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Report copyright infringementby Sean D. Kirkland (Author)Aristotle and Tragic Temporality treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his Poetics and Ethics, rather than the natural philosophy of the Physics. Sean D. Kirkland first takes up Aristotle's discussion of our tragic temporal situatedness--our having to act, think, and live always betwe...

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Tornow (Author)Tornow draws on everyday life, spinning her experiences into humorously ironic tales. These essays leave readers smiling about the absurdities right around every corner. Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: August 03, 2019

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Report copyright infringementby Angelica Kaufmann (Author)Humans and non-human animals alike rely on temporal cues to coordinate behaviour. This Element investigates whether non-human animals possess genuine temporal cognition- the capacity to mentally represent time rather than merely respond to temporal cues. It examines the evolution of cognitive architectures that support temporal coordination and considers the philosophical implications of time representation. Challenging the long-standi...

The Theology of Everything: Renaissance Man Joins the 21st Century

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Report copyright infringementby Keith James Eyeons (Author)Human beings have gathered a vast amount of knowledge, but we each know only a little of it. We become specialists in narrow fields, from Airbus pilots to Zulu historians, then find it difficult to see what all of these areas of expertise might mean together.This book makes two radical claims. The first is that all of our human faculties have evolved to show us important things about the universe, including our appreciation of beauty,...

The Freshman Secrets Handbook: A Sercret Survival Guide to the Freshman Yearof College

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Report copyright infringementby Tammy Vineyard (Author), Scott Vineyard (Author)The Perfect High School Graduation Gift!!!! The Freshman Secrets Handbook is designed as a simple guide to having a successful first year of college. The handbook is designed in mind for the relative or loved one to include thoughtful ideas and insights to a graduating high school senior in addition to a gift card. Each book that is sold the authors donate Proceeds to each of these fine charities: American Diabete...

Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Ways of the World

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Mulraney (Author)Peter Mulraney enjoyed a forty year career across education, banking and finance, and public administration before transitioning to a creative retirement of writing. As a crime writing mystic, he's the author of more than thirty books, including several self-help titles.Seeing Things Differently is a collection of articles with a focus on rethinking the ways of the world. Originally published as opinion pieces on Medium, the articles are ...

Open Marxism: Critical Theory as Militant Enlightenment

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Report copyright infringementby Christos Memos (Author), Chris O'Kane (Editor), Werner Bonefeld (Editor)Bringing together the various heterodox traditions, groups and scholars that came under the heading of Open Marxism for the first time, this book assesses the evolution of Open Marxism from the initial usage of the term by Kostas Axelos in France in the 1950s and the journal, Arguments, principally the 'anarchist Marx' of Maximilien Rubel and the 'Libertarian Marxism' of Daniel Guérin, thro...

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Report copyright infringementby Khalid El Bey (Author)From My Eyes is a compilation of opinion articles written by Khalid Bey concerning issues affecting the African American community in Syracuse, New York. Though the dialogue references Syracuse, the circumstances described are reminiscent of African American communities throughout the country. From My Eyes provides an interesting perspective, which could create discomfort in some; but it is nevertheless refreshing and is sure to be an adve...

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Report copyright infringementby Rudolf Steiner (Author)""Man's Connection With The Various Planetary Bodies"" is a book written by Rudolf Steiner that explores the relationship between human beings and the planets in our solar system. Steiner was a philosopher, educator, and spiritual thinker who founded the Anthroposophical movement. In this book, he delves into the spiritual connections between human beings and the planets, and how the movements and energies of the planets can affect us on ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Bricklin (Author)James's notion of sciousness or 'pure experience' is akin to Zen tathata (suchness). Japan's renowned philosopher Kitaro Nishida, in fact, used James's concept to explain tathata to the Japanese themselves. As this collection of essays makes clear, Western practioners of Zen and other nondual practices need not be spiritual vagabonds. We need, rather, to claim our inheritance from the 'father of American psychology.'Author BiographyJon...

Warfare Ethics in Comparative Perspective: China and the West

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Report copyright infringementby Sumner B. Twiss (Editor), Ping-Cheung Lo (Editor), Benedict S. B. Chan (Editor)This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace.Author BiographyThe late Sumner B. Twiss was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion at Florida State University, USA, and author of many books.Ping-cheung Lo is Dean and Rebecca Stephan Professor of Chinese Studies at F...

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Report copyright infringementby John E. Hare (Author)This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it. Focusing on the Abrahamic faiths, eminent scholar John E. Hare explains that two experiences have had to be integrated. The first is that God tells us to do something, or not to do something. The second is that we have to work out ourselves what t...

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