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Widely regarded as the father of American psychology, William James
is by any measure a mammoth presence on the stage of pragmatist
philosophy. But despite his indisputable influence on philosophical
thinkers of all genders, men remain the movers and shakers in the
Jamesian universe—while women exist primarily to support their
endeavors and serve their needs. How could the philosophy of
William James, a man devoted to Victorian ideals, be used to
support feminism? Feminist Interpretations of William James lays
out the elements of James’s philosophy that are particularly
problematic for feminism, offers a novel feminist approach to
James’s ethical philosophy, and takes up epistemic contestations
in and with James’s pragmatism. The results are surprising. In
short, James’s philosophy can prove useful for feminist efforts
to challenge sexism and male privilege, in spite of James himself.
In this latest installment of the Re-Reading the Canon series,
contributors appeal to William James’s controversial texts not
simply as an exercise in feminist critique but in the service of
feminism. Along with the editors, the contributors are Jeremy
Carrette, Lorraine Code, Megan Craig, Susan Dieleman, Jacob L.
Goodson, Maurice Hamington, Erin McKenna, José Medina, and
Charlene Haddock Seigfried.
Every life has certain moments that define it. Going beyond the
day-to-day norms of living, these life experiences have a profound
effect on the person and the life lived. Narratives and the Role of
Philosophy in Cross-Disciplinary Studies: Emerging Research and
Opportunities is a critical scholarly research publication that
focuses on the multidisciplinary aspects of philosophy. Featuring
coverage on a wide range of topics such as life-changing events,
exemplary figures, and the role of philosophy, this book is geared
toward academicians, researchers, and students seeking current and
relevant research on the importance of narrative in a
multidisciplinary investigation into the identity of people and
events.
Undoubtedly 'A New Philosophical Classic: Theory of Love' is a new
arrival on classic philosophy. It is written with new concept and
innovative outlook and contains twenty two chapters which are
singular and exceptional in tune. It includes 250 definitions of
love. They bear pithy and panoramic vista. It explains also how
love deserves the innermost support in life as an underlying force,
and it also exists even in every atom and molecule of everything as
causal attractive force to keep the whole of creation in motion.
Especially it is significant for inventing Love Spectrum (BERIGHT)
based on Solar Spectrum (VYBGIOR).This new innovative concept
classically explained first in the world. Besides, 'What is Love
Pill? What are the compositions of it? What is the history of love
pill? Why love is best catalyst? Why love is energy? Why a single
kiss equals to ten painkillers? How love is an invisible purified
power or force that keeps not only life but also the wheel of
creation speed up. However a little, this book will slake the
parched heart of the different interested fond readers irrespective
of caste and creed.
Across these essays Arnold Berleant demonstrates how aesthetic
values and theory can be used to reappraise our social practices.
He tackles issues within the built environment, everyday life, and
politics, breaking down the dichotomy between the natural and the
human. His work represents a fresh approach to traditional
philosophical questions in not only ethics, but in metaphysics,
truth, meaning, psychology, phenomenology, and social and moral
philosophy. Topics covered include the cultural aesthetics of
environment, ecological aesthetics, the aesthetics of terrorism,
and the subversion of beauty. The corruption of taste by the forces
of commercial interests as well as how aesthetics can advance our
understanding of violence are also considered. Berleant’s
exploration is supported by his analysis of 19th-century art to the
present day, starting with impressionism through to postmodernism
and contemporary artistic interventions. By critically examining
the field in this way and casting new light on social understanding
and practice, this collection makes a substantive contribution in
identifying and clarifying central human issues, guided by an
understanding of aesthetic engagement as a powerful tool for social
critique.
Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same
apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so:
according to them, the world consists of objects, these have
properties and enter into relations with each other, more or less
as we are accustomed to think of them. Against this view, Rein Raud
develops a radical process ontology that does not credit any
vantage point, any scale or speed of being, any range of cognitive
faculties with the privilege to judge how the world 'really' is. In
his view, what we think of as objects are recast as fields of
constitutive tensions, cross-sections of processes, never in
complete balance but always striving for it and always
reconfiguring themselves accordingly. The human self is also
understood as a fluctuating field, not limited to the mind but
distributed all over the body and reaching out into its
environment, with different constituents of the process constantly
vying for control. The need for such a process philosophy has often
been voiced, but rarely has there been an effort to develop it in a
systematic and rigourous manner that leads to original accounts of
identity, continuity, time, change, causality, agency and other
topics. Throughout his new book, Raud engages with an unusually
broad range of philosophical schools and debates, from New
Materialism and Object-Oriented Ontology to both phenomenological
and analytical philosophy of mind, from feminist philosophy of
science to neurophilosophy and social ontology. Being in Flux will
be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy and the
humanities generally and to anyone interested in current debates
about realism, materialism and ontology.
What is moral progress? Are we striving for moral progress when we
seek to 'make the world a better place'? What connects the
different ways in which moral agents, their actions, and the world
can become morally better? This book proposes an explication of the
abstract concept of moral progress and explores its relation to our
moral lives. Integrating the perspectives of rival normative
theories, it draws a clear distinction between ethical and moral
progress and makes the case that moral progress can neither happen
merely in theory, nor come about by a fluke. Still, the ideal of
moral progress as a deliberate improvement in practices with a
positive impact on the world is but one of several types of moral
progress, relating in different ways to the theoretical and
practical capacities of moral agents. No elevated level of
sophistication in these capacities is required for moral progress
to be possible, and the abstract idea of moral progress need not be
on moral agents' minds in the pursuit of the morally better.
However, a desire for impactful moral progress, far from being a
moral fetish, marks a particularly valuable moral outlook.
The book by Professor Kurbanov Marat Ahnafovich is about a new
worldview, a new teaching on the way to self-awareness, to
understanding the planet and Universe as a whole, to knowing good
from evil. The book uncovers that knowledge which the new Man, the
new generation that has been born on the planet in new conditions
should accept. The book gives the reader an opportunity to accept
the new laws of the world, whiteout which step the future of all
humanity is impossible; it gives the key to understanding the Unity
of the Universe. Accept this book and you will be One with the
World, with the whole Universe The book has healing powers. Homo
Sapiens Accept and understand Everything Because Everything - is in
you, and, as Everything is in you, then, it is what the Creation
is, because Creation is the essence of Homo Sapiens.
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