Author : Joseph Norio Uemura
Publisher : Agora Publications, Inc.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2010-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781887250429
Joseph Uemura guides us through six dialogues in an efford to promote a dialectical quest rather than a final resting place.
Author : Agora Publications Staff
Publisher : Agora Publications, Inc.
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2004-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1887250387
Author : Richard Tarnas
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0307804526
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0307378195
Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
Author : Richard Tarnas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780670032921
Seeks to demonstrate the existence of a direct connection between the planetary movements and human history, and examines such ancient and modern events as the French Revolution and September 11th.
Author : Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195176553
This historically based collection of philosophers' reflections--the letters, journals and prefaces that reveals their hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest doubts and convictions--allows us to witness philosophical thought in process. Ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt, with contributions from 44 philosophers (Augustine, Maimonides, AlGhazali, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, among others) this remarkable collection documents philosophers' claim that they change as well as understand the world. In her introductory essay, "Witnessing Philosophers," Amelie Rorty locates philosophers' reflections in the larger context of the many facets of their other activities and commitments.
Author : Jay Schulkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400849039
What's so special about music? We experience it internally, yet at the same time it is highly social. Music engages our cognitive/affective and sensory systems. We use music to communicate with one another--and even with other species--the things that we cannot express through language. Music is both ancient and ever evolving. Without music, our world is missing something essential. In Reflections on the Musical Mind, Jay Schulkin offers a social and behavioral neuroscientific explanation of why music matters. His aim is not to provide a grand, unifying theory. Instead, the book guides the reader through the relevant scientific evidence that links neuroscience, music, and meaning. Schulkin considers how music evolved in humans and birds, how music is experienced in relation to aesthetics and mathematics, the role of memory in musical expression, the role of music in child and social development, and the embodied experience of music through dance. He concludes with reflections on music and well-being. Reflections on the Musical Mind is a unique and valuable tour through the current research on the neuroscience of music.
Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520224906
In this wide-ranging, brilliantly written account, Nehamas provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.
Author : Jacob Needleman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2003-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1101160799
Philosophy as it is frequently taught in classrooms bears little relation to the impassioned and immensely practical search for self-knowledge conducted by not only its ancient avatars but also by men and woman who seek after truth today. In The Heart of the Philosophy, Jacob Needleman provides a "user's guide" for those who would take philosophy seriously enough to understand its life-transforming qualities.
Author : Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385526833
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
