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Nietzsche's Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses - Hardcover

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by Paul Bishop (Author)This book offers an exercise in reception theory and investigates the key figures in the reception of Nietzsche's critique of Judeo-Christianity in the course of the twentieth century. It has often been remarked upon -- but rarely, if ever, explained -- why Nietzsche, the author of the famous parable in The Gay Science in which a madman announces the "death of God" and a self-proclaimed opponent of organised religion, should have been a figure of such profound interest ...

Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit - Hardcover

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by Rodney Wallace Kennedy (Author)Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit is a prequel to the writing and delivery of the sermon. The work of invention which includes the gathering of material is the primary focus of the book. The hard work of preaching takes place in the thinking, reading, and writing. The cross-disciplinary study provided here covers lessons learned by preachers and by novelists, poets, philosophers, and rhetoricians. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publicatio...

The Open Society as an Enemy: A critique of how free societies turned against themselves - Paperback

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by J. McKenzie Alexander (Author)Nearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since the end of the Cold War, many of the values of the Open Society have come under threat once again. Populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin li...

One God, Three Persons, Four Views: A Biblical, Theological, and Philosophical Dialogue on the Doctrine of the Trinity - Hardcover

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by C. A. McIntosh (Editor)The doctrine of the Trinity has become synonymous with mystery in the minds of many. How is it best understood? Is it logically coherent, or is it contradictory? In this book, four leading scholars take up these and other questions about the Trinity in a multidisciplinary approach spanning biblical studies, historical theology, and philosophy. Each puts forth his own view, then in turn defends it from critiques. The result is a wide-ranging, in-depth but accessible l...

Kingdom Ethos: A Sovereign Approach to Moral Governance - Hardcover

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by Curtis C. III Bryant (Author)Kingdom Ethos offers a universal set of moral and ethical values aimed at bridging human differences and encouraging respectful dialogue and behavior. It draws wisdom from various theological traditions and turns it into practical guidelines for maintaining personal dignity and organizational integrity. By providing a shared ethical foundation that goes beyond cultural, political, and national differences, Kingdom Ethos works to create more peaceful and effecti...

Hubris and the Myth of Sisyphus - Paperback

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by Michael A. Matrozos (Author)Hubris in Ancient Greek tragedy simply meant the revealing tale of how a great man's fortunes shifted from initial prosperity to final wretchedness. The hero, once overambitious, self-confident, insolent, and magnificent, faces a tragic fall.Hubris, also known as 'amartia' is the tragic flaw; the inherent defect or shortcoming in the hero who, in all other aspects, is favored by fortune.Tragedy unfolds as a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force, ...

Atomic Essays: Collected Sketches From Life - Hardcover

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by Prabhakar Singh (Author)In this captivating collection of 100 essays, Dr. Prabhakar transforms everyday moments into profound reflections. Written over two years, each 250-word piece offers a unique snapshot of human experience from poignant memories to present-day observations.With an embryologist's precision and a storyteller's soul, Dr. Prabhakar paints vivid pictures that linger in the mind. His words evoke both tears and smiles, capturing life in sepia tones and vibrant hues.Whether s...

My Badass Gratitude Journal: A magical journey of appreciation to actually help you live a blissful, inspired, grateful life. - Paperback

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by Sheila Kamuda (Author) Number of Pages: 134 Dimensions: 0.29 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 16, 2024

Abridgement Of Mental Philosophy: Including The Three Departments Of The Intellect, Sensibilities, And Will (1864) - Paperback

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by Thomas Cogswell Upham (Author)The Abridgement of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will is a book written by Thomas Cogswell Upham in 1864. The book provides a comprehensive overview of mental philosophy, exploring the three main aspects of the human mind: the intellect, sensibilities, and will. Upham's work is an abridged version of his larger work, which was published in two volumes. This abridged version is designed to provide reader...

Ranci?re's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education - Hardcover

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by Jeremy F. Lane (Author)Jacques Ranci?re is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu--it characterises his thinking about politics, emancipation, democracy, history, aesthetics, and social class; it extends into a rejection of Marxist or marxisant modes of analysis. For Ranci?re's harshest critics, this hostility to sociology reflects ...

Languages of Belief and Early Sociology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Elementary Forms of Sociological Life - Hardcover

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by Michiel Van Dam (Author)This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief. The author argues that by looking at the history of social sciences in this manner, we gain a deeper understanding of both our present debates on post-secularity as well as our modernist past, both of which were thoroughly shaped by their reflections and critiques on the notion of belief ...

Against Moral Responsibility - Paperback

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by Bruce N. Waller (Author)A vigorous attack on moral responsibility in all its forms argues that the abolition of moral responsibility will be liberating and beneficial. In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present. Waller argues that, despite the creative defenses of it by contempor...

False Idols: How Diversion is Destroying Democracy - Hardcover

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by Kurt Warner (Author)The ancient Roman poet and satirist Juvenal stated that people were distracted by "bread and circuses" rather than engaged in their civic duty. Juvenal argued these bread and circuses, or basic needs and entertainment, consumed the thoughts and lives of the average Roman no matter what was happening in the Republic around them. The powerful political forces in society used many different forms of distraction to enable them to do what they wanted unimpeded by the masses....

Humanity The Philosophy For The 21st Century - Paperback

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by Dilip Vishwanath Natekar (Author)Human Ethics, Human Duties and Human Rights together make Principles Of Humanity which must be followed to become a good human being.The purpose of the book is to develop human beings with high morality and benevolent, altruistic attitude and a tolerent human society with mutual understanding, brotherhood and trusAuthor BiographyThe author is graduate in Mechanical Engineering, from College Of Engineering Pune and worked for over 36 years in reputed enginee...

Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age - Paperback

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by Shruti Kapila (Author)A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India Violent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of India and formation of Pakistan in 1947, the book is a testament to the power of ideas to drive historical transformation. Shruti Kapila sheds new light on leading figures such as M. K. Gandhi, Muhammad Iqbal, B. R. Am...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies - Paperback

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by Joel Michael Reynolds (Editor), Mercer E. Gary (Editor)This book details how existing public health emergency responses have failed and still fail to address the multi-faceted needs of disabled people. It analyzes complications in the context of epidemic and pandemic disease and emphasize that vulnerabilities imposed upon disabled people track and foster patterns of racial and class domination. Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.37 x 10 x 7 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 25...

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by Carlos Kuhn (Author)Embark on a thought-provoking journey with Echoes of Existence: Exploring Life's Great Questions by Carlos Kuhn. Delving into the intersection of mathematics, philosophy, and spirituality, Kuhn explores profound questions about God, human existence, and the acquisition of knowledge. Through captivating insights and rigorous inquiry, this book challenges conventional thinking and invites readers to contemplate the very essence of reality. Join Kuhn as he navigates the co...

Political Behavior and the Local Context - Hardcover

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by John W. Books (Author), Charles L. Prysby (Author)The study of the effects of context--defined here as a geographically bounded social unit--on individuals is a new and rapidly developing field. This unique volume reviews this development both quantitatively and qualitatively, examines how and why individual political behavior can be influenced by various contextual characteristics of the locality in which the individual resides, and proposes a conceptual framework to guide future research...

Santa Claus for Adults: Why God Doesn't Answer Your Prayers - Paperback

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by Radyn Ramzy (Author)This is a book for those who want the truth. When it comes to faith and religion, many accept what they've been taught. Some may challenge it when they experience pain, and some may never challenge it. But blind faith can be dangerous. Perhaps you wait for a heavenly father to reward you for your commitment, or you trade prayers for protection each night. Does the reward ever arrive? Can you prove that your prayers were heard? In Santa Claus for Adults, Radyn Ramzy shar...

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by Cheryl Norman Cordero (Author)Stretch my flesh across a nation so grandLet me feel, touch, and see it allWind whisper to me all languages I need to hearI want to be a part of it all.So much moves beyond those treesBut I can only see over the bushesTake me to the forests where the trees touch the skyReminding me how small I am.Carry me to the waterfallsTo watch the water fall to eternity.Blow me to the deserts Where time stands stillReminding me that time is irrelevant.And sail me across th...

Concluding Unscientific PostScript to Philosophical Fragments: Volume II - Paperback

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by S?ren Kierkegaard (Author), Howard V. Hong (Editor), Howard V. Hong (Translator)In Philosophical Fragments the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question: What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's relation to the truth ...

Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment: Six Keywords - Paperback

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by Kevin Curran (Author)Shakespeare's Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and future-oriented understanding of judgment, something largely lacking in contemporary social and philosophical discourse. Presenting a series of chapters organized around single keywo...

The Yoga of Power: Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India - Paperback

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by Christian Lee Novetzke (Author), Sunila Kal? (Author)In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. This book argues for a wider understanding, demonstrating that yoga has long expressed political thought and practice. The political idea of yoga names the tools of kings, poets, warriors, and revolutionaries. It encodes stratagems for going into battle and for the demand...

Civility: Cultivating Public Virtues - Hardcover

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by Philip Sheldrake (Author)Civility offers a thoughtful response to one of the most significant social challenges and public problems that we face in contemporary society, particularly in the Western world. The book identifies and discusses the critical public-social values and virtues that we need to focus upon and actively to promote to counter these problems and, overall, to develop a healthy human society. To achieve an effective, inclusive, and just society we must, first, reframe how w...

The Fairy's Dream: A Sufi Tale By Hazrat Inayat Khan - Paperback

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by Hazrat Inayat Khan (Author), Felicia Norton (Designed by), Charles Smith (Designed by)This is an illustrated Sufi tale that explores the mystery of life's purpose. It tells of a fairy who had a great desire to amuse herself, who descends on the Earth. To enter a doll's house, she has to fragment herself into different bits. Ultimately, each of the bits forgot its oneness with the original fairy. Confusion and conflict ensue, and finally the fairy herself has to bring an awakened heart to t...

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by Richard Capobianco (Author)In Heidegger's Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and things. Drawing upon a wide variety of texts, many of which have been previously untranslated, Capobianco illuminates the overarching importance of Being as radiant manifestation - "the truth of Being" - and how Heide...

Empty the Cave: Awaken the Spark Second Edition - Paperback

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by Howdie Mickoski (Author)So, you want to Exit Plato's Cave/the Matrix? It is a very grand quest to take on. However, it might not be what you think it is. Such a quest cannot be defined in words, so nothing in this book can possibly describe it. That is because Exiting the Matrix has nothing to do with "you," as it is an Exit of yourself as much as the Cave. Revised December 2024, with more Additional Material Number of Pages: 270 Dimensions: 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 03, 2024

Critical Theory and Independent Living - Hardcover

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by Teodor Mladenov (Author)This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people's Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.Back JacketCritical theory and Independent Living explores the intersections between contemporary critical theory and disabled people's struggle for self-determination. The book sheds new lig...

Star Trek and the Philosophy of Entertainment: Beauty, Justice, and Popular Culture - Hardcover

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by George A. Gonzalez (Author)Drawing on Hegel's model of aesthetics and beauty to analyze the Star Trek franchise, this book puts justice at the center of the "beauty"--and entertainment value--of popular culture. The author, George A. Gonzalez, shows that plot--revolving around justice and injustice--often determines the artistic success and popularity of TV and films. He argues that Star Trek is the most popular franchise in history because it puts the pursuit of justice, and therefore bea...

Excessive Flashpoints, Solitary Demands, Darkest Corners: Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Critical Theory, and Me - Hardcover

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by Bob Nowlan (Author)In Excessive Flashpoints, Solitary Demands, Darkest Corners: Ian Curtis, Joy Division, Critical Theory, and Me I inquire into issues of fundamental and ultimate concern: the meaning, value, and purpose of existence; our responsibility to and for others; human beings as complex, multiple, contradictory, and dynamic; the challenge of intimacy and the power of love; the quest for authenticity and the struggle for integrity; what it means to be included and excluded along wi...

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by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Noel Malcolm (Author)'He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in?himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.' Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan?is not just one of the greatest philosophical?texts in the English language; it is one of the most important works in the?history of Western political thought. Almost every major tradition in the?centuries after Hobbes - from radical democracy to authoritarianism - has?been influenced by its arguments. Written in...

The U.S. Naval Institute on Leadership Ethics: U.S. Naval Institute Wheel Book - Paperback

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by Timothy J. Demy (Editor)This volume focuses on naval leadership and ethics with respect to the individual leader and how his or her values and actions affect military cohesion, mission success, and the profession of arms. Moving beyond the "right and wrong" of personal ethics to examine the broader field of professional military ethics, this carefully selected collection of relevant materials from the Naval Institute's vast collection of articles recognizes the range of experience, perspec...