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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Phänomenologie der Angst: Symbolik und Mythologie
Book SynopsisSchelling war einer der wenigen Philosophen seiner Zeit, die versuchten, den Eigenwert der Mythen zu rehabilitieren, indem er zeigte, dass Mythen nicht nur bizarre Fiktionen der menschlichen Imagination sind, sondern die Seinsformen des religiösen Bewusstseins. Schellings Schriften zum Problem der Mythologie sind im Kontext der in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts geführten Debatte über den Ursprung der Mythen zu verstehen. F. Creuzer war ein bedeutender Autor, der den vorherrschenden Hellenozentrismus der klassischen Philologie in Frage stellte. Schelling kannte die Arbeit von Creuzer, und viele seiner Texte können als Dialog mit dem Philologen verstanden werden.Fernando Wirtz untersucht die dunkle Seite der Schellingschen Philosophie, eine Philosophie, die sich dem Bereich der Irrationalität und der Angst nähert. Der Begriff der Angst bezieht sich auf die Erfahrung des religiösen Bewusstseins, das von den Bildern seiner Andersheit überrascht wird. In diesem Sinne hört die Philosophie auf, eine rein diskursive Aufgabe zu sein und wird zu einer Phänomenologie der Angst.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Schellings Philosophie der Potenz 1798-1854
Book SynopsisEs gibt wenige Begriffe in Schellings Philosophie, die über die Jahrzehnte ihrer Entwicklung hinweg derart kontinuierlich gebraucht wurden und eine derart zentrale Stellung erworben haben, wie Schellings Konzept von 'Potenz' - und keinen, der dabei in der Forschung so unklar geblieben wäre, wie dieser. Der Grund hierfür liegt darin, dass es bei Schelling nicht eine Bedeutung von 'Potenz' gibt, sondern dass er eine Vielzahl von begrifflichen Modellen damit verbindet und diese zudem untereinander je neu kombiniert. Stefan Gerlach unternimmt es, Schellings Philosophie der Potenz für alle Werkphasen von der Naturphilosophie bis ins Spätwerk zu untersuchen. Er zeigt, welche unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen Schelling mit dem Begriffsfeld Potenz/Potenzen/Potenzieren verbindet, und worin ihre jeweilige systematische Funktion innerhalb seiner zentralen Schriften liegt.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gastlichkeit und Gemeinschaft: Christliche
Book SynopsisArne-Florian Bachmann untersucht in der vorliegenden Studie die Gastlichkeit als Leitmetapher des christlichen Glaubens und als Orientierungshilfe für eine christliche Lebens- und Sozialform in der Spätmoderne. Ausgehend von einer biblisch-theologischen Motivgeschichte der Gastlichkeit überprüft er einschlägige Theologien und setzt sie in Bezug zu aktuellen Herausforderungen im Bereich der religiösen Gemeinschaftsbildung. Diese werden ins Gespräch gebracht mit zentralen Stimmen kontinentaler Sozialphilosophie mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Phänomenologie und Dekonstruktion. Zuletzt wird ein eigener Beitrag zu einer theologischen Gemeinschaftstheorie entwickelt, die sich von der Gastlichkeit her versteht, sich aus kreuzestheologischen Motiven speist und zu einer außerordentlichen Gemeinschaft inmitten der Konflikte der sozialen Welt einlädt.
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Seminare: Kant-Leibniz-Schiller (Teil 2:
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Indiana University Press SelfUnderstanding and Lifeworld Basic Traits of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gander's Self-Understanding and Lifeworld is an eminent text within contemporary Continental philosophy. An English translation is essential and Ryan Drake and Joshua Rayman have done an admirable job preserving the style of the German." -Lawrence K. Schmidt, author of Understanding HermeneuticsTable of ContentsTranslators' IntroductionForeword Introduction1. Exposition of the Connection Between Self-Being, Lifeworld, and History 2. Conception and Outline of the Treatise with an Excursis on the Paratextual Functions of RemarksPart One. In the Network of Texts: Toward the Perspective Character of Understanding3. Inception and Beginning: Toward a Fore-Structure of Understanding4. Approaching the Question of Interpretation: On the Relation of "Author-Text-Reader"5. On the Relation of Writing and Reading to Self-Formation6. The Text as a Connection of Sense in the Horizon of the Occurrence of Tradition as Effective History7. In the Governing Network of Discourse8. The Sense-Creating Potential of Texts: The Modification of the World9. Excursis on the Metaphor of the "Book of the World"10. In the Network of Tradition: On Understanding as an Incursion into the Current of Texts11. On the Interpretive Character of Knowledge in the Wake of the Historicity of Understanding12. Parenthesis on the Discourse of Metaphysics "as such" as a Problem of an Epochal Revaluation in View of a Signature of the Present13. Critical Remarks on the Concept of an Absolute ReasonPart Two. I and World: The Question Concerning the Ground of PhilosophyChapter One. On the Search for the Certainty of the I14. Toward the Task of a Hermeneutical Interpretation of the Concept and its Relation to Everyday Experience: An Approximation15. Wonder and Doubt: On the Entry-Point of Philosophical Reflection16. Under the Spell of Certainty: Descartes' Self-Certainty of the 'I am' as a Hermeneutical Problem17. The Ontological Positioning of the Cartesian Ego Between Acquisition of the Self and Loss of the WorldChapter Two. On Life in Lifeworlds: Critical Considerations of Husserl's Phenomenology of the Lifeworld18. The Concept of 'Lifeworld' as an Indication of the Problem19. Husserl's Recourse to as an "Irruption into the Theoretical Attitude"20. The Problem of Objectivism in the Tension Between and 21. Toward a Philosophical Thematization of Natural Life-in-the-World22. On Husserl's Transcendental Self-Grounding of Philosophy with a View to the Question of the World23. Husserl's Application of the Task of a Lifeworldly Ontology24. The Function of History in Husserl's Transcendental-Phenomenological ConceptionPart Three. Self-Understanding and the Historical World: Basic Traits of a Hermeneutical Ontology of FacticityChapter One. The Hermeneutical Turn: Heidegger's Critical Dialogue with Husserlian Phenomenology25. Husserl versus Heidegger: On Situating their Disagreement26. The Hermeneutical Stance on a Second View27. The 'Blind Spot' in the Phenomenological Eye: Heidegger's Critique of Husserl with a View to the Structure of Carea. Phenomenological Maxims of Research and Cognitive Intentionb. The 'Actual Things of Philosophy': The Being of the Human28. The Metamorphosis of Phenomenology into the Hermeneuticala. In Connection with the Tendencies of Lebensphilosophieb. The Hermeneutical Approach in Pre-Theoretical Lifec. The New Hermeneutical Accentuation of Phenomenology29. The Function and Relation of the Hermeneutical Ontology of Facticity, Fundamental Ontology, and Metontology30. Aspects of a Contemporary Philosophical Situating of the Discourse on FacticityChapter Two. The Experiental Structure of the Self: Toward a Hermeneutics of Factical Historical Life31. The Leap into the World: On Outlining the Factical-Hermeneutical Concept of Experience32. Analysis of Environmental Experience33. Remarks on the Problematic of the Foreign34. The Self-World as the Center of Life-Relations35. The Having-of-Oneself within the Field of Tension between Winning and Losing Oneself36. The Structure of the Self as a Function of Life-Experience37. On the Status of a Hermeneutics of Facticity as Ontological HermeneuticsChapter Three. Application-Destruktion-History: Hermeneutical Sketches of a Philosophy of the Situation38. Hermeneutical Application39. The Critical Sense: On the Task of Phenomenological Destruktion40. History as the Organon of Understanding LifeOpen End41. Retrospective Reflections on the World-Conceptual Relevance of a Hermeneutics of FacticityBibliography
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Indiana University Press Politics Money and Persuasion Democracy and
Book SynopsisIn Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic.Trade Review"Early in his introduction, John Russon comments that the Republic is the source of seemingly never-ending insights and fresh interpretations. He then goes on to substantiate this insight with his own fresh and provocative reading of this much-interpreted dialogue. His own reading sets out as a guiding insight that logos, the peculiarly human ability to "give an account," to formulate abstractions from specific instances, is a double-edged sword, at once a source of wondrous achievement and destructive misunderstanding, of philosophic insight and sophistic deception. This guiding principle leads to one thought-provoking insight after another—a genuinely fresh reading of the Republic."—Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"Like all truly excellent works of interpretation, John Russon's reading of the Republic is an original and quite radical departure from traditional approaches, which nonetheless once it is set out in his characteristically lucid and direct philosophical prose, presents itself as almost obvious and common-sensical."—Sean D. Kirkland, author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues"Politics, Money, and Persuasion is a challenging and far-reaching exploration of the core issues of Plato's Republic, doing justice to what John Russon calls the 'concrete rationality' of the text, while opening up new perspectives on the meaningfulness of democracy, opinion, persuasion, rationality, and the philosophical life."—Robert Metcalf, coauthor of Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece"Russon's book is a timely exploration of how our habits of reason inform the possibility of healthy cities and souls. Russon examines the political consequences of how human beings "take account" of the world and of themselves, and in doing so also offers a vision of what a philosophical engagment with politics might look like. This work shows us the continued relevance of reading Plato's Republic today."—Marina McCoy, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translations and CitationsIntroductionPolitics, Money and Persuasion1. The Problem of Abstraction2. The Currencies of PowerThe Vicissitudes of Opinion3. True Opinion4. PersuasionConclusionBibliographyIndex of subjectsIndex of passages
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Indiana University Press Politics Money and Persuasion
Book SynopsisIn Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic.Trade Review"Early in his introduction, John Russon comments that the Republic is the source of seemingly never-ending insights and fresh interpretations. He then goes on to substantiate this insight with his own fresh and provocative reading of this much-interpreted dialogue. His own reading sets out as a guiding insight that logos, the peculiarly human ability to "give an account," to formulate abstractions from specific instances, is a double-edged sword, at once a source of wondrous achievement and destructive misunderstanding, of philosophic insight and sophistic deception. This guiding principle leads to one thought-provoking insight after another—a genuinely fresh reading of the Republic."—Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"Like all truly excellent works of interpretation, John Russon's reading of the Republic is an original and quite radical departure from traditional approaches, which nonetheless once it is set out in his characteristically lucid and direct philosophical prose, presents itself as almost obvious and common-sensical."—Sean D. Kirkland, author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues"Politics, Money, and Persuasion is a challenging and far-reaching exploration of the core issues of Plato's Republic, doing justice to what John Russon calls the 'concrete rationality' of the text, while opening up new perspectives on the meaningfulness of democracy, opinion, persuasion, rationality, and the philosophical life."—Robert Metcalf, coauthor of Plato at Syracuse: Essays on Plato in Western Greece"Russon's book is a timely exploration of how our habits of reason inform the possibility of healthy cities and souls. Russon examines the political consequences of how human beings "take account" of the world and of themselves, and in doing so also offers a vision of what a philosophical engagment with politics might look like. This work shows us the continued relevance of reading Plato's Republic today."—Marina McCoy, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translations and CitationsIntroductionPolitics, Money and Persuasion1. The Problem of Abstraction2. The Currencies of PowerThe Vicissitudes of Opinion3. True Opinion4. PersuasionConclusionBibliographyIndex of subjectsIndex of passages
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University of Notre Dame Press The Inner Word in Gadamers Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisThe Inner Word in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics is an intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius.Trade Review“Consummately researched, lucidly written, and persuasively argued throughout, The Inner Word succeeds brilliantly in bringing to light this neglected but pivotal matter in Gadamer’s work. Arthos is learned in the best ‘humanist’ way, for he succeeds in creating something new of his own that will speak eloquently to all of us.” —Walter Jost, University of Virginia“Gadamer suggests that the Christian idea of incarnation is a key to his hermeneutics, but does not explain his position in a detailed or systematic manner. Arthos brings his considerable knowledge of hermeneutics and rhetoric to bear on Gadamer's insight, recounting the rich intellectual history to which Gadamer gestures, and providing an extended and detailed exegesis of this pivotal point in the third part of Truth and Method. Gadamer's account of 'linguisticality,' Arthos explains, can best be understood through his use of a complex metaphor—the ‘inner word.’ Arthos matches his erudition with clear and clean prose, and his account exemplifies, rather than just describes, Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy. Any scholar interested in Gadamer's philosophy should have this book on his or her shelf.” —Francis J. Mootz III, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law“Arthos's strength lies for me in his careful reading of the sources. He effectively commands the literature on the subject. This work shows in a sophisticated way the legacy of trinitarian theology for philosophical hermeneutics. The very complex task of illuminating the phenomenon of the verbum interius and indicating its centrality for philosophical hermeneutics is accomplished by John Arthos with great sensitivity to the subject matter.” —Andrzej Wiercinski, The International Institute for Hermeneutics“John Arthos’s . . . book . . . will be a model for future scholarship on Gadamer’s intellectual inheritance. . . . Drawing widely from Gadamer’s writings while focusing on one crucial move in Gadamer’s argument, it provides both a systemic interpretation of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and an informative overview of those views—ancient, medieval and modern—that helped shape crucial aspects of Gadamer’s thought.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“Arthos’s book is arguably the definitive statement on how to read Gadamer’s Trinitarian claim . . . an indispensable resource to practical rhetorical critics as well as to theorists in understanding what is at issue in our assumptions about language, agency, and meaning.” —Rhetoric and Public Affairs“While offering a close reading of Gadamer’s position on the inner word, the author’s book stands as a valid contribution to the philosophy and theology of ‘Logos,’ one that leads the reader to a more profound understanding of the nature of language and the linguistic self.” —Catholic Library World“. . . Arthos’s book provides a rich resource in delving into both the history of the verbum and its hermeneutic appropriation by Gadamer. This work, then, is not only an essential read for Gadamerian scholars but also a valuable source for those interested in engaging the masters of medieval thought with the hermeneutic turn.” —International Philosophical Quarterly“Arthos explicates and emphasizes the contribution Gadamer made in Truth and Method to hermeneutics and the study of human communication. The book’s most significant contribution, however, is its historical focus.” —Journal of Communication and Religion“Arthos justly celebrates the inherent humanism of Gadamer’s hermeneutics and has aided our understanding of Gadamer with his thorough elucidation of a very difficult passage in Truth and Method.” —Monatshefte"[The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics] is a 360 page magisterial study of the roughly ten pages of the 'Language and Verbum' section in Truth and Method, in which Gadamer treats of the topic of the inner word . . . Methodically researched and engagingly written, [the book], however, is no dry academic tome. For Arthos's purpose is not only to exegete these pages but to inquire 'into the paradigmatic significance of a hermeneutic logos for our culture.' . . . Indeed, he succeeds not only in his inquiry but also in demonstrating, i.e., producing, the very workings of a culturally relevant hermeneutics." —The Heythrop Journal
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University of Notre Dame Press Making Sense of Your Freedom
Book SynopsisWritten for general readers and students, this book provides an accessible and brief metaphysical defense of freedom.Trade Review“[A] highly accessible introduction to the central issues and arguments associated with the determinist-compatibilist-libertarian debate. Although addressed to the general reader, the book is richly and densely argued and accomplishes a great deal within its brief span of pages.” —American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly“This book is clearly the product of a subtle mind, one that has managed to say something striking about many aspects of this difficult and important problem.” — Faith and Philosophy"The issue of free will and determinism is one of the few perennial philosophical controversies that captures the interest of the general reader and is directly relevant to how one perceives one's everyday experience. . . . This is overall a readable and insightful attempt to solve a problem that is at the center of human experience."—Catholic Library World
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University of Notre Dame Press Martin Luther and the Council of Trent
Book SynopsisSeeking to understand the doctrine of justification by way of biblical hermeneutics, this book uncovers the differences between Martin Luther and the Council of Trent that set them on a collision course for conflict, and the church toward what has arguably been its most significant division in the West.As Catholics and Lutherans continue to engage in dialogue about their shared faith and differing confessions, the need remains for a discerning study of the ways in which the Bible functioned in the Reformation's central theological clash: the understanding and import of the doctrine of justification. Peter Folan's incisive analysis in this volume fulfills that need. Through a careful reading of the debate's most significant texts, he shows both how Martin Luther and the Council of Trent relied upon scripture to arrive at their respective formulations of the doctrine and how such seemingly divergent conclusions about the human person's salvation in Christ could be groundTrade Review“A book like this is very rare and very precious, for its content, for its unique method, and for its contribution not only to academic debates about ecumenical associations but also in terms of nurturing real-life friendships across the denominational divides.” —Kirsi Stjerna, author of Lutheran Theology"The ecumenical dialogue needs a thorough study of the ways the Bible was read in the Reformer's central theological debate on justification, which is precisely what this book offers." —Heythrop Journal"Martin Luther and the Council of Trent: The Battle Over Scripture and the Doctrine of Justification is a masterful exploration of how scriptural hermeneutics and citations create both doctrinal consensus and doctrinal disagreement." —Reading Religion * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Mapping the Battlefield: Highlights of the Genesis and the Pre-Sixteenth Century Development of the Doctrine of Justification 2. Stepping on To the Field of Battle: Luther on Justification in 1520 3. Fortifying a Position: Luther on Justification in 1531 4. Squaring Off Against an Unnamed but not Unknown Opponent: The Council of Trent on Justification 5. The Tactics of the Battle: An Analysis of the Biblical Texts and Hermeneutics Operative in Luther and Trent Epilogue Works Cited Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Abelard in Four Dimensions
Book SynopsisAbelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon, one of the leading scholars of medieval philosophy and a specialist on Abelard''s thought, originated from a set of lectures in the distinguished Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies series and provides new interpretations of central areas of Peter Abelard''s philosophy and its influence. The four dimensions of Abelard to which the title refers are that of the past (Abelard''s predecessors), present (his works in context), future (the influence of his thinking up to the seventeenth century), and the present-day philosophical culture in which Abelard''s works are still discussed and his arguments debated.For readers new to Abelard, this book provides an introduction to his life and works along with discussion of his central ideas in semantics, ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. For specialists, the book contains new arguments about the authenticity and chronoTrade Review"This searching, thorough, and original study examines Abelard's past, present, and future, and our present. John Marenbon offers the best enquiry yet made into the sequence of Abelard's writings and their chronology, followed by an incisive and highly illuminating account of the various, successive formulations of his 'unpopular argument' to the effect that God cannot do otherwise than as he does. This is an accomplished work which will be eagerly read and hugely appreciated by students and their teachers on courses of philosophy, theology, and history." —David Luscombe, University of Sheffield"Marenbon (Cambridge University), an important scholar of medieval philosophy, here returns to a topic that occupied him some years ago: the philosophy of Peter Abelard. Rather than serving as a general treatment of Abelard's philosophy, this book focuses on four different ways of reading the philosopher: in terms of his predecessors, his contemporaries, and his historical influence, and in terms of contemporary philosophy. This volume . . . will not disappoint. It should prove useful to students of Peter Abelard and of medieval thought more generally." —Choice"As a volume of Conway lectures, it is a worthy peer to sit alongside the recent contributions of Rosamund McKitterick, Jonathan Riley Smith, A. C. Spearing, and Barbara Newman. I hope this book will reach a wider audience of medievalists than only philosophers, theologians, and twelfth-century specialists (for whom it will be indispensable), if only for the tentative but convincing answer Marenbon provides to the immediately pressing question of the relevance of medieval studies." —Speculum“In this book, John Marenbon takes on select issues from Abelard’s philosophy and theology that have proven to be problematic. These he submits to close examination, hewing his own path in submitting these topics to careful scrutiny, never coming to easy conclusions, but offering original insights. For audiences responsive to Marenbon’s approach his book offers value.” —Mediaevistik“Much of what is explored here is explored with clarity, care, and judgment. In an important sense Marenbon proves the thesis of the book: that historical understanding and background helpfully informs attempts to see in thinkers from another era versions of contemporary theories and can prevent misreadings of many kinds.” —Journal of the History of Philosophy"Abelard in Four Dimensions is an excellent introduction to the study of Peter Abelard. The 'four dimensions' in the title refer to future, past, and present—Abelard's and our own. . . . In his conclusion, Marenbon reflects intelligently on how best to bring medieval thinkers into the contemporary discussion: not by distortion, forcing medieval ideas into 'a conceptual framework where they do not belong,' but by asking ourselves not only how they resemble modern positions, but also how the problems addressed differ from those today's philosophers pose." —The Medieval Review“Throughout this book, but especially in its conclusion, Marenbon steps back and reflects upon methodologies of historians of philosophy. [Marenbon] has identified some weighty issues that any historian of philosophy must address, and one would be well advised to read Marenbon’s thoughtful remarks on this subject.” —Vivarium
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University of Notre Dame Press Loving the Fine
Book SynopsisAssuming that people want to be happy, can we show that they cannot be happy without being ethical, and that all rational people therefore should be able to see that it is in their own best interest to be ethical? Is it irrational to reject ethics? Aristotle thought so, claims Anna Lännström; but, she adds, he also thought that there was no way to prove it to a skeptic or an immoral person. Lännström probes Aristotle''s view that desire is crucial to decision making and to the formation of moral habits, pinpointing the love of the fine as the starting point of any argument for ethics. Those who love the fine can be persuaded that ethics is a crucial part of our happiness. However, as Lännström explains, the immoral person does not share this love, and therefore Aristotle denied that any argument would convince the immoral person to become good. Lännström maintains that Aristotle''s Ethics speaks not just to ancient Greeks but to all those who already love the fiTrade Review“Explores the Greek philosopher’s view of the relationship between ethics and happiness.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education"Loving the Fine is a very interesting manuscript, treating some of the most significant issues in moral philosophy. As is well known, Aristotelian moral philosophy has undergone a great revival in the last quarter century through the work of scholars such as MacIntyre, Anscombe, and Nussbaum, to name only a few. Lännström enters into the debates that this revival has engendered and has important things to say about them." —Gilbert Meilaender, Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University
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Princeton University Press Relative Justice
Book SynopsisDrawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of other disciplines, this book argues that cross-cultural variation raises serious problems for theories that propose universally applicable conditions for moral responsibility. It develops a way of thinking about responsibility that takes cultural diversity into account.Trade Review"This is a penetrating and far-reaching book."--Julian Baggini, Financial Times "[T]his is a keenly argued yet surprisingly accessible book that presents a provocative thesis that should not be ignored."--Choice "There is much to like about Relative Justice. It pursues and interesting line of reasoning in a literature literally littered with rehashed arguments and stubborn dialectics."--Matt King, Philosopher's MagazineTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One. The Appeal to Intuition, pg. 9*Chapter Two. Moral Responsibility and the Culture of Honor, pg. 33*Chapter Three. Shame Cultures, Collectivist Societies, Original Sin, And Pharaoh's Hardened Heart, pg. 63*Chapter Four. Can the Variation Be Explained Away?, pg. 84*Chapter Five. Where Do We Go from Here?, pg. 111*Chapter Six. A Metaskeptical Analysis of Libertarianism and Compatibilism, pg. 133*Chapter Seven. A Very Tentative Metaskeptical Endorsement of Eliminativism about Moral Responsibility, pg. 173*Notes, pg. 203*Bibliography, pg. 213*Index, pg. 223
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Princeton University Press How We Hope
Book SynopsisPresents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our practical lives. This title contends that hoping for an outcome means treating certain feelings, plans, and imaginings as justified, and that hope thereby involves sophisticated reflective and conceptual capacities.Trade Review"Inspired by her work with terminally ill cancer patients, Martin provides a valuable analysis of hope that makes excellent use of the tools of analytic philosophy, recent work in neuropsychology, and the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Gabriel Marcel."--Choice "[A] short but substantial tome... Anyone who is interested in the ethics of hope will find a great deal of valuable insight in this book."--Ben Sherman, Philosophy in Review "Martin not only insightfully advances the philosophical literature on hope, but also, maybe more importantly, provides substantial food for thought to anyone whose philosophical interests encompass desires and motivations."--Rachel Fredericks, Mind "Martin's work is a timely and instructive contribution to a rapidly expanding literature on hope."--Aaron D. Cobb, Journal of Moral PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION What Is Hope? 1 Questions about Hope 1 The Orthodox Definition and Its Critics 4 Hope as a Syndrome 6 The Incorporation Analysis 7 Summary of Chapters 8 CHAPTER 1 Beyond the Orthodox Definition of Hope 11 The Orthodox Definition in the Modern Period 11 The Orthodox Definition in Recent Philosophy 13 Challenge Cases 14 First Analysis: Luc Bovens and Mental Imaging 17 Second Analysis: Ariel Meirav and External Factors 19 Third Analysis: Philip Pettit and Cognitive Resolve 20 Final Analysis: Incorporation 24 Hopeful Thoughts: Fantasy 25 Hopeful Feelings: Anticipation 29 Summary 34 CHAPTER 2 Incorporation 35 Understanding Mental States through Their Fundamental Norms 36 Two Constraints on Reasons 38 Normative Governance Requires Deliberative Responsiveness 38 Deliberation Constrains Reasons 41 The Licensing Stance 44 The Transparency of Doxastic Deliberation to Evidence 46 Putting Transparency and Deliberation Constrains Reasons Together 48 Practical Deliberation about the Licensing Stance 48 The Other Part of the Incorporation Element: Treating Desire as a Practical Reason 52 The Inadequacy of Monist Theories of Motivation 54 The Dualist Theory: Subrational and Rational Motivational Representations 58 Hope as Incorporation 61 Hoping and End-Setting 64 Cases: Hoping without End-Setting 66 The End-Setting Conception's Inability to Accommodate These Cases 67 Conclusion: A Unified Theory of Hope and the Worry about Excessive Reflectiveness 69 CHAPTER 3 Suicide and Sustenance 72 Virtue and Sustenance 72 The First Extreme: Aquinas and Irascible Hope 75 The Thomistic "Inner Cathedral" 76 The Concupiscible and Irascible Passions 77 The Second Extreme: Calhoun and Seconding Practical Commitment 82 Hopeful Fantasies and Sustenance 85 Contingent Sustenance 91 An Example: "Self-Help" and Self-Sabotage 94 Summary 96 CHAPTER 4 Faith and Sustenance without Contingency 98 Chief Plenty Coups and Unimaginable Hope 98 Kant on the Highest Good and Morally Obligatory Hope 101 The Transformation of Hope into Faith 105 Marcel's Hope 108 Grounding Hope in Love 111 The Possibility of Secular Faith 114 Summary 117 CHAPTER 5 Normative Hope 118 Strawson and the Reactive Attitudes 118 Mapping the Territory: Interpersonal Relations 121 Gratitude, Disappointment, and Normative Hope 125 Hope for the Vicious 136 Summary 140 CONCLUSION Human Passivity, Agency, and Hope 141 Index 147
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Princeton University Press How We Hope
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inspired by her work with terminally ill cancer patients, Martin provides a valuable analysis of hope that makes excellent use of the tools of analytic philosophy, recent work in neuropsychology, and the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Gabriel Marcel."--Choice "[A] short but substantial tome... Anyone who is interested in the ethics of hope will find a great deal of valuable insight in this book."--Ben Sherman, Philosophy in Review "Martin not only insightfully advances the philosophical literature on hope, but also, maybe more importantly, provides substantial food for thought to anyone whose philosophical interests encompass desires and motivations."--Rachel Fredericks, Mind "Martin's work is a timely and instructive contribution to a rapidly expanding literature on hope."--Aaron D. Cobb, Journal of Moral PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION What Is Hope? 1 Questions about Hope 1 The Orthodox Definition and Its Critics 4 Hope as a Syndrome 6 The Incorporation Analysis 7 Summary of Chapters 8 CHAPTER 1 Beyond the Orthodox Definition of Hope 11 The Orthodox Definition in the Modern Period 11 The Orthodox Definition in Recent Philosophy 13 Challenge Cases 14 First Analysis: Luc Bovens and Mental Imaging 17 Second Analysis: Ariel Meirav and External Factors 19 Third Analysis: Philip Pettit and Cognitive Resolve 20 Final Analysis: Incorporation 24 Hopeful Thoughts: Fantasy 25 Hopeful Feelings: Anticipation 29 Summary 34 CHAPTER 2 Incorporation 35 Understanding Mental States through Their Fundamental Norms 36 Two Constraints on Reasons 38 Normative Governance Requires Deliberative Responsiveness 38 Deliberation Constrains Reasons 41 The Licensing Stance 44 The Transparency of Doxastic Deliberation to Evidence 46 Putting Transparency and Deliberation Constrains Reasons Together 48 Practical Deliberation about the Licensing Stance 48 The Other Part of the Incorporation Element: Treating Desire as a Practical Reason 52 The Inadequacy of Monist Theories of Motivation 54 The Dualist Theory: Subrational and Rational Motivational Representations 58 Hope as Incorporation 61 Hoping and End-Setting 64 Cases: Hoping without End-Setting 66 The End-Setting Conception's Inability to Accommodate These Cases 67 Conclusion: A Unified Theory of Hope and the Worry about Excessive Reflectiveness 69 CHAPTER 3 Suicide and Sustenance 72 Virtue and Sustenance 72 The First Extreme: Aquinas and Irascible Hope 75 The Thomistic "Inner Cathedral" 76 The Concupiscible and Irascible Passions 77 The Second Extreme: Calhoun and Seconding Practical Commitment 82 Hopeful Fantasies and Sustenance 85 Contingent Sustenance 91 An Example: "Self-Help" and Self-Sabotage 94 Summary 96 CHAPTER 4 Faith and Sustenance without Contingency 98 Chief Plenty Coups and Unimaginable Hope 98 Kant on the Highest Good and Morally Obligatory Hope 101 The Transformation of Hope into Faith 105 Marcel's Hope 108 Grounding Hope in Love 111 The Possibility of Secular Faith 114 Summary 117 CHAPTER 5 Normative Hope 118 Strawson and the Reactive Attitudes 118 Mapping the Territory: Interpersonal Relations 121 Gratitude, Disappointment, and Normative Hope 125 Hope for the Vicious 136 Summary 140 CONCLUSION Human Passivity, Agency, and Hope 141 Index 147
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Princeton University Press Kierkegaards Journals and Notebooks Volume 9
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction vii Journal NB 26 1 Journal NB 27 113 Journal NB 28 213 Journal NB 29 295 Journal NB 30 385 Notes for Journal NB 26 503 Notes for Journal NB 27 561 Notes for Journal NB 28 593 Notes for Journal NB 29 637 Notes for Journal NB 30 701 Maps 757 Calendar 765 Concordance 773
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Princeton University Press On Purpose
Book SynopsisTrade Review"While the topic can get swamped in jargon, Michael Ruse, a professor of philosophy at Florida State University, is anything but a dry writer. In On Purpose, he revels in the arguments that philosophers, scientists and religious saints have had over ‘the big picture’ for the past 2,000 years. . . . Taking his cue from his own Quaker upbringing, [Ruse] argues that three things remain deeply satisfying in life, even if philosophically one ends up on the side of Epicurus and his denial of design: family; a life of service to others; and, not surprisingly for a philosopher, the life of the mind. For many people, there is indeed purpose in each of these, and perhaps, Mr. Ruse suggests, that is enough."---John Farrell, Wall Street Journal"Philosopher and perennial defender of evolution Ruse takes readers on a historical and constructive tour through one of the most importunate issues in basic metaphysics: is there any purpose behind the things--the universe, humans, nature, et al.--that are, and, if so, what is its nature and where does it come from? . . . As always, Ruse defends evolutionary science while valuing the beauty and expressiveness of human culture." * Library Journal *"A deeply intelligent book that treats key thinkers in philosophy, religion and the sciences fairly, humorously and with a virtuosity reflecting more than half a century in the field."---Paul Biegler, Cosmos"On Purpose is a book that represents Ruse at his most wide-ranging and engaging. . . . [He] is akin to the most enthusiastic and entertaining tour guide one could have through an already compelling exhibit at a museum."---Mark E. Borrello, Quarterly Review of Biology"On Purpose works both as an introductory text as well as a philosophical testament. . . . A book where one learns about the history of philosophy and the history of science, but not neutrally so, since one is looking through the eyes of one of the most active participants in recent debates."---Hugh Desmond, Science & Education
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Princeton University Press On Purpose
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A deeply intelligent book that treats key thinkers in philosophy, religion and the sciences fairly, humorously and with a virtuosity reflecting more than half a century in the field."—Paul Biegler, Cosmos"[Ruse] revels in the arguments that philosophers, scientists and religious saints have had over 'the big picture' for the past 2,000 years."—John Farrell, Wall Street Journal"Ruse takes readers on a historical and constructive tour through one of the most importunate issues in basic metaphysics: is there any purpose behind the things—the universe, humans, nature, et al.—that are, and, if so, what is its nature and where does it come from?"—Library Journal"On Purpose is a book that represents Ruse at his most wide-ranging and engaging. . . . [He] is akin to the most enthusiastic and entertaining tour guide one could have through an already compelling exhibit at a museum."—Mark E. Borrello, Quarterly Review of Biology
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Princeton University Press What Do You Want Out of Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Entertaining and smart, this is philosophy for people who don’t usually like philosophy." * Publishers Weekly *
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Cornell University Press The Roots of Evil
Book SynopsisEvil is the most serious of our moral problems.Trade ReviewSince it reflects aspects of human nature—envy, ambition, the need for belonging—evil is a permanent threat. We can best combat it, John Kekes believes, by cultivating 'moral imagination.'... An education in the litearary and philosophical classics helps nourish the moral imagination.... There is much to admire in this lucid and morally serious book. Its concreteness sets it apart from the arid abstraction of many works of analytic philosophy. Its insistence on the existence of evil is refreshing in an age of academic relativism. Its modest conclusions are wise and generally right. * First Things *The principal value of The Roots of Evil is that the author squarely faces the challenge of evil, a task of no small importance when Islamofascism and much else are testing the mettle of the West. While some obsess over the 'root causes' of the appalling things people do to one another, Kekes reminds us that evil actions find their origin in the individual. His book closes with some sensible if currently unfashionable recommendations for coping with evil: attending to its internal conditions by exposing people to the humanities and attending to its external conditions by a firm commitment to punishment. Indeed, the book contains much by way of sturdy good sense. * The New Criterion *This is an interesting, systematic, nondogmatic, and informed attempt to make sense of evil on secular grounds. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press On the Republic and On the Laws
Book SynopsisCicero''s On the Republic and On the Laws are his major works of political philosophy. They offer his fullest treatment of fundamental political questions: Why should educated people have any concern for politics? Is the best form of government simple, or is it a combination of elements from such simple forms as monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy? Can politics be free of injustice? The two works also help us to think about natural law, which many people have considered since ancient times to provide a foundation of unchanging, universal principles of justice.On the Republic features a defense of politics against those who advocated abstinence from public affairs. It defends a mixed constitution, the actual arrangement of offices in the Roman Republic, against simple forms of government. The Republic also supplies material for students of Roman historyas does On the Laws. The Laws, moreover, presents the results of Cicero''s reflections as Trade ReviewFott accomplishes what he has set out to do: provide an accessible translation that focuses more on the text than on the secondary scholarship. Fott's translation will prove a handy reference guide for anyone interested in either or both of these political works. It would be exceptionally well-suited for an undergraduate class on cicero, Roman philosophy, or the reception of Greek philosophy by the Romans, and I look forward to adopting it for my own students. -- Polis * The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Note on the Text and the Translation Chronology of Cicero's Life Outlines of On the Republic and On the Laws On the Republic (with explanatory notes) Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Fragments of Uncertain Location On the Laws (with explanatory notes) Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Fragments Selected Bibliography Index of Personal Names Index of Terms
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Cornell University Press On Divine Foreknowledge Part IV of the Concordia
Book SynopsisLuis de Molina was a leading figure in the remarkable sixteenth-century revival of Scholasticism on the Iberian peninsula. Molina is best known for his innovative theory of middle knowledge. Alfred J. Freddoso's extensive introductory essay clears up...
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MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer A Thomistic Christocentrism Recovering the
Book SynopsisSummarizes the historical background to the Salmanticenses, from the time of Anselm up through the early-modern period. The book presents and defends the Salmanticenses' argument for the primacy of Christ the redeemer, and then turns to two key post-conciliar figures, Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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Fordham University Press Heidegger and Aquinas
Book SynopsisThe purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and of Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of metaphysics.Trade Review"The volume, which tosses off insights by the pageful, demonstrates Caputo's masterful control of both the Heideggerian and Thomistic corpus." -Research in Phenomenology
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Fordham University Press Heidegger and Aquinas
Book SynopsisThe purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and of Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of metaphysics.Trade Review"The volume, which tosses off insights by the pageful, demonstrates Caputo's masterful control of both the Heideggerian and Thomistic corpus." -Research in Phenomenology
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Fordham University Press Heideggers Philosophy of Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a major contribution to the interpretation of Heideggerian philosophy! In five carefully developed and scrupulously documented chapters, Glazebrook (Colgate Univ.) traces Heidegger's view of science beginning with his earliest phase, extending into the 1930s, when he regarded philosophy as "scientific," through a transitional phase, when he turned away from "metaphysics" to "physics," to the 1950s onward, when he asserted that modern natural science is already the basic form of technological thinking. Heidegger's critique of science, Glazebrook shows in detail, forms the backdrop for his evolving understanding of the history of metaphysics. In her final paragraph, Glazebrook accurately summarizes: "I have argued that the issues pertaining to science lie behind Heidegger's rejection of metaphysics, his entanglement with the university, his nostalgia for the Greeks, and his critique of modernity. I have further shown that Heidegger's thinking can be put constructively into dialogue with the analytic tradition of philosophy of science." Clearly written and free of jargon, this reliable account of Heidegger's philosophy of science will take its place alongside the major studies of his philosophy and should be in every library where Heidegger's writings themselves have a place. This reviewer read it with great excitement and learned from every page. Highly recommended; all academic levels and professionals." -Choice
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Fordham University Press Quiet Testimony A Theory of Witnessing from
Book SynopsisDevelops an account of testimony and the ethics of witnessing through readings of nineteenth-century American literary texts, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James.Trade Review"Goldberg's book is both timely and exciting. Her readings of Emerson (a writer whose work has always seemed to me to resist the pressures of close reading) are quite simply brilliant American literature. Her work, more than that of any other critic since Charles Feidelson, allows us to teach Emerson and Melville together by pointing to similarities rather than differences as well as to see their formal and ethical concerns as establishing a trajectory that includes the work of Douglass and James. Goldberg's voice is one of the most exciting ones among the current group of young scholars of nineteenth-century." -- -Edgar Dryden University of Arizona "Quiet Testimony proceeds from a deceptively simple question: Who testifies in nineteenth-century America? The several answers Shari Goldberg exacts through the book's five chapters amount to a provocative reformulation of the concept of human agency, with significant ethical and political consequences." -Textual Practice "This is an ambitious, daring, and provocative book, and one that resonates deeply and significantly with contemporary debates over the relation between testimony and historical truth that have occupied a great deal of literary and philosophical work within the last two decades. Goldberg's wonderful readings of the ways in which nineteenth-century writers understood the force of silence in the act of bearing witness suggest that testimony is perhaps most audible, most powerful, when we are able to hear its silences, the silences that give voice not only to the issues that felt most urgent for these writers but also to those that are of most concern for us today." -- -Eduardo Cadava Princeton University "[Goldberg's] careful consideration of how Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and James think and write about testimony reveals myriad and unexpected sites of meaning... Goldberg seeks to adjust not only how we read these particular writers' works but how we read in general by considering the literary text's role in teaching us to understand and respond sensitively to the extra-textual world." -The Henry James Review "[T]heoretically sophisticated ... Goldberg considers how each of the writers she considers demonstrates a connection to earlier, 'enchanted' modes of confronting the natural world and the potentially permeable boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead." -Studies in the Novel "Through Shari Goldberg's passionately attentive readings of core texts within 19th century American literature, Quiet Testimony bears witness to the intimacy between testimony and literary thinking, and in so doing provides a model for radically rethinking the very concept of literature." -- -Donald Pease Dartmouth College "This is a major and exemplary work that deftly situates the authors in their historical situations while at the same time deeply respecting their thinking, reading them in order to adduce their complicated attitudes toward testimony, which Goldberg successfully advances as an urgent and central issue for each of them." -- -Mitchell Breitwieser University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Arriving at Quiet 1 Emerson: Testimony without Representation 2 Douglass: Testimony without Identity 3 Melville: Testimony without Voice 4 James: Testimony without Life Conclusion: Staying Quiet Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Carnal Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Certain dualities, spirit vs. body, idea vs. sensation, self vs. the world, etc., have long dominated, often injuriously, much Western thinking. In this remarkable volume, the editors, along with some of the most important voices in the Continental tradition, allow hermeneutics to go 'all the way down' and in so doing move beyond these dualities by taking more seriously the 'surplus of meaning arising from our carnal embodiment.' What emerges is a reenergized and radically embodied or 'incarnational' hermeneutics that opens new vistas for religious, environmental, and artistic thinking. This is an important and consequential collection." -- -Jason M. Wirth Seattle University "Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor have assembled a remarkable collection of essays by important recent philosophers devoted to the surprising intersection of 'carnal' and 'hermeneutics' -the body as interpreter as well as interpreted. The British, French and American authors explore the existential, environmental and religious implications of a philosophy of the body." -- -David Carr Emory University "Carnal Hermeneutics brings together essays from some of the most prominent philosophers writing today. These excellent essays challenge us to think through the body in every sense. This collection makes an important contribution to philosophy of embodiment. The very idea of carnal hermeneutics is breath-taking." -- -Kelly Oliver Vanderbilt University "In response to the apparent 'non-relevance' of traditional phenomenological hermeneutics, must those scholars who continue to cling to a more 'conservative' perspective capitulate to the various nihilisms, to the critiques of correlationalism, or to the solid reductionism of speculative realism? Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor answer with an insistent 'No!' Indeed, they seek to infuse the debate with a dialogical energy that will keep the process moving and flesh renewed. That would not be a bad embodiment of a carnal hermeneutics." -- -B. Keith Putt Samford UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: From Head to Foot Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor Why Carnal Hermeneutics? What Is Carnal Hermeneutics? Richard Kearney Mind the Gap: The Challenge of Matter Brian Treanor Rethinking the Flesh Rethinking Corpus Jean-Luc Nancy From the Limbs of the Heart to the Soul's Organs Jean-Louis Chretien A Tragedy and a Dream: Disability Revisited Julia Kristeva Incarnation and the Problem of Touch Michel Henry On the Phenomenon of Suffering Jean-Luc Marion Memory, History, Oblivion Paul Ricoeur Matters of Touch Skin Deep: Bodies Edging into Place Ed Casey Touched by Touching David Wood Umbilicus: Toward a Hermeneutics of Generational Difference Anne O'Byrne Getting in Touch: Aristotelian Diagnostics Emmanuel Alloa Between Vision and Touch: From Husserl to Merleau-Ponty Dermot Moran Biodiversity and the Diacritics of Life Ted Toadvine Divine Bodies The Passion According to Teresa of Avila Julia Kristeva
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Isaiah Berlins CounterEnlightenment
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Johns Hopkins University Press Purpose and Necessity in Social Theory
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1987. Philosopher Maurice Mandelbaum offers a broad-ranging essay on the roles of chance, choice, purpose, and necessity in human events. He traces the many changes these concepts have undergone, from the analyses of Hobbes and Spinoza, through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Mandelbaum examines two contrary tendencies in the history of social theories. Some thinkers, he shows, have explained the character of institutions in terms of their individual purposes, whereas others have stressed relationships of necessity among society's institutions. Mandelbaum discusses chance, choice, and necessity at length and reaches some provocative conclusions about the ways in which they are interwoven in human affairs.Trade ReviewStudents of the humanities and social sciences who want to see the relevance of philosophical debates over free will versus determination and individual versus social causation can do no better than consult this book.—ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: Introduction1. The Analysis of Social TheoriesPart II: Individualistic & Institutional Theories2. Individualistic Theories of Purpose & Necessity3. Necessity & Purpose in Intsitutional TheoriesPart III: Necessity, Chance & Choice4. Determinism & Chance5. Determinism & Choise6. Necessity, Chance & Choice in Human AffairsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Pascal and Theology
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1970. The question of man's freedom to exercise his willas active an issue among twentieth-century philosophers and theologians as it was in the Jesuit and Jansenist camps known to Pascalis basic to this study. Pascal's theological thinking, which Professor Miel demonstrates to be the source of unity and coherence in virtually all phases of his thought, is preoccupied by a concern for man's limitations. In his analysis of Pascal's theology, Miel is concerned not only with characterizing Pascal's theological position but also with evaluating it in terms of the history of the church. In a concise and lucid review of the Christian doctrine of grace from the pre-Augustinians through the Renaissance, the author identifies the intellectual-theological atmosphere that created the need for Pascal's strong defense of Augustinian theology. Miel considers Pascal's Écrits sur la grâce, Lettres provincials, and Pensées as well as shorter compositions and correspondence. HeTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsChapter 1: Grace and Free Will: An Historical IntroductionChapter 2: The Ecritus sur la graceChapter 3: The Lettres provincials and Shorter WorksChapter 4: The PenseesAppendicesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Duty and Hypocrisy in Hegels Phenomenology of
Book SynopsisDuty and Hypocrisy in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ combines a general discussion of Hegelian themes with the first loose commentary, explication, and testing of Hegel’s discussion of morality in the Phenomenology of Mind. In this work Hegel analyses a life ordered around the idea of duty and concludes that it must inevitably end in hypocrisy. The reasons for Hegel’s conclusions are complex, and his discussion is conducted in a way which is relatively unfamiliar to English-speaking readers. His analysis of the moral consciousness is neither an inquiry into the various sorts of ethical concepts and the logical relations between them nor merely a description of how different people behave. Nor, again is it hortatory or prescriptive. Unlike Aristotle he does not instruct ‘in order to become good.’ Rather, he adopted a kind of middle ground between analysis and description and seeks to show how the faulty logic of duty brings terrible c
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Cornell University Press Philosophers in the Republic
Book SynopsisIn Plato''s Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind''s eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, and personal virtues and are appropriately educated, surely no one could doubt the wisdom of entrusting to them the governance of cities. Although it is widelyand reasonablyassumed that all the Republic's philosophers are the same, Roslyn Weiss argues in this boldly original book that the Republic actually contains two distinct and irreconcilable portrayals of the philosopher.According to Weiss, Plato's two paradigms of the philosopher are the philosopher by nature and the philosopher by design. Philosophers by design, as the allegory of the Cave vividly shows, must be forcibly dragged from the material world of pleasure to the sublime realm of the intellect, and fromTrade ReviewThis important book takes Plato at his word. Delicately attuned to nuances and alterations in Plato's language, Roslyn Weiss painstakingly—but never uninterestingly—accumulates convincing textual evidence in support of three main thesis: (1) The Republic contains two distinct and irreconcilable portrayals of the philosopher: the philosophers by nature of books five and six and the philosophers by design of book seven (chapters one through three); (2) Socrates is superior to both of these philosophical types because he displays the virtue, deliberately suppressed in the Republic, of piety (chapter four); (3) Socrates intentionally blurs the difference between the other-regarding virtue of justice and the self-regarding virtue of moderation (chapter five). These theses are internally connected by Weiss's guiding intuition that the example of Socrates, who puts himself in harm's way in the course of caring for the souls of others, furnishes the proper measure of philosophy and justice in the Republic. * The Review of Metaphysics *Weiss develops her bold and refreshing alternative to standard interperetations of the Republic by way of close readings of the dialogue that attend with nuance to its language and arguments and also its dramatic structure. Weiss's exceptionally rich footnotes supplement the careful arguments of her text, while also offering, over the course of the book, a sustained set of insightful gestures to undernoted proximities between Plato and Aristotle. -- Jill Frank * The Review of Politics *What we expect from Roslyn Weiss is close textual argument and unusual readings. Her book on philosophers in the Republic does not disappoint.... The audacity of this close reading of the dialogue is a welcomed challenge to settled habits. Whether you agree with the conclusion or not, you will learn a lot about the text. -- Richard D. Parry * The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition *In Philosophers in the 'Republic,' Roslyn Weiss argues that Plato’s Republic contains two ‘distinct and irreconcilable’ portrayals of the philosopher: what Weiss calls the ‘philosopher by nature’ and the ‘philosopher by design.’ Through close reading of the arguments and the dramatic action of the Republic, Weiss convincingly shows the distinctness of these two types while also educing a third: that of Socrates himself. Weiss illuminates the multifaceted arguments of the Republic anew with deft intelligence, calling attention to conspicuous absences as well as important inconsistencies that ought to shift conventional readings of the dialogue from any approach. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Two Paradigms 1. Philosophers by Nature 2. Philosophers by Design I: The Making of a Philosopher 3. Philosophers by Design II: The Making of a Ruler 4. Socratic Piety: The Fifth Cardinal Virtue 5. Justice as Moderation Conclusion: "In a Healthy Way"Works Cited Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Crisis of Narration
Book SynopsisNarratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates narrative: stories sell. They are no longer a medium of shared experience. The inflation of storytelling betrays a need to cope with contingency, but storytelling is unable to transform the information society back into a stable narrative community. Rather, storytelling as storyselling is a pathological phenomenon of our age. Byung-Chul Han, one of the most perceptive cultural theorists of contemporary society, dissects this crisis with exceptional insight and flair.Table of ContentsPreface From Narration to InformationThe Poverty of ExperienceThe Narrated LifeBare LifeThe Disenchantment of the WorldFrom Shocks to LikesTheory as NarrativeNarration as HealingNarrative CommunityStoryselling Notes
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Medienmoderne: Philosophie und Ästhetik
Book SynopsisIn diesem Band werden beide Seiten von Medien diskutiert, die philosophische und die ästhetische. Historische Erörterungen zu Schriftlichkeit, Fotografie, Propaganda, Kulturindustrie, Interface, Algorithmen sowie Reflexionen zu den Ursprüngen der Kulturtechniken ergänzen die Auslotung der Medienmoderne. Denn: Medien schaffen neue Erfahrungsräume. Medientechnik hat nicht nur die Kommunikationsverhältnisse verändert, sondern auch das Denken und die Sinnesorganisation, wie insgesamt die Zuwendung zur Welt. Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Mediensphären.- Organprojektion.- Fotografie.- Propaganda.- Spektakel.- Interface.- Mediologie.- Algorithmizität.- Literatur.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New
Book SynopsisJust as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions to this book point toward a future philosophy of cosmic life. In this sense, this edited volume represents a multidisciplinary and transcultural polylogue of distinguished authors from three continents, which aims to establish highly innovative perspectives and open new frontiers of developing philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, for an integral ecology, and for a cooperative planetary civilization of humanity. John B. Cobb, Jr. uses a process-philosophical foundation to describe life as living events expressing novelty and the cosmos as a process of self-enriching and self-evolving “Life Itself.” Chandra Wickramasinghe unfolds his scientific and philosophical perspective on cosmic life in twelve successive steps, offering a wide range of arguments and insights that support an up-to-date theory of panspermia. Attila Grandpierre presents the "Cosmic Life Principle" and the comprehensive science based upon it that is inextricably linked to the healthy and cooperative civilization, to the biological laws of nature, to the laws of logic, to the uplifting of the well-being of people and ecological communities. Chunyou Yan introduces the approach of his holographic philosophy, according to which the universe must be understood as a vast living entity, every aspect of which represents life. Bei Peng shows that the proportions of energy meridians in traditional Chinese medicine correspond to musical intervals, and on this basis she demonstrates the analogy of the human body to macrocosmic phenomena. David Bartosch offers an examination of three important systematic foundations for a poly-contextural, transcultural philosophy of cosmic life with roots in Greek, Chinese, South and West Asian, and European traditions of thought. Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Cosmic Life 3. Admitting Our Inalienable Links with the Cosmos 4. The Cosmic Life Instinct Points the Way to a Healthy Ecological Civilization 5. Holographic Philosophy as a Philosophical Basis of Cosmic Life Theory 6. The Human Body as the Singing Universe 7. Poly-contextural Cornerstones for a Transcultural Philosophy of Cosmic Life
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Taylor & Francis The Injustice of Punishment
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Taylor & Francis Free Will
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Determinism Death and Meaning
This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such things as death, regret, grief, and the meaning of life.The book argues that rationalism is the right attitude to take toward reality. It then shows that rationalism implies determinism and that determinism has surprising and far-reaching consequences. The author contends that the existence of all of humanity almost certainly depends on the precise time and manner of your death and mine; that purely retrospective regret, relief, gratitude, and grief are irrational for all but those who hold extreme values; and that everyone's life has an unending impact on the future and thereby achieves the strongest kind of meaning that it makes sense to desire. Written in a direct and accessible style, Determinism, Death, and Meaning will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches Struggle against Pessimism
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Random House USA Inc Fooled by Randomness
Book SynopsisFooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous for
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BookBaby FOLLOW ME / NO REGRETS: COSMOGOMY
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Paragon House Publishers Philosophical Imagination and the Evolution of
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Michigan State University Press How We Became Human: Mimetic Theory and the
Book SynopsisFrom his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, René Girard’s mimetic theory is presented as elucidating “the origins of culture”. He posits that archaic religion (or “the sacred”), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of “how we became human”. French philosopher of science Michel Serres states that Girard’s theory provides a Darwinian theory of culture because it “proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanation”.This major claim has, however, remained underscrutinized by scholars working on Girard’s theory, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciences. Joining disciplinary worlds, this book explores this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy.The contributors provide major evidence in favour of Girard’s hypothesis. Equally, Girard’s theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to Darwin - something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence.
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Michigan State University Press Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic
Book SynopsisIntellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes is an account of Paolo Diego Bubbio’s twenty-year intellectual journey through the twists and turns of Girard’s mimetic theory. The author analyzes philosophy and religion as “enemy sisters” engaged in an endless competitive struggle and identifies the intellectual space where this rivalry can either be perpetuated or come to a paradoxical resolution. He goes on to explore topics ranging from arguments for the existence of God to mimetic theory’s post-Kantian legacy, political implications, and capacity for identifying epochal phenomena, such as the crisis of the self, in popular culture.Bubbio concludes by advocating for an encounter between mimetic theory and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics - an encounter in which each approach benefits and is enriched by the resources of the other. The volume features a previously unpublished letter by René Girard on the relationship between philosophy and religion.
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Reaktion Books A Philosophy of Dirt
Book SynopsisWhat is dirt? What does it really mean to be dirty? Or clean? Dirt and cleaning are often associated with ideas of guilt, otherness and social control, but also with living responsibly and in harmony with the environment. In this learned, witty and groundbreaking study, Olli Lagerspetz offers a persuasive discussion of dirt and its ramifications in philosophy and culture. He argues that questions of dirt and soiling can neither be reduced to hygiene nor to ritual pollution. Instead, they are part and parcel of almost every human activity. As participants in material culture, we produce things and dispose of them but we also engage with them practically, aesthetically and morally. The book ranges through subjects and times, from Heraclitus of Ephesus, through the Renaissance, via Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger and Mary Douglas, to the hygienic products of modernity, ending with abject art. Lagerspetz constantly questions current thinking on the subject, and proposes a new view of dirt based on our physical engagement with the world. A Philosophy of Dirt is essential reading for scholars and students of philosophy, as well as all who feel soiled and want to know why.
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St Augustine's Press Motivated Irrationality
Book SynopsisA study of how reason can be influenced by wishful thinking and how it shapes a person's outlook on life as well as their behaviour.Trade Review"It is invevitable that a book of this scope and ambition will be controversial...What ought not to be controversial, however, is that David Pears has given us an outstandingly lucid and intelligent account of mtters of the highest importance. It is the first comprehensive and unified treatment of the paradoxes of irrational thought and irrational action." - Jon Elster, 'Times Literary Supplement'Table of Contentspreface, footnotes, index
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin La Venue de la Verite: Phenomenologie de l'Esprit
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