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The Apologia Pro Vita Sua of John Henry Cardinal Newman ; with an Introd by Maisie Wardby John Henry NewmanISBN 0722073089 (0-7220-7308-9)
Hardcover, Sheed and Ward
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Aristotle: Metaphysics, X-XIVby Aristotle, Hugh TredennickISBN 0674993179 (0-674-99317-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soulby Francis CrickISBN 0684801582 (0-684-80158-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topicsby Clifford GeertzISBN 0691089566 (0-691-08956-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics'Book summary:Whither the social sciences? It sometimes seems as if this diverse and fluid field is permanently at def com 3: defining and defending its borders, skirmishing with science, all while the tenured generals snipe at each other. These manoeuvres sometimes pass over possibly the most important question of all: what is at stake in the study of society and culture? This question is central to anthropology, characterized as it is by the self-reflexive intimacy between its philosophy and methodology. Clifford Geertz--one of the architects of the modern discipline at least since his influential 1973 book, The Interpretation of Cultures--thankfully offers a lucid, enlightening and wonderfully readable series of 11 essays, which consider the history, philosophy and future of not just anthropology but the social sciences, in a style sure to appeal to both academics and lay readers. As a title, Available Light is an apt and playful reflection on the position of the anthropologist, who can only experience what are always only partial truths in the light available at the moment of encounter. Its subtitle, Anthropological Reflections upon Philosophical Topics indicates the extent to which the vocations have moved closer not only as they share many of the same questions, but as philosophers have come to believe that the answers to those great questions of meaning--to the degree that there can be any--are to be found in the fine detail of lived life.
Geertz's own empirical pursuit of the role of ideas in behaviour has lead him through Javanese religion, Balinese states and Moroccan bazaars, modernisation, Islam, kinship, law, art and ethnicity--all drawn upon in these essays. He also ruminates upon the moral anxieties of fieldwork, in chapters such as "Thinking as a Moral Act", "Anti Anti-Relativism"--with its stinging punchline "if we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home"-- and "The Uses of Diversity", opening up issues pertinent to all intellectual pursuits. He goes on to establish the role of anthropology within broader intellectual and philosophical circles by addressing the work of Charles Taylor, Thomas Kuhn, William James and Jerome Bruner. For anyone involved or interested in the social sciences, Geertz offers a powerful sense of the importance and value of such study: "the impact of the social sciences upon our lives will finally be determined more by what sort of moral experience they turn out to embody than by their merely technical effects or by how much money they are permitted to spend." --Christine Buttery [via]
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The Book of Virtuesby William John BennettISBN 0684835770 (0-684-83577-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Virtues'Book summary:Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history.
William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together. [via]
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The Central Questions of Philosophyby A.J. AyerISBN 0688079202 (0-688-07920-2)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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Chapman's Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691048916 (0-691-04891-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey.
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That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
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Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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Cicero: De Natura Deorum Academicaby CiceroISBN 0674992962 (0-674-99296-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The City of Manby Pierre Manent, Marc A. LepainISBN 0691050252 (0-691-05025-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Eraby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0691048630 (0-691-04863-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era'Book summary:How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, Seyla Benhabib challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. She argues that much debate--including that of "strong" multiculturalism, which sees cultures as distinct pieces of a mosaic--is dominated by this faulty belief, one with grave consequences for how we think injustices among groups should be redressed and human diversity achieved. Benhabib masterfully presents an alternative approach, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating, and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between "us" and "them."
Drawing on contemporary cultural politics from Western Europe, Canada, and the United States, Benhabib develops a double-track model of deliberative democracy that permits maximum cultural contestation within the official public sphere as well as in and through social movements and the institutions of civil society. Agreeing with political liberals that constitutional and legal universalism should be preserved at the level of polity, she nonetheless contends that such a model is necessary to resolve multicultural conflicts.
Analyzing in detail the transformation of citizenship practices in European Union countries, Benhabib concludes that flexible citizenship, certain kinds of legal pluralism and models of institutional powersharing are quite compatible with deliberative democracy, as long as they are in accord with egalitarian reciprocity, voluntary self-ascription, and freedom of exit and association. The Claims of Culture offers invaluable insight to all those, whether students or scholars, lawyers or policymakers, who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.
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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculationby Joseph WeizenbaumISBN 0716704633 (0-7167-0463-3)
Softcover, Freeman & Company Limited, W H
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Continuum Conceptby LiedloffISBN 0715609068 (0-7156-0906-8)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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Darwin's Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolutionby Michael J. BeheISBN 0684834936 (0-684-83493-6)
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Virtually all serious scientists accept the truth of Darwin's theory of evolution. While the fight for its acceptance has been a long and difficult one, after a century of struggle among the cognoscenti the battle is over. Biologists are now confident that their remaining questions, such as how life on Earth began, or how the Cambrian explosion could have produced so many new species in such a short time, will be found to have Darwinian answers. They, like most of the rest of us, accept Darwin's theory to be true.
But should we? What would happen if we found something that radically challenged the now-accepted wisdom? In "Darwin's Black Box, " Michael Behe argues that evidence of evolution's limits has been right under our noses -- but it is so small that we have only recently been able to see it. The field of biochemistry, begun when Watson and Crick discovered the double-helical shape of DNA, has unlocked the secrets of the cell. There, biochemists have unexpectedly discovered a world of Lilliputian complexity. As Behe engagingly demonstrates, using the examples of vision, bloodclotting, cellular transport, and more, the biochemical world comprises an arsenal of chemical machines, made up of finely calibrated, interdependent parts. For Darwinian evolution to be true, there must have been a series of mutations, each of which produced its own working machine, that led to the complexity we can now see. The more complex and interdependent each machine's parts are shown to be, the harder it is to envision Darwin's gradualistic paths, Behe surveys the professional science literature and shows that it is completely silent on the subject, stymied by the elegance of the foundation oflife. Could it be that there is some greater force at work?
Michael Behe is not a creationist. He believes in the scientific method, and he does not look to religious dogma for answers to these questions. But he argues persuasively that biochemical machines must have been "designed" -- either by God, or by some other higher intelligence. For decades science has been frustrated, trying to reconcile the astonishing discoveries of modern biochemistry to a nineteenth-century theory that cannot accommodate them. With the publication of "Darwin's Black Box, " it is time for scientists to allow themselves to consider exciting new possibilities, and for the rest of us to watch closely. [via]More editions of Darwin's Black Box : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution:
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Deschooling Societyby Marion BoyarsISBN 0714508799 (0-7145-0879-9)
Softcover, Marion Boyars
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Early Greek Science:Thales to Aristotle: Thales to Aristotleby G.E.R. LloydISBN 070111553X (0-7011-1553-X)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparteby Karl MarxISBN 0717800563 (0-7178-0056-3)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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Epictetus Discourse Books 1 and 2by EpictetusISBN 0674991451 (0-674-99145-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epictetus Discourse Books 1 and 2'Book summary:Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (5468 CE) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook which gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (117138 CE).
Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit. How should one live righteously? Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'. We must not resist fortune. Man is part of a system; humans are reasoning beings (in feeble bodies) and must conform to god's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect (Stoic) man.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.
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Essays in Aestheticsby Jean Paul Sartre, Wade BaskinISBN 0720612098 (0-7206-1209-8)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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Essays in Economic Sociologyby Max Weber, Richard SwedbergISBN 0691009066 (0-691-00906-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays in Economic Sociology'Book summary:The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain one of the most fascinating and sophisticated attempts ever made to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has selected the most important of Weber's enormous body of writings on the topic, making these available for the first time in a single volume. The central themes around which the anthology is organized are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, to law, and to culture and religion; a special section is devoted to theoretical aspects of economic sociology. Swedberg provides a valuable introduction illuminating biographical and intellectual dimensions of Weber's work in economic sociology, as well as a glossary defining key concepts in Weber's work in the field and a bibliographical guide to this corpus.
Weber's substantive views on economic sociology are represented in this volume through crucial excerpts from works such as his General Economic History and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but the reader can follow his attempt to construct a conceptual foundation for economic sociology in Economy and Society as well. Also included is Weber's celebrated inaugural lecture, "The Freiburg Address," along with a number of central but hitherto inaccessible writings. Though written nearly a century ago, Weber's work has the quality of a true classic, and the reader will find many ideas in his writings on economic topics that remain applicable in today's world. These include Weber's discussion of what is now called social capital, his analysis of the institutions needed for a well-functioning capitalist economy, and his more general attempt to introduce social structure into economic analysis. As this volume demonstrates, what basically motivated Weber to work with economic sociology was a realization shared by many economists and sociologists today: that the analysis of economic phenomena must include an understanding of the social dimension. Guided by volume editor Swedberg, the reader of this anthology discovers the significance and the enduring relevance of Weber's contribution to economic sociology.
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The Essential Kierkegaardby Seren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad HongISBN 0691019401 (0-691-01940-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Kierkegaard'Book summary:This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard's extraordinary career. They reveal the powerful mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism that made Kierkegaard one of the most compelling writers of the nineteenth century and a shaping force in the twentieth. With an introduction to Kierkegaard's writings as a whole and explanatory notes for each selection, this is the essential one-volume guide to a thinker who changed the course of modern intellectual history.
The anthology begins with Kierkegaard's early journal entries and traces the development of his work chronologically to the final The Changelessness of God. The book presents generous selections from all of Kierkegaard's landmark works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death, and draws new attention to a host of such lesser-known writings as Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air. The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; . . . what it means to be a human being."
Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and show more completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.
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Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontentsby Jeffrey StoutISBN 0691070814 (0-691-07081-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation, and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciencesby Richard W. MillerISBN 0691020450 (0-691-02045-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Feeding Your Baby: Breast, Bottle and Baby Foodsby Carolyn T. ChubetISBN 0681404531 (0-681-40453-1)
Softcover, Longmeadow Pr
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Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith and the Search for Orderby George Johnson, Edward KastenmeierISBN 067974021X (0-679-74021-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order'Book summary:In the mountains of northern New Mexico, the Tewa pueblo of San Ildefonso and the laboratory city of Los Alamos coexist, representing two distinct, yet not entirely dissimilar world views. In this land of strange juxtapositions where magic and science rub elbows, Johnson introduces us to an amazing diversity of people who see the world through varied lenses, who find vastly different pictures in the night sky. At the core of the book is the question of the human view of the universe: are there really innate patterns in creation, and why do we honor them so highly? Johnson examines some of the radical theories of physics and biology emanating from Los Alamos and compares them to the intricate beliefs of the Tewa Indians, the Catholic sect of the Penitentes, and other inhabitants of the high New Mexico desert in this startling work of intellectual adventure. [via]
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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualismby Leslie Paul ThieleISBN 0691020612 (0-691-02061-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism'Book summary:Reading Nietzsche's works as the "political biography of his soul," Leslie Thiele presents an original and accessible essay on the great thinker's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. He takes as his point of departure Nietzsche's conception of the soul as a multiplicity of conflicting drives and personae, and focuses on the task Nietzsche allotted himself "to make a cosmos out of his chaotic inheritance." This struggle to "become what you are" by way of a spiritual politics is demonstrated to be Nietzsche's foremost concern, which fused his philosophy with his life.
The book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature, yet it takes to task many prevalent approaches to his work, and contests especially the way we often restrict our encounter with him to conceptual analysis. All deconstructionist attempts to portray him as solely concerned with the destruction of the subject and the dispersion of the self, rather than its unification, are called into question. Often portrayed as the champion of nihilism, Nietzsche here emerges as a thinker who saw his primary task as the overcoming of nihilism through the heroic struggle of individuation.
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From Plato to NATO : The Idea of the West and Its Opponentsby David GressISBN 0684827891 (0-684-82789-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Plato to NATO : The Idea of the West and Its Opponents'Book summary:An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, "From Plato to NATO" is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington, and other analysts of the dilemmas of Western nations in the twenty-first century will find in David Gress's original account a fuller description of what the West really is and how, with the best of intentions, it has been misrepresented. Most important, they will encounter a new vision of Western identity and how it can be recovered.
Early in the twentieth century, American educators put together a story of Western civilization, its origins, history, and promise that for the subsequent fifty years remained at the heart of American college education. The story they told was of a Western civilization that began with the Greeks and continued through 2,500 years of great books and great ideas, culminating in twentieth-century progressive liberal democracy, science, and capitalist prosperity.
In the 1960s, this Grand Narrative of the West came under attack. Over the next thirty years, the critics turned this old story into its opposite: a series of anti-narratives about the evils, the failures, and the betrayals of justice that, so they said, constituted Western history.
The victory of Western values at the end of the cold war, the spread of democracy and capitalism, and the worldwide impact of American popular culture have not revived the Grand Narrative in the European and American heartlands of the West. David Gress explains this paradox, arguing that the Grand Narrative of the West was flawed from the beginning: that the West did not begin in Greece and that, in morality and religion, the Greeks were an alien civilization whose contribution was mediated through Rome and Christianity. Furthermore, in assuming a continuity from the Greeks to modern liberalism, we have mistakenly downplayed or rejected everything in between, focusing on the great ideas and the great books rather than on real history with all its ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions.
The heart of Gress's case for the future of the West is that the New must remember its roots in the Old and seek a synthesis. For as the attacks have demonstrated, the New West cannot stand alone. Its very virtues -- liberty, reason, progress -- grew out of the Old West and cannot flourish when removed from that rich soil. [via]
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Garden of the Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 0679439218 (0-679-43921-8)
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A God Withinby RenâE Jules DubosISBN 068413506X (0-684-13506-X)
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A Happy Deathby Albert Camus, Richard HowardISBN 0679764003 (0-679-76400-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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As the novel follows the protagonist, Patrice Mersault, to his victim's house -- and then, fleeing, in a journey that takes him through stages of exile, hedonism, privation, and death -it gives us a glimpse into the imagination of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. For here is the young Camus himself, in love with the sea and sun, enraptured by women yet disdainful of romantic love, and already formulating the philosophy of action and moral responsibility that would make him central to the thought of our time.
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for Godby Michael ShermerISBN 071674161X (0-7167-4161-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God'Book summary:One hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. "In fact ... the opposite is has occurred," Shermer writes in his introduction. "Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche proclaimed, but he has never been more alive."
Why do so many believe in the existence of something so inexplicable? That's exactly what Shermer answers in this comprehensive, intelligent, and highly readable discussion about the nature of faith. "People believe in God because the evidence of their senses tell them so," claims Shermer, who is the publisher of Skeptics magazine. Having been a believer and a student of the history of science, Shermer (now an agnostic) is more interested in knowing why and how people believe in God rather than trying to prove who's right or wrong. As a result, this book is not only even-handed and thorough, it is also destined to become a timeless contribution to spirituality as well as science. --Gail Hudson [via]
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How We Believe : The Search for God in an Age of Scienceby Michael ShermerISBN 071673561X (0-7167-3561-X)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Why do so many believe in the existence of something so inexplicable? That's exactly what Shermer answers in this comprehensive, intelligent, and highly readable discussion about the nature of faith. "People believe in God because the evidence of their senses tell them so," claims Shermer, who is the publisher of Skeptics magazine. Having been a believer and a student of the history of science, Shermer (now an agnostic) is more interested in knowing why and how people believe in God rather than trying to prove who's right or wrong. As a result, this book is not only even-handed and thorough, it is also destined to become a timeless contribution to spirituality as well as science. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The I Ching: Or, Book of Changesby R. Wilhelm, C.F. BaynesISBN 069109750X (0-691-09750-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: The Startling World of Quantum Physics Explainedby John R. GribbinISBN 0704530716 (0-7045-3071-6)
Hardcover, Wildwood House
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Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethicsby Mary WarnockISBN 071563089X (0-7156-3089-X)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc
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Magic Mountainby Thomas Mann, John E. Woods, Luann WaltherISBN 0679772871 (0-679-77287-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Mountain'Book summary:A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps--a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health, and a symbol of the diseased society of Europe before 1914. [via]
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Man Is the Measure: A Cordial Invitation to the Central Problems of Philosophyby Reuben AbelISBN 068483636X (0-684-83636-X)
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Marcus Aureliusby C.R. HainesISBN 0674990641 (0-674-99064-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marcus Aurelius'Book summary:Marcus Aurelius (121180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138161), who adopted him. He was converted to Stoicism and henceforward studied and practised philosophy and law. A gentle man, he lived in agreement and collaboration with Antoninus Pius. He married Pius's daughter and succeeded him as emperor in March 161, sharing some of the burdens with Lucius Verus.
Marcus's reign soon saw fearful national disasters from flood, earthquakes, epidemics, threatened revolt (in Britain), a Parthian war, and pressure of barbarians north of the Alps. From 169 onwards he had to struggle hard against the German Quadi, Marcomani, Vandals, and others until success came in 174. In 175 (when Faustina died) he pacified affairs in Asia after a revolt by Avidius. War with Germans was renewed during which he caught some disease and died by the Danube in March 180.
The famous Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (not his title; he simply calls them 'The matters addressed to himself') represents reflections written in periods of solitude during the emperor's military campaigns. Originally intended for his private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations has endured as a potent expression of Stoic belief. It is a central text for students of Stoicism as well as a unique personal guide to the moral life.
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonyby Roberto Calasso, Tim ParksISBN 0679733485 (0-679-73348-5)
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679406417 (0-679-40641-7)
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, Frank Justus MillerISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
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Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.
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The Odysseyby Homer, Martin HammondISBN 0715629581 (0-7156-2958-1)
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The works attributed to Homer include the two oldest and greatest European epic poems, the Odyssey and Iliad. These texts have long stood in the Loeb Classical Library with a faithful and literate prose translation by A. T. Murray. George Dimock now brings the Loeb's Odyssey up to date, with a rendering that retains Murray's admirable style but is worded for today's readers. The two-volume edition includes a new introduction, notes, and index.
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morganby Friedrich EngelsISBN 0717803597 (0-7178-0359-7)
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumphby Albert O. HirschmanISBN 0691015988 (0-691-01598-8)
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Physicalism, or Something Near Enoughby Jaegwon KimISBN 0691113750 (0-691-11375-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Physicalism, or Something Near Enough'Book summary:Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have largely been shaped by physicalism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and systematic presentation yet of his influential ideas on the mind-body problem. He seeks to determine, after half a century of debate: What kind of (or "how much") physicalism can we lay claim to? He begins by laying out mental causation and consciousness as the two principal challenges to contemporary physicalism. How can minds exercise their causal powers in a physical world? Is a physicalist account of consciousness possible?
The book's starting point is the "supervenience" argument (sometimes called the "exclusion" argument), which Kim reformulates in an extended defense. This argument shows that the contemporary physicalist faces a stark choice between reductionism (the idea that mental phenomena are physically reducible) and epiphenomenalism (the view that mental phenomena are causally impotent). Along the way, Kim presents a novel argument showing that Cartesian substance dualism offers no help with mental causation.
Mind-body reduction, therefore, is required to save mental causation. But are minds physically reducible? Kim argues that all but one type of mental phenomena are reducible, including intentional mental phenomena, such as beliefs and desires. The apparent exceptions are the intrinsic, felt qualities of conscious experiences ("qualia"). Kim argues, however, that certain relational properties of qualia, in particular their similarities and differences, are behaviorally manifest and hence in principle reducible, and that it is these relational properties of qualia that are central to their cognitive roles. The causal efficacy of qualia, therefore, is not entirely lost.
According to Kim, then, while physicalism is not the whole truth, it is the truth near enough.
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A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercisesby Stanley CavellISBN 0674669819 (0-674-66981-9)
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Platoby PlatoISBN 0674991850 (0-674-99185-0)
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Plato Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthdemusby LambISBN 0674991834 (0-674-99183-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plato Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthdemus'Book summary:Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of 'advanced' democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80 years old. Linguistic tests including those of computer science still try to establish the order of his extant philosophical dialogues, written in splendid prose and revealing Socrates' mind fused with Plato's thought.
In Laches, Charmides, and Lysis, Socrates and others discuss separate ethical conceptions. Protagoras, Ion, and Meno discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In Gorgias, Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, and his fate is impending. The Apology (not a dialogue), Crito, Euthyphro, and the unforgettable Phaedo relate the trial and death of Socrates and propound the immortality of the soul. In the famous Symposium and Phaedrus, written when Socrates was still alive, we find the origin and meaning of love. Cratylus discusses the nature of language. The great masterpiece in ten books, the Republic, concerns righteousness (and involves education, equality of the sexes, the structure of society, and abolition of slavery). Of the six so-called dialectical dialogues Euthydemus deals with philosophy; metaphysical Parmenides is about general concepts and absolute being; Theaetetus reasons about the theory of knowledge. Of its sequels, Sophist deals with not-being; Politicus with good and bad statesmanship and governments; Philebus with what is good. The Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements. The unfinished Critias treats of lost Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work of the twelve books of Laws (Socrates is absent from it), a critical discussion of principles of law which Plato thought the Greeks might accept.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plato is in twelve volumes.
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Plato: The Republic Books Vi-Xby Paul ShoreyISBN 0674993047 (0-674-99304-7)
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In Laches, Charmides, and Lysis, Socrates and others discuss separate ethical conceptions. Protagoras, Ion, and Meno discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In Gorgias, Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, and his fate is impending. The Apology (not a dialogue), Crito, Euthyphro, and the unforgettable Phaedo relate the trial and death of Socrates and propound the immortality of the soul. In the famous Symposium and Phaedrus, written when Socrates was still alive, we find the origin and meaning of love. Cratylus discusses the nature of language. The great masterpiece in ten books, the Republic, concerns righteousness (and involves education, equality of the sexes, the structure of society, and abolition of slavery). Of the six so-called dialectical dialogues Euthydemus deals with philosophy; metaphysical Parmenides is about general concepts and absolute being; Theaetetus reasons about the theory of knowledge. Of its sequels, Sophist deals with not-being; Politicus with good and bad statesmanship and governments; Philebus with what is good. The Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements. The unfinished Critias treats of lost Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work of the twelve books of Laws (Socrates is absent from it), a critical discussion of principles of law which Plato thought the Greeks might accept.
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Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriageby Stanley CavellISBN 067473906X (0-674-73906-X)
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Readings in Philosophy of Psychologyby Ned BlockISBN 067474876X (0-674-74876-X)
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Realism With a Human Faceby Hilary Putnam, James ConantISBN 0674749456 (0-674-74945-6)
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Rights of Man and Common Senseby Thomas PaineISBN 0679433147 (0-679-43314-7)
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The Ruin of Kaschby Roberto Calasso, William Weaver, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0674780299 (0-674-78029-9)
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The Ruin of Kaschby William Weaver, Stephen Sartarelli, Roberto CalassoISBN 0674780264 (0-674-78026-4)
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Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semanticsby Alfred KorzybskiISBN 068572364X (0-685-72364-X)
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Selected Writings: 1913-1926by Gary Smith, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Marcus Paul BullockISBN 0674945859 (0-674-94585-9)
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Seneca: Moral Essaysby Lucius Annaeus SenecaISBN 0674992806 (0-674-99280-6)
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Seuss-Isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctorby SeussISBN 0679883568 (0-679-88356-8)
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Skeptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiryby Janet Radcliffe RichardsISBN 071000673X (0-7100-0673-X)
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Synchronicity:an Acausal Connecting Principle: An Acausal Connecting Principleby C. G. JungISBN 0710073976 (0-7100-7397-6)
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Synchronicity; An Acausal Connecting Principle.by Carl Gustav JungISBN 0691017948 (0-691-01794-8)
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Tolstoy's Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violenceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0720687012 (0-7206-8701-2)
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Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faithby Anne LamottISBN 0679442405 (0-679-44240-5)
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This experience spooked me badly, but I thought it was just an apparition born of fear and self-loathing and booze and loss of blood. But then everywhere I went I had the feeling that a little cat was following me, wanting me to reach down and pick it up, wanting me to open the door and let it in. But I knew what would happen: you let a cat in one time, give it a little milk and then it stays forever.
Whether she's writing about airplane turbulence, bulimia, her "feta cheese thighs," or consulting God over how to parent her son, Lamott keeps her spirituality firmly planted in solid scenes and believable metaphors. As a result, this is a richly satisfying armchair-travel experience, highlighting the tender mercies of Lamott's life that nudged her into Christian faith. --Gail Hudson [via]More editions of Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith:
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The Trouble With Principleby Stanley FishISBN 0674910125 (0-674-91012-5)
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In this bracing book, Fish argues that there is no realm of higher order impartiality--no neutral or fair territory on which to stake a claim--and that those who invoke one are always making a rhetorical and political gesture. In the end, it is history and context, the very substance against which a purportedly abstract principle defines itself, that determines a principle's content and power. In the course of making this argument, Fish takes up questions about academic freedom and hate speech, affirmative action and multiculturalism, the boundaries between church and state, and much more. Sparing no one, he shows how our notions of intellectual and religious liberty--cherished by those at both ends of the political spectrum--are artifacts of the very partisan politics they supposedly transcend. The Trouble with Principle offers a provocative challenge to the debates of our day that no intellectually honest citizen can afford to ignore.
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Truth and Other Enigmasby Michael A. E. DummettISBN 0674910761 (0-674-91076-1)
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The book includes all Dummett's philosophical essays that were published or given as public lectures before August 1976, with the exception of a few he did not think it worthwhile to reprint and of the two entitled 'What is a Theory of Meaning?' One essay appears here for the first time in English and two have not been previously published. In an extensive preface Dummett comments on the essays and seeks to relate them to the philosophical background against which they were written.
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Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanityby Richard Buckminster FullerISBN 0713901349 (0-7139-0134-9)
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Timeby Michael ShermerISBN 0716730901 (0-7167-3090-1)
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Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgmentby Allan GibbardISBN 0674953789 (0-674-95378-9)
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Wittgensteinby William Warren BartleyISBN 0704320460 (0-7043-2046-0)
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Works of Henry David Thoreauby Thoreau&ISBN 0681007958 (0-681-00795-8)
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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Filmby Stanley CavellISBN 067496196X (0-674-96196-X)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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