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A Study In Christian Pantheism - Paperback

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by Arthur Edward Waite (Author)A Study in Christian Pantheism is a book written by Arthur Edward Waite. The book explores the concept of pantheism, which is the belief that the universe and God are one and the same. Waite argues that this idea can be reconciled with Christian theology, and that there are many similarities between the two. He examines the works of various Christian mystics and philosophers, including Meister Eckhart and Jacob Boehme, and shows how their ideas can be seen as pa...

The Revolt Against Dualism: An Inquiry Concerning The Existence Of Ideas - Paperback

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by Arthur O. Lovejoy (Author)The Revolt Against Dualism: An Inquiry Concerning The Existence Of Ideas is a philosophical book written by Arthur O. Lovejoy. The book explores the concept of dualism, which is the belief that the world is made up of two opposing forces or principles, such as mind and matter or good and evil. Lovejoy argues that this dualistic view of the world has been challenged throughout history by philosophers who believe in the existence of ideas as a third, independent cat...

The History Of The State Of Maine V1: From Its First Discovery, A. D. 1602, To The Separation, A. D. 1820, Inclusive (1832) - Paperback

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by William Durkee Williamson (Author)""The History Of The State Of Maine V1: From Its First Discovery, A. D. 1602, To The Separation, A. D. 1820, Inclusive"" is a comprehensive historical account of the state of Maine, written by William Durkee Williamson and originally published in 1832. The book covers the period from the earliest European explorations of the region, through its colonial history as part of Massachusetts, to its eventual statehood in 1820. The text includes detailed descript...

Aphorismes Of Justification, With Their Explication Annexed (1655) - Hardcover

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by Richard Baxter (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 346 Dimensions: 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN P...

The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless - Paperback

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by John D. Barrow (Author)For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen that don't. All manner of strange paradoxes and fantasies characterize ...

Mystery Of Mysteries, Why Did God Create? - Paperback

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by Wheeler Boggess (Author)""Mystery Of Mysteries, Why Did God Create?"" is a thought-provoking book written by Boggess and Wheeler that delves into the age-old question of why God created the universe and everything in it. The authors explore various philosophical and theological perspectives to try and uncover the true purpose behind God's creation. They analyze the Bible, scientific theories, and other religious texts to provide a comprehensive understanding of this complex topic. The book...

Critical Semiotics: Theory, from Information to Affect - Paperback

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by Gary Genosko (Author), Gregory Paschalidis (Editor)Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to have diminished meaning or even no meaning ...

Philosophy, Who Needs It?: A Layman's Introduction to Philosophy - Paperback

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by Jason D. Crowder (Author), Winfried Corduan (Foreword by)Too often skeptics charge Christians with having a blind faith. Unfortunately, believers have added fuel to the charges of skeptics by speaking of their faith illogically. But the Christian faith is not a blind faith. In fact, biblical faith is never a blind, irrational faith. Christianity rests firmly on the stone that was rejected by the builders, which has become the cornerstone--Jesus Christ (Acts 4:11). Living biblically require...

Waypoints, Volume I: Zen Motorcyclist - Paperback

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by Bud Miller (Author)In this collection of essays, motorcycle journalist Bud Miller touchingly and eloquently shares introspections and lessons learned during his more than 200,000 miles traveled on a motorcycle. Although his writings originated from the metaphorical waypoints visited along his riding journeys, riders and nonriders alike will find plenty to enjoy in these meditations on life, loss, and love, stories that center around the commonalities that unite and bond not just motorcycli...

Architecture, Mysticism and Myth - With Illustrations by the Author - Paperback

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by W. R. Lethaby (Author)First published in 1892, this vintage book looks at religious, mystical, and mythological influences on architecture throughout history and from all over the world, exploring in detail similarities, design, purpose, and much more. Profusely illustrated throughout, "Architecture, Mysticism and Myth" will appeal to those with an interest in religious architecture and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: "The World Fabric", "The Microcosm...

The Kingdom of God Is Within You - Paperback

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by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author), Constance Garnett (Translator)The Kingdom of God Is Within You by Leo Tolstoy is a groundbreaking philosophical work that presents his views on nonviolent resistance and the moral teachings of Christianity. In this book, Tolstoy argues that the true meaning of Christianity is found not in church doctrines or rituals, but in the individual's personal relationship with God and adherence to Jesus' teachings of love, compassion, and nonviolence. The work was ...

The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: Volume Eight: The Marriage of Sense and Soul, One Taste - Paperback

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by Ken Wilber (Author)Volume Eight of The Collected Works of Ken Wilber includes: - In The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion (1998), Wilber takes on the centuries-old problem of the relationship between science and religion. After surveying the world's great wisdom traditions and extracting features they all share, he offers compelling arguments that not only are these compatible with scientific truth, they also share a similar scientific method. - One Taste: Th...

Creative Faith: Religion as a Way of Worldmaking - Paperback

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by Don Cupitt (Author)At some point very early on in its development, Christianity split between two different pathways: one path stayed with the teaching of Jesus and the primacy of ethics, the other started with the return of Jesus and, therefore, with supernatural belief. Today, ethics has been largely sidelined, viewed as secondary or subservient to belief. Don Cupitt argues that the time has come to give ethics priority in defining and shaping religious life. As he puts it, "No longer sh...

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by Xenophon (Author)XENOPHON the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.**** THE ECONOMIST records Socrates and Critobulus in a talk about profitable estate management, and a lengthy recollection by Socrates of Ischomachus' discussion of the same topic. Number of Pages: 12...

Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts - Hardcover

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by Monica Furlong (Author)Monica Furlong followed Watts's travels conducting interviews with his family, colleagues, and intimate friends, to provide an analysis of the intellectual, cultural, and deeply personal influences behind this truly extraordinary life. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2001

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by Edwin A. Abbott (Author)Edwin A. Abbot's (aka "A Square") was a prominent 19th century Christian theologian. His "Flatland" served as a biting critique of the elitist attitude embodied in England at the time and doubled as a provocative portrayal of the Christian doctrine of the incarnation. The premise of the book would prove to be an inspiration to numerous science fiction authors of the 20th century. This edition features the original illustrations created by Abbot. Number of Pages: 186...

The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom: and Other Writings - Hardcover

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by Sankarâchârya (Author), Charles Johnston (Translator)In its precise and beautiful language, and in that of the other writings of the Sage, which are included in this volume, is presented his brilliant synthesis of all that is best in the Upanishads--the reality of Spirit.The image of the supreme Self, stained by the dust of imaginings, dwelling inwardly, endless, evil, comes forth pure, by the stirring power of enlightenment, as the scent of sandalwood comes clear. . . " And thus clearly, ...

Tao Te King - Das Buch vom Sinn und Leben: Daodejing - Die Gründungsschrift des Daoismus (Aus der Serie Chinesische Weisheiten) - Paperback

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by Laotse (Author)Das Tao Te King (Daodejing) ist eine Sammlung von Spruchkapiteln. Das Werk gilt als die Gr ndungsschrift des Daoismus, ein heiliger Text. Der heutige Titel des Werks "Das Buch vom Dao und vom De" verweist auf die beiden zentralen Begriffe der Weltanschauung von Laozi. Der Mensch k nne die Wirkung des Dao auf zweierlei Weise erfahren: Zum einen, indem er die Erscheinungen der Welt beobachte und das Dao am Werke sehe; zum anderen, indem er seine Sinne abkehre und sich der Stil...

Kant in Hong Kong: Walking, Thinking, and the City - Paperback

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by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (Author)In 'Kant in Hong Kong' travel, philosophy, and the city weave through one another. The book brings Immanuel Kant-famous for the regularity of his walks in his hometown of K nigsberg-into the swarming streets of the hypermodern city and carries everyday urban experience into the labyrinthine texts of Kant's critical idealism. It lets the empirical and the transcendental play with one another in Kowloon, Hung Hom, Sheung Wan, and Admiralty as we move up and down...

Samantabhadra's Prayer Volume II - Paperback

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by Tony Duff (Author)The Prayer of Samantabhadra, also known as "a prayer of excellent conduct" and also as "a king of prayers" is one of the five great prayers of the Great Vehicle tradition and one of the most popular prayers in that tradition. For example, it is recited every day without fail by many Tibetans. While using the prayer in Tibetan and English, the author discovered that existing English translations from Tibetan sources have many mistakes, all of which give readers a wrong und...

The Art and Science of Real Wealth: Earn Real Wealth - Paperback

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by Dhyan Kutappa Bollachettira (Author)I have been in the field of investing ever since I was a young teen during the mania of the early 1990s. I have had huge successes and even bigger failures and even bigger success again after that.I made enough money before I was 30 (2004), that ordinary people would not have made in a lifetime.But my short-term emotional thinking, arrogance, and greed in investing, and ignoring and mocking the principles of capital allocation and risk management blew aw...

Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction - Paperback

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by Bob Fischer (Author)There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. There aren't many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer's Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills that gap, offering an accessible model of how animal ethics can be done today. The book takes up classic issues, such as the ethics of eating meat and experimenting on animals, but tackles them in an empirically informed and nuanced way. It also covers a range of relatively ne...

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by Rahul Karn (Author)Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to motivate people to remain equanimous. Over the years, these stories have inspired people to tackle the daily challenges of life with serenity. The stories presented here are simple but are pregnant with deep-meaning and subtlety that makes them worth reading again and again. This collection includes 365 Zen Stories, one story for each day in a year! Start...

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by Daisetz Teitaro 1870-1966 Suzuki (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...

The Amorous Imagination: Individuating the Other-As-Beloved - Paperback

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by D. Andrew Yost (Author)In The Amorous Imagination, D. Andrew Yost builds upon Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of love to argue that through the interpretive activities of the imagination the Beloved appears to the lover as this Other, not the Other. Weaving together insights from Romantic thought and contemporary French philosophy, Yost describes the distinctive role the imagination plays in individuating another person so that they appear radically unique, special, and unsubstitutable. Th...

The Philosophy of No-Mind: Experience Without Self - Hardcover

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by Nishihira Tadashi (Author), Catherine Sevilla-Liu (Translator), Anton Sevilla-Liu (Translator)Nishihira Tadashi, one of Japan's leading philosophers, introduces the deeply experiential philosophy of no-mind (mushin). In everyday Japanese, mushin is when one loses oneself in the reality of the present and becomes one with it, resulting in one's best performance. However, behind this everyday use is a concept that touches the core of Japanese spirituality. This book explores no-mind in its ...

Capacity for Welfare Across Species - Hardcover

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by Tatjana Visak (Author)Is my dog, with his joyful and carefree life, better off than I am? Do hens in battery cages have worse lives than cows at pasture? Will my money improve welfare more if I spend it on helping people or if I benefit chickens? How can we assess the harm of climate change for both humans and non-humans? If we want to systematically compare welfare across species, we first need to explore whether welfare subjects of different species have the same or rather a different ca...

The Questions of King Milinda, Part 2 of 2 - Paperback

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by T. W. Rhys Davids (Translator), F. Max Müller (Editor)The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into English by authorities in their respective fields, these sacred texts have been edited by F. Max Muller and have profoundly influenced civilization. The Questions of King Milinda, Part 2 (1894) translated by T. W. Rhys Davids, is Volume XXXV...

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by Peter Sloterdijk (Author), Corey A. Dansereau (Translator), Gill Zimmermann (Translator)In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk theorizes consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history. His subject here is the "world-alien" (Weltfremdhei...

Throne and Altar: The Reviews and Essays - Paperback

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by Bonald (Author)Throne and Altar is a blog, part of the Orthosphere, defending the legitimate authority of God, tradition, fathers, and kings against the diabolical partisans of freedom and equality. Its author, Bonald, is an actual Catholic monarchist who: reviews books on the topics of history, political philosophy, religion, and society laments current events on the 'Rants' section (not included in this volume) explains and defends the main positions of European counter-revolutionary po...

Critical Theory and Dystopia - Paperback

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by Patricia McManus (Author)Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adorno's work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adorno's critique of modernity.Back JacketDystopian fiction is one of the most popular genres of the twenty-first century. This book explores its meaning and significance, asking whether it retains the critical energy of the utop...

Good Nonsense: A Body in Motion and A Mind at Play - Paperback

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by Sarah Austin Casson (Author)A philosophical book on what it means to play in a world on fire-of how we move our bodies and brains through the thorny problems life can throw at us. Number of Pages: 222 Dimensions: 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 28, 2024