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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and
Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the
Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling
together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator,
Books of the Year 'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled
historian of such enormous energy who's never afraid of being
entertaining' The Times, Books of the Year 'An amazing masterly
gripping panorama' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A badass history
writer... to put it mildly' Duff McKagan 'A triumph' Charles
Spencer Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the
story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a
thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the
once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the
first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth
century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the
West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book
identifies three key themes that underpinned the success of the
West: commerce, conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters,
blending Dan Jones's trademark gripping narrative style with
authoritative analysis, Powers and Thrones shows how, at each stage
in this story, successive western powers thrived by attracting - or
stealing - the most valuable resources, ideas and people from the
rest of the world. It casts new light on iconic locations - Rome,
Paris, Venice, Constantinople - and it features some of history's
most famous and notorious men and women. This is a book written
about - and for - an age of profound change, and it asks the
biggest questions about the West both then and now. Where did we
come from? What made us? Where do we go from here? Also available
in audio, read by the author.
From populist propaganda attacking knowledge as 'fake news' to the
latest advances in artificial intelligence, human thought is under
unprecedented attack today. If computers can do what humans can do
and they can do it much faster, what's so special about human
thought? In this new book, bestselling philosopher Markus Gabriel
steps back from the polemics to re-examine the very nature of human
thought. He conceives of human thinking as a 'sixth sense', a kind
of sense organ that is closely tied our biological reality as human
beings. Our thinking is not a form of data processing but rather
the linking together of images and imaginary ideas which we process
in different sensory modalities. Our time frame expands far beyond
the present moment, as our ideas and beliefs stretch far beyond the
here and now. We are living beings and the whole of evolution is
built into our life story. In contrast to some of the exaggerated
claims made by proponents of AI, Gabriel argues that our thinking
is a complex structure and organic process that is not easily
replicated and very far from being superseded by computers. With
his usual wit and intellectual verve, Gabriel combines
philosophical insight with pop culture to set out a bold defence of
the human and a plea for an enlightened humanism for the 21st
century. This timely book will be of great value to anyone
interested in the nature of human thought and the relations between
human beings and machines in an age of rapid technological change.
The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together
seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century
and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With
readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes,
Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it
analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts
and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify
the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of
theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for
further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing
students to develop the skills needed to: read, interpret, and
critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history
and philosophy of science understand and evaluate scientific
material found in a wide variety of professional and popular
settings appreciate the social and cultural context in which
scientific ideas emerge identify the roles that mathematics plays
in scientific inquiry Featuring primary sources in all the core
scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life
sciences - The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader is ideal
for students looking to better understand the origins of natural
science and the questions asked throughout its history. By taking a
thematic approach to introduce influential assumptions, methods and
answers, this reader illustrates the implications of an impressive
range of values and ideas across the history and philosophy of
Western science.
This book is exclusively written on the foundation of sacred books
called Bible and on the experience of many good and great people,
for man who was created for hard work, accordingly to its given
gift calls talent. (1Co. 12:4) Which is precisely given accordingly
to everybody's abilities. (1Co. 12:7). To do good work and to
become son of living God (Jn. 15:15) and eventually on the end to
become god, (Ps. 82:6) when come time to give its record and hear;
well done my faithful son, enter into my rest. In this book it is
not my intention to teach anyone but only to incite everyone to
think about, to speak about and to recommend in order improving
life for entire humanity independent, of race, color, ethnicity,
languages or religion for everyone to become in agreement according
to its given gift, which is powerful Spirit of love, what we call
talent. It is not my idea that proves that, but myriad of humans as
modern prophets that by their work witnessed for real life directed
by the powerful Spirit of love call talent is only one way only one
direction toward goodness for entire humanity, which pleases only
One whom we call Great Creator. We may call it as universal secular
religion or secular ideology as you wish which is universal and
founded on free gift, given talent and responsibility while divine
religion is religion of individuals gathered in the congregation
founded on faith and obedience, while both are blessed with the
power of love. It is true and is easy to understand that life that
is directed by the given talent as a life purpose for the love
toward One who sent you to do it and for devoted love for entire
humanity as a fulfi llment of fi rst law to love your Great Creator
and not only your neighbor but entire humanity to be like sun that
shine from above for all and rain that comes for above for all as a
HEAVENLY WISDOM An end I would like to hear from you about your
opinion and suggestion in order to further improve that given
program suggested from many and for goodness for entire humanity.
Dr. Dragan P. Bogunovic MD FAAFP. Bogdani
Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio,
Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and
scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the
heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual
lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world
rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
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