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Reflections On A Near Universe (Hardcover): Suzanne W. Chappell Reflections On A Near Universe (Hardcover)
Suzanne W. Chappell
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Role of God in Spinoza's Metaphysics (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Sherry Deveaux The Role of God in Spinoza's Metaphysics (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Sherry Deveaux
R4,914 Discovery Miles 49 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Baruch Spinoza began his studies in the Jewish community of seventeenth century Amsterdam by learning Hebrew and the Talmud, only to be excommunicated at the age of twenty-four for supposed heresy. Because of his radical transformation of the concept of God, he has been characterized, on the one hand, as an atheist, and on the other as the God-intoxicated man. This book is an exploration of what Spinoza understood God to be; how, for him, the infinite and eternal power of God is expressed; and how finite human beings can have a true idea of this greatest of all entities. Sherry Deveaux begins with an analytic discussion of these three questions and an explication of three different views held by contemporary commentators on Spinoza. She then shows that the commonly held views about Spinoza are inconsistent with his texts--especially his magnum opus, the Ethics. Next, she provides analyses of central topics in Spinoza's metaphysics--such as 'power', 'true idea', and 'essence'--that must be understood in order to correctly answer the three questions. Deveaux concludes by arguing (i) that Spinoza defines God's essence as 'absolutely infinite and eternal power' and (ii) that, far from identifying God's essence with the divine attributes (such as thought and extension) as commentators commonly suppose, Spinoza regards God's essence or power as something that is expressed through the divine attributes.

Being and Creation in the Theology of John Scottus Eriugena (Hardcover): Sergei N. Sushkov Being and Creation in the Theology of John Scottus Eriugena (Hardcover)
Sergei N. Sushkov; Foreword by David Jasper
R1,231 R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Save R204 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Seven Brief Lessons on Magic (Hardcover): Paul Tyson Seven Brief Lessons on Magic (Hardcover)
Paul Tyson
R838 R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Save R117 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
To You with Love and Innocence (Hardcover): Leonarde Andreas Michelangelle Bonet To You with Love and Innocence (Hardcover)
Leonarde Andreas Michelangelle Bonet
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Meditations - The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - with Biographical Sketch, Philosophy of, Illustrations,... Meditations - The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - with Biographical Sketch, Philosophy of, Illustrations, Index and Index of Terms (Hardcover)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; Translated by George Long
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his thoughts between 170 and 180. He was a late Stoic Philosopher and this one of the few examples of this type of literature that exists today. The book is written as personal notes to himself and his thesis is that one can obtain inner calm irrespective of outer adversity. The text considers good and evil, solidarity, adversity and inner freedom. It is a book that offers wisdom, comfort and inspiration. As well as the thought, this edition contains a biographical sketch and summary of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, a number of illustrations and both an index and index of terms.

An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza - Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Norman... An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza - Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Norman L. Whitman
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the complete human being rather than with attaining only rational knowledge. Complete perfection of a human being expresses the unique concord of concrete activities, such as ethics, politics, and psychology, with reason. The necessity of concrete historical activities in generating perfection entails that both thinkers are not primarily concerned with an "escape" to a metaphysical realm of transcendent or universal truths via cognition. Instead, both are focused on developing and cultivating individuals' concrete desires and activities to the potential benefit of all. This book argues that rather than solely focusing on individual enlightenment, both thinkers are primarily concerned with a political life and the improvement of fellow citizens' capacities. A key theme throughout the text is that both Maimonides and Spinoza realize that an apolitical life undermines individual and social flourishing.

Time for Aristotle - Physics IV. 10-14 (Hardcover, New): Ursula Coope Time for Aristotle - Physics IV. 10-14 (Hardcover, New)
Ursula Coope
R3,275 Discovery Miles 32 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Walter Carnielli, Jacek Malinowski Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Walter Carnielli, Jacek Malinowski
R2,915 Discovery Miles 29 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume investigates what is beyond the Principle of Non-Contradiction. It features 14 papers on the foundations of reasoning, including logical systems and philosophical considerations. Coverage brings together a cluster of issues centered upon the variety of meanings of consistency, contradiction, and related notions. Most of the papers, but not all, are developed around the subtle distinctions between consistency and non-contradiction, as well as among contradiction, inconsistency, and triviality, and concern one of the above mentioned threads of the broadly understood non-contradiction principle and the related principle of explosion. Some others take a perspective that is not too far away from such themes, but with the freedom to tread new paths. Readers should understand the title of this book in a broad way,because it is not so obvious to deal with notions like contradictions, consistency, inconsistency, and triviality. The papers collected here present groundbreaking ideas related to consistency and inconsistency.

An Intuitionistic Way to Ultimate Reality - Unlocking the Mysteries of Man and His Universe (Hardcover): Faraz Godrej Joshi An Intuitionistic Way to Ultimate Reality - Unlocking the Mysteries of Man and His Universe (Hardcover)
Faraz Godrej Joshi
R687 R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Meaning of Idealism - The Metaphysics of Genus and Countenance (Hardcover): Pavel Florensky The Meaning of Idealism - The Metaphysics of Genus and Countenance (Hardcover)
Pavel Florensky; Translated by Boris Jakim
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reality Reviewed - Improving your chances in a world emerging (Hardcover): Marcus Van Der Erve Reality Reviewed - Improving your chances in a world emerging (Hardcover)
Marcus Van Der Erve
R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Kybalion - A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): "Three Initiates" The Kybalion - A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
"Three Initiates"; Foreword by The Kybalion Resource Page
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Multiplitism - Set Theory and Sociology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Eliran Bar-El Multiplitism - Set Theory and Sociology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Eliran Bar-El
R1,744 Discovery Miles 17 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. It revisits existing sociological approaches and discusses their limitations, before suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively, the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics. Utilising its philosophical exploration delineated by Alain Badiou, the book further translates his work into the field of social science. The result of this translation is termed Multiplitism, which evades the limiting contradictions of existing approaches. Drawing on the mathematical notion of 'set' and relating it to recent sociological turns such as the relational and the ontological, the book proposes a scale-relativity through which the researcher (as subject) and the researched (as object) are integrated. The book will be of interest to social scientists, particularly social theorists and advanced level students.

Re Lease + Be Come - The Story of 2 Souls (Hardcover): Barbara Bullard Re Lease + Be Come - The Story of 2 Souls (Hardcover)
Barbara Bullard
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Time: A Philosophical Introduction (Hardcover): James Harrington Time: A Philosophical Introduction (Hardcover)
James Harrington
R4,588 Discovery Miles 45 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Time: A Philosophical Introduction" presents the philosophy of time as the central debate between being and the becoming.This core theme brings together the key topics, debates and thinkers, making ideas such as Zeno's paradoxes, the experience of change and temporal flow and the direction and shape of time and time travel, clear and understandable. Alongside a glossary and detailed timeline to further enhance study and understanding, each chapter features: - Extensive lists of further reading in both primary and secondary sources- A chronological listing of key figures, brief biographical data and references- True/false questions, matching, multiple choice, and short answer questionsTime is a central philosophical subject, impacting on all many different aspects of philosophy. More technical discussions of issues from mathematics, logic and physics are separated into Technical Interludes, allowing readers to choose their level of difficultly. As a result this comprehensive introduction is essential reading for upper-level undergraduates studying the philosophy of time, metaphysics or the philosophy of science.

Concepts of Nature - Ancient and Modern (Hardcover): R J Snell, Steven F. McGuire Concepts of Nature - Ancient and Modern (Hardcover)
R J Snell, Steven F. McGuire; Contributions by Barry. Cooper, Thomas W Smith, Glenn Hughes, …
R2,667 Discovery Miles 26 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians, political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.

Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting (Hardcover): Nicholas... Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting (Hardcover)
Nicholas Guardiano
R3,591 R2,529 Discovery Miles 25 290 Save R1,062 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the rich complexity of immediate experience, the possibility of discovering new aesthetic features about the world, and the transformative potential of art as an organic expression. This book presents the philosophy in its relationship to its historical roots in the philosophic and artistic traditions of nineteenth-century North America. In this multidisciplinary study, Nicholas L. Guardiano brings together a philosophic and literary figure in Ralph Waldo Emerson, the scientifically minded philosopher Charles S. Peirce, and the plastic arts in the form of American landscape painting. Guardiano evaluates this constellation of philosophers and artists in global perspective as it relates to other historical theories of metaphysics and aesthetics, while simultaneously performing a cultural analysis that identifies an essential feature of the American mind. Aesthetic Transcendentalism thus possesses abiding significance for our vital interactions with nature, daily experiences, and contemplations of great works of art. Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting will be of interest to scholars of American philosophy and American art history, especially specialists of Charles S. Peirce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Hudson River School painters. It will also appeal to philosophers working on systematic metaphysical theories of nature.

Your Greater Self - The Inner Consciousness: A Course of Lessons on the Inner Planes of the Mind, Intuition, Instinct,... Your Greater Self - The Inner Consciousness: A Course of Lessons on the Inner Planes of the Mind, Intuition, Instinct, Automatic Mentation (Hardcover)
William Walker Atkinson
R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Your Greater Self or The Inner Consciousness, written by William Walker Atkinson in 1908, is yet another title in his repertoire pertaining to greater or higher thought. In this case, the book centers on the idea that there are higher levels of consciousness and meaning that we can become in tune with through meditation and concentration. Atkinson starts by describing the different centers of the mind-such as the basement and the storehouse-and uses imagery to help his readers understand how to reach their inner consciousness and use it to its full potential.American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932) was editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905 and editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books under numerous pseudonyms, including the name "Yogi," some of which are likely still unknown today.

Aristoxenus's Ghost (Hardcover): Mitzi DeWhitt Aristoxenus's Ghost (Hardcover)
Mitzi DeWhitt
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As Vyasa, scribe of the epic Mahabarata, said,

Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms (Hardcover): Francis A. Grabowski III Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms (Hardcover)
Francis A. Grabowski III
R5,259 Discovery Miles 52 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an important new monograph on Plato's metaphysics, focusing on the theory of the forms, which is the central philosophical concept in Plato's theory.Few philosophical doctrines have been as influential and as widely discussed as Plato's theory of Forms; yet few have been as misunderstood. Most philosophers, following the recommendation of Aristotle, regard the Forms as abstract entities. However, this view is difficult to square with other aspects of Plato's thought, in particular his theory of knowledge.Francis A. Grabowski aims to dissociate the theory of Forms from its Aristotelian reception, by interpreting it within the larger framework of Plato's philosophy. Grabowski notes that the theory emerged largely from epistemological concerns. He shows that the ancients conceived of knowledge almost exclusively as a perception-like acquaintance with things. He goes on to examine Plato's epistemology and shows that Plato also regards knowledge as the mind being directly acquainted with its object. Grabowski argues that, by modelling knowledge on perception, Plato could not have conceived of the Forms as Aristotle and others have claimed. He concludes that an interpretation of the Forms as concrete rather than abstract entities provides a more plausible and coherent view of Plato's overall philosophical project.

Diderot, Philosopher of Energy 1988 - The Development of His Concept of Physical Energy, 1745-69 (English, French, Hardcover):... Diderot, Philosopher of Energy 1988 - The Development of His Concept of Physical Energy, 1745-69 (English, French, Hardcover)
B.Lynne Dixon
R3,014 Discovery Miles 30 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The title of this work may seem to beg an important question, since it rests on the assumption that Diderot has a 'concept of physical energy'. Indeed the aim of the study is, in part, to assemble evidence in support of the acte de foi implicit in its title. I am using 'physical energy' in a loose sense, as a convenient term to denote 'what matter can do' as distinct from 'what matter is made of'. Hence it may be taken as broadly synonymous with 'power' or 'force', encompassing both active and potential forms, and thus corresponding to a combination of the fourth and fifth senses identified by the Oxford English Dictionary: 4. Power actively and efficiently displayed or exerted. 5. Power not necessarily manifested in action; ability or capacity to produce an effect. Modern subatomic physics, of course, recognises no such distinction between 'being' and 'doing'; at a fundamental level, matter-as-substance and matter-as-energy are interchangeable (and, as I shall argue towards the end of the study, Diderot himself comes close to a similar position). Nevertheless, the division is both justifiable and useful within the context of eighteenth-century philosophies of nature. For, as many scholars have pointed out, the trend towards nature as an integrated, active phenomenon, in place of the cartesian view of passive etendue only incidentally endowed with motion, was crucial to the development of scientific thought in the mid-eighteenth century. Debate and development on such issues as Newtonian attraction, inertia, electricity and magnetism, chemical reactions, not only contributed directly to the advancement of physics and chemistry, but also (like cartesian mechanism) impinged upon the perennial biological questions, themselves being investigated from a new and exciting angle. As a philosopher rather than a practising scientist, Diderot was ideally placed to draw freely and creatively on all these areas, and his speculations on what we might call 'the nature of nature' are highly characteristic of the new approach. He comes increasingly to discuss and define natural phenomena (organic and inorganic alike) from the point of view of nature's powers - in the spirit of Renaissance naturalism, but from the perspective of up-to-date scientific findings. It is in this sense that I refer to a 'concept of physical energy'. Given the organic quality of Diderot's thought, it is not surprising to find the idea of energy recurring in other areas of his works. If man is composed of matter - active matter - than all human activity, be it moral, political, aesthetic, becomes capable of interpretation in terms of energy. I share Chouillet's conviction that this is a crucial aspect of Diderot's overall philosophy, which deserves to be more widely recognised and more fully understood.

This Time, Glide - Stop Struggling for Success and Begin Achieving Through Ease and Joy (Hardcover): Gina Drellack This Time, Glide - Stop Struggling for Success and Begin Achieving Through Ease and Joy (Hardcover)
Gina Drellack
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Einstein vs. Bergson - An Enduring Quarrel on Time (Hardcover): Alessandra Campo, Simone Gozzano Einstein vs. Bergson - An Enduring Quarrel on Time (Hardcover)
Alessandra Campo, Simone Gozzano
R3,224 Discovery Miles 32 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4-6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on 6 April 1922, divided Einstein and Bergson: the nature of time. For Einstein, scientific time is the only time that matters and the only time we can rely on. Bergson, however, believes that scientific time is derived by abstraction, even in the sense of extraction, from a more fundamental time. The plurality of times envisaged by the theory of Relativity does not, for him, contradict the philosophical intuition of the existence of a single time. But how do things stand today? What can we say about the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of time in the light of contemporary science? What do quantum mechanics, biology and neuroscience teach us about the nature of time? The essays collected here take up the question that pitted Einstein against Bergson, science against philosophy, in an attempt to reverse the outcome of their monologue in two voices, with a multilogue in several voices.

The State Flowers - Alabama's Camelia to the U.S. Virgin Islands' Yellow Cedar (Hardcover): Robert E. A. Daley The State Flowers - Alabama's Camelia to the U.S. Virgin Islands' Yellow Cedar (Hardcover)
Robert E. A. Daley
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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