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The Greatest Philosopher Who Ever Lived

Author : Peter Kreeft

Publisher : Ignatius Press

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 45,59 MB

Release : 2021-10-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 164229182X

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In 2019, Peter Kreeft published Socrates'' Children, a four-volume series on the hundred greatest philosophers of all time, spanning from ancient Greece to contemporary Germany. But he made a terrible mistake: he somehow left out women, and with this, he overlooked the greatest mind of them all. He forgot her—a mysterious housewife from a desert village—because he had forgotten what "philosophy" means. "Philosophy is not the cultivation of cleverness," Kreeft explains, "or the sophistications of scholarship, or the analysis of analysis, or the refutation of refutations, or the deconstruction of deconstructions." No, "philosophy is a romance, a love affair—the love of wisdom." This book is a one-of-a-kind study on Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus. If Jesus Christ is wisdom incarnate, and if Mary loved Him more than anyone else ever did, then it holds that Mary is the greatest philosopher, the greatest wisdom-lover. With precision and humor, Kreeft not only unpacks the thought and spirit of Mary as we know her through Scripture and Church doctrine, but offers a heartfelt crash course in the basics of philosophy—methodology, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, cosmology, ethics, politics, aesthetics, and more—all through the lens of the Mother of God. Fans of Kreeft will find here another fine example of his characteristic freshness, creativity, depth, and readability. But above all, those who are curious about the mother of Jesus, whether they are new to Christian faith or simply hoping to discover it anew, will likely find themselves swept up in the tide of Mary''s wise love for God.



The Greatest Philosopher Who Ever Lived

Author : Peter Kreeft

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Page : 285 pages

File Size : 19,28 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9781621644798

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""So we must (1) restore love to our philosophy, and (2) restore philosophy (wisdom) to our love, not just to understand this book but also to understand wisdom (which cannot be understood without love) and to understand love (which cannot be understood without wisdom), and thus to understand ourselves.""--



Jesus the Great Philosopher

Author : Jonathan T. Pennington

Publisher : Baker Books

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 18,32 MB

Release : 2020-10-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 149342758X

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Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the "spiritual part" of our lives. We don't clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost biblical image of Jesus as the one true philosopher who teaches us how to experience the fullness of our humanity in the kingdom of God. Jesus teaches us what is good, right, and beautiful and offers answers to life's big questions: what it means to be human, how to be happy, how to order our emotions, and how we should conduct our relationships. This book brings Jesus and Christianity into dialogue with the ancient philosophers who asked the same big questions about finding meaningful happiness. It helps us rediscover biblical Christianity as a whole-life philosophy, one that addresses our greatest human questions and helps us live meaningful and flourishing lives.



The Great Philosopher

Author : Mary Gow

Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 27,3 MB

Release : 2010-07-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780766031197

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Follows the life and teachings of the philosopher Plato, one of the world's greatest thinkers, who in his writings taught us to question what we think we know.



One Hundred Philosophers

Author : Peter J. King

Publisher : Turtleback Books

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 16,56 MB

Release : 2004-09-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9781417797653

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Presents profiles of one hundred philosophers, from ancient times to the present day.



The Great Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers

Author : Stephen Law

Publisher : Quercus

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 45,72 MB

Release : 2014-09-09

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1623655560

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Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciphers their fundamental ideas. Avoiding the technical jargon and complex logic associated with most books on philosophy, Law brings the thoughts of these great thinkers, from Confucius and Buddha to Wittgenstein and Sartre, to life.



Problems from Reid

Author : James Van Cleve

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 567 pages

File Size : 25,51 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0199857032

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"A contemporary of Hume, Thomas Reid is especially known today for his opposition to skepticism and "the way of ideas" (the notion that what the mind perceives is not objective reality, but simply an internal image). Reid was one of the first to question this view, which is still prevalent today, and pointed out some of the negative consequences to which it leads. For the growing recognition about these and other contributions in epistemology, theory of action, and moral theory, Reid has increasingly attracted attention in Anglo-American philosophy over the last twenty years"--



Conjectures and Refutations

Author : Karl Raimund Popper

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 614 pages

File Size : 16,31 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Knowledge, Theory of

ISBN : 9780415285940

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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.



Philosopher of the Heart

Author : Clare Carlisle

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 45,53 MB

Release : 2020-05-05

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0374721696

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Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence—how to be a human being in the world?—while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. Much of his creativity sprang from his relationship with the young woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to writing, a relationship which remained decisive for the rest of his life. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiancée. Clare Carlisle’s innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard’s life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom—as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.