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Learn (Paperback)
Dr Bill Thompson
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R333
Discovery Miles 3 330
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Smile, lift up your Voices. Life is your Play. Wander around on the
stage of Life and Learn. LEARN is the fifth book by the secular
philosopher bill thompson after SMILE, VOICES, PLAY, WANDER, and
now LEARN. The book is for those who have had enough of Homo
Sapiens and are turning to Homo Conatus who is always waiting in
the wings of the greek theatres of words. Homo Conatus, wanting to
exist and enhance the SELF. Individuals needing a progressive
politics, a shared EARTH in order to flourish safely. This requires
DEPTH, an existential that and how. A basic understanding of
biology and cosmology on top of any old sapient understandings of
space and time machines. This new understanding that Homo Conatus
requires turns Freudianism upside down and microcosmic. Hysteria is
normal. Boring is normal. In between is Play. This new deal for the
children of the 21st Century has been researched by the Greeks
[Aristotle], Romans [Cicero], Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz,
and Newton [not as a mechanics but] as the complexity that
surpasses the understandings of the older Homo Sapiens because of
quantum electrodynamics or chemistry for short. Quantum Dynamic
Homeostasis. So Darwin and then secular universities around the
world for our teleonomic developments, new technologies. Any
chances of a maintaining a civil order whilst opening up to diverse
opinionsa has to change gear from sapiens to Conatus and embrace
the teleonomics of the modern synthesis [1958]. Not a lot of people
know enough about this yet, and Learn is the fifth a introduction
to Homo Conatusa by the secular philosopher bill thompson [who is
still trying to work out what it is like to be human]. And is that
not what you do on a daily basis?
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Wander (Paperback)
Dr Bill Thompson
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R333
Discovery Miles 3 330
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The author started writing as a child. By seven wanted to be an
architect. By twenty-four had become a builder. By thirty-four had
become an architect registered and working in the UK. At the age of
fifty he decided that architecture as a discipline was a social
science of some sort. On this basis he earned a masters at UCL,
then a PHD at Heriot Watt for discovering and defending
philosophical position based on interpretation that he now calls
thermenutics. When teaching about cultural contexts at the
university of Ulster architectural school (2001 a " 2010) the link
between perception and emotion became central to his interest. At
which point he retired to write about understanding, in a series of
books, this one being the fourth. The first three were about
sharing the management of understanding. This fourth is about the
way we share the management of understanding by way of
conversations between us that allow us to understand each other.
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Play (Paperback)
Dr Bill Thompson
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R175
Discovery Miles 1 750
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Between every intellect and an understanding of materiality there
is a zone of possible meaning. This is the common experience of the
human condition. We can call what appears in the zone of meaning -
phenomena. These are the closest we ever get to materiality. We
either make sense of phenomena or we fail. When we make sense of
phenomena we can share our ability to make phenomena in similar
ways because we are similar beings. In particular and uniquely on
the earth we make linguistic phenomena in a highly diverse and
developed manner. This we know. Unfortunately many intellects make
their propositional linguistic phenomena and impose them on other
intellects. In the UK we executed a despot in order to get at a
democratic process in which the only voices governing us were human
voices. We are still struggling with propositional linguistic
phenomena in that regard and I hope Play will help us with our
struggle
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Voices (Paperback)
Dr Bill Thompson
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R209
Discovery Miles 2 090
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Voices tells you how the body manages the understanding you have of
the world you live in. The text struggles with contemporary
philosophy relating the world of objects and the world of ideas
that Smile explained as the struggle to understand the world we are
immersed in. In effect Voices continues the work of Husserl and
Hegel and links to related chapters in Zizek's work when he deals
with liberalism and the issues of democracy. As we evolve from
deeply internalized superstitions to individual understandings that
must be reciprocated in order to manage living in the same way we
need to change our belief in truth and knowledge so that nature
becomes evolution for us.
This book tells you how you arrive at an understanding of the world
you live in. It doesn't tell you how to live that life. It just
tells you how you arrive at the understanding you become so
convinced is true that you throw away the life you could have
lived.
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