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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.
Written with verve and a mordant wit, 'The Wheels of Society' is a
vivid, cogent, ground-breaking proposal for us to re-think
ourselves in order to steer civilisation back to safety. As a
species we seem to cling on to the power and influence of 'the old
normal'. Forests and valleys are decimated so that businessmen can
be in Manchester 30 minutes faster; thousands of airline seats are
sold for the price of a free-range chicken so that hundreds of
short-haul planes can devastate the atmosphere and enable drunken
escapades in Barcelona rather than Soho; the rich get even richer
and the poor get Covid 19. Bankers conspire in the fraudulent abuse
of people's savings, yet can keep their loot, saved by governments
supposed to protect their citizens but who fail to hold a single
perpetrator to account. Is this how we are supposed to be? The
biology of society becomes visible when hubris is side-stepped.
First, natural selfishness must be overcome before individuals can
assemble altruistically into a working group - a rather wonderful
achievement. Our cooperating groups, which make up the hierarchy of
society, are living things in their own right. Then, once
assembled, the group must perform trial-and-error cycles to do
life's vital functions. Wilson's 'assembly-and-performance
thinking' combines these two mechanisms into a simple scientific
theory of society which applies, with variations, to all
cooperating creatures - not just to humans.
In "The Dynamic Concept of Philosophical Mathematics," author
Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche delves deeply into a comprehensive
discussion into the intertwined relationship between philosophy and
mathematics. Aliche begins by defining philosophical mathematics
and traces its origins and its branches. He then relates the
concept to the worlds of science, engineering, technology, creative
and applied arts, and human existence.
In this systemic, practical and research-driven work, Aliche
presents innovative interpretations of mathematical and
philosophical issues and reexamines their relevance and
applicability to modern developments. He also proposes abolishing
most ancient and primordial mathematical policies and formulas, as
they are not helping the world of science and technology to
grow.
Presenting principles, practices, and theories, "The Dynamic
Concept of Philosophical Mathematics" demystifies the oracle of
mathematics and communicates that knowledge is power and must
therefore be progressive. He equally insisted that the progressive
nature of knowledge which must be God-driven fundamentally
fulcrumed the demystification of QED which he replaced with the
Infinitude Method which scientifically agrees with the progressive
dynamism of knowledge.
"A product of seasoned scholarship, natural wisdom, empirical
research, and inspired originality. It is perhaps one of the most
sophisticated intellectual inputs to the world of knowledge"
French Intellectuals at a Crossroads examines a broad array of
interrelated subjects: the effect of World War I on France's
intellectual community, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise
of international communism, calls for pacifism, the creation of an
"Intellectuals' International of the Mind," the debate over the
myth of the disengaged intellectual, the apolitical group of
"intellectuels non-conformistes," and, finally, the challenges of
surrealism. Together, these developments reflected the diversity of
intellectual commitment in France in the uncertain and troubled
1920s and 1930s. The interwar period also witnessed France's
relative decline, as expressed in a move from a mood of immense
relief coupled with a feeling of debilitating fatigue to an
inward-looking, pessimistic, and defeatist outlook that presaged
World War II and national collapse.
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.
Throughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has
been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian
faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who
assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed
religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the
discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying
anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in
his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating
that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns
of 'savages.' On the other hand, some of the most eminent
anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E.
Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner.
Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their
religious convictions cohered with their professional work. Despite
being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought,
the relationship between anthropology and Christianity has never
before been the subject of a book-length study. In this
groundbreaking work, Timothy Larsen examines the point where doubt
and faith collide with anthropological theory and evidence.
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Beyond Modernity
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Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch, Pawel Rojek
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Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that
publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area,
especially articles related to the analytic tradition. Each year at
least two volumes are published, including special issues with
invited papers. Reviews are accepted by invitation only.
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