A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The year 2000, the end of the millennium: is this anything other than a mirage, the illusion of an end, like so many other imaginary endpoints which have littered the path of history? In this remarkable book Jean Baurdrillardâ??France's leading theorist of postmodernityâ??argues that the notion of the end is part of the fantasy of a linear history. Today we are not approaching the end of history but moving into reverse, into a process of systematic ob... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. -from "On the Principles of Human Knowledge" Forming a triangle of British empiricism with Locke and Hume, George Berkeley's direct influence on modern thought cannot be overstated. From the American Founding Fathers, who looked to him... View More...
This is the book that launched the research program of social epistemology, which has fuelled imaginations and provoked debates across many discipline s around the world. Its opening question remains as pressing as ever: How s hould knowledge production be organised. The second edition contains a subs tantial new introduction, in which Fuller reflects on social epistemology's place in the history of analytic and continental epistemology and discusse s the inspiration he has drawn from a wide variety of fields in the humanit ies and social sciences. It also includes a spirited attack on alterna... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Why is there something rather than nothing? Does God exist? Who am I? Metap hysics is concerned with ourselves and reality, and the most fundamental qu estions regarding existence. This clear and accessible introduction covers the central topics in Metaphysics in a concise but comprehensive way. Brian Garrett discusses the crucial concepts in a highly readable manner, e asing the reader in with a look at some important philosophical problems. H e addr... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Sense perception, which is of enormous importance in Western philosophical traditions, has scarcely attracted the notice of scholars of early China. A s a result of little direct comment on the senses in the Chinese philosophi cal classics, sinologists have generally interpreted their occasional refer ences to sense functions in familiar Western philosophical terms. This orig inal work challenges this tradition, arguing that despite the scarcity of d ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This book presents the archaeology of a single sense: the sense of being se ntient. Aristotle was perhaps the first to define this faculty when, in his treatise On the Soul, he identified a sensory power irreducible to the fiv e senses, by which animals perceive that they are perceiving: the simple "s ense," as he wrote, "that we are seeing and hearing." After him, thinkers r eturned, time and again, to define and redefine this curious sensation. The ... View More...
Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First an d Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search fo r pure truth and perfect freedom. Through discussions on suffering, fear, g ossip, sex and other topics, Krishnamurti's quest becomes the readers, an u ndertaking of tremendous significance. View More...
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This book deals with the materialist view of the nature of the mind. Geoffr ey Madell outlines past and current materialist views and the arguments whi ch have been put forward refuting these. He examines the four alleged "fail ures" in the materialist programme - the failure to make sense of intention ality of thought - the lack of a convincing explanation of the autonomy of psychology - the failure of materialism to take the essential subjectivity of experience into account - and the fact that materialism cannot account f or indexical thought - thoughts centring on words like "this", "here" ... View More...
STUDY OF GANDHI'S VIEWS OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, APPLICATIONS AND IMPLI CATIONS FOR RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE, AND CONCLUDING CHAPTER ON DEVELOPMENT AFTER 1951, WITH GANDHIAN CRITIQUE OF POLICY AND RESULTS. PROVOCATIVE. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Two major works by one of history's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. In Gorgias, an exploration of the proposition that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, Socrates debates with an amoral young sophist and assets that it is preferable to endure someone else's bad conduct than to be the source of bad behavior.Timaeus relates a creation myth that concludes with the birth of humanity, in which Socrates demonstrates tha... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Is science fact and religion just opinion? Is there the mind of a Creator behind the universe? Can a scientist pray? This book provides a clear, lively and frank set of answers to these fundamental issues. View More...
Has extensive highlighting throughout. Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-201) and index What is morality? -- The challenge of cultural relativism -- Subjectivism in ethics -- Does morality depend on religion? -- Psychological egoism -- Ethical egoism -- The utilitarian approach -- The debate over utilitarianism -- Are there absolute moral rules? -- Kant and respect for persons -- The idea of a social contract -- The ethics of virtue -- What would a satisfactory moral theory be like? View More...
In his pioneering treatise on education the great French philosopher Jean-J acques Rousseau (1712-1778) presents concepts that had a significant influe nce on the development of pedagogy in the eighteenth century, and yet many of his ideas still sound radical today. Written in reaction to the stultify ing system of rote learning and memorization prevalent throughout Europe at the time, Emile is a utopian vision of child-centered education, full of t he sentiments of Romanticism, a movement that Rousseau inspired. Imagining a typical boy named Emile, Rousseau creates an ideal model of one-on-on... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains" These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to sti r vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view t hat anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau arg ues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental pre... View More...
