that the role of imagination in our perception and thought is more pervasive than may at first sight appear, and that the thread she traces is an important link joining apparently different areas of our experience. She argues that imagination is an essential element in both our awareness of the world and our attaching of value to it.
Download or read book Ethics Complete Edition written by Baruch Spinoza and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Ethics is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries, such as "When the Mind imagines its own lack of power, it is saddened by it"; "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death"; and "The human Mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the Body, but something of it remains which is eternal."
Download or read book Time Travel written by Nikk Effingham and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time travel is metaphysically possible. Nikk Effingham contends that arguments for the impossibility of time travel are not sound. Focusing mainly on the Grandfather Paradox, Effingham explores the ramifications of taking this view, discusses issues in probability and decision theory, and considers the potential dangers of travelling in time.
Download or read book Imagine That written by Jonathan D. Voss and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved characters Hoot and Olive return in this beautiful picture book from Jonathan D. Voss about imagination, rainy day adventures, and the spirit of friendship. Olive is a little girl with a big, bright imagination. Hoot is her stuffed-animal owl...and her best friend. The two love adventures of all sorts. But on the rainiest of days, there is only one thing to do: stay inside and imagine a whole new world. Just as they’re about to begin their adventure, Hoot makes a shocking discovery—his imagination is broken! Like the best of best friends, Olive comes up with some ideas to help him. But nothing is working: not the head unscrambler, the earmuffs, or the hypnosis. Just as the two are about to give up, Olive remembers the secret ingredient to imagination, and they give it one more try. Fans of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, George and Martha, and Frog and Toad are certain to fall in love with the next adventure in the Hoot & Olive series, Imagine That.
Download or read book Visions of the Future in Comics written by Francesco-Alessio Ursini and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinees--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The picture that emerges documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics creators have been crafting for decades.
Download or read book Joyce Rupp written by Rupp, Joyce and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Farmer's daughter, sister to seven, and a Sister to many, Joyce Rupp is a planter, grower, and spiritual midwife. She is a writer and speaker, a retreat giver who has inspired thousands on five ontinents. A lifelong Catholic, she sings both chant and golden oldies, teaches theology and practices transpersonal psychology. She is appreciated by people of all faiths and criticized by some in her own faith as being 'out there.' Drawing on key themes from her many influential books, 'Joyce Rupp : essential writings' shows you where Joyce is at, where she came from and where she's going, who she is, what she is like, and what she knows for sure--all in her own words."--Back cover
Download or read book Spinoza s Ethics written by Benedictus de Spinoza and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
