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The content in this work is fiction, fiction in the sense that the
main character through which the eyes of this metaphysical and
philosophical journey is viewed, Charlie, is not a real character,
nor are his counterparts and foils through which he explores
various topics such as love, the meaning of existence or the
origins of the cosmos and how our understanding of these abstract
ideas have evolved since the dawn of civilization. But like any
work of fiction, the characters do have some basis in real
experience, from which of course nothing can be created. The intent
of the work is to explore the foundations and evolution of
knowledge and the boundaries between reason and faith, boundaries
which from the author's perspective are not quite as clear as some
might have us believe. And the point of going through the exercise,
the purpose as it were, is not only for the author to come to a
better understanding of how all our modern branches of science hang
together, how they have come to be given their socio-political and
historical context, but also for others to share in his journey and
perhaps learn something along the way. Since the birth of language
and thought even, going back thousands of years and even prior to
the dawn of civilization itself, mankind has attempted to answer
two fundamental questions, questions that have spurred countless
creative forces and branches of thought over the centuries; namely
who we are and from whence we came. The answers to these questions,
no matter what race, religion or creed the seeker might be, or what
philosophy or religion they might adhere to, are inextricably
linked to each other. This journey of trying to understand our
place in the world, and the origins of the universe itself, is an
ageless quest that in many respects distinguishes mankind from the
rest of the creatures on the planet. Furthermore, this very same
quest to answer the same questions fuels not only scientific
development but also is the basis for theology and religion, both
approaching the same set of questions with a different set of tools
and with a different mindset but both trying to answer the same set
of basic questions as to who we are and how we got here. From the
author's perspective, in order to answer these questions
effectively in the Information Age, we should have at least some
understanding of the history of our answers to these questions as
they have evolved over time. For we all build our collective
knowledge on those that have come before us, whether we recognize
this or not. And in turn, that in building this bridge, a common
metaphor used throughout the work, we must leverage the tool of
metaphysics, a term originally coined by Aristotle but in the
context of this work implies a level of abstraction that sits above
physics as we understand it in today's world but also provides a
conceptual underpinning to all of the branches of knowledge that
collectively make up our ?understanding? of the world and out place
in it. In doing so, it is the author's hope that we can not only
come to a more complete and fuller understanding of the answers to
these basic human questions that have plagued mankind since time
immemorial, but also at the same time perhaps develop a deeper
understanding of the problems of life in the Information Age and
how we might best approach them, or cope with them, in way that not
only benefits ourselves as individuals but to society as a whole,
to which our individual well-being depends upon whether or not we
recognize it or not.
CHRISTOPHER RORY PAGE Two bodies, two souls and an inspiring four
way conversation between contrasting mortals as they journey
through the African bush and discover the way from Fear to faith.
The author awakens one morning riddled with fear from a deafening
noise outside his bungalow window. This is the beginning of an
exploration into the self as he meets a primitive man who proves
that there is more to someone than meets the eye. A non-verbal form
of communication develops between as the two men dissect the
concept of fear based on age-old theories and beliefs. The reader
is introduced to the Ukuesaba Isitebhisa which translated from Zulu
means Fear Ladder. This shows the progression of fear from the most
superficial to the most concrete. The common denominator to
minimise the fear on all levels is to instil faith in various
forms. From Fear to faith is an inspiring story and teaches as much
as it entertains. Light hearted moments dispersed with simple
truths make it must read for anyone who aims to minimise the fears
in their lives which prevent them from being who they were born to
be.
This study charts a history of weakness in a selection of canonical
works in literature and philosophy. Examining the nature of
weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and
philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a
selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael
O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and
exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this
first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it
interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, the Romantics, Dickens and the
Modernists. It examines what feminist critics Elaine Showalter and
Luce Irigaray make of the figure of the "weaker vessel" and
considers philosophical notions such as radical passivity, a
"syntax of weakness" and human vulnerability in the work of Derrida
and Beckett and Coetzee. Through analysis of these differing
versions of weakness, O'Sullivan's study challenges the popular
myth that aligns masculine identity with strength and force and
presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in
ethics.
Exposed to yoga from early childhood, Veena S. Gandhi, M.D has
been conducting yoga classes and organizing seminars on yoga and
its philosophy for over two decades. A board-certified OB/GYN, Dr.
Gandhi has over 40 years of experience in working with pregnant
women and in delivering babies. Her knowledge of yoga and medical
training from the Eastern and Western hemispheres gives her a
unique perspective in helping couples create a miracle child.
For her dedication and generosity, Dr. Gandhi has received many
awards, including "Best Doctor" from the "Courier-Post "newspaper,
Woman of Outstanding Achievement by the Camden County Council of
Girl Scouts, and the Bhakti Visharat award for dedicated service to
the community by the International Society of Krishna
Consciousness. Additionally, the American Association of Physicians
of Indian Origin (AAPI) awarded her the presidential award and
women's leadership award for her dedicated service to AAPI.
She ran several youth programs for human values and culture.
Recently she has accepted a leading position in AAPI in improving
women's health. She introduced and taught yoga at every AAPI annual
convention since 1995. Her latest community effort involves
increasing the literacy of children in India's remote villages as a
member of the Board of Directors of the Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation
for the last twelve years. She was recognized for her outstanding
and dedicated service to "The literacy movement" in India.
Dr. Gandhi lives in Voorhees, New Jersey with her husband,
Sharad K. Gandhi. She has two grown children and two grandchildren.
This is her first book.
Peripheralizing DeLillo tracks the historical arc of Don
DeLillo’s poetics as it recomposes itself across the genres of
short fiction, romance, the historical novel, and the philosophical
novel of time. Drawing on theories that capital, rather than the
bourgeoisie, is the displaced subject of the novel, Thomas Travers
investigates DeLillo’s representation of fully commodified social
worlds and re-evaluates Marxist accounts of the novel and its
philosophy of history. Deploying an innovative re-periodisation,
Travers considers the evolution of DeLillo’s aesthetic forms as
they register and encode one of the crises of contemporary
historicity: the secular dynamics through which a society organised
around waged work tends towards conditions of under- and
unemployment. Situating DeLillo within global histories of uneven
and combined development, Travers explores how DeLillo’s
treatment of capital and labour, affect and narration, reconfigures
debates around realism and modernism. The DeLillo that emerges from
this study is no longer an exemplary postmodern writer, but a
composer of capitalist epics, a novelist drawn to peripheral zones
of accumulation, zones of social death whose surplus populations
his fiction strives to re-historicise, if not re-dialecticise as
subjects of history.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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