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The Path We Must Follow Leads Neither to Right, Nor Left - Hardcover

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by William O. Douglas (Author)""The Path We Must Follow Leads Neither To Right, Nor Left"" is a book written by William O. Douglas, an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The book is a collection of essays and speeches delivered by Douglas on various topics such as the Constitution, the environment, civil liberties, and the role of the judiciary in American society. The title of the book reflects Douglas' belief that the...

Sebastian Franck: An Apostle Of Inward Religion - Paperback

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by Rufus M. Jones (Author)""Sebastian Franck: An Apostle of Inward Religion"" is a book written by Rufus M. Jones that explores the life and teachings of Sebastian Franck, a 16th-century German mystic and religious reformer. The book delves into Franck's beliefs and practices, which emphasized the importance of personal spiritual experience and the rejection of external religious authorities. Jones examines Franck's writings, including his most famous work ""Chronicle of the Anabaptist Kingdo...

The Outlaw Years the History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace - Hardcover

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by Robert M. Coates (Author)The Outlaw Years: The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace is a non-fiction book written by Robert M. Coates. The book explores the history of the Natchez Trace, a historic trail that ran from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, and the infamous bandits and outlaws who roamed it during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book delves into the lives and exploits of notorious figures such as John Murrell, Samuel Mason, and the Harpe broth...

European Civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe (1850) - Hardcover

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by Jaime Luciano Balmes (Author)European Civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe is a book written by Jaime Balmes in 1850. The book compares the impact of Protestantism and Catholicism on the development of European civilization. Balmes argues that Catholicism has played a more positive role in the development of Europe, citing examples such as the preservation of ancient knowledge during the Dark Ages, the establishment of universi...

Scientific Use Of The Imagination And Other Essays (1872) - Paperback

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by John Tyndall (Author)""Scientific Use of the Imagination and Other Essays"" is a collection of essays written by John Tyndall in 1872. Tyndall was a prominent Irish physicist who made significant contributions to the fields of physics, chemistry, and atmospheric science. In this book, Tyndall explores the role of imagination in scientific discovery and how it can be used to further our understanding of the natural world. He also discusses the importance of experimentation and observation i...

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by Inazo Nitobe (Author)About ten years ago, while spending a few days under the hospitable roof of the distinguished Belgian jurist, the lamented M. de Laveleye, our conversation turned, during one of our rambles, to the subject of religion. "Do you mean to say," asked the venerable professor, "that you have no religious instruction in your schools?" On my replying in the negative he suddenly halted in astonishment, and in a voice which I shall not easily forget, he repeated "No religion! Ho...

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by Elizabeth Hughes (Translator), Jacques Maritain (Author), Michael Cuddihy (Translator)At eighty-five, Jacques Maritain, the most distinguished Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, has written what he offers as his last book, and it turns out to be a shocker. The ""peasant,"" as Maritain calls himself in the title, is a man who calls a spade a spade; and a storm of controversy descended immediately on the book's publication in France, as both Right and Left reeled from the force o...

Contemporary Humanistic Judaism: Beliefs, Values, Practices - Paperback

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by Adam Chalom (Author), Jodi Kornfeld (Editor)Opening up multidimensional ideas, values, and practices of Humanistic Judaism to Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs, Contemporary Humanistic Judaism collects the movement's most important texts for the first time and answers the oft-raised question, "How can you be Jewish and celebrate Judaism if you don't believe in God?" with new vision.Part 1 ("Beliefs and Ethics") examines core positive beliefs--in human agency, social progress, ethics with...

Surya-Siddhanta: A Text Book Of Hindu Astronomy - Hardcover

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by Ebenezer Burgess (Author)Surya-Siddhanta: A Text Book Of Hindu Astronomy by Ebenezer Burgess is a comprehensive guide to the ancient Hindu system of astronomy. The book explores the principles and practices of Hindu astronomy and provides detailed information on the calculation of planetary positions, eclipses, and other astronomical events. The author draws on the Surya-Siddhanta, an ancient Hindu text that is considered to be one of the most important sources of knowledge on Hindu astron...

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by David Svoboda (Author)The quest for unity and multiplicity is one of the most important concerns in the history of human thought and has been of unceasing interest since the birth of the history of philosophy to the present day. The same holds true of the writings of St Thomas Aquinas, and this work is devoted to his ideas. Since the problem of unity and multitude is closely linked to many other key metaphysical issues, such as the doctrine of transcendental concepts, the mode of compositi...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality - Paperback

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by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Author)Rousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He then explains the way, according to him, people may have established civil society, which leads him to present private property as the original source and basis of all inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and compos...

Negative Theology and Philosophical Analysis: Only the Splendour of Light - Hardcover

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by Simon Hewitt (Author)This book is the first treatment at length of negative, or apophatic, theology within the analytic tradition. Apophatic theology holds that there is a significant sense in which we cannot say what God is. Important negative theological elements are present in a host of Christian thinkers, from Gregory of Nyssa to Aquinas, and yet apophaticism is neglected in philosophical theology as practiced within the analytic tradition. By contrast, Hewitt shows how apophatic theol...

Bernadette and Her Lady of Glory - Paperback

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by Valentine Long (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprod...

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by Herbert Charles 1912- Brown (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be pres...

Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation - Paperback

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by Upton Sinclair (Author)"A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, . . . in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief." ―Upton Sinclair, Mammonart Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1925) by Upton Sinclair consists mainly of critiques of many great artists from Homer to Mark Twain and from Michelangelo to Jack London. It is one in a series of six books the author wrote analyzing American institutions from a ...

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by Edwin Abbott (Author)Flatland is uniquely both a social critique and a primer on multi-dimensional geometry. Written in two parts in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott, an English mathematician and theologian, it tells the story of a square living in Flatland: a two-dimensional realm. After a dream of a restrictive one-dimensional existence and the difficulties this poses, he is visited by a sphere from a three-dimensional space who wishes to enlighten him into the ways of "Upward, yet not Northward....

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by Alan Greeley Misenheimer (Author)US forces have been engaged around the globe since World War II, and "endless" war has become the backdrop of American life. This militarized status quo is rife with contradiction. The Constitution requires a congressional declaration of war, yet the executive branch routinely acts alone to dispatch forces and launch attacks. The norms of republican self-governance stipulate alignment between popular will and public policy, yet our post-9/11 wars in Afghani...

The Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates - Paperback

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by L. Syd M. Johnson (Author), Andrew Fenton (Author), Mary Lee Jensvold (Author)The Three Pillars (Harmonization, Replacement, and Justice) describe an ethical path forward and away from the use of nonhuman primates in harmful research and scientific use. Conducting nonhuman primate research in an ethical way that acknowledges their moral importance requires satisfying more rigorous guidelines and regulations modeled on those that apply to similarly vulnerable human subjects, especially chil...

Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values - Paperback

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by Thomas H. Brobjer (Author) Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 02, 2025

Zen in the Art of Archery: A New Translation for Modern Readers - Paperback

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by Eugen Herrigel (Author)Zen in the Art of Archery, originally published in German, was first published in English in 1953, the first book to introduce Zen Buddhism to a Western audience. The translation was rather formal and scholarly, making for difficult reading about a subject that was already hard to understand. This new translation skillfully transmits the book's original meaning in a simpler, smoother style more accessible to modern readers, but with all of the author's fascinating ex...

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by Gideon Rappaport (Author) Professor Mary Holmes called paradox "the natural condition of theworld. It is both the working principle and the mystery of life... We arealways surrounded by paradox because all of creation is the union ofopposites. All energy comes from the union of opposites."3 Holmes ishere tying our experience of paradox to our consciousness of opposites.And her insight reminds us that though our human categories of thoughtare insufficient to contain all of reality, yet our ...

Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Natural Philosophizing - Paperback

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by Alberto Marco Giovanni Ghibellini (Author)Examines how Leo Strauss sought to recover the question of "nature," which he saw as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its inception in ancient Greece.Among the political philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss is usually singled out for his attempt to revitalize the ancient approach to counter the relativism of both historicism and positivism. It is less commonly underscored, however, that the cornerstone of this attempt is the ...

Those Who ACT Ruin It: A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement - Paperback

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by Jacob Bender (Author)Presents an iconoclastic account of morality and moral discourse from the perspective of Daoist philosophy.Drawing on both western and Chinese philosophy, Those Who Act Ruin It shows how Daoism presents a viable alternative to established moral theories. The Daoist, critical of the Confucian and Mohist discourses of their time, provides an account of morality that can best be understood as achieving an attunement to situations through the cultivation of habits. Further...

Return to the Eternal Abode: Sufi Dialogues with Seyyed Hossein Nasr - Paperback

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by Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Author), Amira El-Zein (Author)Thought-provoking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary conversations on Sufism with one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religion, and comparative studies.Return to the Eternal Abode is a series of in-depth discussions between Amira El-Zein and Seyyed Hossein Nasr, one of the world's foremost scholars of Islamic, religious, and comparative studies. Each of the six chapters addresses a central theme at the heart of Sufism: cre...

Philosophy of the Himalayan Master Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath - Hardcover

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by Rudra Shivananda (Author) Number of Pages: 322 Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2024

Time, Will, and Purpose: Living Ideas from the Philosophy of Josiah Royce - Paperback

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by Randall E. Auxier (Author)Josiah Royce (1855-1916) has had a major influence on American intellectual life -- both popular movements and cutting-edge thought -- but his name often went unmentioned while his ideas marched forward. The leading American proponent of absolute idealism, Royce has come back into fashion in recent years. With several important new books appearing, the formation of a Josiah Royce Society, and the re-organization of the Royce papers at Harvard, the time is ripe for...

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by Den (Author)Chapter 1: How does the human mind operate? 1 Explaining how the mind works: A new theory 1 The Conscious Mind 1 The Unconscious Mind 1 So why is it important to understand how your mind works? 2 How and why do humans think and act in the ways that we do? 2 Personal Response 3 Surprising Facts about How Our Brains Work 3 Improved memory 5 Better learning 6 What Happens in Your Body and Brain While You Sleep 6 Sleep is the prime time for learning and memory 7 Poor sleep makes yo...

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by Maria Elisabeth Reicher (Author)Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this book, Meinong's so-called object theory as well as "neo-Meinongian" reconstructions are presented and discussed, especially with respect to logical issues, both from a historical and a systematic perspective. Among others, the following topics are addressed: basic principles and motivations for Meinongianism; the distinctio...

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - Paperback

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by Doris Lessing (Author)"One of the most important writers of the past hundred years." -- The Times (London)In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what we know, how to pick a path in a world deluged with opinions and information, and how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes.Back JacketOne of the world's most extraordinary writers addresses directly the prime que...

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by Constantine Tsoucalas (Author), Alex Stavrakas (Translator)We live in an age of ever-deepening anxiety. Free of convictions, released from certainties, we appear untethered--and alone. The values that underpinned our sense of, and need for, collectivity have been reduced to their lowest common denominator: liberty means nothing more than exploiting our individuality; equality has become an empty political slogan; as for solidarity, it's nowhere to be seen. Such ruptures are neither acciden...

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by Max Kistler (Author)This Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counterfactual dependence, 5) interventions and causal models, and 6) processes and mechanisms. None of these accounts can provide a complete reductive analysis. However, some provide the means to distinguish several useful concept...

In Harmony with the Tao: A Guided Journey into the Tao Te Ching - Paperback

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by Francis Pring-Mill (Author)The Tao Te Ching is one of the most widely read and deeply loved works of ancient spiritual wisdom in the world. But its dense and cryptic lines can sometimes yield more confusion than illumination. If you've ever found yourself understanding the printed words but thinking, "Yes, but what does this mean and how is it relevant to me?" then Francis Pring-Mill's In Harmony with the Tao: A Guided Journey into the Tao Te Ching is your guide into deeper understanding o...