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Peeters Publishers Naturalism and Beyond: Religious Naturalism and
Book SynopsisThis book offers a critical analysis of the varieties of contemporary naturalism - from scientific naturalism to religious naturalism. What are the claims of naturalism apart from its denial of 'the supernatural'? What are the distinctive modes of thought within contemporary religious naturalism? Some argue for a science-based worldview, others for a cosmic view of reality that includes human engagement and religious commitment - with or without God-talk. The book shows how an appeal to what is beyond empirically validated facts resurfaces within most varieties of naturalism. But it also points to the fact that immanentist frameworks are widely presupposed among contemporary theologians who do not describe themselves as 'naturalists'. Rival positions and conflicts of interpretations emerge as to the question of transcendence and the Beyond, and different philosophical theologies are at work - from the strict denial of theism to ground-of-being-theisms to classic and alternative views of the divine.
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Peeters Publishers Meister Eckhart, The German Works: 64 Homilies
Book SynopsisThis volume (based on Loris Sturlese's Italian collection from the year 2014) contains the vernacular texts and English translations of 64 of Eckhart's German sermons, which can be linked with the cycle of preaching during the liturgical year (De tempore). A second volume, currently in preparation, will be devoted to a further 56 vernacular sermons for the feasts of the saints (De sanctis). A further volume will contain Eckhart's Latin homilies (both De tempore and the few surviving ones De sanctis). Loris Sturlese and Markus Vinzent will thus provide both the entire vernacular and Latin legacy of 'authentic' homilies, totalling over 100 vernacular and almost 100 Latin sermons. The first volume on the homilies De tempore centres on the time between Advent and Trinity with a major gap in the cycle in the summer time (absent are the weeks V-XV after Trinity Sunday) and gives us Eckhart's preaching in literary form. As the collection has been reconstructed, it seems to go back to a written, arranged, and to a certain extent textualized and published opus, most likely by Eckhart himself. The corpus of sermons that have been relocated into their liturgical place from the critical edition of Kohlhammer represents a work situated midway between oral texts and their professional editor. It opens a door to students and interested readers into the world of Eckhart's liturgical preaching, helped by a thorough general introduction, short prefaces to all homilies and notes.
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Peeters Publishers Albertus Magnus, Super Iohannem (Ioh. 1, 1-18)
Book SynopsisLe commentaire du Prologue de l’Évangile de Jean (Jn 1, 1-18) par Albert le Grand (ca. 1200-1280) est l’un des grands textes spéculatifs de la tradition latine médiévale. Le Super Iohannem du Dominicain de Cologne n’était jusqu’à présent disponible, sous le titre d’Enarrationes in Ioannem, que dans l’Editio Lugdunensis de Pierre Jammy de 1651 et dans l’Editio Parisiensis d’Auguste et d’Émile Borgnet de 1899. Il s’agit ici d’offrir au public une édition scientifique visant, d’une part, à restituer un état du commentaire albertien plus proche de l’origine et, d’autre part, à mettre au jour les différents moments de la réception de celui-ci. Cette édition est effectuée à partir des neuf manuscrits actuellement connus qui transmettent l’intégralité du texte ainsi qu’à partir des éditions imprimées. Elle est accompagnée d’une traduction en langue française. L’introduction considère, d’une part, l’authenticité de l’œuvre ainsi que sa datation par les documents historiques et par la chronologie relative; elle analyse, d’autre part, sa structure; elle propose, ensuite, une description des témoins et fonde, enfin, les principes d’édition sur une discussion stemmatique. L’édition du texte elle-même est munie de trois apparats (lieux bibliques, variantes, sources) et de quatre indices (lieux bibliques, auteurs allégués par Albert le Grand et auteurs allégués par l’éditeur, lieux parallèles, index thématique). Deux répertoires séparés fournissent un commentaire des leçons erronées et des variantes commentées. The commentary on the Prologue of the Gospel of John (John 1:1-18) by Albert the Great (ca. 1200-1280) is part of one of the great speculative texts of the medieval Latin tradition. The Super Iohannem of the Dominican of Cologne was previously available as Enarrationes in Ioannem only in Pierre Jammy’s Editio Lugdunensis of 1651 and in the Editio Parisiensis by Auguste and Émile Borgnet of 1899. The aim here is to offer a scholarly specimen-edition of the Prologue aiming, on the one hand, at editing the Albertian commentary that comes closer to its origin and, on the other hand, at revealing the different stages of its reception. This edition is carried out on the basis of the nine manuscripts currently known, which transmit the text in its entirety, as well as on the basis of printed editions. The Latin text is accompanied by a translation of it into French. The introduction considers the authenticity of the work as well as its dating by historical documents and relative chronology; it analyses its structure and proposes a description of the witnesses and, finally, bases the principles of edition on a stemmatic discussion. The text edition itself is equipped with three apparatus (biblical quotes, variants, sources) and four indices (biblical quotes, authors alleged by Albert the Great and authors alleged by the editor, parallel texts, thematic index). Two separate appendices provide a commentary on incorrect readings and variants.
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Peeters Publishers Métaphysique et connaissance testimoniale: Une
Book SynopsisCet essai vise à mettre au jour le mode de connaissance du principe qu’Albert le Grand déploie, dans son commentaire johannique, comme réponse à l’aporie des philosophes. Il formule celle-ci à propos du verset Jn 1, 7: «Et, bien qu’en elle-même elle soit très manifeste, cependant, notre intellect est, par rapport à elle, comme les yeux de la chauve-souris par rapport à la lumière du soleil». C’est à partir de la notion de témoignage, dans laquelle il reconnaît la structure même de l’Évangile de Jean, que le maître de Cologne développe la connaissance testimoniale comme voie vers le principe, alternative à la métaphysique. Cette enquête procède à partir des questions suivantes. Du point de vue noétique, comment Albert de Cologne réélabore-t-il la notion de médiation à l’œuvre dans le modèle péripatéticien qui propose de parvenir au principe selon la gradation des sciences physique, mathématique et métaphysique? Il reconnaît, dans la connaissance testimoniale et dans la métaphysique, l’homologie structurelle de la manuduction: toutes deux commencent par les données des sens et de l’imagination qui conduisent l’intellect «par la main» vers le principe divin. Du point de vue anthropologique, en quoi la connaissance testimoniale constitue-t-elle le mode de connaissance du principe adapté à l’intellect humain en tant qu’il est conjoint aux sens et à l’imagination, et non pas en tant qu’il en est séparé? C’est en ce qu’elle s’adresse à l’intellect humain, en tant qu’il est humain, que la connaissance testimoniale diffère de la métaphysique. Elle demeure dans le milieu, ou la médiation, des images. Du point de vue herméneutique, le Docteur universel nomme intelligentia figuralis le mode d’interprétation spécifique des images du principe. S’agit-il d’un art ou d’une science? Du point de vue métaphysique, en érigeant la notion de témoignage en point focal de sa lecture du quatrième évangile, Maître Albert élabore de manière spécifique le concept de médiation dans le contexte johannique. Comment se caractérise cette spécificité par rapport à ce qu’il développe dans ses commentaires aristotéliciens et dionysiens, notamment? En retour, la notion johannique de témoignage est radicalement réinterprétée à la lumière de la théorie cosmologique gréco-arabe de la médiation qu’est le vase de lumière. Qu’en ressort-il quant à la lecture albertienne de l’Évangile de Jean? Le bénéfice de cet essai philosophique consiste à étudier la notion de médiation à partir d’une micro-lecture du verset Jn 1, 7, en mettant en lumière le réseau textuel auquel elle appartient ainsi que la manière transversale dont cette notion circule dans toute l’œuvre d’Albert le Grand – dans le corpus aristotélicien, dionysien, scripturaire – et dans tous les champs de sa pensée – métaphysique, théologique, ontologique, noétique, physique, cosmologique, biologique, minéralogique... This essay sheds light on how Albert the Great in his Johannine commentary unfolds his response to various aporia of philosophers on knowing the principle, drawing on John 1:7 (‘And, although in itself, it is very manifest, yet our intellect is, in relation to it, like the bat’s eyes in relation to the sunlight’). On the basis of the notion of witness, in which he recognizes the very structure of the Gospel of John, the Master of Cologne develops testimonial knowledge as a way to the principle, an alternative to metaphysics. From the noetic point of view, this essay asks how Albert of Cologne redefines the notion of mediation at work in the peripatetic model according to physical, mathematical and metaphysical sciences. Albert recognizes in testimonial knowledge and metaphysics the structural homology of manuduction: both begin with the data of the senses and the imagination that lead the intellect ‘by the hand’ towards the divine principle. How from an anthropological point of view does testimonial knowledge constitute the mode of knowledge of the principle that is adapted to the human intellect as it is joint to the senses and to imagination? Testimonial knowledge differs from metaphysical knowledge insofar as it is addressed to the human intellect. It remains in the realm of mediation and images. How from a hermeneutical point of view, the Doctor universalis calls intelligentia figuralis the specific method of interpreting images of the principle. Is it an art or a science? By making the notion of testimony a focal point in his reading of the fourth gospel, Master Albert elaborates in a specific way the concept of mediation in the Johannine context. How is this specificity characterized compared to what he develops in his comments on Aristotelian and Dionysian thinking? On the other hand, the Johannine notion of testimony is radically reinterpreted in the light of the vase of light, a Greco-Arabic cosmological theory of mediation. This philosophical essay studies the notion of mediation from a micro-reading of John 1:7, highlighting the textual network to which it belongs, as well as the transversal way in which this notion circulates throughout Albert’s work – in the Aristotelian, Dionysian, and scriptural corpus – and in all the fields of his thought – metaphysics, theology, ontology, noesis, physics, cosmology, biology, mineralogy...
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Springer Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking
Book SynopsisContrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy challenges. Ruiping Fan argues that popular accounts of human goods and social justice within the dominant individualist culture of the West are too insubstantial to direct a life of virtue and a proper structure of society. Instead, he demonstrates that the moral insights of Confucian thought are precisely those needed to fill the moral vacuum developing in post-communist China and to address similar problems in the West. The book has a depth of reflection on the Confucian tradition through a comparative philosophical strategy and a breadth of contemporary issues addressed unrivaled by any other work on these topics. It is the first in English to explore not only the endeavor to revive Confucianism in contemporary China, but also brings such an endeavor to bear upon the important ethical, social, and political difficulties being faced in 21st century China. The book should be of interest to any philosopher working in application of traditional Chinese philosophy to contemporary issues as well as any reader interested in comparative cultural and ethical studies.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "Fan Ruiping's courageous book addresses the question of what should replace communism in China. He defends a Confucian morality that sharply contrasts with liberal individualism and draws implications for concrete issues like morality in business and health-care reform. The book is both provocative and plausible, and it is a must-read for anybody concerned about China's future. And perhaps it will inspire liberals to question their own commitments." (Daniel A. Bell, Tsinghua University) "This is an important volume in contemporary philosophical thought, deeply and creatively rooted in Confucian scholarship. It is the only major attempt in English to capture Confucian thought that does not distort that thought through background Western philosophical assumptions and commitments. Fan's work will have an enduring impact. In a world in which no one can ignore contemporary Chinese thought, this volume is essential reading." (Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University New Orleans) "In recent years, Ruiping Fan has emerged as a strong voice for Confucianism. In this remarkable book on Reconstructionist Confucianism, Fan reclaims and articulates moral resources from the Confucian tradition to meet contemporary moral as well as public policy challenges. Unlike some new-Confucians who either shy away from perceived weaknesses of Confucianism or attempt to dig with a magnifying glass for Confucian values that resonate with modern Western ethics, Fan unapologetically defends a version of Confucian family-oriented favoritism in the face of Western individual-based, universalistic morality, and vigorously argues for a robust Confucian ethic in contemporary society. Fan's position is serious, coherent, and well-grounded. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning Confucian philosophy in its unwatered-down form." (Chenyang Li, author of The Tao Encounters the West) "This study in Confucian thought is a ground-breaking and creative work in philosophy that succeeds in bringing the substantive resources of Confucian moral and political thought to bear on the challenges facing contemporary China, indeed the world today. It is an innovative and engaging work in moral and political philosophy of interest not just to those engaged in Confucian or Chinese studies, but to anyone wishing to understand our contemporary cultural context." (David Solomon, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. Beyond Individualism: Familism as the Key to Virtuous Social Structure Confucian Morality: Why it is in Tension with Contemporary Western Moral Commitments Virtue, Ren and Familial Roles: Deflating Concerns with Individual Rights and Equality A Family-oriented Civil Society: Treating People as Unequals II. Virtue as a Way of Life: Social Justice Reconsidered Virtue and the True Character of Social Obligations: Why Rawlsian Social Justice is Vicious Giving Priority to Virtue over Justice: Reconstructing Chinese Health Care Principles Which Care? Whose Responsibility? And Why Family? Filial Piety and Long-Term Care for the Elderly III. The Market, the Goodness of Profit, and the Proper Character of Chinese Public Policy Towards a Directed Benevolent Market Polity: Looking Beyond Social Democratic Approaches to Health Care How Egalitarianism Corrupted Chinese Medicine: Recovering the Synergy of the Pursuit of Virtue and Profit Honor, Shame, and the Pursuit of Excellence: Towards a Confucian Business Ethics The Human Dominion over Nature: Following the Sages IV. Rites, not Rights: Towards a Richer Vision of the Human Condition Rites as the Foundations of Human Civilization: Rethinking the Role of the Confucian Li How Should We Solve Moral Dissensus? Liberals and Libertarians Have It All Wrong Appeal to Rites and Personhood Restoring the Confucian Personality and Filling the Moral Vacuum in Contemporary China Appendix – Liberalism and Confucianism: A Disputatious Dialogue Index
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Springer Nonexistent Objects: Meinong and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIssues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main aim is to develop a `bundle' or `set of properties' interpretation of Meinong's theory of nonexistent objects (as opposed to a set of properties neo-Meinongian metaphysics), and to defend this nonstandard interpretation against competing views in both the philosophical and scholarly literature on Meinong. The Meinong who emerges is neither the hero nor the villain his friends and foes have commonly led us to believe. This clearly written book is a valuable addition both to the literature on Meinong and to contemporary metaphysics of modality. It is written for students and professionals interested in these, and related, areas.Table of ContentsPreface. 1: Introductory Considerations. 1.1. The impasse. 1.2. What might the claim that there `are' nonexistent objects mean. 1.3. Methodological concerns. 2: Meinong's Theory of Objects. 2.1. The Independence and Indifference principles. 2.2. The Independence principle: initial reaction. 2.3. The Indifference principle: initial reaction. 2.4. Is there a third mode of being? 2.5. Meinong and his historical precursors. 3: The Nature of Meinong's Objects: Existent and Nonexistent. 3.1. Incomplete objects and the nature of existents. 3.2. Incomplete objects and the nature of nonexistents. 3.3. More on the particular-general and concrete-abstract distinctions. 4: Two Main Arguments for Nonexistents. 4.1. The argument from negative existentials. 4.2. The argument from intentionality. 5: Main Arguments against Nonexistents. 5.1. Definitions of object-possiblity and object-impossibility. 5.2. Theories of nonexistents are inconsistent or apt to infringe the law of non-contradiction. 5.3. Nonexistent aren't objects. 5.4. An existence objection. 5.5. There are no impossible worlds or individuals. Bibliography. List of Meinong's Writings Consulted. General Bibliography.
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Peeters Publishers L'Anthropologie Politique et Religieuse de
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Peeters Publishers Ziektebeelden
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Peeters Publishers De Mens ... in Samenspraak ... in Tegenspraak ...
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Peeters Publishers Dimensions De L'exister. Etudes D'anthropologie
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Double 9 Booksllp The Sense Of The Past
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Bihar School of Yoga Chapters of spirituality
Book SynopsisSprituality is a process of attaining inner purity, harmony, peace and contentment, through modification and transformation of the behaviours and attitudes that split the personality. this context is the process of purification that drive out inner disturbances and brings inner peace.
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Motilal Banarsidass Publications Abhinavagupta Paratrisikavivarana
Book SynopsisThe Paratrisika (or Paratrimsika) is a short Tantra which has been held in the highest esteem by Kashmir Saivism or Trika. After Somananda, Abhinavagupta has written two commentaries on it, a short one (Laghuvrtti) and an extensive one the present Vivarana which is presented here for the first time in an english translation. The Paratrisika Vivarana is one of the most fascinating but also most difficult texts of the Kashmir Saiva School and of the mystical philosophical literature of India as a whole. It deals with Ultimate Reality (anuttara or para) and with the methods of realization, centred above all in the theory and practice of the mantra. Abhinavagupta displays here his great exegetical genius and presents a penetrating metaphysics of language, of the Word (vak) and its various stages in relation to consciousness. His language reflects in a luminous fashion the mystical experience contained in this text.
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Motilal Banarsidass, Candipathah: Incorporating Sridurgasaptasati
Book SynopsisCandipatha in Markandeya Purana celebrates Feminine Power as Durga-Sakti, the ultimate Life Force. She is the source of all beings and elements, creating, sustaining, and dissolving the universe. As Mother, she loves and protects, as Kali, she destroys evil to maintain righteousness and peace for her devotees.
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Motilal Banarsidass, Karma, Reincarnation & Our Moral Compass: Ethics
Book SynopsisKarma & Reincarnation by Robert Sachs explores spiritual transformation through global unity, drawing from Tibetan Buddhism and diverse faiths. It guides readers to be compassionate and interconnected, transcending barriers for a free and unified world.
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Motilal Banarsidass, Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology: The
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Motilal Banarsidass, Thirteen Plays of Bhasa: (2 Vols. Bound in One)
Book SynopsisTranslation of 13 Sanskrit plays discovered in South India by Pandit Ganapati Sastri, edited in Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. Plays attributed to Bhasa, translated by two scholars, first published in 1930. Reprint due to scholar demand.
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Motilal Banarsidass, Consciousness is Everything
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Philosophy of
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Sankara School of
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: The Philosophy of
Book SynopsisThe work covers Buddhist, Jaina, and Hindu philosophies across five volumes. It includes discussions on various Hindu systems like Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vedanta, and others, as well as the philosophies of Sankara, Bhagavadgita, and different schools of Vedanta, Saivism, and Puranas.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age
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Motilal Banarsidass, Eternal Stories from the Upanishads
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Springer Knowledge and the Known: Historical Perspectives in Epistemology
Book SynopsisA word of warning concerning the aims of this volume is in order. Other wise some readers might be unpleasantly surprised by the fact that two of the chapters of an ostensibly historical book are largely topical rather than historical. They are Chapters 7 and 9, respectively entitled 'Are Logical Truths Analytic?' and 'A Priori Truths and Things-In-Them selves'. Moreover, the history dealt with in Chapter 11 is so recent as to have more critical than antiquarian interest. This mixture of materials may seem all the more surprising as I shall myself criticize (in Chapter I) too facile assimilations of earlier thinkers' concepts and problems to later ones. There is no inconsistency here, it seems to me. The aims of the present volume are historical, and for that very purpose, for the purpose of understanding and evaluating earlier thinkers it is vital to know the conceptual landscape in which they were moving. A crude analogy may be helpful here. No military historian can afford to neglect the topo graphy of the battles he is studying. If he does not know in some detail what kind of pass Thermopylae is or on what sort of ridge the battle of Bussaco was fought, he has no business of discussing these battles, even if this topographical information alone does not yet amount to historical knowledge.Table of Contents1 / Knowledge and Its Objects in Plato.- 2/ Plato on Knowing How, Knowing That, and Knowing What.- 3 / Time, Truth, and Knowledge in Aristotle and Other Greek Philosophers.- 4/ Practical vs. Theoretical Reason — An Ambiguous Legacy.- 5/ ‘Cogito, Ergo Sum’ : Inference or Performance ? 98.- 6/ Kant’s ‘New Method of Thought’ and His Theory of Mathematics.- 7/ Are Logical Truths Analytic ?.- 8/ Kant on the Mathematical Method.- 9 / A Priori Truths and Things-In-Themselves.- 10 / ‘Dinge an sich’ Revisited.- 11 /Knowledge by Acquaintance — Individuation by Acquaintance.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of
Book SynopsisOne of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a slave morality. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the individual impose their own will to power upon the world.
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Lysa Publishers In Pursuit of the Muses: The Life and Work of
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Lysa Publishers Augustine and the Humanists: Reading the City of
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www.bnpublishing.com Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities On the Thought of Isaiah Berun: Papers Presented
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Gefen Publishing House Maimonides -- Reason Above All
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Ibadan University Press African Culture and Civilization
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Confucianism and the Chinese Self: Re-examining Max Weber’s China
Book SynopsisSetting the context for the upheavals and transformations of contemporary China, this text provides a re-assessment of Max Weber’s celebrated sociology of China. Returning to the sources drawn on by Weber in The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, it offers an informed account of the Chinese institutions discussed and a concise discussion of Weber’s writings on ‘the rise of modern capitalism’. Notably it subjects Weber’s argument to critical scrutiny, arguing that he drew upon sources which infused the central European imagination of the time, constructing a sense of China in Europe, whilst European writers were constructing a particular image of imperial China and its Confucian framework. Re-examining Weber’s discussion of the role of the individual in Confucian thought and the subordination, in China, of the interests of the individual to those of the political community and the ancestral clan, this book offers a cutting edge contribution to the continuing debate on Weber’s RoC in East Asia today, against the background of the rise of modern capitalism in the “little dragons” of Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea, and the “big dragons” of Japan and the People’s Republic of China.Trade Review“The book is an interesting and reliable contribution to the discourses on contemporary Chinese sociology of religion; as a result, it is warmly recommended to all specialists in the field and to the general reader of Chinese culture, as well.” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 45 (2), June, 2019)“Max Weber's fascination with China has been well documented … . It is a must read for both Weber scholars and China specialists, and will be of great interest to comparative-historical sociologists. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students/faculty.” (J. Li, Choice, Vol. 55 (9), May, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- China in Germany.- Confucianism.- Daoism.- Self-interest.- Magic.- Capitalism.
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ISEAS The Straits Philosophical Society & Colonial
Book SynopsisFounded in Singapore in 1893, the Straits Philosophical Society was a society for the "critical discussion of questions in Philosophy, History, Theology, Literature, Science and Art". Its membership was restricted to graduates of British and European universities, fellows of British or European learned societies and those with "distinguished merit in the opinion of the Society in any branch of knowledge". Its closed-door meetings were an important gathering place for the educated elite of the colony, comprising colonial civil servants, soldiers, missionaries, businessmen, as well as prominent Straits Chinese members. Notable members included the botanist Henry Ridley, the missionary W.G. Shellabear and Straits Chinese reformers like Lim Boon Keng and Tan Teck Soon.Throughout its years of operation, the Society left behind a collection of papers presented by its members, the vast majority of which conformed to the Society's founding rule that its geographical position should influence its work. This produced a large corpus of literature on colonial Malaya which provides important insights into the logic and dynamics of colonial thought in the period before the First World War. In reproducing a collection of these papers this volume highlights the role of the Society in the development of ideas of race, Malayness, colonial modernization, urban government and debates over the political and socio-economic future of the colony.By republishing these papers, The Straits Philosophical Society & Colonial Elites in Malaya seeks to contribute to the intellectual history of colonial and post-colonial Malaysia and Singapore, and to expand our understanding of the ways in which colonial thought has shaped governing systems of the past and present.
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Palgrave Macmillan A Miscellany of Modern Musings
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: René Descartes.- Chapter 3: John Locke.- Chapter 4: Blaise Pascal.- Chapter 5: Mary Astell.- Chapter 6: Benedict Spinoza.- Chapter 7: David Hume.- Chapter 8: Immanuel Kant.- Chapter 9: Georg W.F. Hegel.- Chapter 10: Søren Kierkegaard.- Chapter 11: John Stuart Mill.- Chapter 12: Friedrich Nietzsche.- Chapter 13: Leo Tolstoy.- Chapter 14: Albert Einstein.
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Ediciones Lea El anticristo
Book SynopsisEste es el má s certero de los ataques de Friedrich Nietzsche contra la moral judeocristiana. En este libro el filó sofo desdeñ a la compasió n, la debilidad y las creencias que dieron nacimiento a la sociedad occidental luego de la muerte de Cristo en la cruz, al tiempo que plantea la necesidad de recuperar los ?valores de la aristocracia?, es decir, el poder, la fuerza, el gusto por la bú squeda de la verdad má s allá de las supersticiones. El anticristo es la gé nesis de una religió n, el cristianismo, pero tambié n del mundo occidental tal cual lo conocemos. En é l, Nietzsche desentrañ a los sentimientos que llevaron a los primeros cristianos a tergiversar el mensaje de Jesú s, para convertirlo en una ?contradicció n de la vida?.
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Viella Editrice Machiavelli, Un Uomo Di Parole
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Viella Editrice Ogni Uomo E Scienziato: Dialettica E Scienze Della Natura Nei Quaderni del Carcere Di Gramsci
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Viella Editrice Machiavelli Costituzionalista: Il Progetto Di Riforma Dello Stato Di Firenze del 1522
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Viella Editrice Erasmo Libero: Le Litterae E La Teologia
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