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Alma Books Ltd Praise of Folly: Newly Translated and Annotated -
Book SynopsisIn addition to a sparkling modern translation of Praise of Folly, this volume also includes other works by Erasmus: Pope Julius Barred from Heaven, Epigram against Pope Julius II and a selection of his Adages. Together with the extensive annotation of the texts, these help to set Erasmus’s masterpiece in an accessible context for the modern reader. A central text of the Renaissance, Praise of Folly is an essential part of the Western canon, without which much that has followed – in culture, theology and literature – would not exist. Deeply subversive in its time, the book, after the initial controversy it created, finally gained acceptance as theologians, philosophers and readers came to appreciate Erasmus’s lucid, playful and eloquent reasoning.Trade ReviewErasmus searched for reconciliation between Faith and Reason, refusing not only the dogmas of Faith, but the dogmas of Reason as well. -- Carlos FuentesPraise of Folly, still a masterpiece of slyly subversive wit, was in a sense the first best-seller, read covertly under desks and sniggered over by countless trainee monks and priests. -- Nicholas Lezard * The Guardian *I am well aware that what I have had to say on the problem of peace is not essentially new. It is my profound conviction that the solution lies in our rejecting war for an ethical reason; namely, that war makes us guilty of the crime of inhumanity. Erasmus of Rotterdam and several others after him have already proclaimed this as the truth around which we should rally. -- Albert Schweitzer in his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize lectureFrom the terrible hate storm of his age Erasmus has salvaged this intellectual gem, his faith in humanity, and on this small burning wick Spinoza, Lessing and Voltaire – and all Europeans past and present – could light their torch. -- Stefan Zweig
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FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS The Intimate Resistance
Book SynopsisThe Intimate Resistance is a keen, deeply beautiful reflection on the human condition. The author explains how we ourselves can warm, protect and guide those around us. “The intimate resistance is the name for an experience belonging to a state of proximity; a state cannot be visited in one day, but rather habitually. Today, to remain in this state is by no means simple. Proximity cannot be measured in metres or centimetres. Its opposite is not distance, but rather the ubiquitous monotony of a world dominated by technology. What is clear is that day to day and home life are essential ways of experiencing proximity.”Trade Review“Against our compulsive immediateness and hyperconnectivity, against permanent public exposition and dispersion, Esquirol proposes the pausing, talking clearing, proximity, difference, reflection, the reinvention of the gaze, the return to thought.” Josep Massot, La Vanguardia “It’s one of those books that will never go out of fashion and I dare say that his reflections will serve as a reference for future generations.” Lluís Foix, El Punt Avui “A captivating essay that focusses on stimulating, intentional reflection. And, very importantly, it is magnificently written. Don’t miss it.” Guillem Pufarré, El Temps “A philosophical essay, as deep as it is entertaining, that promotes fundamental values.” Josep Maria Ripoll, Serra d’Or
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Penguin Putnam Inc Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life They Change
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Princeton University Press The Praise of Folly
Book SynopsisDesiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties ofTrade Review"There is no more joyous and delightful bit of forensic jugglery than Desiderius Erasmus's The Praise of Folly and a debt of gratitude is owed Professor Hoyt Hopewell Hudson for translating the old Latin of 1511 into lively, vivid, contemporary English, at once lucid and free... Like all great minds Erasmus has the faculty of being perennially contemporary, and The Praise of Folly is a gay, witty revelation of the subtleties and intricacies of the scholarly mind of the Renaissance."--Edward Larocque Tinker, New York Times "The scholarship and grace of Hudson's translation and introduction assure that the book will be accepted as the standard English version."--Modern Language Quarterly "[Hudson] has spared no pains to provide whatever might increase the general reader's appreciation and enjoyment of this world-famous, perennially humane satire."--John Archer Gee, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "Erasmus's Praise of Folly is certainly one of the most characteristic and delightful pieces of Renaissance literature and has rightly enjoyed a wide popularity... This handsome volume will certainly please the student as well as the general reader."--Journal of PhilosophyTable of ContentsA Prelude to The Praise of Folly: Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition vii Acknowledgments xxiii The Folly of Erasmus: An Essay xxv Preface: Desiderius Erasmus to His Friend Thomas More 1 Moriae Encomium, That Is, The Praise of Folly 7 Analysis 129 Notes 143 Index of Proper Names 155
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Prometheus Books Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for New Planetary
Book SynopsisThis entirely new Humanist Manifesto is designed to address the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. Providing a strong defense of scientific naturalism and technology, it is offered as a contribution to the dialogue among the different cultural, political, and economic viewpoints in the world. Humanist Manifesto 2000 is formulated in the conviction that science, reason, democracy, education, and humanist values can enhance human progress. Drawing on the achievements of modernity - the success of scientific medicine, the overall improvement of public health, the Green Revolution, the conveniences of a consumer society, global communication and transportation, increased understanding of the natural world, and many others - the planetary humanism that this manifesto presents seeks to transcend the negativity of postmodernism and looks forward to the information age now upon us. Humanist Manifesto 2000 promotes a humanistic ethics based on reason and a planetary bill of rights and responsibilities. It proposes a new global agenda, stresses the need for international institutions (including a new world parliament and regulation of global conglomerates), and concludes on a note of optimism about the human prospect. Endorsed by a distinguished list of humanist intellectuals--including Arthur C. Clarke, Alan Cranston, Richard Dawkins, Richard Leakey, Jill Tarter, E. O. Wilson, and eleven Nobel Laureates--Humanist Manifesto 2000 recommends long-range attainable goals and generates confidence in the ability of the human species to solve its problems by rational means and a positive outlook. This manifesto was drafted by Paul Kurtz in consultation with a twelve-person internal committee.
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Princeton University Press On Human Nature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Blackwell’s Best of Non-Fiction 2017"
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Prometheus Books M.N. Roy: Radical Humanist: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisWhen humanism was first receiving widespread public attention in the West, through such publications as The Humanist Manifesto in 1933, unbeknownst to most Westerners humanism was proceeding on a parallel track in India, largely due to the efforts of philosopher and political activist M.N. Roy (1887-1954). Sadly, it wasn't until the early fifties, at the end of Roy's life that European humanists began to notice his work. To rectify the unfortunate neglect in the West of one of India's premier intellectuals, philosopher Innaiah Narisetti has compiled this new collection of Roy's most significant works. Roy conceived of humanism as a scientific, integral, and radically new worldview. Among many interesting selections in this volume, Roy's "Principles of Radical Democracy: 22 Theses" is especially representative of his thinking. Here he emphasized ethics and eschewed supernatural interpretations as antithetical to his scientifically oriented conception of "new humanism." He also underscored the importance of universal education to make average people scientifically literate and to teach them critical thinking. Roy was not only a thinker but a doer as well. He spent six years in an Indian prison during the 1930s for opposing the British rule of India. For humanists, philosophers, political scientists, and others, M.N. Roy's unique and still very relevant view of humanism will have great appeal and broad application beyond its original Indian context.
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Althea Press The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for
Book SynopsisOptimize joy, overcome obstaclesdiscover the calm of stoicism Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will learn how to take charge of their emotions on the path to sustained happiness and satisfaction. This easy-to-navigate stoicism guide gives you the emotional tools needed to let go of the things you can''t control and find joy in what you have. Through thought-provoking strategies and exercises, this book helps you find contentment so you can build closer relationships and become an active member of society. The Beginner''s Guide to Stoicism includes: Evolution of stoicismDiscover the history of stoicism and how its principles can help you find peace. Complete the mindsetFind acceptance using an essential emotional toolkit based on the disciplines of Desire, Action, and Assent. Time to reflectApply what you''ve learned to your own life with ethical questions, quotes, and exercises. Change your perception, focus on positivitybecome the best version of yourself with The Beginner''s Guide to Stoicism.
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Oxford University Press Inc Sidgwicks The Methods of Ethics A Guide Oxford
Book SynopsisAuthor David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.Trade ReviewA beautifully written and expertly curated aid to studying Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics...Phillips covers Sidgwick's non-naturalist meta-ethics, his intuitionist epistemology, his argument for utilitarianism and for hedonism, his dismissal of common-sense morality, and his dualism of practical reason...In every case, Phillips's discussions are excellent. * Anthony Skelton, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *David Phillips's guide is not just the latest, it is one of the best. * Choice *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Think Like a Philosopher
Book SynopsisIn showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness of touch, he addresses questions such as: Is there anything 'out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance - and how can we tell the difference?This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett - and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well as displaying optimists and pessimists, believers and non-believers, the book displays relevance to current affairs, from free speech to aTrade ReviewA very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually stimulating. * Daily Philosophy *This is an ideal guide to philosophical thinking; it does not try to reduce the views of those that it covers to bullet points, but instead engages with them in a thoughtful and witty way. Peter Cave is the perfect companion for a bright but leisurely walk through these labyrinths. * Derek Matravers, Professor of Philosophy, The Open University, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge *Britain's wittiest philosopher. * Raymond Tallis *Here is an extraordinary philosophical journey taking us through a maze of thinkers. For all those seeking to understand the myriad modes of philosophical thinking—ancient and modern—this is the perfect introduction. * Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Emeritus Professor of Judaism, University of Wales *Peter Cave introduces the reader to thirty different thinkers. Not all are easily classified as academic philosophers: some are better thought of as sages or poets or playwrights. But each has something important to say about things that matter: rationality, science, sex, and duty, among other topics. Cave’s approach is to introduce each thinker through their chosen questions. From Sappho to Wittgenstein, from Arendt to Spinoza, we are able to enter into a chosen figure’s preoccupations and enjoyably think along. This is a much more effective and engaging approach than simple intellectual biography or summaries of key ideas. An absorbing and rewarding book. * Tom Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Warwick. *Peter Cave introduces his top thirty thinkers with wit and clarity, and crams a surprising amount of judicious reflection into each of the short chapters. * John Cottingham, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading *Read this book. You may not learn to love like Sappho, cure like Avicenna, ponder like Spinoza, disguise yourself like Kierkegaard or rival any of the other fascinating eccentrics who fill the volume. But if you learn to think like Peter Cave – with freshness, humour, objectivity and penetration – you will have been amply rewarded. * Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame, author of Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It *Chummy, amusing little book…witty…This is a light but thoughtful book. * Choice Magazine, American Library Association *Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Lao Tzu: The Way to Tao 2 Sappho: Lover 3 Zeno of Elea: Tortoise Backer and Parmenidean Helper 4 Gadfly: aka ‘Socrates’ 5 Plato: Charioteer, Magnificent Footnote Inspirer – ‘Nobody Does It Better’ 6 Aristotle: Earth-Bound, Walking 7 Epicurus: Gardener, Curing the Soul, Ably Assisted by Lucretius 8 Avicenna: Flying Man, Unifier 9 Descartes: With Princess, With Queen 10 Spinoza: God-Intoxicated Atheist 11 Leibniz: Monad Man 12 Bishop Berkeley, ‘That Paradoxical Irishman’: Immaterialist, Tar-Water Advocate 13 David Hume: The Great Infidel or Le Bon David 14 Kant: Duty Calls, Categorically 15 Schopenhauer: Pessimism With Flute 16 John Stuart Mill: Utility Man, With Harriet, Soul-Mate 17 Søren Kierkegaard: Who? 18 Karl Marx: Hegelian, Freedom-Fighter 19 Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser 20 Nietzsche: God-Slaying Jester, Trans-Valuer 21 Bertrand Russell: Radical, Aristocrat 22 G. E. Moore: Common-Sense Defender, Bloomsbury’s Sage 23 Heidegger: Hyphenater 24 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist, Novelist, French 25 Simone Weil: Refuser and Would-Be Rescuer 26 Simone de Beauvoir: Situated, Protester, Feminist 27 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Therapist 28 Hannah Arendt: Controversialist, Journalist? 29 Iris Murdoch: Attender 30 Samuel Beckett: Not I Epilogue Dates of the Philosophers Notes, References and Readings Acknowledgements In Memory Name Index Subject Index
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Lexington Books Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care
Book SynopsisThe rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women realize their equality? What is the hope for Chinese women seeking a social ideal of equality given the growing gender gap in the current economic development of China? Yuan argues Confucianism cannot help unless it is integrated with feminism. In this book, Yuan explores why gendered stratifications perpetuated so deeply in today's China through the influences of Confucian cultural tradition, but reading early Confucian texts as a cosmological vision of Ren with Dao and ontological oneness as a whole that is the unity of heaven, earth, and humanism, we might reclaim Confucian egalitarian aspects to develop its openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care ethics. Throughout the book, Yuan provides multiple perspectives of comparison: relational self vs. power differentials, gender roles differences vs. political demand foTrade ReviewThis book is a perfect example of the kind of scholarly rigor that all histories of discourse should aspire to and serves as a powerful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of Confucianism, feminism, and the democratization of China. * Religious Studies Review *Yuan's efforts advance the broader project of highlighting valuable and effective concepts and attitudes within Confucianism that can support feminist social goals. Ren appears to be a good candidate for inclusion in a care ethics framework. Situating ren in the relational ontology of heaven, earth, and humanity, and in the reciprocal ethics of zhong and shu, this book shows where Confucianism can speak the language of feminism, equality, and democracy. It also takes a critical stance in identifying the Confucian concepts and attitudes that stand in the way of gender equality, especially the traditional support of power hierarchies for the sake of social stability. Clearing Confucian theory of this kind of rigid stratification may make it much more applicable to the contemporary egalitarian milieu. This paves the way for actual policies--such as state-sponsored home medical care for elderly women in rural China--that recognize the existential need in every human life to be cared for at times. Yuan's vision of this is an egalitarian ren politics of reciprocal caring with each other, which is a contemporary moral ideal rooted in the deep wisdom of traditional values. * Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy *Lijun Yuan has presented a renovating, robust study of Confucian and feminist care ethics, and creatively engage in a profound dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies. This is as grounded and deep account of care ethics as one who does comparative studies wishes for. It also raises the profound questions of the foundation of ethics. The suggestion of a fusion of the Confucian and feminist horizons of the book is thought-provocative, and attractive. -- Xunwu Chen, University of TexasA most comprehensive comparative study of Confucian ethics of ren in ancient China and feminist ethics of care in contemporary West, Yuan's book exemplifies a unique and highly fruitful methodology of comparative philosophy. It also seamlessly combines theoretical construction and practical concerns. A must read for anyone who is interest in Confucianism, feminism, and/or comparative philosophy. -- Huang Yong, The Chinese University of Hong KongThe book is a timely synthesis of the Ethics of Care and Confucian reciprocity, bringing together the promise of disparate philosophical traditions, one ancient, one modern, to help improve the lives of contemporary girls and women. -- Maureen Sander-Staudt, Southwest Minnesota State UniversityTable of ContentsPart IChapter 1 Strength and Weakness of Early Confucian Ethics on WomenChapter 2 A Debate about Minben and Minzhu: Toward Caring DemocracyPart IIChapter 3 Feminist Critiques of Gender Inequality and Ethics of CareChapter 4 Notions of Reciprocity: Kongzi, Kant, Beauvoir, and Critiques of Gender RolesChapter 5 Methodology of the Ethics of Care: Integrating Care and JusticePart IIIChapter 6 Hume’s Sympathy, Mengzi’s Empathy, Feminist Interpretations: Extensive VirtueChapter 7 China’s Population Policy: Aging, Gender, and Sustainability
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Prometheus Books The Wisdom of the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisEnlightenment—Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French—is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Wisdom of the Enlightenment, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year that gave us Rene Descartes’ landmark inquiry into truth, as the beginning of a period that radically changed individual human thought and collective societal action. From Descartes’ assertion of “I think, therefore I am,” to the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Moliere, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hume, and Kant, this book charts the new and revolutionary philosophies at a time when progress seemed possible across the whole range of human knowledge and endeavor. In sweeping aside tired superstitions and applying a new scientific methodology, the Enlightenment ideas of progress through free exercise of reason ushered us into the modern world. This engaging and comprehensive survey of Enlightenment thoughts and thinkers is a celebration of the faith that all problems are solvable by human reason.
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Duke University Press Ontological Terror
Book SynopsisCalvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, and explains why humanism has failed to achieve equality for blacks.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing 1 1. The Question of Black Being 26 2. Outlawing 62 3. Scientific Horror 110 4. Catachrestic Fantasies 143 Coda. Adieu to the Human 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 201 Index 211
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Alma Books Ltd Utopia
Book SynopsisIn Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a community in which laws, personal relations and professional ambition are based on reason, in contrast with the tradition-bound superstitions of Europe, which were, in More's eyes, impediments to equality and peaceful coexistence.One of the indicators of the profound cultural and political influence of More's masterpiece is today's common use of the word "Utopia" - a term he invented. This extraordinary treatise on the values of rationality and reason - here presented in a sparkling new translation by Roger Clarke and accompanied by copious notes and additional texts - questions what a philosopher can do to enact change in society, and how idealized visions can inform political practice.Trade Review"Astonishingly radical stuff." - Terry Eagleton
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Vintage Publishing The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
Book SynopsisEncountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, The Rings of Saturn is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTrade ReviewA great, strange and moving work * James Wood, Guardian *The finest book of long-distance mental travel that I've ever read * Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement *A desperate intensity of feeling is thrillingly counterpoised by the workings of a wonderfully learned and rigorous mind * Sunday Times *Sebald is surely a major European author...he reaches the heights of epiphanic beauty only encountered normally in the likes of Proust * Independent on Sunday *A highly original work...part memoir, part fiction, part meditative essay writing, and finally an essay for the dispossessed * Sunday Telegraph *
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Vintage Publishing The Rings of Saturn
Book SynopsisW.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and the author of The Emigrants, which won a series of major awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Böll Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize; The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo. W.G. Sebald wrote in his native tongue, German, and worked closely with his translator, Michael Hulse, to translate his work into English. He died in December 2001.Michael Hulse has translated Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Jacob Wasserman's Caspar Hauser, as well as the contemporary German authors Luise Rinser, Botho Strauss and Elfriede Jelinek. He is also an award-Trade ReviewA novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas. Framed around the narrator's long walks in East Anglia, Sebald shows how one man looks aslant at historical atrocity. Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears -- Teju Cole * Guardian *A great, strange and moving work * James Wood, Guardian *The finest book of long-distance mental travel that I've ever read * Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement *A desperate intensity of feeling is thrillingly counterpoised by the workings of a wonderfully learned and rigorous mind * Sunday Times *Sebald is surely a major European author...he reaches the heights of epiphanic beauty only encountered normally in the likes of Proust * Independent on Sunday *
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Oxford University Press Inc Love
Book SynopsisWhat is love''s real intent? Why can love be so ruthlessly selective? How is it related to sex, beauty, and goodness? And is the child now the supreme object of love?In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of home in a world that we supremely value. He sees love as motivated by a promise of ontological rootedness, rather than, as two thousand years of tradition variously asserts, by beauty or goodness, by a search for wholeness, by virtue, by sexual or reproductive desire, by compassion or altruism or empathy, or, in one of today''s dominant views, by no qualities at all of the loved one. After arguing that such founding Western myths as the Odyssey and Abraham''s call by God to Canaan in the Bible powerfully exemplify his new conception of love, May goes on to re-examine the relation of love to beauty, sex, and goodness iTrade ReviewNearly every page offers up new insight and the book as a whole is a truly impressive achievement. It makes a serious contribution to analytic philosophy while at the same time being highly readable. * European Journal of Philosophy *May's book represents a major contribution to our understanding of love. … The sense that May is striving single-handedly to dismantle some of society's most sacrosanct beliefs, together with the wonderful clarity of the writing, which is rigorous without ever feeling technical, and the strength of the original premise, make Love: A New Understanding compellingly readable. Excitingly new, yet immediately recognizable-that's the paradox at the very heart of love, and it is what Simon May has achieved. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Truly ambitious…an engaging and unique account of love. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *May's general account of love as seeking ontological rootedness is profound and convincing. … [His] book offers one of the most significant philosophical accounts of the nature of love, which shows how through love we can become at home in the world. * The Philosophical Quarterly *May devotes a great deal of research to identify the meaning and the sense of love in the existence of human beings. In the last paragraph of the study he concludes modestly that discussing the issue is only auxiliary to experiencing it…in this lies May's book's greatest merit: to see it [love] as intrinsically human. * Robert Zaborowski, Metapsychology Online Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: Dead Ends: Why We Need a New Understanding of Love 1. The neglected question: what is love's specific aim? 2. Back to the future: secularizing divine agape 3. The six major conceptions of love in Western history: a summary 4. Why we need a new conception of love Part II: Love: Towards a New Understanding 5. Love and the promise of rootedness 6. What is ontological rootedness? 7. God as paradigm of a loved one - but not of a lover 8. Love as recognition of lineage 9. Love as recognition of an ethical home 10. Love as recognition of power 11. Love and the call to existence 12. Relationship 13. Fear: the price of love 14. Destructiveness 15. Why love isn't the same as benevolence 16. What divine violence teaches us about love 17. Self-interest as a source of self-giving 18. Exile as love's inspiration 19. Why some epochs (and people) value love more than others 20. The languages of love 21. The primacy of loving over being loved 22. Attentiveness: love's supreme virtue 23. Love and death 24. "Overshooting" the loved one: love's impersonal dimension 25. Can we love ourselves? Part III: Narratives of Love As Rootedness 26. The Bible: love as a discovery of home 27. The Odyssey: love as a recovery of home Part IV: How Is Love Related to Beauty, Sex, and Goodness? 28. Why beauty is not the ground of love 29. How important is sex to love? 30. The real relation between love and beauty 31. Can we love the ugly? 32. Can we love evil? Part V: The Child as the New Supreme Object of Love 33. Why parental love is coming to trump romantic love 34. The conservatism of romantic love 35. Why isn't friendship the new archetypal love? 36. Conclusion: the child as the first truly modern archetypal object of love Notes Bibliography Index
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Penguin Books Ltd The History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisAUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES''A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit'' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity''s dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world.And finally, into philosophy today.Trade ReviewA cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit . . . The non-western section throws up some fascinating revelations * Sunday Times *Grayling has written a masterful and often entertaining chronicle of the epic intellectual journey we humans have taken, in different periods, countries and cultures, to understand ourselves, our world, and how we ought to live. An extraordinary accomplishment that transcends the usual bounds of academic specialization -- Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton UniversityAccurately offers itself as a successor to [Bertrand] Russell's classic survey . . . No other popular survey possesses this range . . . The History of Philosophy isn't just worth buying; it's worth scribbling in and dog-earing. For a work of scholarship, there can be no higher praise. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *He's more historically-minded than Russell, less dogmatic than Dawkins and less in thrall to the charms of his own fluency than Hitchens -- Prospect on The Challenge of ThingsUndeniably thought-provokingGrayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourseLucid, informative and admirably accessibleGrayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twistFive minutes with any passage will have you contemplating all dayI find the clarity of his thinking so refreshingIf there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. GraylingThe History of Philosophy is an excellent overview of great philosophical thought by an insightful practitioner of the field. It is a credit to Grayling's abilities that he has penned such a perspicuous book on some very difficult subjects-giving the a reader a clear overview of the complexities of Scholastic logic, Analytic philosophies of language and mind, and much else besides is no easy feat, but Grayling has achieved it. This is a book to be treasured, both as a guide to the subject and as a beautiful piece of writing in itself, containing great insight and wisdom. It is a testament to the continuing importance and value of philosophy. * Aero Magazine *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Little Book of Humanist Funerals
Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling authors of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISMA humanist funeral allows us the freedom to remember and celebrate the life of someone in exactly the way we want to and - as the most popular alternative to a religious ceremony - put us more closely in touch with the precious nature of life.In a beautiful collection of insights from humanist celebrants, as well as quotes, poems and meditations from humanist writers and thinkers throughout history, THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANIST FUNERALS is the perfect introduction to the humanist approach to life and death.Trade ReviewWhat a treasure - inspiring, comforting, and brimming with the equanimity one longs for in coming to terms with a death -- Steven Pinker
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Theory on Death and Dying
Book SynopsisPolitical Theory on Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying.Adopting an easy-to-follow chronological and multi-disciplinary approach on 45 canonical figures and thinkers, leading scholars from a diverse range of fields, including political science, philosophy, and English, discuss each thinker's ethical and philosophical accounts on mortality and death. Each chapter focuses on a single established figure in political philosophy, as well as religious and literary thinkers, covering classical to contemporary thought on death. Through this approach, the chapters are designed to stand alone, allowing the reader to study every entry in isolation and with greater depth, as well as trace how thinkers are influenced by their predecessors.A key contribution to the field, Political Theory on Death and DyingTrade Review"Through its chronological approach, and dedication of each chapter to a different classical text or philosopher, this multi-author volume provides a very useful way of getting at the topic of death in the history of philosophy."Adam Buben, Leiden University"An extraordinary collection—45 essays on the thought of thinkers from Homer to MacIntyre on death and dying, broadly understood to include aging and after-death possibilities. Always informative—often insightful—frequently provocative."Michael Zuckert, Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame"In the year of COVID-19 comes this timely new book about one of the most fundamental issues in philosophy: death and dying. The Political Theory on Death and Dying is a wonderful compendium of how 45 of the greatest philosophers from Homer to MacIntyre have tackled the problem of death, and, more importantly, its antipode: life! This book will challenge readers to reconsider how they live their lives in the face of the final horizon. Young or old, this is a must-read book. I highly recommend it!"C. Bradley Thompson, Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Professor of Political Science, Clemson University"By thoughtfully engaging writings on death from multiple cultures, historical epochs, and thinkers in diverse religious and political traditions, this collection will be a definitive resource for anyone interested in the breadth of human reflection on this universal topic."Brian Howell, Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Memory and Mortality in Homer’s Odyssey 2. Confucian Authority and the Politics of Caring 3. "Every Form of Death": Thucydides on Death’s Political Presence 4. Mortality, Recollection, and Human Dignity in Plato 5. Good Old Age: Aristotle and the "Virtues" of Aging 6. The Buddha, Death, and Taxes 7. Flourishing toward Dissolution: Epicurus on the Resilience of Tranquility 8. The Political Philosophy of Death in Laozi 9. The Bhagavad Gītā and Paradox of Death 10. Life and Death as a Political Act: Cicero and the Stoics 11. Prenatal and Posthumous Nonexistence: Lucretius on the Harmlessness of Death 12. The Road to Freedom: Seneca on Fear, Reason, and Death 13. Continuity Without Corruption: The Political Theology of Death in St. Augustine 14. Jihād for the City: How Alfarabi Discourages, and Encourages, Death in Battle 15. Techniques for the Social Self: Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Remembrance of Death 16. Death and Dying, Mortality and Immortality in Moses Maimonides 17. The Young, the Old, and the Immortal: Machiavelli on Political Health and Aging 18. Death in Montaigne’s Essays 19. When "Every Third Thought Shall Be My Grave": Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest 20. Francis Bacon on "the Dolours of Death" 21. Descartes On How We Should Relate to Death 22. "The Wages of Sin": Morality and Mortality in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 23. A Liberation From Fear: Benedict de Spinoza on Religion, Philosophy, and Mortality 24. Thomas Hobbes on the Uses and Disadvantages of Death for Political Life 25. The Role of Death and Eternity in Locke’s Political Philosophy 26. Montesquieu on Death, Liberty, and Law 27. Can Philosophy Console Us?: Hume’s Understanding of Mortality 28. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Fear of Death and the Happiness of Life 29. Adam Smith and Dying Peacefully 30. Nature, Second Nature, and Supernature: Death and Consolation in the Thought of Edmund Burke 31. Kant on Death and the Purpose of Human Life 32. Overcoming the Mortal Diseases and Short Lives of Republican Governments: Publius and Political Immortality 33. Hegel on Death and the Spirit 34. Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Love 35. Immortality and Angst in Tocqueville’s America 36. "What is Odious in Death Is not Death Itself, but the Act of Dying": John Stuart Mill on the Political Philosophy of Death and Dying 37. Death and Dynamism in Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy 38. Facing Death Fearlessly, So Others Can Live Without Fear: Gandhi’s Philosophy as Art of Dying 39. "An Earthly Immortality": Arendt on Mortality, Politics, and Political Death 40. Death in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time 41. Make Live and Let Die: Michel Foucault, Biopower, and the Art of Dying Well 42. Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Death and Aging 43. Metamorphoses: Gilles Deleuze on Living and Death 44. Jacques Derrida on Death, the Death Penalty, and Mourning 45. Alasdair MacIntyre and the Twilight of the Virtues
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Princeton University Press Erasmus Man of Letters
Book SynopsisThe name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectuaTrade Review"Erasmus, Man of Letters may inspire skepticism about Erasmus's alleged sincerity, but it is hard not to feel increased admiration for the energy and ingenuity with which the indefatigable scholar continued to combine so successful a publicity campaign with his countless other literary activities."--Alastair Hamilton, The Times Literary Supplement "Jardine's spirited study exploits the evidence of Erasmus's own statements about himself, direct and oblique, and the estimates of his situation in the great tradition that he influenced others to make... [Her portrait of Erasmus] is taken under a raking light, to show a master of the media [and] a master-builder of a textual persona, of an intellectual genealogy culminating in himself."--J. B. Trapp, London Review of Books "A contribution to the understanding of the modern age. Jardine vividly shows how reading-attentive, critical reading-became a form of 'spiritual education' in the early modern period, and how Erasmus became the pattern for the modern Man of Letters."--Tom D'Evelyn, BostoniaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface to the New Paperback Edition ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTION Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink 3 CHAPTER ONE 'A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show': Fashioning the Figure 27 CHAPTER TWO The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus's Life and Letters of Saint Jerome 55 CHAPTER THREE Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica 83 CHAPTER FOUR Recovered Manuscripts and Second Edition: Staging the Book with the Castigatores 99 CHAPTER FIVE Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia 129 CHAPTER SIX Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi 147 CONCLUSION 'The name of Erasmus will never perish' 175 Appendices 191 Notes 207 Index 279
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Princeton University Press On Human Nature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[F]inely written, compactly argued."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review "Roger Scruton's On Human Nature ... gives a brief, poetic account of a way of thinking about ourselves that many of us, especially with a background in the humanities, will find congenial."--Adam Zeman, Standpoint "On Human Nature is a tour de force of a rare kind. In clear, elegant prose it makes large claims in metaphysics, morals and, by implication, politics."--The EconomistTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Human Kind 1 2 Human Relations 50 3 The Moral Life 79 4 Sacred Obligations 113 Index of Names 145 Index of Subjects 149
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Princeton University Press Freedom of Mind and Other Essays
Book SynopsisEach of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we use to describe and to criticize the mental states and performances of human beings? What are the peculiarities of the knowledge that we may possess of our own mental states and attitudes and of the mentalTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*Sources and Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Freedom of Mind, pg. 1*Subjunctive Conditionals, pg. 21*Multiply General Sentences, pg. 28*Dispositions, pg. 34*Fallacies in Moral Philosophy, pg. 42*Ethics: A Defense of Aristotle, pg. 64*Ryle's The Concept of Mind, pg. 87*The Analogy of Feeling, pg. 114*On Referring and Intending, pg. 129*Feeling and Expression, pg. 143*Disposition and Memory, pg. 160*Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom, pg. 183*A Kind of Materialism, pg. 210*Sincerity and Single-Mindedness, pg. 232
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Princeton University Press Love and Beauty
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*1. Reviving Love, pg. 3*2. Pleasure and Enjoyment, pg. 7*3. Enjoyment and Desire, pg. 11*4 .The Experience of Enjoyment, pg. 18*5 .The Desire for Immortality, pg. 20*6. The Enjoyment of Experience, pg. 23*7. Experience and Quality, pg. 31*8. Eschewing the Metaphysics of Qualities, pg. 36*9 .The World of Qualities, pg. 38*10. Sameness of Quality: A Problem, pg. 43*11. Sameness of Quality: A Solution, pg. 48*12. An Introduction to Expansion Experiences, pg. 55*13. Arousals, pg. 56*14. Arousals and Motions of the Soul, pg. 61*15. Preparations, pg. 67*16. Expressions, pg. 75*17. Penetrations of the External World, pg. 78*18. Influences, pg. 83*19. Penetrations from the External World, pg. 87*20. The Directions of Expansion, pg. 92*21. The Expansion of Moral Qualities, pg. 95*22. The Expansion of Mental Qualities, pg. 98*23. Claritas and Expansion, pg. 102*24. Nights of Love, pg. 107*25. Love and Reproduction, pg. 119*26. Some Observations about Love and Reproduction, pg. 125*27. Some Corroborating Experiences, pg. 132*28. Further Corroborations, pg. 138*29. The Love of Virtue, pg. 145*30. Moral Self-indulgence, pg. 153*31. Loving Others, pg. 158*32. A Comprehensive Theory of Love, pg. 165*33. Love and Sex, pg. 172*34. Loving Pain, pg. 179*35. Loving Evil, pg. 183*36. The Ethics of Love, pg. 189*37. The Touch of Experience, pg. 191*38. Anteclimax, pg. 199*39. Anticlimax, pg. 202*Notes, pg. 211*Index, pg. 251
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The Catholic University of America Press The Human Person A Beginners Thomistic
Book SynopsisPresents a brief introduction to the human mind, the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving into the thought of Thomas Aquinas, it addresses contemporary topics, such as scepticism, mechanism, animal language research, and determinism.
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The Catholic University of America Press Karol Wojtylas Personalist Philosophy
Book SynopsisProvides a clear guide to Karol Wojtyla's principal philosophical work, Person and Act, analysing the meaning that the author intended in his exposition. The authors rely on the original Polish text, Osoba i czyn, as well as the best translations into Italian and Spanish, rather than on a sometimes misleading English edition of the work.
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Duke University Press Ontological Terror Blackness Nihilism and
Book SynopsisCalvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy, illustrating how blacks embody a metaphysical nothing while showing how this nothingness destabilizes whiteness, makes blacks a target of violence, and explains why humanism has failed to achieve equality for blacks.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Free Black Is Nothing 1 1. The Question of Black Being 26 2. Outlawing 62 3. Scientific Horror 110 4. Catachrestic Fantasies 143 Coda. Adieu to the Human 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 201 Index 211
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Five Senses
Book SynopsisWriting against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, this book demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience.Trade ReviewFinding a voice that is brilliantly sustained, warm and assured, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley meet the challenges of Serres' shifts of register between prose poetry and high-frequency allusions to philosophy and the sciences and literature classical and modern. -- Max Deutscher, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia‘Some may claim that Serres's works are impossible to translate due to their complex word play, neologisms and erratic style. Despite this, Margaret Sankey and Peter Cowley should be commended for their mammoth efforts and superb translation.' -- Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy... Every page is alive with rich descriptions of feeling, sensing, apprehending, engaging, living... this translation, like all of Serres' work that we have in English, is a banquet, a feast for thought... -- New FormationsThere are then some wonderfully compelling, suggestive, and exciting passages in this book...a rich plea for a treatment of sensing as an always incomplete mixing of souls and objects. I recommend it be read, perhaps with a pinch of salt. -- Senses & SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction, Steven Connor (Birkbeck, University of London, UK); 1. Veils; 2. Boxes; 3. Tables; 4. Visit; 5. Joy; Index.
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DeVorss & Co ,U.S. Living Enlightened
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a beautiful book of honest sharing of Elizabeth's own journey as well as powerful examples of Spiritual Truths and practices. It's a fresh look at ancient mystical teachings while also being mindful of incorporating newer understandings of the importance of our physical and emotional well-being and the practice of self-love. With clear and personal examples, this book is a must read for those on a spiritual journey that includes spirit, mind, and body. Rev. Dr. Sunday CotPast Field Leader, Centers for Spiritual LivingElizabeth Cantey's book, Living Enlightened is a must read for those who are looking for the road to enlightenment. After just a few pages it will become evident that the road leads inward to your true and perfect self. Elizabeth's wisdom will light your path and lead you to a life filled with greater joy and ease. Keep this book by your bedside. You'll want to read it again and again. Dr. Chris Michaels, Award winning author of The Power of YouYour spiritual magnificence has been exemplified by your wonderful book, Living Enlightened—The Joy of Integrating Spirit, Mind, and Body. Your book is wonderful and will enhance the consciousness of all those who read it. I am so proud of your wonderful accomplishments. Dr. Angelo Pizelo, Founder and President of Emerson InstituteTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1What is Enlightenment?Chapter 1 - Waking Up WholeChapter 2 - Awake, Aware, and AliveChapter 3 - Be Here NowChapter 4 - The Ego and EnlightenmentChapter 5 - An Integrated LifeSection 2Letting Go—Deconstructing Old BeliefsChapter 6 - Letting Go, and Resting in TruthChapter 7 - Creation, Creating, the CreatedChapter 8 - As Above, So BelowChapter 9 - It’s an Inside JobChapter 10 - Don’t Believe Everything You ThinkChapter 11 - The Good, the Bad, and the EnlightenedChapter 12 - What’s Your Story?Chapter 13 - Who Are You Really?Chapter 14 - Be the Archeologist— Uncover Hidden Beliefs, Trash, and TreasureChapter 15 - Be the ChangeChapter 16 - Choose LoveChapter 17 - Be the TreeChapter 18 - The Ultimate Law of AttractionEpilogue - Realizing All is Well
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Taylor & Francis Epistemic Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis is the first book dedicated to the topic of epistemic autonomy. It features original essays from leading scholars that promise to significantly shape future debates in this emerging area of epistemology.While the nature of and value of autonomy has long been discussed in ethics and social and political philosophy, it remains an underexplored area of epistemology. The essays in this collection take up several interesting questions and approaches related to epistemic autonomy. Topics include the nature of epistemic autonomy, whether epistemic paternalism can be justified, autonomy as an epistemic value and/or vice, and the relation of epistemic autonomy to social epistemology and epistemic injustice.Epistemic Autonomy will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Puzzles Concerning Epistemic Autonomy Jonathan Matheson and Kirk LougheedPart I: The Nature of Epistemic Autonomy 1. Epistemic Autonomy and Externalism J. Adam Carter 2. Autonomy, Reflection, and EducationShane Ryan 3. The Realm of Epistemic EndsCatherine Elgin 4. Professional Philosophy Has an Epistemic Autonomy ProblemMaura Priest Part II: Epistemic Autonomy and Paternalism 5. Norms of Inquiry, Student-Led Learning, and Epistemic Paternalism Robert Mark Simpson 6. Persuasion and Intellectual Autonomy Robin McKenna 7. What’s Epistemic about Epistemic Paternalism? Liz Jackson Part III: Epistemic Autonomy and Epistemic Virtue & Value 8. Intellectual Autonomy and Intellectual Interdependence Heather Battaly 9. The Virtue of Epistemic Autonomy Jonathan Matheson 10. Understanding and the Value of Intellectual Autonomy Jesús Vega-Encabo 11. Epistemic Myopia Chris Dragos12. Intellectual Autonomy and its Vices Alessandra Tanesini 13. Gaslighting, Humility, and the Manipulation of Autonomy Javier González de Prado Part IV: Epistemic Autonomy & Social Epistemology 14. Epistemic Autonomy for Social Epistemologists: The Case of Moral Inheritance Sarah McGrath 15. Epistemic Autonomy and the Right to be ConfidentSanford Goldberg 16. We Owe it to Others to Think for OurselvesFinnur Dellsén 17. Epistemic Self-Governance and Trusting the Word of Others: Is There a Conflict?Elizabeth Fricker
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain
Book SynopsisHumanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism to the nation as it faced the moral issues of the modern world. This book provides a long overdue account of this dynamic group. Developing through the Ethical Union (1896), the Rationalist Press Association (1899), the British Humanist Association (1963) and Humanists UK (2017), Humanists sought to reduce religious privilege but increase humanitarian compassion and human rights. After pioneering legislation on blasphemy laws, dignity in dying and abortion rights, they went on to help design new laws on gay marriage, and sex and moral education. Internationally, they endeavoured to end war and world hunger. And with Humanist marriages and celebration of life through Humanist funerals, national ritual and culture have recently been trTrade ReviewThis important book is highly recommended for providing a clear and scholarly study of the uneven development of Humanism from its Victorian precursors to its maturity as the most influential alternative to religions as the basis for a liberal and morally progressive society in the present age. * Edward Royle, Emeritus Professor in History, University of York Country, United Kingdom *Table of ContentsList of Images 1. The Origins of the Ethical Movement to 1926 2. Unbelief and Humanism: The Popular Mood of British Society 3. Challenging the State, 1896-1939 4. Humanism as an International Movement, 1896-1952 5. Union and Consolidation of the British Movement, 1939-1969 6. Movement and Thought: The Development of Humanist Thought, c.1890-c.1960 7. Humanism and the New Morality, 1955-1980 8. Humanism and British Culture, 1963-2021 9. The British Humanist Association and its Mission to Britain, 1963-2021 10. Britain and the World: The International Humanist and Ethical Union since 1952 11. Humanism and the Progressive Future Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Think Like a Philosopher
Book SynopsisIn showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought and what they thought about Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness of touch, he addresses questions such as: Is there anything ''out there'' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance and how can we tell the difference?This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well as displaying optimists and pessimists, believers and non-believers, the book displays relevance to current affairs, from free speech to aboTrade ReviewA very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually stimulating. * Daily Philosopher *This is an ideal guide to philosophical thinking; it does not try to reduce the views of those that it covers to bullet points, but instead engages with them in a thoughtful and witty way. Peter Cave is the perfect companion for a bright but leisurely walk through these labyrinths. * Derek Matravers, Professor of Philosophy, The Open University, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge *Britain's wittiest philosopher. * Raymond Tallis *Here is an extraordinary philosophical journey taking us through a maze of thinkers. For all those seeking to understand the myriad modes of philosophical thinking—ancient and modern—this is the perfect introduction. * Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Emeritus Professor of Judaism, University of Wales *Peter Cave introduces the reader to thirty different thinkers. Not all are easily classified as academic philosophers: some are better thought of as sages or poets or playwrights. But each has something important to say about things that matter: rationality, science, sex, and duty, among other topics. Cave’s approach is to introduce each thinker through their chosen questions. From Sappho to Wittgenstein, from Arendt to Spinoza, we are able to enter into a chosen figure’s preoccupations and enjoyably think along. This is a much more effective and engaging approach than simple intellectual biography or summaries of key ideas. An absorbing and rewarding book. * Tom Sorell, Professor of Politics and Philosophy, University of Warwick. *Peter Cave introduces his top thirty thinkers with wit and clarity, and crams a surprising amount of judicious reflection into each of the short chapters. * John Cottingham, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading *Read this book. You may not learn to love like Sappho, cure like Avicenna, ponder like Spinoza, disguise yourself like Kierkegaard or rival any of the other fascinating eccentrics who fill the volume. But if you learn to think like Peter Cave – with freshness, humour, objectivity and penetration – you will have been amply rewarded. * Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame, author of Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It *Chummy, amusing little book…witty…This is a light but thoughtful book. * Choice Magazine, American Library Association *Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Lao Tzu: The Way to Tao 2 Sappho: Lover 3 Zeno of Elea: Tortoise Backer and Parmenidean Helper 4 Gadfly: aka ‘Socrates’ 5 Plato: Charioteer, Magnificent Footnote Inspirer – ‘Nobody Does It Better’ 6 Aristotle: Earth-Bound, Walking 7 Epicurus: Gardener, Curing the Soul, Ably Assisted by Lucretius 8 Avicenna: Flying Man, Unifier 9 Descartes: With Princess, With Queen 10 Spinoza: God-Intoxicated Atheist 11 Leibniz: Monad Man 12 Bishop Berkeley, ‘That Paradoxical Irishman’: Immaterialist, Tar-Water Advocate 13 David Hume: The Great Infidel or Le Bon David 14 Kant: Duty Calls, Categorically 15 Schopenhauer: Pessimism With Flute 16 John Stuart Mill: Utility Man, With Harriet, Soul-Mate 17 Søren Kierkegaard: Who? 18 Karl Marx: Hegelian, Freedom-Fighter 19 Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser 20 Nietzsche: God-Slaying Jester, Trans-Valuer 21 Bertrand Russell: Radical, Aristocrat 22 G. E. Moore: Common-Sense Defender, Bloomsbury’s Sage 23 Heidegger: Hyphenater 24 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist, Novelist, French 25 Simone Weil: Refuser and Would-Be Rescuer 26 Simone de Beauvoir: Situated, Protester, Feminist 27 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Therapist 28 Hannah Arendt: Controversialist, Journalist? 29 Iris Murdoch: Attender 30 Samuel Beckett: Not I Epilogue Dates of the Philosophers Notes, References and Readings Acknowledgements In Memory Name Index Subject Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Thinking of Answers
Book SynopsisThought-provoking short essays by Britain''s leading public philosopher that show us how to discover our own answers to life''s challengesWhile most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous prose, Grayling''s is a model of clarity and elegance'' The Times''An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity'' Independent~ If beauty existed only in the eye of the beholder, would that make it an unimportant quality?~ Are human rights political?~ Can ethics be derived from evolution by natural selection?~ If both sides in a conflict can passionately believe that theirs is the just cause, does this mean that the idea of justice is empty?~ Does being happy make us good? And does being good make us happy?~ Are human beings especially prone to self-deception?As in his previous books of popular philosophy, including the best-selling The Reason of Things and The Meaning of Things, rather than presenting a set of cTrade Review'If there is any such person in Britain today as The Thinking Man, it is A.C. Grayling' * The Times *'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' * Independent *‘While most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous prose, Grayling's is a model of clarity and elegance' * The Times *‘He is a philosopher engaged in what he rightly praises, adding value to life, in a way that is not too taxing' * Guardian *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism
Book SynopsisThe story of how prominent liberal intellectuals reshaped American religious and secular institutions to promote a more democratic, science-centered society. Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Award for Best Book by the Center for InquiryRecent polls show that a quarter of Americans claim to have no religious affiliation, identifying instead as atheists, agnostics, or nothing in particular. A century ago, a small group of American intellectuals who dubbed themselves humanists tread this same path, turning to science as a major source of spiritual sustenance. In The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism, Stephen P. Weldon tells the fascinating story of this group as it developed over the twentieth century, following the fortunes of a few generations of radical ministers, academic philosophers, and prominent scientists who sought to replace traditional religion with a modern, liberal, scientific outlook. Weldon explores humanism through the networks of friendships and institutional relaTrade ReviewThis book is an important read. Weldon carefully describes the development of humanism—key characters, publications, and organizations, as well as the philosophical struggles . . . To gain a fuller understanding of 'the scientific spirit' that imbues the humanist movement, it is well worth it to read Stephen Weldon's book.—The Humanist MagazineThe volume under review, by Stephen Weldon, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma, has published a fascinating tale of how prominent liberal Protestant intellectuals...developed and supported, wittingly or unwittingly, the rise of secular humanism.—James C. Ungureanu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Journal of the American Academy of ReligionTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. The Scientific Spirit of American Humanism Chapter 1. Liberal Christianity and the Frontiers of American BeliefChapter 2. The Birth of Religious HumanismChapter 3. Manifesto for an Age of ScienceChapter 4. Philosophers in the PulpitChapter 5. Humanists at WarChapter 6. Scientists on the World StageChapter 7. Eugenics and the Question of RaceChapter 8. Inside the Humanist CountercultureChapter 9. Skeptics in the Age of AquariusChapter 10. The Fundamentalist ChallengeChapter 11. Battling Creationism and Christian PseudoscienceChapter 12. The Humanist Ethos of Science in Modern AmericaEpilogue. Science and Millennial HumanismNotesArchival Sources and Personal PapersIndexPhoto Galleries
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Rowman & Littlefield Unsettling the World
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said’s critique provides a timely approach that bridges historical analyses of imperialism and postcolonial politics with an urgent imperative to theorize contemporary global crises.Table of ContentsChapter One will introduce Said to a political theory audience who might not be intimately familiar with his work by examining his incalculable impact on postcolonial scholarship. Despite his looming presence in other disciplines, Said’s writing have been largely ignored by political theorists because they don’t fall neatly into the categories of either critical or normative theory. The chapter critiques the way international ethicists de-historicize institutions of international politics and the privileged position by which Western experts are able to diagnose and “solve” the problems of the formerly colonized world. Chapter Two will begin the process of formulating a Saidian response to this form of liberal presentism by looking closely at the promises and challenges of Said’s humanism. The chapter will first interrogate the tension between his support for universal ideas like justice and freedom (most apparent in his refusal to dismiss human rights as “cultural or grammatical things”) and his equally deep commitment to Foucaultian discourse analysis. This combination of worldliness and the provisional, disputable, arguable products of human inquiry compelled Said to situate “critique at the very heart of humanism.” Chapter Three will explore the relationship between a humanism that is explicitly historical, critical and global and Said’s conception of the exilic intellectual. The chapter begins with a brief examination of the role of “exile” in twentieth century political theory more generally. It moves on to examine Said’s conviction that humanist intellectuals engaged in critique must understand themselves as already contaminated by “power, positions, and interests,” a disposition which elicits an ongoing processes of self-reflection that asks the critic to pay close attention to their own subject position vis-à-visthe event/text they are analyzing. Said championed a subject position for the critic rooted in exile. “The intellectual,” he argued, “who considers him or herself to be part of a more general condition affecting the displaced national community is… likely to be a source not of acculturation and adjustment, but rather of volatility and instability.” The chapter will conclude by thinking critically about some of the conceptual problems generated by this approach to exile, such as, the fact that it appears profoundly voluntarist in a way that seems to run counter to Said’s own theory of power. Despite these tensions, the kinds of reflective practices that flow from a position of exile offer a necessary corrective to the unquestioned positionality of liberal internationalism.Chapter Four will explore the kinds of political reflection enabled by exile, focusing on Said’s analysis of language and the way this fine-grained approach to language functions in his explicitly political writings. It will begin with an investigation of Said’s conviction that the self-reflective awareness of the exilic critic entails “a lifelong attentiveness to the words and rhetorics by which language is used by human beings who exist in history,” a disposition he called philological. The chapter will then turn to Said’s political writings to explore this attentiveness to the kinds of communities both engendered and occluded by pro-nouns. Chapter Five will explore the unsettled approach to crisis implicit in Said’s two-pronged approach his exilic humanism. On the one hand, the practice of humanist criticism compels the exilic intellectual to approach perceived crises in international politics from the perspective of language critique, drilling into the space between words to reveal the holes where narrating subjects should be, subjects who – despite their rhetorical invisibility – still daily experience the material violence of a world which refuses to represent them or create the space for them to represent themselves. On the other hand, Said’s critical humanism insists that we engage the kinds of historical analyses that “protect against and forestall the disappearance of the past” which have fallen victim to the discursive press of crisis.[1]Chapter Six draws together the threads of discussion by thinking more broadly about the adequacy of Said’s theory as a counterweight to the international ethics of liberal internationalism. This will include thinking explicitly about those aspects of Said’s work that might frustrate some political theorists: his insistence, for instance, on conceptualizing democracy as a form of critical practice rather than as a type of politics, and his refusal to theorize the foundational logic behind concepts that he values like “justice” and “human rights.” The book concludes by suggesting that it is precisely Said’s relentlessly critical insistence on searching for the hidden “we” behind discourses of democracy, justice, and human rights that makes his humanism particularly able to puncture the presentist logic behind so many contemporary approaches to international politics, thus bringing the past that cannot be acknowledged, and the collective subjects who cannot be represented, back into the center of analysis. [1] Said, HDC, 141.
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University of Toronto Press Emery Bigot
Book SynopsisEmery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France. He left some six hundred letters addressed to the four corners of literary Europe; among his correspondents, acquaintances, and friends were men of the stature of Jean Chapelain, Nicolaus Heinsius, Charles du Cange, Richard Simon, John Milton, and Gilles Ménage. He travelled widely and was for some forty years at the very centre pf a firmly established, smoothly functioning network of mutual assistance and scholarly information that linked the countries of western Europe. From Uppsala to Venice, from Vienna to Oxford, Leiden, London: a network which quite naturally considered Paris its centre, and whose members represented every interest, very segment of intellectual society. Bigot was also the creator of what was perhaps the most important private library of his era. Yet today he is almost unknown, and his correspondence, scattered widely, has not been examined thoroughly since his death.This de
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House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Technology and Empire
Book SynopsisBrilliant and still-timely analysis of the implications of technology-driven globalization on everyday life from Canada's most influential philosophers, reissued in a handsome A List edition, featuring an introduction by Andrew Potter.Originally published in 1969, Technology and Empire offers a brilliant analysis of the implications of technology-driven globalization on everyday life. The author of Lament for a Nation, George Grant has been recognized as one of Canada's most significant thinkers. In this sweeping essay collection, he reflects on the extent to which technology has shaped our modern culture.Trade ReviewAll reviews of Grant’s writing use the adjective noble. It is apt. But the word for his new essays is audacious. They undertake a critique of America’s 400-year march to world empire measured by the things America has lost along the way. The reviewer can neither affirm nor deny Grant’s dark perceptions, only marvel at their power. * Maclean’s *No Canadian has written with such a sweeping insight on this subject before. Grant’s is a moving plea, evocative, passionate, and deeply human. It sounds those hidden chords in all of us that could atheists religious and socialists conservative, and have them discover that against the common condition, their own divisions are insignificant. * Canadian Forum *An outstanding attempt to deal with the problem of North American values … Grant’s great and brooding presence dominates the book, a massive seer pointing out the aridity of the mainstream of Western intellectual life since Bacon. * Varsity Review *To understand this agonized and grandly argued book is difficult; to do so is deeply disturbing, for its pessimism is reasoned and all but complete. But not to try to understand it is to shy away from an attempt to understand our times. * Globe and Mail *
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Lexington Books Parents and Virtues
Book SynopsisEven though individual parents face different issues, I believe most parents want their children to be good people who are happy in their adult lives. As such a central motivating question of this book is how can parents raise a child to be a moral and flourishing person. At first glance, we might think this question is better left to psychologists rather than philosophers. I propose that Aristotle's ethical theory (known as virtue theory) has much to say on this issue. Aristotle asks how do we become a moral person and how does that relate to leading a good life. In other words, his motivating questions are very similar to the goals parents have for their children. In the first part of this book, I consider what the basic components of Aristotle's theory can tell us about the project of parenting. In the second part, I shift my focus to consider some issues that present potential moral dilemmas for parents and whether there are specific parental virtues we may want to use to guTable of ContentsIntroduction: What can virtue theory tell us about parenting? Part I: The Parental Role in Upbringing Chapter 1: Instilling Virtue Chapter 2: Parental Wisdom Chapter 3: Flourishing Part II: Parental Virtues Chapter 4: On the Immorality of Lying to Children about Their Origins Chapter 5: Shaping Bodies, Shaping Lives: Parental Authority and the Child’s Future Chapter 6: Deciding to Become a Parent Bibliography About the Author
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Lexington Books Parents and Virtues
Book SynopsisAlthough individual parents face different issues, Sonya Charles believes most parents want their children to be good people who are happy in their adult lives. Parents and Virtues: An Analysis of Moral Development and Parental Virtue starts from the question of how parents can raise their child to be a moral and flourishing person. At first glance, readers might think this question is better left to psychologists rather than philosophers. The author proposes that Aristotle's ethical theory (known as virtue theory) has much to say on this issue. Aristotle asks how we become moral people and how that relates to leading a good life. In other words, his motivating questions are very similar to the goals parents have for their children. The first part of this book details what the basic components of Aristotle's theory can tell us about the project of parenting. In the second part, the focus shifts to consider some issues that present potential moral dilemmas for parents and discuss whetheTrade ReviewIn Parents and Virtues, Charles (philosophy and comparative religion, Cleveland State Univ.) provides an engaging look at parental ethics. The book comprises an introduction and six chapters divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the roles parents play in raising children and the second on specific applied ethical dilemmas associated with parenting. The three chapters in the first part apply contemporary, neo-Aristotelian virtue theory to raising children who become good, happy adults. Here the author focuses on how parents can help their children acquire virtue, practical wisdom, and happiness. In contrast, each chapter in the second part focuses on a stand-alone topic in applied ethics. The first of these provides an engaging discussion of the ethics of parental dishonesty, and the second explores questions regarding parental authority and a child’s right to an open future. The final chapter focuses on moral questions regarding deciding to become a parent. This book offers positive contributions to contemporary bioethics literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What can virtue theory tell us about parenting?Part I: The Parental Role in UpbringingChapter 1: Instilling Virtue Chapter 2: Parental WisdomChapter 3: FlourishingPart II: Parental VirtuesChapter 4: On the Immorality of Lying to Children about Their OriginsChapter 5: Shaping Bodies, Shaping Lives: Parental Authority and the Child’s FutureChapter 6: Deciding to Become a ParentBibliographyAbout the Author
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Lexington Books Confucian Ren and Feminist Ethics of Care
Book SynopsisThe rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women realize their equality? What is the hope for Chinese women seeking a social ideal of equality given the growing gender gap in the current economic development of China? Yuan argues Confucianism cannot help unless it is integrated with feminism. In this book, Yuan explores why gendered stratifications perpetuated so deeply in today's China through the influences of Confucian cultural tradition, but reading early Confucian texts as a cosmological vision of Ren with Dao and ontological oneness as a whole that is the unity of heaven, earth, and humanism, we might reclaim Confucian egalitarian aspects to develop its openness for gender equity with integration of feminist critical care ethics. Throughout the book, Yuan provides multiple perspectives of comparison: relational self vs. power differentials, gender roles differences vs. political demand foTrade ReviewLijun Yuan has presented a renovating, robust study of Confucian and feminist care ethics, and creatively engage in a profound dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies. This is as grounded and deep account of care ethics as one who does comparative studies wishes for. It also raises the profound questions of the foundation of ethics. The suggestion of a fusion of the Confucian and feminist horizons of the book is thought-provocative, and attractive. Xunwu Chen, The University of Texas at San Antonio -- Xunwu ChenA most comprehensive comparative study of Confucian ethics of ren in ancient China and feminist ethics of care in contemporary West, Yuan's book exemplifies a unique and highly fruitful methodology of comparative philosophy. It also seamlessly combines theoretical construction and practical concerns. A must read for anyone who is interest in Confucianism, feminism, and/or comparative philosophy. -- Huang Yong, The Chinese University of Hong KongThe book is a timely synthesis of the Ethics of Care and Confucian reciprocity, bringing together the promise of disparate philosophical traditions, one ancient, one modern, to help improve the lives of contemporary girls and women. -- Maureen Sander-Staudt, Southwest Minnesota State UniversityTable of ContentsPart I Chapter 1 Strength and Weakness of Early Confucian Ethics on Women Chapter 2 A Debate about Minben and Minzhu: Toward Caring Democracy Part II Chapter 3 Feminist Critiques of Gender Inequality and Ethics of Care Chapter 4 Notions of Reciprocity: Kongzi, Kant, Beauvoir, and Critiques of Gender Roles Chapter 5 Methodology of the Ethics of Care: Integrating Care and Justice Part III Chapter 6 Hume’s Sympathy, Mengzi’s Empathy, Feminist Interpretations: Extensive Virtue Chapter 7 China’s Population Policy: Aging, Gender, and Sustainability
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Lexington Books The Revolution of Values
Book SynopsisIn this book, Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of Agape love and non-violence, the Beloved Community and revolution of values, and his view of the relation between justice and compassion in politics. King's political philosophy integrates the ethical, the moral and the spiritual into a political way of being that is not only best suited for the American society, but also for any society in quest of an inclusive democracy. Jahanbegloo's account of King's moral and political philosophy demands those of us confronted by the challenges of today's world to have a fresh look at the pragmatic and non-utopian thoughts of one of the prophetic voices of twentieth century.Trade ReviewUndoubtedly, what the world needs more than ever is more of the invigorating influence of the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Noam Chomsky, MITHaving written extensively about Mahatma Gandhi, Ramin Jahanbegloo turns his attention to Martin Luther King Jr. and doing so solidifies his reputation as a distinguished interpreter of the ethics of nonviolence. Several bridges are crossed that make this book distinct: an Iranian philosopher writing about an American icon, a secularist interpreting the ideas of a theologian, a Muslim writing about a Christian. An important and inspiring read that takes on special importance during these dark times of global authoritarian resurgence and democratic decline. -- Nader Hashemi, University of DenverAs is only to be expected Ramin Jahanbegloo has written an excellent book on Martin Luther King, discussing his background, contemporary America, and his influence outside it. Locating King in a historical and comparative context he brings out his strengths in a way that few have done before and offers the reader new insights. Non-violence as practised by King and others before and after him is the only alternative to the current obsession with violence. A book like this is timely and important and greatly to be welcomed. -- Bhikhu Parekh, House of Lords, United KingdomTable of ContentsForeword: By Richard J. Bernstein Introduction: King, Our Contemporary Chapter One: Becoming King Chapter Two: Roots of Resistance: King and Henry David Thoreau Chapter Three: An Elective Affinity: Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi Chapter Four: King’s Philosophy of Agape Love and Justice Chapter Five: In Search of the Beloved Community: King’s Vision of Democracy Chapter Six: Violence or Nonviolence: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X Conclusion: The Global King Afterword: By Dipankar Gupta
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Lexington Books The Revolution of Values
Book SynopsisIn this book, Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of Agape love and non-violence, the Beloved Community and revolution of values, and his view of the relation between justice and compassion in politics. King's political philosophy integrates the ethical, the moral and the spiritual into a political way of being that is not only best suited for the American society, but also for any society in quest of an inclusive democracy. Jahanbegloo's account of King's moral and political philosophy demands those of us confronted by the challenges of today's world to have a fresh look at the pragmatic and non-utopian thoughts of one of the prophetic voices of twentieth century.Trade ReviewUndoubtedly, what the world needs more than ever is more of the invigorating influence of the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Noam Chomsky, MITHaving written extensively about Mahatma Gandhi, Ramin Jahanbegloo turns his attention to Martin Luther King Jr. and doing so solidifies his reputation as a distinguished interpreter of the ethics of nonviolence. Several bridges are crossed that make this book distinct: an Iranian philosopher writing about an American icon, a secularist interpreting the ideas of a theologian, a Muslim writing about a Christian. An important and inspiring read that takes on special importance during these dark times of global authoritarian resurgence and democratic decline. -- Nader Hashemi, University of DenverAs is only to be expected Ramin Jahanbegloo has written an excellent book on Martin Luther King, discussing his background, contemporary America, and his influence outside it. Locating King in a historical and comparative context he brings out his strengths in a way that few have done before and offers the reader new insights. Non-violence as practised by King and others before and after him is the only alternative to the current obsession with violence. A book like this is timely and important and greatly to be welcomed. -- Bhikhu Parekh, Fellow of the British Academy and House of LordsTable of ContentsForeword: By Richard J. BernsteinIntroduction: King, Our ContemporaryChapter One: Becoming King Chapter Two: Roots of Resistance: King and Henry David ThoreauChapter Three: An Elective Affinity: Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma GandhiChapter Four: King’s Philosophy of Agape Love and JusticeChapter Five: In Search of the Beloved Community: King’s Vision of DemocracyChapter Six: Violence or Nonviolence: Martin Luther King and Malcolm XConclusion: The Global KingAfterword: By Dipankar Gupta
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Lexington Books Adulthood Morality and the Fully Human
Book SynopsisIn Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human, John J. Shea describes an adult, moral, and fully human self in terms of integrity and mutuality. Those who are fully human are caring and just. Violence is the absence of care and justice. Peacethe pinnacle of human developmentis their embodiment. Integrity and mutuality together beget care and justice and care and justice together beget peace. Shea shows the practical importance of the fully human self for education, psychotherapy, and spirituality. This book is especially recommended for scholars and those in helping professions.Trade Review. . . . throughout this entire work [John] brings the wealth of his hard-won wisdom—from the pit-face of a life-time of teaching and mentoring pastoral ministers and religious educators—and an extraordinary command of the social science literature, to propose a vision that can inspire our educating-in-faith. * Religious Education *When John Shea says that ‘Peace is the measure of human development in its fullness,’ everything I have learned from life and about life tells me he is absolutely right. He is not talking just of peace as an absence of conflict but as the careful construction of an embedded culture of mutual respect which extends to real care for one another, incorporates equality and justice for all, and which works precisely because of the sheer integrity of its underpinning morality. Such a peace is still elusive in our dysfunctional world but it has to be our priority for until we get there we will never know the fullness of the wonders humanity is capable of. We already have had too many object lessons in human depravity. Now is the time for a coherent planned, systemic transcendence capable of lifting humanity to its very best self- to a world of true peace. John Shea’s deeply probative and challenging book helps us to chart the way from this world to that world. -- Mary McAleese, former president of IrelandFrom the perspective of moral theology, I found S. offers a wise and readily understandable argument for an anthropology that would be helpful in a foundational ethics course, and for an understanding of moral obligation and responsibility that avoids extrinsicism and subjectivism. * Theological Studies *This ambitious work does not disappoint. We are all human beings. But what might it mean to be fully human? Impressively, John Shea, using a developmental perspective, describes and discusses the attributes of the fully human person. . . . This seminal book is well crafted, well written and well argued, scholarly and richly endowed with extensive referencing and insightful Notes, along with descriptions of film scenarios, mention of significant individuals and an appendix with practical questions for reflection and dialogue; a publication for a serious reader of books. . . . A great deal of shared wisdom inhabits the pages of this book. The challenge of exploring the notion of the fully human, as proposed by Shea, has exciting implications for theology and Christian education. * St. Barnabas College Blog *In Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human, John Shea develops a much-needed holistic description of human development. He distinguishes between preadult and adult development, thus providing a more focused foundation for understanding what constitutes a fully human adult life. Shea builds on this theoretical foundation to elaborate on the healthy and darker sides of human development, especially on the challenges to confront violence and promote peace. -- Robert J. Starratt, emeritus professor, Boston CollegeAdulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human is a book of deep insight and considerable courage. It diagnoses the underlying cause of the psychosocial and moral-spiritual disorders of our world. It urges humanity—now in its final stages of collective adolescence—to move forward to the age of the Fully Human. John Shea courageously challenges many of our dearly held views and offers us prized insights on how to get to the city of our heart’s desire—peace. -- H.B. Danesh, MD, president of International Education for Peace Institute and author of The Psychology of Spirituality from Divided Self to Integrate SelfWhen John Shea says that ‘Peace is the measure of human development in its fullness,’ everything I have learned from life and about life tells me he is absolutely right. He is not talking just of peace as an absence of conflict but as the careful construction of an embedded culture of mutual respect which extends to real care for one another, incorporates equality and justice for all, and which works precisely because of the sheer integrity of its underpinning morality. Such a peace is still elusive in our dysfunctional world but it has to be our priority for until we get there we will never know the fullness of the wonders humanity is capable of. We already have had too many object lessons in human depravity. Now is the time for a coherent planned, systemic transcendence capable of lifting humanity to its very best self- to a world of true peace. John Shea’s deeply probative and challenging book helps us to chart the way from this world to that world. -- Mary McAleese, former president of IrelandBy examining what human development is in its fullness, Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human is an indispensable contribution to the search for all-encompassing definitions of sustainable development, well-being, peace and global citizenship. Shea describes with precise and rational argumentation the vision of the fully human self, as well as the profound and dynamic processes of empathy, care and justice needed to achieve collective maturity. Probing even further, this book offers valuable reflections on the practical consequences of becoming ‘fully human’ for education, for psychotherapy, and for spirituality. -- Victoria W. Thoresen, Inland Norway University of Applied SciencesJohn Shea offers a carefully researched understanding of ‘peace prevailing over violence.’ Adulthood, Morality and the Fully Human is an interdisciplinary analysis of the quality of integrity from the perspectives of education, psychotherapy and spirituality. Using research from key contemporary professional therapists, clinicians and educators, Shea provides a rich resource for people-workers, academic readers and spiritual searchers concerned to understand ways in which a more humane way of living can be achieved through the lens of a peace-mosaic. Clinicians and therapists will benefit from the thoroughly researched issues of trauma, addiction, co-dependency and psychological disorders from the perspective of ‘fully human’ living in the contemporary violent ambience. -- Maryanne Confoy, RSC, Jesuit Theological CollegeTable of ContentsPart IChapter 1: Integrity and Mutuality: Structure of the Fully HumanChapter 2: The Six Characteristics: The Fully Human as MosaicChapter 3: Care and Justice: The Fully Human in ActionChapter 4: Violence and Peace: Dialectic of the Fully HumanPart IIChapter 5: Education and the Fully HumanChapter 6: Psychotherapy and the Fully HumanChapter 7: Spirituality and the Fully HumanConclusion: The Human Going ForwardAppendix
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Graphic Arts Books The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Book SynopsisThe Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic William Hazlitt. “No man living is more free from this passion [of sorrow] than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom, virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise!” In his masterful essays, Michel de Montaigne eschews the typical distancing required of the authorial voice in order to investigate public matters through a personal lens. As the subject of his own musings, he provides both a stirring self-portrait and an invaluable new voice that will resonate throughout Western literature. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers who would follow in his footsteps, Montaigne is skeptical of the possibility of human certainty and takes an ethical stand against the European colonial project in the Americas and elsewhere. At times serious, at others tongue-in-cheek, his wide-ranging topics include conscience, politics, sorrow, solitude, fear, friendship, war, and poetry. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne were written at a crossroads in human history—between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Catholicism and Protestantism, Montaigne argues that to look outward requires we first look within, and that the quest for happiness requires us to accept what we cannot know. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essays of Michel de Montaigne is a classic of French philosophy reimagined for modern readers.
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Rowman & Littlefield African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century:
Book SynopsisIn Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophicaldiscourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the processof urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, therestructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture frompast to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation,cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed realdemands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy.This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express “transitional acts,” those acts by whichthought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposingprovisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontationand the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected.Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm ofcriticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics andhistorical poetics.Table of ContentsIIntroduction Laura Hengehold1. What Does Being in the World Mean? Thinking Life and Domestic Bonds in Twenty-first Century Africa, Tanella Boni2. Probing Gender Injustices in Africa, Delphine Abadie M.3. Gender Between Kinship and Utopia, Laura Hengehold4. The University, Cognitive Justice and Human Development, Florence Piron5. Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: “Dwelling in the World” With Poetry and Criticism, Jean-Godefroy Bidima6. Spectres of the Infinitesimal: Posthuman Francophone Worlds, Nick Nesbitt7. Rethinking the Living in Light of African Philosophy: Toward an Animist Humanism,Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux8. From Muntu to Moun: An African Ethicalization of Caribbean Discourse, Hanétha Vété-Congolo9. Nelson Mandela and the Topology of African Encounter with the World, Chielozona EzeConclusion, Jean-Godefroy BidimaIndex
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Rowman & Littlefield African Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century:
Book SynopsisIn Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophicaldiscourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the processof urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic diseases and famine, therestructure of the traditional family, gender and the position of women, the transmission of culture frompast to future generations. Changes in labor relations resulting from introduction of financial speculation,cutting edge technologies, and differential access to digital and older cultural forms have placed realdemands on Africans and Africanists working in philosophy.This volume explores the ways in which African philosophies express “transitional acts,” those acts by whichthought interacts with history as it is being made and by which it assures its own renewal in proposingprovisional solutions to historical problems. A transitional act combines both the audacity of confrontationand the novelty of creation, prudence in the face of risks and anticipation in the face of the unexpected.Influential and emerging thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic consider this dual activity in the realm ofcriticism and imagination, public spaces in Africa, and the relationship between historical politics andhistorical poetics.Table of ContentsIIntroduction Laura Hengehold1. What Does Being in the World Mean? Thinking Life and Domestic Bonds in Twenty-first Century Africa, Tanella Boni2. Probing Gender Injustices in Africa, Delphine Abadie M.3. Gender Between Kinship and Utopia, Laura Hengehold4. The University, Cognitive Justice and Human Development, Florence Piron5. Anthropocenes and New African Discourses: “Dwelling in the World” With Poetry and Criticism, Jean-Godefroy Bidima6. Spectres of the Infinitesimal: Posthuman Francophone Worlds, Nick Nesbitt7. Rethinking the Living in Light of African Philosophy: Toward an Animist Humanism,Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux8. From Muntu to Moun: An African Ethicalization of Caribbean Discourse, Hanétha Vété-Congolo9. Nelson Mandela and the Topology of African Encounter with the World, Chielozona EzeConclusion, Jean-Godefroy BidimaIndex
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Rowman & Littlefield The Other of Climate Change: Racial Futurism,
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Prometheus Books In Search of Our Humanity: Neither Paradise Nor
Book SynopsisRussian philosopher, Valery A. Kuvakin reviews the major principles of humanism as the starting point for an overall definition of humanity. Humanism, as defined by Kuvakin, is based on the scientific method, seeks objective knowledge, is anthropocentric, uses reason as its guiding principle, and extols common sense based on scientifically verifiable knowledge without any restriction from tradition, customs, political systems, or religion. Arrayed against these humanist values are the "pseudovalues" of the paranormal and irrational faith, and the "antivalues" of greed, corruption, addiction, violence, and environmental destruction. Avoiding both the heaven of our fantasies and the hell of our own making, humanism offers the 21st century the basis for establishing a just, free, and sane society.
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