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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
College Student Self-Efficacy Research Studies offers three uniquely designed sections that provide a unique mixture of research studies conducted on African American, Mexican American, and first-generation college students. This book explores a variety of factors affecting a diverse group of college...
Mark Twain
The Gift of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Mark Twain is America’s—perhaps the world’s—best known humorous writer. Yet many commentators in his time and our own have thought of humor as merely an attractive surface feature rather than a crucial part of both the meaning and the structure of Twain’s writings. This book begins with...
Incarnation
The Harmony of One Love in the Totality of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Western dualism is an illusion. Reality is a dialectical unity of incarnate love through the condition of the possibilities of divine and human, spirit and matter, Self and Other.
The historical development to this metaphysical view is investigated in depth. Incarnation is a “legitimate pantheism.”...
by Ignacio L. Götz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Conceptions of Happiness, Revised Edition presents the thesis that happiness does not mean just one thing but many, and that these many meanings have been studied, described, argued, and practiced throughout the centuries in many climes and places. When asked if one is happy, people answer according...
by John O. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Hume's 'New Scene of Thought,' is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature. Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound work, a masterpiece in philosophical literature, and a work worthy of serious study and acceptance. Expounding...
Heterogeneity of Being
On Octavio Paz’s Poetics of Similitude
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main representatives of a national cosmopolitanism. Most readings of his work, whether critical or laudatory,...
Naturalness
Is the “Natural” Preferable to the “Artificial”?
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In Naturalness, Dieter Birnbacher delves into an argument common in everyday thinking and ethics—the argument of naturalness. This argument suggests that what is natural is in some ways superior to what is artificial, due to repeated positive connotations associated with the natural. This book presents...
Man the Rational Animal
Questions and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
We share the capacity for knowledge with animals, but it is the nature and the scope of what we may rationally believe that makes us human. Yet what kind of beliefs do qualify as ‘rational’? This challenging and refreshingly innovative book addresses certain fundamental questions concerning rational...
by John S. Pletz
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Is truth a word we use only to affirm a statement, or is it also something more? In Finding and Confirming Truth, John S. Pletz explains that truth is more than mere affirmation. It also is the conclusion reached when we have effectively confirmed that an assertion accurately depicts the facts that...
by Erman Kaplama
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as...
by Eugenio Raul Zaffaroni, Edmundo Oliveira
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
These studies recover the historical roots of thinking that are in conflict with, and critical of, present-day tendencies. Criminological theory over the last few decades has oscillated between extremes: on one side there are calls for increasing the state exercise of punitive power as the only means...
Human Works, Absent Words
Law, Man, and God in Some Classical Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
What is said can be understood only when seen in the context of what is not said. Many ancient and medieval philosophers use this dynamic of presence and absence. Plato always recognizes that his expressions are energized by being set before other people. Aristotle’s dialectic between different...
Language and State
An Inquiry into the Progress of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book argues that a primitive society is formed on the basis of kinship ties while a civilized society is formed on the basis of linguistic communication. When humans communicate with each other through language, they extend the distance of communication. The extension of communication distance...
Lion in the Lobby
Clarence Mitchell, Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Lion in the Lobby chronicles Clarence Mitchell's life story and mission of getting Congress to join the courts and the Executive Branch in upholding the Constitution in order to fulfill the NAACP's egalitarian philosophy. This revised edition features a detailed account of the bitter battle within...