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    Religious Morality in John Henry Newman : Hermeneutics of the Imagination (2015)
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    ISBN: 9783319102719
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 231 p, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Magill, Gerard, 1951 - Religious morality in John Henry Newman
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    BN 2989
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Newman, John Henry Heiliger 1801-1890 ; Moraltheologie ; Theologische Erkenntnistheorie ; Newman, John Henry Heiliger 1801-1890 ; Moraltheologie ; Theologische Erkenntnistheorie
    Abstract: This book is a systematic study of religious morality in the works of John Henry Newman (1801-1890). The work considers Newman’s widely discussed views on conscience and assent, analyzing his understanding of moral law and its relation to the development of moral doctrine in Church tradition. By integrating Newman’s religious epistemology and theological method, the author explores the hermeneutics of the imagination in moral decision-making: the imagination enables us to interpret complex reality in a practical manner, to relate belief with action. The analysis bridges philosophical and religious discourse, discussing three related categories. The first deals with Newman’s commitment to truth and holiness whereby he connects the realm of doctrine with the realm of salvation. The second category considers theoretical foundations of religious morality, and the third category explores Newman’s hermeneutics of the imagination to clarify his view of moral law, moral conscience, and Church tradition as practical foundations of religious morality. The author explains how secular reason in moral discernment can elicit religious significance. As a result, Church tradition should develop doctrine and foster holiness by being receptive to emerging experiences and cultural change. John Henry Newman was a highly controversial figure and his insightful writings continue to challenge and influence scholarship today. This book is a significant contribution to that scholarship and the analysis and literature comprise a detailed research guide for graduates and scholars
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction. Foundations of Religious MoralityChapter 2: Truth & Holiness -- Chapter 3: Reason and Belief -- Chapter 4: Imagination and Meaning -- Chapter 5: Imagination and Theology -- Chapter 6: Moral Law -- Chapter 7: Moral Conscience. Chapter 8: Church Tradition -- Bibliography.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10271-9
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    The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein : The question of individuality (2015)
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    ISBN: 9783319156637
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 184 p. 6 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 120
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Alfieri, Francesco, 1976 - The presence of Duns Scotus in the thought of Edith Stein
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    BF 7111
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    CE 3117
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    CI 1190
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    BN 2457
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    CE 3113
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    BF 7110
    Keywords: Duns Scotus, John approximately 1266-1308 Influence ; Stein, Edith 1891-1942 ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Individuality ; Philosophical anthropology ; Johannes Duns Scotus 1266-1308 ; Individuation ; Rezeption ; Stein, Edith Heilige 1891-1942 ; Johannes Duns Scotus 1266-1308 ; Rezeption ; Stein, Edith Heilige 1891-1942 ; Individuation
    Abstract: This book examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It specifically focuses on the question which Stein addressed in her work Finite and Eternal Being: What is the foundational principle that makes the individual unique and unrepeatable within the human species? Traditional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to frame her views on this issue as being influenced by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, while neglecting her interest in the lesser-known figure of Duns Scotus. Yet, as this book shows, with regard to the question of individuality, Stein was critical of Aquinas’ approach, finding that of Duns Scotus to be more convincing. In order to get to the heart of Stein’s readings of Duns Scotus, this book looks at her published writings and her personal correspondence, in addition to conducting a meticulous analysis of the original codexes on which her sources were based. Written with diligence and flair, the book critically evaluates the authenticity of Stein’s sources and shows how the position of Scotus himself evolved. It highlights the originality of Stein’s contribution, which was to rediscover the relevance of Mediaeval scholastic thought and reinterpret it in the language of the Phenomenological school founded by Edmund Husserl
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15663-7
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    Ethics and the Arts (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789401788168
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 273 p. 8 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Ethics and the arts
    RVK:
    CC 7260
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    LH 61100
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    AK 24400
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Künste ; Ethik ; Ästhetik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book proposes that the highest expression of ethics is an aesthetic. It suggests that the quintessential performance of any field of practice is an art that captures an ethic beyond any literal statement of values. This is toadvocate for a shift in emphasis,away from current juridical approaches to ethics (ethicalcodes or regulation), toward ethics as an aesthetic practice-away from ethics as a minimal requirement, toward ethics as an aspiration. The book explores the relationship between art and ethics: a subject that has fascinated philosophers from ancient Greece to the present. It explores this relationship in all the arts: literature, the visual arts, film, the performing arts, and music. It also examines current issues raised by ‘hybrid’ artists who are working at the ambiguous intersections between art, bioart and bioethics and challenging ethical limits in working with living materials. In considering these issues the book investigates the potential for art and ethics to be mutually challenged and changed in this meeting. The book is aimed at artists and students of the arts, who may be interested in approaching ethics and the arts in a new way. It is also aimed at students and teachers of ethics and philosophy, as well as those working in bioethics and the health professions. It will have appeal to the ‘general educated reader’ as being current, of considerable interest, and offering a perspective on ethics that goes beyond a professional context to include questions about how one approaches ethics in one’s own life and practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; References; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction : Ethics and the Arts; Reference; Part I: The Arts and Ethics; Chapter 2: Literature and Ethics: Learning to Read with Emma Bovary; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Historical Background; 2.3 The Work; 2.4 Conclusion: The Ethics of Reading; References; Chapter 3: Music and Morality; 3.1 Music, Morality, and Philosophy ; 3.2 The Deep Diversity of Musical Practices; 3.3 Musical Resources and Morality; 3.4 Music, Ethos, and Education; References; Chapter 4: Modern Painting and Morality; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Morality in 'Early Modern' Painting
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1 The Moral Universe: Gathering of the Ashes4.2.2 Two Bathshebas; 4.3 Modern Painting to 1980; 4.3.1 The Beginnings of Modern Painting; 4.3.2 Rothko; 4.3.3 Andy Warhol; 4.4 Modern Painting from a Moral Perspective; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: The Photograph Not as Proof but as Limit; 5.1 Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida; 5.2 Josh Azzarella and Trevor Paglen; 5.3 Unknowability, Mystery, and Ethical Viewing; References; Chapter 6: Of Redemption: The Good of Film Experience; 6.1 Encountering Cinema; 6.2 Intersecting Ethics; 6.3 Redeeming Cinema and Ethics; 6.4 Risking Redemption
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 7: Movies and Medical Ethics; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Film as a Starting Point for Studying Medical Ethics; 7.3 Engaging Viewers and Delivering Messages Cinematographically; 7.4 Extracted Sequences Illustrate Memorable Moments of a Film's Narrative; 7.5 The Value of Informed Awareness; 7.6 Aesthetics; A Valuable Addition to the Message; 7.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: The House of the Dead-The Ethics and Aesthetics of Documentary; 8.1 The Poem; 8.2 Three Characters-Jaime, Antonio and Almerindo; 8.2.1 Almerindo Act 1: 'The bells'; 8.2.2 Jaime Act 2: 'The deaths'
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2.3 Antonio Act 3: 'The forgotten'8.3 Activist Documentary Making; References; Chapter 9: Embracing the Unknown, Ethics and Dance; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Spinoza's Ethics; 9.3 Training and Technique; 9.4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 10: Burning Daylight : Contemporary Indigenous Dance, Loss and Cultural Intuition; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Marrugeku; 10.3 Burning Daylight Production Outline; 10.4 Contemporary Dance in a Context of Loss and Forced Removal; 10.4.1 Case Study: Researching Burning Daylight ; 10.5 Negotiating the Contemporary in the Native Title Era; 10.5.1 Case Study: Rubibi
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.5.2 Case Study: Memory of Tradition10.6 The Art of Listening; References; Chapter 11: Toward an Intersubjective Ethics of Acting and Actor Training; 11.1 Considering the Intersubjective Space 'Between' in One Performance; 11.1.1 Phenomenological Perspectives on Intersubjectivity; 11.2 Theatre and Ethics: A Brief Overview; 11.3 The Postmodern Condition and Ethics; 11.3.1 Levinas' Ethics of Ethics ; References; Chapter 12: Politics and Ethics in Applied Theatre: Face-to-­Face and Disturbing the Fabric of the Sensible; 12.1 Facing the Other; 12.2 Political Affects
    Description / Table of Contents: 12.3 Sensitising Through Participatory Theatre
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8816-8
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    Theories of Information, Communication and Knowledge : A Multidisciplinary Approach (2014)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789400769731
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 331 p. 46 illus., 18 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Theories of information, communication and knowledge
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    AN 93000
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Information ; Kommunikation ; Wissen ; Informations- und Dokumentationswissenschaft ; Online-Ressource ; Information ; Kommunikation ; Wissen
    Abstract: This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we construct meaning from the perceptions of things? Although no consensus exists on a common definition of the concepts of information and communication, few can reject the hypothesis that information - whether perceived as « object » or as « process » - is a pre-condition for knowledge. Epistemology is the study of how we know things (anglophone meaning) or the study of how scientific knowledge is arrived at and validated (francophone conception). To adopt an epistemological stance is to commit oneself to render an account of what constitutes knowledge or in procedural terms, to render an account of when one can claim to know something. An epistemological theory imposes constraints on the interpretation of human cognitive interaction with the world. It goes without saying that different epistemological theories will have more or less restrictive criteria to distinguish what constitutes knowledge from what is not. If information is a pre-condition for knowledge acquisition, giving an account of how knowledge is acquired should impact our comprehension of information and communication as concepts. While a lot has been written on the definition of these concepts, less research has attempted to establish explicit links between differing theoretical conceptions of these concepts and the underlying epistemological stances. This is what this volume attempts to do. It offers a multidisciplinary exploration of information and communication as perceived in different disciplines and how those perceptions affect theories of knowledge
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan and Thomas DousaChapter 1: Cybersemiotics: A new foundation for transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition, meaning, communication and consciousness; Søren Brier -- Chapter 2: Epistemology and the Study of Social Information within the Perspective of a Unified Theory of Information;Wolfgang Hofkirchner.- Chapter 3: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers; Luciano Floridi -- Chapter 4: Human communication from the semiotic perspective; Winfried Nöth --   Chapter 5: Mind the gap: transitions between concepts of information in varied domains; Lyn Robinson and David Bawden -- Chapter 6:  Information and the disciplines: A conceptual meta-analysis; Jonathan Furner -- Chapter 7: Epistemological Challenges for Information Science; Ian Cornelius -- Chapter 8: The nature of information science and its core concepts; Birger Hjørland -- Chapter 9: Sylvie Leleu-Merviel. Coalescence in the informational process. Application to visual sense-making. Chapter 10: Understanding users’ informational constructs through the affordances of cinematographic images; Michel Labour -- Chapter 11: Documentary Languages and the Demarcation of Information Units in Textual Information: A Case Study; Thomas Dousa -- Index.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6973-1
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    Old World and New World Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy : Transatlantic Conversations (2014)
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    ISBN: 9783319076836
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 233 p. 19 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 21
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Old World and New World perspectives in environmental philosophy
    RVK:
    CC 6300
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    AR 14350
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    CC 7267
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Landscape ecology ; Nature Conservation ; Human Geography ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Landscape ecology ; Nature Conservation ; Human Geography ; Ethics ; Human Geography ; Landscape ecology ; Nature Conservation ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Umweltethik ; Naturphilosophie
    Abstract: This is the first collection of essays in which European and American philosophers explicitly think out their respective contributions and identities as environmental thinkers in the analytic and continental traditions. The American/European, as well as Analytic/Continental collaboration here bears fruit helpful for further theorizing and research. The essays group around three well-defined areas of questioning all focusing on the amelioration/management of environmentally, historically and traditionally diminished landscapes. The first part deals with differences between New World and the Old World perspectives on nature and landscape restoration in general, the second focuses on the meaning of ecological restoration of cultural landscapes, and the third on the meaning of the wolf and of wildness. It does so in a way that the strengths of each philosophical school-continental and analytic-comes to the fore in order to supplement the other’s approach. This text is open to educated readers across all disciplines, particularly those interested in restoration/adaptation ecology, the cultural construction of place and landscape, the ongoing conversation about wilderness, the challenges posed to global environmental change. The text may also be a gold mine for doctoral students looking for dissertation projects in environmental philosophy that are inclusive of continental and analytic traditions. This text is rich in innovative approaches to the questions they raise that are reasonably well thought out. The fact that the essays in each section really do resonate with one another directly is also intellectually exciting and very helpful in working out the full dimensions of each question raised in the volume
    Description / Table of Contents: ContributorsPreface -- 1. Introduction; Martin Drenthen & Jozef Keulartz: Introduction -- Part One: Wilderness and Cultural Landscapes -- 2. Extracting Culture or Injecting Nature? Rewilding in Transatlantic Perspective; Marcus Hall -- 3. Restoration and Authenticity Revisited; Marion Hourdequin & David Havlick -- 4. Conceiving the Earth itself as our Garden; W.S.K. Cameron 5. Wilderness Recognized. Environments Free From Human Control; Robert Scotney -- Part Two: Restoration of Value and Meaning to Cultural Ecosystems -- 6. Cultural Landscapes, Ecological Restoration and the Intergenerational Narrative; Paul Knights -- 7. Enduring Nature; Glenn Deliège 8. Seeking Nature's Permission; Alan Holland -- 9. Green Managerialism And The Erosion Of Meaning; Simon P. James -- Part Three: Wolves and Wildness -- 10. The wolf is coming! Emplacing a predator that is not (yet) there; Martin Drenthen -- 11. Eating Wolves; Thomas Thorp -- 12. Blurring Boundaries: Freedom, Enclosure, and Death; Brian Seitz -- 13. The Hero, the Wolf, and the Hybrid. Overcoming the Overcoming of Uncultured Landscapes; Nathan Kowalsky -- Index.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07683-6
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    Scientific Objectivity and Its Contexts (2014)
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    ISBN: 9783319046600
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 482 p. 7 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Agazzi, Evandro, 1934 - Scientific objectivity and its contexts
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Objektivität ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: The first part of this book is of an epistemological nature and develops an original theory of scientific objectivity, understood in a weak sense (as intersubjective agreement among the specialists) and a strong sense (as having precise concrete referents). In both cases it relies upon the adoption of operational criteria designed within the particular perspective under which any single science considers reality. The “object” so attained has a proper ontological status, dependent on the specific character of the criteria of reference (regional ontologies). This justifies a form of scientific realism. Such perspectives are also the result of a complex cultural-historical situation. The awareness of such a “historical determinacy” of science justifies including in the philosophy of science the problems of ethics of science, relations of science with metaphysics, and social dimensions of science that overstep the traditional restriction of the philosophy of science to an epistemology of science. It is to this “context” that the second part of the book is devoted
    Description / Table of Contents: Historical and Philosophical BackgroundThe Characterisation of Objectivity -- First Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science -- The Ontological Commitment of Science -- Scientific Realism -- The Contexts of Objectivity -- Corollaries in the Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Truth Revisited -- The Context of Making Science -- Science and Metaphysics -- Appendix -- References -- Indexes.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04660-0
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    Existence as a Real Property : The Ontology of Meinongianism (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400742079
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 241 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 356
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Berto, Francesco, 1973 - Existence as a real property
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Existenz ; Ontologie ; Meinong, Alexius 1853-1920 ; Ontologie ; Existenz ; Ontologie
    Abstract: This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy-the concept of existence itself-reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is not a predicate.” The initial section of the book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and critical evaluation of, this mainstream view. The author moves on to provide the first systematic survey of all the main Meinongian theories of existence, which, by contrast, reckon existence to be a real, full-fledged property of objects that some things possess, and others lack. As an influential addition to the research literature, the third part develops the most up-to-date neo-Meinongian theory called Modal Meinongianism, applies it to specific fields such as the ontology of fictional objects, and discusses its open problems, laying the groundwork for further research.In accordance with the latest trends in analytic ontology, the author prioritizes a meta-ontological viewpoint, adopting a dual definition of meta-ontology as the discourse on the meaning of being, and as the discourse on the tools and methods of ontological enquiry. This allows a balanced assessment of philosophical views on a cost-benefit basis, following multiple criteria for theory evaluation. Compelling and revealing, this new publication is a vital addition to contemporary philosophical ontology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue: Much Ado About Nothing -- Acknowledgments -- Existence as Logic -- Chapter 1. The Paradox of Non-Being -- Chapter 2. To Exist and to Count -- Chapter 3. Troubles for the Received View -- Nonexistence -- Chapter 4. Existence As a Real Property -- Chapter 5. Naïve Meinongianism -- Chapter 6. Meinongianisms of The First, Second, and Third Kind -- Close Encounters (with Nonexistents) of the Third Kind -- Chapter 7. Conceiving the Impossible -- Chapter 8. Nonexistents of The Third Kind at Work -- Chapter 9. Open Problems -- References -- Index.​.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4207-9
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    The mechanization of natural philosophy (2013)
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    ISBN: 9789400743458
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 338 p. 9 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 282
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The mechanization of natural philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Philosophy of nature ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Philosophy ; History ; 17th century ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturphilosophie ; Mechanismus ; Ideengeschichte 1550-1720
    Abstract: The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy .Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
    Description / Table of Contents: The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Construction of Historical Categories; Chapter 1: Remarks on the Pre-history of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.1 What Was the Mechanical Philosophy?; 1.2 The Mechanical Philosophy Before Boyle; 1.3 Bacon; 1.4 Galileo; 1.5 Mersenne; 1.6 Descartes/Gassendi/Hobbes: Mechanical Philosophers?; 1.7 Novatores, Latitudinarians, and the Construction of the Mechanical Philosophy; 1.8 A Broader Conception of Mechanism?; Chapter 2: How Bacon Became Baconian
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.1 The Meaning of Mechanical Operation in Bacon's Oeuvre2.2 Mechanical and Vital Readings of Bacon's Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England; 2.3 Conclusion; Chapter 3: An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670-1690); 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Debate on Natural Philosophy; 3.3 On the Side of the New Philosophers; 3.3.1 The Methodology of Ontology: Beings Should Not Be Multiplied Without Necessity; 3.3.2 The Way of Physics: Physics Should Explain Phenomena, Namely, Give Efficient Causes; 3.3.3 Ontological Categories: The Bipartition Between Body and Soul Should Be Respected
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.4 The Social Twist3.4 On the Side of the Old Philosophers; 3.4.1 The Methodology of Ontology: The Multiplication of Corpuscles and the Missing Metaphysical Supplement; 3.4.2 The Way of Physics: One Should Not Indulge in Hypotheses, Ignore Experiments and Use Empty Words; 3.4.3 The Ontological Categories and the Controversy Over Animal Souls; 3.4.4 Another Social Twist; 3.5 Conclusions; Part II: Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics; Chapter 4: Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Corpuscular Theories of the Physician d'Olesa
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1 Elements, Minima and Qualities4.2.2 The Problem of Mixture; 4.2.3 A Corpuscular Theory of Light and Vision; 4.3 The Absence of a Tradition; 4.3.1 The Hypothesis of Menéndez Pelayo; 4.3.2 The Salamacan Physician Gomez Pereira; 4.3.3 The Salamacan Physician Francisco Valles; 4.4 Conclusion; Chapter 5: The Composition of Space, Time and Matter According to Isaac Newton and John Keill; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Early Modern Natural Philosophy; 5.3 The Evolution of Newton's Views on the Composition of Space, Time and Matter
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4 The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter According to John Keill5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-Mathematics; 6.1 Beeckman; 6.1.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.1.2 Persistence of the Form of a Motion; 6.1.3 Conservation in the Exchange of Motion; 6.1.4 Isoperimetric Figures; 6.2 Descartes; 6.2.1 Persistence of Motion; 6.2.2 Communication of Motion; 6.2.3 Persistence and Direction; 6.3 Physico-Mathematics; Chapter 7: Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland About 1700; 7.1 Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2 The Mathematical Hydrostatics of Wallis, Gregorie, and Newton
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    Nature Technology : Creating a Fresh Approach to Technology and Lifestyle (2013)
    Tokyo : Springer Japan
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 174 p. 70 illus., 59 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Ishida, Emile H. Nature technology
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Architectural design ; Life sciences ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Architectural design ; Life sciences ; Humanities ; Natur ; Lebensstil ; Sozialer Wandel ; Technischer Fortschritt
    Abstract: The Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011, reminded us that we were just one species within the great cycle of life on earth, that we were allowed to survive only because of nature, and that the idea that we were somehow able to conquer nature was simply an illusion. Now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from the "underground resources" type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sense of nature. To do so, we must learn from nature, the only sustainable society on earth, and create technology that embraces such a view of nature. We call such technology, which cleverly revives nature's greatness, Nature Technology. Taking a casual glance at nature, a nest of termites in the savanna region can be observed to maintain a steady temperature of 30°C despite the fact that the outside air temperature ranges from 50°C during the day to nearly 0°C at night. There are countless numbers of open pores just several billionths of a meter (nanometer) wide in the "earth" of the nest, which serve to regulate the temperature and humidity. In fact, all kinds of "earth" have these pores (clay mineral with aggregated structures) and air conditioners that require no electricity have been created by hardening this earth while preserving its structure; a cooling floor or wall becomes the alternative to a conventional air conditioner. This book provides many such examples of how Nature Technology can support a new lifestyle that is both environmentally sound and spiritually uplifting
    Description / Table of Contents: Where Are We HeadingThe Eco-Dilemma -- The True Nature of the Global Environmental Problem -- A New Way of Manufacturing and Living -- Thinking Based on Forecasting, Thinking Based on Backcasting -- Lifestyles Envisioned with Backcasting -- Pre-war Living in Co-existence with Nature -- The Pursuit of Nature and Enjoyment - The Contours of a                  Wholesome, Fulfilling Lifestyle -- The Transition to New Lifestyles - Transitional Technology -- Manufacturing That Takes Nature into Account - The Shape of　Nature Technology -- The Japanese Industrial Revolution Which Did Not Part with Nature -- The New World Created with Nature Technology.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54613-9
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    Scientific Explanation (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science
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    ISBN: 9789400764460
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 93 p. 1 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Dialektik ; Denken
    Abstract: When scientist investigate why things happen, they aim at giving an explanation. But what does a scientific explanation look like? In the first chapter (Theories of Scientific Explanation) of this book, the milestones in the debate on how to characterize scientific explanations are exposed. The second chapter (How to Study Scientific Explanation?) scrutinizes the working-method of three important philosophers of explanation, Carl Hempel, Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon and shows what went wrong. Next, it is the responsibility of current philosophers of explanation to go on where Hempel, Kitcher and Salmon failed. However, we should go on in a clever way. We call this clever way the pragmatic approach to scientific explanation and clarify briefly what this approach consists in. The third chapter (A Toolbox for Describing and Evaluating Explanatory Practices) elaborates the pragmatic approach by presenting a toolbox for analysing scientific explanation. In the last chapter (Examples of Descriptions and Evaluations of Explanatory Practices) the approach is illustrated with real-life examples of scientists aiming at explaining. This book can be used as a textbook for intermediate philosophy of science courses and is also valuable as “suggested reading” for introductory courses in philosophy of science. The way the book is set up makes it an excellent study and research guide for advanced (MA and PhD) students that work on the topic of scientific explanation. Finally, it is a handy source and reference book for senior researchers in the field of scientific explanations and - more generally - for all philosophers of science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; 1 Theories of Scientific Explanation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Hempel's Models; 1.2.1 The DN Model; 1.2.2 The Value of Explanations; 1.2.3 The IS Model; 1.3 Problems for Hempel's Models; 1.3.1 Accidental Generalisations; 1.3.2 Irrelevant Premises; 1.3.3 Asymmetry; 1.4 Strategies for Solving the Problems; 1.4.1 Causal Derivations; 1.4.2 Positive Causal Factors; 1.4.3 Positive and Negative Causal Factors; 1.4.4 Unificationism; 1.4.5 The Causal-Mechanical Model; 1.4.6 Overview; 1.5 Philip Kitcher's Unification Account of Explanation; 1.5.1 The Idea of Unification
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.5.2 Argument Patterns1.5.3 Four Factors of Unifying Power; 1.5.4 Explanations Versus Non-Explanatory Arguments; 1.6 Wesley Salmon's Causal-Mechanical Model of Explanation; 1.6.1 Etiological and Constitutive Explanations; 1.6.2 Causal Interactions; 1.6.3 Causal Processes; 1.6.4 Examples of Causal-Mechanical Explanations; 1.7 Summary and Preview; References; 2 How to Study Scientific Explanation?; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Rudolf Carnap on Explication; 2.3 Carl Hempel's Working-Method; 2.3.1 The First Stage: Explication; 2.3.2 Descriptive and Normative Claims; 2.3.3 Hempel's Failures
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Philip Kitcher's Working-Method2.4.1 Kitcher Versus Hempel; 2.4.2 Kitcher's Positive Descriptive Claim; 2.4.3 Kitcher's Normative Claim; 2.5 Wesley Salmon's Working Method; 2.6 A Pragmatic Approach to Studying Scientific Explanations; 2.6.1 Context-Dependent Normative Claims; 2.6.2 Context-Dependent Descriptive Claims; 2.6.3 Epistemic Interests; 2.6.4 Methodological Neutrality Versus Methodological Commitment; 2.6.5 Pragmatic Approach Versus Pragmatic Theory; 2.7 Conclusion; References; 3 A Toolbox for Describing and Evaluating Explanatory Practices; 3.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 Types of Explanation-Seeking Questions3.2.1 Explanations of Particular Facts Versus Explanations of Regularities; 3.2.2 Questions About Particular Facts; 3.2.2.1 Questions About Plain Facts; 3.2.2.2 Contrastive Questions; 3.2.2.3 Resemblance Questions; 3.2.3 Questions About Regularities; 3.2.3.1 Examples and Types of Regularities; 3.2.3.2 Types of Questions; 3.3 Possible Formats of Answers to Why-Questions About Plain Facts; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 The CDN Format; 3.3.2.1 Structure; 3.3.2.2 Examples; 3.3.3 The PCR Format; 3.3.4 The PNC Format; 3.3.5 The Etiological Format
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.6 Variations on Previously Described Formats3.4 Possible Formats of Answers to Contrastive Why-Questions; 3.4.1 Introduction: Woodward's Desideratum; 3.4.2 From Reality to Alternative Scenarios; 3.4.3 From an Ideal Scenario to Reality; 3.4.4 Real Contrasts; 3.5 Possible Formats of Answers to Resemblance Why-Questions; 3.5.1 Introduction; 3.5.2 Top-Down Unification; 3.5.3 Bottom-Up Unification; 3.5.3.1 Social Revolutions; 3.5.3.2 Discussion; 3.6 Possible Formats of Explanations of Regularities; 3.6.1 Introduction; 3.6.2 Covering Law Explanations of Regularities
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.6.3 Mechanistic Explanations of Capacities
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6446-0
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    The American Experience in Environmental Protection (2013)
    Heidelberg : Springer
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    ISBN: 9783319000503
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 61 p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Ethics 6
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    Parallel Title: Print version The American Experience in Environmental Protection
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Newton, Lisa The American Experience in Environmental Protection
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Environmental law ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Environmental law
    Abstract: This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides guidelines for its continuation.​
    Description / Table of Contents: Author’s Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Environmental Background -- Chapter 2:  Business Hears the Call -- Chapter 3: Coming to Value Nature.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00050-3
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    Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (2013)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400752191
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 1041 p. 8 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Humanities ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Humanities ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: The envisioned volume is a collection of recent essays about the philosophical exploration, critique and comparison of (a) the major philosophical models of God, gods and other ultimate realities implicit in the worlds philosophical schools and religions, and of (b) the ideas of such models and doing such modeling per se. The aim is to identify exactly what a model of ultimate reality is; create a comprehensive and accessible collection of extant models; and determine how best, philosophically, to model ultimate reality, if possible and desirable.
    Abstract: Dedicated to exploring the enormous variety of ultimate realities at the center of the world’s great religions and philosophical traditions, this volume is a richly varied collection of essays on how we conceive this central notion, whether expressed as God, or as an ultimate reality of another kind. Years in the making, the collection examines the guiding principles of 15 major philosophical traditions and 6 living religions. A publication of monumental scale and detail, it features an innovative thematic structure that aggregates traditions according to their core models, allowing the reader to grasp the common features of ultimate realities as understood in diverse traditions such as Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and in some non-religious discussions. Borne out of proceedings at both the American Philosophical Association and the American Academy of Religion, the volume also examines foundational questions related to the human propensity for creating and using such models, including the issue of whether we are capable of acquiring knowledge of ultimate reality. It features a sustained analysis of the concept that modeling such an ultimate reality is a fruitless endeavor doomed to failure since the ultimate might well be beyond human conception, as well as reflections on the staggering diversity of these models and their application to concepts such as spirituality, gender equality, war, and global warming. Accessible and authoritative, the collection combines section primers for those new to the field, deeper treatment in dedicated essays, and a wealth of references for further reading and study
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1
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    The Philosophy of Computer Games (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400742499
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 284 p. 5 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 7
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The philosophy of computer games
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Computer vision ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Computer vision ; Computer games--Philosophy. ; Computerspiel ; Philosophie ; Computerspiel ; Ethik ; Computerspiel ; Computerspiel ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Computer games have become a major cultural and economic force, and a subject of extensive academic interest. Up until now, however, computer games have received relatively little attention from philosophy. Seeking to remedy this, the present collection of newly written papers by philosophers and media researchers addresses a range of philosophical questions related to three issues of crucial importance for understanding the phenomenon of computer games: the nature of gameplay and player experience, the moral evaluability of player and avatar actions, and the reality status of the gaming environment. By doing so, the book aims to establish the philosophy of computer games as an important strand of computer games research, and as a separate field of philosophical inquiry. The book is required reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in computer games, and will also be of value to readers curious about the philosophical issues raised by contemporary digital culture.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Philosophy of Computer Games; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; Games; References; Part I: Players and Play; Chapter 2: Introduction to Part I: Players and Play; References; Suggestions for Further Reading; Chapter 3: Enter the Avatar: The Phenomenology of Prosthetic Telepresence in Computer Games; 3.1 Agency: The Cursor Analogy; 3.2 Prosthetic Agency and the Camera-Body; 3.3 The Paradox of the Prosthetic Avatar; 3.4 The ``I Can´´; 3.5 Body Intentionality and Body Image; 3.6 The Bodily Extension; 3.7 The Extending Touch; 3.8 The Prosthetic Marionette
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.9 Proxy Embodiment3.10 Telepresence and the Camera-Body; 3.11 Third Person; 3.12 Corporeality; 3.13 Proxy VR; Bibliography; Games; Chapter 4: Computer Games and Emotions; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Goals and Emotions; 4.2.1 Goals; 4.2.2 Basic Emotions; 4.3 Presentations and Emotions; 4.3.1 Empathy; 4.3.2 Beauty; 4.3.3 Sounds; 4.4 Conclusions; Bibliography; Games; Chapter 5: Untangling Gameplay: An Account of Experience, Activity and Materiality Within Computer Game Play; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Game and Play in the Concept of Gameplay: A Curious Coupling
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 Gameplay as an Activity and an Attitude5.4 From Metaphor to Materiality; 5.5 Computer Game as a Technological Artefact; 5.6 Co-Shaped Intentionality in Gameplay; 5.7 Conclusive Remarks; References; Chapter 6: Erasing the Magic Circle; 6.1 The Magic Circle in Play; 6.2 The Magic Circle and Digital Games; 6.3 A Separation in Space; 6.4 The Experiential Dimension; 6.5 Contexts; 6.6 Conclusion; Endnote; Endnote; References; Part II: Ethics and Play; Chapter 7: Introduction to Part II: Ethics and Play; References; Suggestions for Further Reading
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 8: Digital Games as Ethical Technologies8.1 Introduction; 8.2 A Brief Design Vocabulary; 8.3 What I Talk About When I Talk About Ethics; 8.4 (Post)Phenomenology and Computer Games; 8.5 Computer Games and the Philosophy of Information; 8.6 Playing Values: Bioshock and Grand Theft Auto IV; 8.7 Ethics by Ludic Means; 8.8 Games Are a Matter of Information (Ethics); 8.9 Conclusions; References - Literature; References - Games; Chapter 9: Virtual Rape, Real Dignity: Meta-Ethics for Virtual Worlds; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Overall Argument of the Paper in Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.3 The Meta-ethical Framework Informing the Argument9.3.1 The Rights of Agents: Alan Gewirth´s Argument for the Principle of Generic Consistency; 9.3.2 The Absolute Right to Dignity; 9.3.2.1 A Reconstruction of Gewirth´s Argument for the PGC; 9.3.2.2 The Agent´s Double Standpoint; 9.3.2.3 The Concept of Absolute Rights; 9.3.3 Role Morality and Universal Public Morality; 9.4 The Meta-ethical Framework Applied to the Ethics of Virtual Worlds; 9.4.1 The Rights of Virtual Agents; 9.4.1.1 Objection 1: Only Real Agents Can Have Rights; 9.4.1.2 Response to Objection 1: Room for Rights
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.4.1.3 Objection 2: How Does the Opacity Argument Establish Rights for Avatars?
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4249-9
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    Perspectives on Human Suffering (2012)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789400727953
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 365p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Perspectives on Human Suffering
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; medicine Philosophy ; Quality of Life ; Law ; Quality of Life Research ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; medicine Philosophy ; Quality of Life ; Law ; Quality of Life Research
    Abstract: Norelle Lickiss
    Abstract: This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework. Most of the essays contained here incorporate some degree of interdisciplinarity in their own approach, but the volume nevertheless divides into three main sections: Philosophical considerations; Humanities approaches; Legal, medical, and therapeutic contexts. The volume includes essays by philosophers, medical practitioners and researchers, historians, lawyers, literary, Classical, and Judaic scholars. The essays are united by a common concern with the question of the human character of suffering, and the demands that suffering, and the recognition of suffering, make upon us.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter-1; Introduction: Human Suffering; Bibliography; Part I; Philosophical Considerations; Chapter-2; Suffering, Compassion, and the Possibility of a Humane Politics; Suffering and Temporality; Suffering and the Singularity of the Person; Suffering and a Humane Politics; Bibliography; Chapter-3; Pathei Mathos: The Political-Cognitive Value of Suffering; Principle of Reality and Principle of Coercion; Nietzsche: Between Forgetfulness and the apologia of Suffering; At the Origin of Suffering: The Pain of Misrecognition
    Description / Table of Contents: BibliographyChapter-4; Economies of Suffering: Kierkegaard and Levinas; Introduction; Useful Suffering; Useless Suffering; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter-5; The Other Thing About Suffering; Bibliography; Chapter-6; 'Giving the World a More Human Face'-Human Suffering in African Thought and Philosophy; Introduction: A History of Suffering-First from Without, Then from Within; Sub-Saharan Understandings of Suffering; Sub-Saharan Ethical Approaches Toward Suffering; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter-7; Suffering as Substantive and Subjective: Slavoj Žižek, Hannah Arendt and the Body's Pain
    Description / Table of Contents: Parallax, Fetishism and the Disavowal of Suffering-Can We Do Justice to Suffering Without a Notion of Substance?Suffering, the Changing Demography, and Literature's Transformation of Consciousness; Bibliography; Chapter-8; Suffering and Forgiveness: An Heroic Journey; Arendt and the Unforgivable; Romantic and Magical Forgiveness; A Hero's Journey; How to Forgive; Bibliography; Part II; Humanities Approaches; Chapter-9; The Suffering of Job: He is Every Person and No-One; The Theological Question; The Narrative; Job as the Man We Know; The Dilemma of Job; The Unfathomable Nature of God
    Description / Table of Contents: The Suffering Inherent in CreationDisinterested Piety; God's Justice is Beyond Our Justice; We Are Still Responsible; Bibliography; Chapter-10; The Meaning and the Experience of Suffering: A Historian's Perspective; Bibliography; Chapter-11; Jewish Responses to Suffering; Introduction; Rabbinical Literature; Early Rabbinical Responses to Suffering; Theodicy-One Dilemma? or Two?; Suffering in the Babylonian Talmud; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 12; Suffering and Ancient Therapy: Plato to Cicero; Greco-Roman Conceptions of Suffering; Common Philosophical Assumptions
    Description / Table of Contents: Poetic Alleviation of SufferingPathos and Emotion; Form and Content of the Tusculan Disputations; Conclusion: Therapeutic Method in the Tusculans; Bibliography; Chapter-13; Ancient Greek Responses to Suffering: Thinking with Philoctetes; Bibliography; Chapter-14; Historicizing Suffering; Bibliography; Chapter-15; The Politics of Suffering: Aboriginal Health in Contemporary Australia; The Disease of Politicisation; Disease and Conquest; Crowded House; Brief Interventions; Blaming the Victim?; Bibliography; Part III; Legal, Medical and Therapeutic Contexts; Chapter-16
    Description / Table of Contents: Some Aspects of Human Suffering and the Criminal Law
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2795-3
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    Major Aspects of Chinese Religion and Philosophy : Dao of Inner Saint and Outer King (2012)
    Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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    ISBN: 9783642293177
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 329 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Dan, Chun, 1956 - Major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; China ; Philosophie ; Konfuzianismus ; Taoismus ; Buddhismus ; China ; Philosophie ; Konfuzianismus ; Taoismus ; Buddhismus
    Abstract: The book addresses academically the major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy, designated as the doctrine of being internal sage and external king. The perspective applied is the integration between western and Chinese scholarship and English readers may gain an easy and interesting access to Chinese intellectual tradition, distinctive itself in a harmony between being holy and secular in any mundane human being to the western tradition of "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's". By this contrast the intellectual charms and spiritual merits of Chinese tradi
    Abstract: The book addresses academically the major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy, designated as the doctrine of being internal sage and external king. The perspective applied is the integration between western and Chinese scholarship and English readers may gain an easy and interesting access to Chinese intellectual tradition, distinctive itself in a harmony between being holy and secular in any mundane human being to the western tradition of "Give to Caesar what is Caesars, and to God what is Gods. By this contrast the intellectual charms and spiritual merits of Chinese tradition will be better appreciated, hence conducive to the much anticipated dialogues between western and eastern civilizations at this globalized yet conflicted world. ?
    Description / Table of Contents: Major Aspects of Chinese Religion and Philosophy; Book Blurbs; Preface; Contents; Part I Inner Saint: Some Aspectsof Chinese Religion; 1 Chinese FaithFaith Triangle: ConfucianismConfucianism, DaoismDaoism, and BuddhismBuddhism; Introduction; ConfucianismConfucianism and DaoismDaoism in the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.--220 A.D.); ConfucianismConfucianism, DaoismDaoism, and BuddhismBuddhism in the Wei and Jin Dynasties (220--589 A.D.); ConfucianismConfucianism, DaoismDaoism, and BuddhismBuddhism in the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581--907 A.D.)
    Description / Table of Contents: ConfucianismConfucianism, DaoismDaoism, and BuddhismBuddhism in the Song and Yuan Dynasties (960--1368 A.D.)The Faith Triangle in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368--1911 A.D.); Some Comments; 2 The Basic Spirit of Chinese Culture and National FaithFaith; Introduction; Relation between HeavenHeaven and Human; Sacred FaithFaith Based on FamilyFamily Ties; Kinship Expanded from FamilyFamily to Country and to Ecological World; Sacredness and Initiative of Human Life; 3 The Definition of Religion; Introduction; Intellectual Dilemma for Diversified Definitions
    Description / Table of Contents: Definitions of Modern Chinese AcademicsReflections from Chinese Intellectual Resources; 4 AA Hermeneutic Investigation into HeavenHeaven: The Key Concept of Chinese FaithFaith System; Introduction; HeavenHeaven as Natural World Opposite to the Earth; Religious Facets of HeavenHeaven; Political Facets of HeavenHeaven; Cultural Implications of HeavenHeaven; Conclusion; 5 The Religious CommitmentCommitment of Confucian Style; Introduction; Confucian Humaneness (ren) as the Ultimately Real; MoralMoral Facet in BloodBlood Ties; SanctitySanctity in Natural EvolutionEvolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Religious Commitments Ensuring SocialSocial Ethics6 Religious Aspects of DaoismDaoism; DaoismDaoism as IndigenousIndigenous Religion in China; The Journey of Religious DaoismDaoism; The Intellectual Clues and Aspects of Religious DaoismDaoism; Ways of Becoming the Immortal; The Way to Outer Pills; The Way to InnerInner Pills; The Way to Devour CosmicCosmic Air; Pith-Consolidating-Sex (fangzhongshu); The Daoist Classic System; The Earliest ThreeThree Classics; The Mainstay of the Daoist Classics; To Understand Chinese Through Religious DaoismDaoism
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 The Buddha Nature Theory and It's Social ValueIntroduction; Universality of Buddha Nature; Self-Awareness of Buddha Nature; SocialSocial Value of Buddha Nature in Chan Scholarship; Philosophical Sense of Buddha Nature in Chan BuddhismBuddhism; Conclusion; 8 Human DignityDignity Reflected in ConfucianismConfucianism and DaoismDaoism; Introduction; Human DignityDignity Observed in the West; Human DignityDignity Observed in Chinese Tradition; Narrow-Minded and Lofty-Minded Confucians; Daoist DaoDao in Cultivating Humanistic DignityDignity; Some Comments
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 A Confucian Perspective on the Enlightenment and Religion
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    Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (2011)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9781402097294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1423 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Encyclopedia of medieval philosophy
    DDC: 189.03
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophie ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Online-Publikation ; Wörterbuch ; Philosophie ; Geschichte 500-1500
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    Ethical Principles and Economic Transformation - A Buddhist Approach (2011)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048193103
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 213p. 7 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 33
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Ethical principles and economic transformation
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsethik ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie ; Buddhismus ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy, modern ; Religion (General) ; Development Economics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy, modern ; Religion (General) ; Development Economics ; Business ethics ; Economics ; Religious aspects ; Buddhism
    Abstract: Buddhism points out that emphasizing individuality and promoting the greatest fulfillment of the desires of the individual conjointly lead to destruction. The book promotes the basic value-choices of Buddhism, namely happiness, peace and permanence. Happiness research convincingly shows that not material wealth but the richness of personal relationships determines happiness. Not things, but people make people happy. Western economics tries to provide people with happiness by supplying enormous quantities of things and today's dominating business models are based on and cultivates narrow self-centeredness.But what people need are caring relationships and generosity. Buddhist economics makes these values accessible by direct provision. Peace can be achieved in nonviolent ways. Wanting less can substantially contribute to this endeavor and make it happen more easily. Permanence, or ecological sustainability, requires a drastic cutback in the present level of consumption and production globally. This reduction should not be an inconvenient exercise of self-sacrifice. In the noble ethos of reducing suffering it can be a positive development path for humanity.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 Why Buddhist Economics?; The Emergence of Buddhist Economics; The Structure of the Book; References; Part II Buddhist Ethics Applied to Economics; 2 The Relational Economy; Introduction; Can a Buddhist Be a Capitalist?; The Concepts We Harden On; Where These Concepts Came From; Some Notes on Actual Economies; Some Notes on Utopian Economies; Some Reflections on Buddhism and Economic Practice; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Buddhism and Sustainable Consumption; Introduction; Sustainable Consumption
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Consumption and the Buddhist World ViewMeasuring the Impact of Consumption; Achieving Sustainable Consumption; Conclusions; Notes; References; 4 Economic Sufficiency and Santi Asoke; Buddhist Economic Ethics for the Individual; The Royal Thai Sufficiency Economy Model; The Santi Asoke Buddhist Reform Movement of Thailand; Social and Environmental Ethics; Ethic 1: Self-reliance; Ethic 2: Moderation; Ethic 3: Interdependence; Concluding Considerations; References; 5 Pathways to a Mindful Economy; Pathological Systems Conditions; Environmental Destruction and Resource Depletion
    Description / Table of Contents: InequalityInstability; Capitalism; Systemic Growth and Environmental Damage; Systemic Consumerism; Systemic Inequality; ''Buy Low and Sell High''; Habits of Thought and Habit Energy; Mindful Institutional and Systemic Change; Pathways to a Mindful Economy; The Intrinsically Democratic, Equitable, and Just Character of a Mindful Economy; Respect for All Life and Natural Processes; Stability of a Mindful Economy; Community Corporation; From Anecdotes to a Mindful Economic System; References; Part III Achieving Happiness and Peace; 6 Do Our Economic Choices Make Us Happy?; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: Income and HappinessA Buddhist Diagnosis; The Buddhist Cure; A Cautionary Conclusion; Postscript from an Economics Nobel Laureate; Appendix 1; Appendix 2: Rethinking Economic Policy; Abbreviations: Texts of the Pali Canon; References; 7 Gross National Happiness; Buddhism; The Roots of Economics; What Do We Measure?; Discounting the Future; Spiritual Views Rediscovered; Human Nature and Motivation; Towards a New Paradigm for Economics; Towards GNH Indicators; References; 8 The Application of Buddhist Theory and Practice in Modern Organizations; The Nature of the Modern Workplace
    Description / Table of Contents: The Workings of PowerTackling the Conditions of the Modern Workplace; The History of the Crucible Team; Action Research as Method; Applying a Model of Action Research to Crucible; Principles of the Work: Alchemy, Embodiment and the Reflective Ground; The Process; Conclusion; References; 9 Leadership the Buddhist Way; Pursuit of Happiness as the Base; What Is Leadership?; Leading Yourself; Right View and Right Conduct; The Necessity of Training Your Mind; The Ideal Leader; Understanding Principles and Causes; Understanding Objectives and Results; Understanding Oneself; Understanding Moderation
    Description / Table of Contents: Understanding the Occasion and Efficient Use of Time
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9310-3
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    Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation (2011)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media B.V
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    ISBN: 9789048190171
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 187p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Justice 7
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Toleration and Recognition in an Age of Religious Pluralism
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Democracy, religious pluralism and the liberal dilemma of accommodation
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy ; Regional planning ; Political science ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Philosophy ; Regional planning ; Political science ; Religious pluralism ; Political aspects ; Religion and state ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religiöser Pluralismus ; Liberalismus ; Egalitarismus ; Demokratie
    Abstract: How should liberal democratic governments respond to citizens as religious believers whose values, norms and practices might lie outside the cultural mainstream? Some of the most challenging political questions arising today focus on the adequacy of a policy of 'live and let live' liberal toleration in contexts where disputes about the metaphysical truth of conflicting world-views abound. Does liberal toleration fail to give all citizens their due? Do citizens of faith deserve a more robust form of accommodation from the state in the form of 'recognition'. This issue is far from settled. Controversies over the terms of religious accommodation continue to dominate political agendas around the world. This is the first edited collection to provide a sustained examination of the politics of toleration and recognition in an age of religious pluralism. The aftermath of the events of September 11th have dramatised the urgency of this debate. It has also surfaced, nationally and globally, in disputes about terrorism, security and gender and human rights questions in relation to minority communities. This volume brings together a group of new and established scholars from the fields of law and philosophy, who all present fresh and challenging perspectives on an urgent debate. It will be indispensable reading for advanced researchers in political and legal philosophy, religious and cultural studies and related disciplines.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Authors; 1 Introduction - Liberal Democracy and Religious Pluralism: Accommodating or Resisting the Diversity of a Globalising Age?; 1.1 Religious Pluralism in Democratic Theory and Practice; 1.2 Religious Accommodation in Liberal Democracies: Toleration, Respect and Recognition; 1.3 The Chapters; References; Part I Religious Pluralism in Liberal Democracies: Toleration and the Dynamics of Social Conflict; 2 Religions and Liberal Democracy: Reflections on Doctrinal, Institutional and Attitudinal Learning; 3 How Not to Tolerate Religion
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 On the Muslim Question5 Dealing Morally with Religious Differences; 6 Diversity and Equality: `Toleration as Recognition' Reconsidered; Part II Cases, Concepts and New Frameworks for Accommodating Religion in Liberal Democracies; 7 Modus Vivendi and Religious Conflict; 8 Negotiating the `Sacred' Cow: Cow Slaughter and the Regulation of Difference in India; 9 An Ex Post Legem Approach to the Reconciliation of Minority Issues in Contemporary Democracies; Index;
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    Controversy as News Discourse (2011)
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    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 19
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Logic ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General)
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    Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (2009)
    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
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    ISBN: 9789048125388 , 9789048125371
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Postcolonial philosophy of religion
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Regional planning ; Religion (General) ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Regional planning ; Religion (General) ; Religion Philosophy ; History ; East and West Philosophy ; Great Britain Colonies ; Religious life and customs ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus ; Indien ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus ; Amerika ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus
    Abstract: The essays in this volume take up the history of philosophy of religion and contemporary problems within the discipline. They pursue these tasks as opportunities to correct Eurocentric biases that distort knowledge not only of religions originating beyond the West, but of the West's own traditions. This is the first collection of its kind. The contributions re-examine colonial experience in India and the Americas, offering discussion of broad methodological issues, critical re-readings of influential Western interpreters of religion, and arguments that explore blindspots and insights typical of colonial difference when viewed through 'non-Western' eyes. The volume is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars in philosophy, religion, and related fields. Readers will benefit from its broad coverage of regions, traditions and problems, and the balance of philosophical critique and reconstruction.
    Description / Table of Contents: Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1; Part I: Surveying the Scene; Part II: "India"; Part III: "America"; Part IV: Uneasy Intersections; Index;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8
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    Who One Is : Meontology of the “I”: A Transcendental Phenomenology (2009)
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 189
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy of mind
    Abstract: "Both volumes of this work have as their central concern to sort out who one is from what one is. In this Book 1, the focus is on transcendental-phenomenological ontology. When we refer to ourselves we refer both non-ascriptively in regard to non-propertied as well as ascriptively in regard to propertied aspects of ourselves. The latter is the richness of our personal being, the former is the essentially elusive central concern of this Book 1: I can be aware of myself and refer to myself without it being necessary to think of any third-personal characteristic, indeed one may be aware of oneself without having to be aware of anything except oneself. This consideration opens the door to basic issues in phenomenological ontology, such as identity, individuation, and substance. In our knowledge and love of Others we find symmetry with the first-person self-knowledge, both in its non-ascriptive forms as well as in its property-ascribing forms. Love properly has for its referent the Other as present through but beyond her properties. Transcendental-phenomenological reflections move us to consider paradoxes of the ""transcendental person."" For example, we contend with the unpresentability in the transcendental first-person of our beginning or ending and the undeniable evidence for the beginning and ending of persons in our third-person experience. The basic distinction between oneself as non-sortal and as a person pervaded by properties serves as a hinge for reflecting on ""the afterlife."" This transcendental-phenomenological ontology of necessity deals with some themes of the philosophy of religion."
    Description / Table of Contents: Phenomenological Preliminaries; The First Person and the Transcendental I; Ipseity's Ownness and Uniqueness; Love as the Fulfillment of the Second-Person Perspective; Ontology and Meontology of I-ness; The Paradoxes of the Transcendental Person; The Death of the Transcendental Person; The Afterlife and the Transcendental I
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8798-1
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    Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty : A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature (2009)
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    Keywords: Philosophy of nature ; Physics History ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Helmholtz, Hermann von 1821-1894 ; Naturwissenschaften ; Mechanismus ; Rezeption
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5630-7
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    Who One Is : Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology (2009)
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 190
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: If I am asked in the framework of Book 1, 'Who are you?' I, in answering, might say 'I don't know who in the world I am.' Nevertheless there is a sense in which I always know what 'I' refers to and can never not know, even if I have become, e.g., amnesiac. Yet in Book 2, 'Who are you?' has other senses of oneself in mind than the non-sortal 'myself'. For example, it might be the pragmatic context, as in a bureaucratic setting, but 'Who are you?' or 'Who am I?' might be more anguished and be rendered by 'What sort of person are you?' or 'What sort am I?' Such a question often surfaces in the face of a 'limit-situation', such as one's death or in the wake of a shameful deed where we are compelled to find our 'centers', what we also will call 'Existenz'. 'Existenz' here refers to the center of the person. In the face of the limit-situation one is called upon to act unconditionally in the determination of oneself and one's being in the world. In this Book 2 we discuss chiefly one's normative personal-moral identity which stands in contrast to the transcendental I where one's non-sortal unique identity is given from the start. This moral identity requires a unique self-determination and normative self-constitution which may be thought of with the help of the metaphor of 'vocation'. We will see that it has especial ties to one's Existenz as well as to love. This Book 2 claims that the moral-personal ideal sense of who one is is linked to the transcendental who through a notion of entelechy. The person strives to embody the I-ness that one both ineluctably is and which, however, points to who one is not yet and who one ought to be. The final two chapters tell a philosophical-theological likely story of a basic theme of Plotinus: We must learn to honor ourselves because of our honorable kinship and lineage 'Yonder'.
    Description / Table of Contents: Assenting to My Death and That of the Other; The Transcendental Attitude and the Mystery of Death; Existenz, Conscience, and the Transcendental I; Ipseity and Teleology; The Calling of Existenz; Aspects of a Philosophical Theology of Vocation; Philosophical Theology of Vocation;
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    Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century : Book One New Waves of Philosophical Inspirations (2009)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 103
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Phenomenology and existentialism in the twentieth century ; Book 1: New waves of philosophical inspirations
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Phänomenologie ; Existenzialismus ; Geistesgeschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: Phenomenology and existentialism transformed understanding and experience of the Twentieth Century to their core. They had strikingly different inspirations and yet the two waves of thought became merged as both movements flourished. The present collection of research devoted to these movements and their unfolding interaction is now especially revealing. The studies in this first volume to be followed by two succeeding ones, range from the predecessors of existentialism - Kierkegaard/Jean Wahl, Nietzsche, to the work of its adherents - Shestov, Berdyaev, Unamuno, Blondel, Blumenberg, Heidegger and Mamardashvili, Dufrenne and Merleau-Ponty to existentialism's congruence with Christianity or with atheism. Among the leading Husserlian insights are treated essence and experience, the place of questioning, ethics and intentionality, temporality and passivity and the life world. The following book will uncover the perennial concerns guiding the wondrous interplay of these two inspirational sources.
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    A Comprehensible Universe : The Interplay of Science and Theology (2008)
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    ISBN: 9783540776260
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Coyne, George V., 1933 - 2020 A comprehensible universe
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Science Science_xHistory ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Rationalism ; Religion and science ; Science Methodology ; Rationalität ; Naturwissenschaften ; Theologie ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Methode
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    Abstract: Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried to understand the world with the help of reason alone, rejecting the comforting fabric of myth and legend. After many philosophical and theological adventures the Greek concept of rationality laid the foundations of a revolutionary way of thinking: the scientific method, which transformed the world
    Description / Table of Contents: Discovery that the World is Rational; Should the Astronomer Look into the Sky?; Seven Fighters against Thebes; How to Count the Grains of Sand; Is the World Rational?; Christianity on the Scene; Theology and Science in the Epoch of the Church Fathers; The Medieval Contribution; Achilles and the Arrow; The Dynamics of Aristotle; Three Generations: From Tartaglia to Galileo; Birth of the Method; Is the World Mathematical?; Mathematics at Work; Afterthoughts
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    Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation (2008)
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Law Medicine ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Menschenwürde
    Abstract: The idea of human dignity is central to any reflection on the nature of human worth, and has become a key concept in international and national law, in medical ethics, and in much philosophical and political theory. However, the idea is a complex one that also takes on many different forms. This collection explores the idea of human dignity as it arises within these many different domains, opening up the possibility of a multidisciplinary conversation that illuminates the concept itself, as well as the idea of the human to which it stands in an essential relation. The book is not only an intri
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction to a Conversation; Human Dignity and Human Worth; Human Dignity and Human Being; On Human Dignity: Fragments of an Exploration; Two Conceptions of Dignity: Honour and Self-Determination; Human Dignity and Charity; Human Dignity: Functions and Meanings; A Brief History of Human Dignity: Idea and Application; A Journey Towards Understanding: True and False Dignity; The Question of Dignity: Doubts and Loves and a Whisper from Where the Ruined House Once Stood; Religion and Dignity: Assent and Dissent; Giving the Past Its Dignity; Dignity and Indignity
    Description / Table of Contents: Human Dignity and the LawOn the International Legal Aspects of Human Dignity; Doing Justice to Dignity in the Criminal Law; Human Dignity: The New Phase in International Law; Dignity and Health; Human Dignity: The Perspective of a Gynaecological Oncologist; The Social Origins of Dignity in Medical Care at the End of Life; Dying with Dignity: The Story Reveals Its Meaning; Back Matter;
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    Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate (2008)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 93
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    Parallel Title: Print version Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Catholicism ; Fluid Therapy ethics ; Religion and Medicine ; Nutritional Support ethics ; Persistent Vegetative State therapy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Medizinische Ethik ; Künstliche Ernährung ; Moraltheologie
    Abstract: Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. This collection of essays featuring some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope's statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
    Abstract: Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope s claim that the life of all human beings, even those in a persistent vegetative state or a coma, was worth protecting, others argued that the Pope s position marked a shift from the traditional Catholic teaching on the withdrawal of medical treatment at the end of life. The debate among Catholic bioethicists over the Pope s statement only grew more intense during the controversy surrounding Terry Schiavo s death in 2005, as bioethicists on both sides of the debate argued about the legitimacy of removing her feeding tubes. This collection of essays by some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope s statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?; Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death?; Caring for Persons in the "Persistent Vegetative State" and Pope John Paul II's March 20 2004 Address "On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State"; Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests; Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition; Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics of Pope John Paul's Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. GarciaReflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients; The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O'Rourke; Response to Patrick Lee; The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O'Rourke, O.P.; Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Back Matter
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    Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion (2007)
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kontinentaleuropa ; Religionsphilosophie ; Selbst ; Der Andere
    Abstract: The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion. These primary topics include self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. The articles are by an international group of leading contributors to recent continental philosophy of religion.
    Abstract: It is well known that the philosophy of religion has flourished in recent decades in Anglo-American philosophy, where philosophers are bringing new techniques to the study of many of the traditional problems. Although there is more diversity in Anglo-American philosophy of religion than is sometimes recognized, it nevertheless provides a body of literature with a recent history that is sufficiently coherent to enable commentators to identify the movement with some clarity. The story is somewhat different with the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion, where many of the leading contributors are not generally known as philosophers of religion and where many of the approaches are based upon a critique of traditional western theories of rationality, experience and theism and an extension of the more traditional boundaries of philosophical reflection on religion. The essays in this volume focus on some of the topics that are shaping recent continental philosophy of religion, including self and other, evil and suffering, religion and society and the relation between philosophy and theology. Contributors are Pamela Sue Anderson, Maeve Cooke, Richard A. Cohen, Fred Dallmayr, Hent de Vries, William Franke, Anselm K. Min, Michael Purcell, Calvin O. Schrag, Merold Westphal, Edith Wyschogrod and the editor Eugene Thomas Long.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Self and other: An introduction; On Hesitation before the Other; Levinas: thinking least about death-contra Heidegger; Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism; Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology; From "ghost in the machine" to "spiritual automaton": Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas; Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion; Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion
    Description / Table of Contents: Suffering and transcendenceOtherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?; Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time; An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections; Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas's postmetaphysical proposal
    Note: "Reprinted from The international journal for philosophy of religion, 60:1-3 (2006)"--P. [4] of Cover , Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5861-5
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    The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and the Catholic Tradition : Moral Arguments, Economic Reality and Social Analysis (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer Science + Business Media B.V
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    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2007 Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 95
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 618.1
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Reproductive Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Embryotransfer ; Medizinische Ethik ; Moraltheologie
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6211-7
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    Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period (2006)
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    Series Statement: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology 12
    DDC: 507.1104
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    Keywords: History ; Philosophy (General) ; Science History ; Medicine ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Universität ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte 1450-1800
    Abstract: "The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their contribution to the critical dialogue that vitalized the emergent European scientific community. The ""soul"" of the early modern university was its well-rounded, humanistically informed curriculum and the culture of erudition it inculcated. The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, from the Iberian Peninsula to Scandinavia, from Italy to Scotland, even as it was increasingly modified to accommodate the new science. The fresh evidence gathered here emphasizes just how rigorously science was pursued by academics, notwithstanding institutional constraints. Individually, each paper illustrates the nexus of complexities specific locales made on the reception and transmission of scientific ideas, collectively, the papers offer a comparative framework that should prove invaluable in our evaluating the profound changes undergone by early modern universities during the era of Scientific Revolution."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , "Mathematics for astronomy" at universities in Copernicus' time , The University of Salamanca and the renaissance of astronomy during the second half of the 15th century , Medical science and medical teachings at the University of Salamanca in the 15th century , The faculty of medicine of Valencia , The cultivation of astronomy in Spanish universities in the latter half of the 16th century , The Sphere of Jacques du Chevreul: astronomy at the University of Paris in the 1620s , Lectures and practices: the variety of mathematical and mechanical teaching at the University of Uppsala in the 17th century , Mathematical research in Italian universities in the modern era , Universities, academies, and sciences in the modern age , Natural philosophy and mathematics in Portuguese universities, 1550-1650 , Venetian policy toward the University of Padua and scientific progress during the 18th century , Candide in Caledonia: the culture of science in the Scottish universities, 1690-1805 , The sciences at the University of Rome in the 18th century , Enlightenment and renovation in the Spanish university , Spanish chemistry textbooks during late 18th century , Botany in University studies in the late 18th century : the case of Valencia University , Scientific education and the crisis of the university in 18th century Barcelona , The theories of Copernicus and Newton in the Viceroyship of Nueva Granada and the Audiencia de Caracas during the 18th century , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Intersubjective Temporality : It's About Time (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 176
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Rodemeyer, Lanei M. Intersubjective temporality
    DDC: 115
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    Keywords: Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Phänomenologie ; Zeit ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Zeitwahrnehmung ; Intersubjektivität
    Abstract: "This book contains phenomenological analyses of each dimension of temporalizing consciousness, turning primarily to Husserl's later manuscripts on time. From these manuscripts, the author takes up certain important notions heretofore generally neglected by the secondary literature in Husserl scholarship, such as ""near"" and ""far"" retention, and ""world-time"". Integrating a consideration of intersubjective existence, the author suggests that the notion of ""intersubjective temporality"" might be a more appropriate way to understand the foundation of the subject understood phenomenologically."
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; PART ONE THE PRESENT; WORLD TIME A NEW TEMPORAL SYNTHESIS; PART TWO RETENTION; PART THREE PROTENTION; PART FOUR INTERSUBJECTIVE TEMPORALITY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF NAMES
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index , Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4214-0
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    Aquinas and Maimonides on the possibility of the knowledge of god : An examination of the quaestio de attributis (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402047473
    Language: English , Latin
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vi, 324 Seiten)
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    Series Statement: Amsterdam studies in Jewish thought v. 11
    Series Statement: Amsterdam studies in Jewish thought
    DDC: 212.6
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 ; Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 ; Gotteserkenntnis
    Abstract: This in-depth study of Thomas Aquinas' Quaestio de Attributis binds together the findings of previous research on the unique history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition, shows that the Quaestio contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes, and thoroughly examines his interpretation of Maimonides' position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analysing this and other texts related to it chronologically and doctrinally.
    Abstract: Presents a study of Thomas Aquinas' "Quaestio de attributis", which binds together the findings of research on the history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition. This book also shows that the "Quaestio" contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes
    Description / Table of Contents: The Dispute on the Divine Attributes; Aquinas and Maimonides on the Divine Names; The Quaestio de Attributis and Zechariah 14, 9; The Quaestio de Attributis and the Limits of Natural Knowledge; The Knowledge of the Existence of God
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-317) and indexes , Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Hebrew University, 2001 , Text in English and Latin , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4747-9
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    Why Care for Nature? : In Search of an Ethical Framework for Environmental Responsibility and Education (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 9
    DDC: 333.7071
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Education Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Education and state ; Environmental sciences ; Umwelterziehung ; Umweltethik ; Naturschutz ; Norm ; Umweltethik ; Umwelterziehung
    Abstract: Dirk Willem Postma
    Abstract: What inspires us humans to take responsibility for the natural environment? How do we familiarise children with environmental responsibility? This book looks at a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical and politico-philosophical dimensions of environmental education. It discusses two sources of inspiration and responsibility in particular
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; About the Author; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 A brief history of environmental education; 1.2 ESD: Research questions and directions; 2. Because we are citizens; 2.1 Future generations as fellow citizens; 2.2 Future generations as heirs of our community; 2.3 Future generations as imagined strangers; 2.4 Education for an open future; 3. Because we are human; 3.1 In defense of an aesthetic account of intrinsic natural value; 3.2 On the status of nature and her evaluators; 3.3 Towards an ethic of environmental responsibility; 3.4 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Because we educate citizens caring for natureBibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-213) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5003-8
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    THE TASTE FOR ETHICS (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 7
    DDC: 178
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Lebensmittelüberwachung
    Abstract: The field of ethics must be extended to cover responsibility for the production and choice of foodstuffs. This book shows how the focus of ethics can be expanded from its concern for the good life with and for others to cover the good life in fair food production practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Eating, Society and Ethics; Food to Science: On the Intellectualization of Food; The Storylessness of Food; Tracing the Production History; Food Ethics as the Ethics of the Trace; Traceability and Food Ethics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4554-9
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    A Primal Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402050145
    Language: English
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    DDC: 210
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Ethnische Religion ; Religionsphilosophie
    Abstract: Philosophy of religion as a discipline first arose in Europe; its subject matter has been profoundly influenced by the practices of European Christianity. While Eastern and Western religions subsequently found a place in these studies, one global religious tradition, namely, the primal tradition, remains unrepresented in its discussions. This book examines the significantly different perspectives offered by primal religions on virtually every theme discussed in the philosophy of religion.
    Abstract: The philosophy of religion has been a largely European intellectual enterprise in two ways. It arose in Europe as a discipline and its subject matter has been profoundly influenced by Christianity as practised in Europe. The process of its deprovincialization in this respect started when it began to take religions other than Christianity within its purview - such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Although now the religions of both East and West have found a place in it, a religious tradition which is present in both the East and the West, namely, the primal religious tradition, still remains unrepresented in its discussions, perhaps under the mistaken assumption that this religious tradition has little to offer by way of philosophical reflection. This book challenges this widespread assumption and demonstrates how primal religions have something significant to offer on virtually every theme discussed in the philosophy of religion. Through this book the primal religious tradition stakes its claim for a place at the table.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Concept of God: Monotheism; Other Concepts of God; Arguments for the Existence of God; Arguments Against the Existence of God; The Problem of Evil; The Concept of Revelation and the Primal Religious Tradition; Theories of Faith; Evidentialism, Foundationalism and Rational Belief; Language and Religious Thought; The Problems of Religious Language; The Problem of Verification; Conflicting Truth Claims of Different Religions; Human Destiny: Immortality and Resurrection; Human Destiny: Karma and Reincarnation
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5014-3
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    Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Two : The Human Condition in-the-Unity-of-Everything-there-is-alive. Individuation, Self, Person, Self-determination, Freedom, Necessity (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037078
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 89
    DDC: 142.7
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    Keywords: Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy of Nature ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Phänomenologie ; Logos ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Leib ; Individualität ; Intersubjektivität ; Freiheit ; Notwendigkeit ; Selbstbestimmung ; Religionsphilosophie
    Abstract: "The human being is today at the center of scientific, social, ethical and philosophical debates. The Human Condition-in-the-unity-of-everything-there-is-alive, under whose aegis the present selection of essays falls, offers the urgently needed new approach to reinvestigating humanness. While recent advances in the neurosciences, genetics and bio-engineering challenge the traditional abstract conception of ""human nature"", indicating its transformability, thus putting in question the main tenets of traditional philosophical anthropology, in the new perspective of the Human Creative Condition the human individual is seen in its emergence and unfolding within the dynamic networks of the logos of life, and within the evolution of living types. Just the same, the creative logos of the mind lifts the human person into a sphere of freedom. Within the networks of the logos we retrieve the classical principles - human subject, ego, self, body, soul, person - reinterpret them to counter the naturalistic critique (Tymieniecka). Thus principles of a new philosophical anthropology satisfying the requirements of the present time are laid down. Papers by: Tristan Ace, Michael F. Andrews, Ann Astell, Stella Zita De Azevedo, Carmen Balzer, Angela Ales Bello, Andreas Brenner, Carmen Cozma, Agnes B. Curry, Roberta de Monticelli, Eddo Evink, Maria Golebiewska, Laura Hengehold, Kadria Ismail, Marzenna Jakubczak, Maria Mercede Ligozzi, Maria Manuela Brito Martins, Piotr Mroz, Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Peter Reynaert, Victor Gerald Rivas, Mobeen Shahid, Olena Shkubulyani, Michael Staudigl, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Willem Van Groenou."
    Description / Table of Contents: The Language of Our Living Body; What is it Like to Be Embodied, Naturalizing Bodily Self-Awareness?; Edmund Husserl's Anthropological Proposal in the Ideen I/II; Non-Intentionality of the Lived-Body; Plato's Teaching about "Living Creature"; An Enquiry Concerning the Dialectic of Personality and its Practical Consequences; Discussion on the Notion of "Life" and "Existentia" in the Philosophical Conceptions of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty; "Vitalogy": The African Vision of the Human Person; Conflict with Our Self; Essential Individuality: On the Nature of a Person
    Description / Table of Contents: Ego-Making Principle in Samkhya Metaphysics and CosmologyThe "Person" and the "Other" in María Zambrano's Philosophical Anthropology; Les Figures de L#x2019; Intersubjectivité Chez Husserl; The Logos of Life and Sexual Difference; Phenomenology of Life's Opening to the Moral Philosophy - The Virtue's Issue; The Vulnerable Body: Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Violence; Phenomenology of Life in Border Situations: The Experience of the Ultimate; The Phenomenology of Resistance; Patocka and Derrida on Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: "Perfect Health" and the Disembodiment of the Self. An Approach to Michel Henry's ThoughtBeauvoirian Existentialism: An Ethic of Individualism or Individuation?; The Creationism of Leonardo Coimbra and Saudade as a Moral Gift; Mater-Natality: Augustine, Arendt, and Levinas; Religion without Why: Edith Stein and Martin Heidegger on the Overcoming of Metaphysics, with Particular Reference to Angelus Silesius and Denys the Areopagite; Hermeneutics of the Mystical Phenomenon in E dith Stein;
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    De geesteswetenschappelijke carrousel : Een nieuwe ronde in het debat over wetenschap, cultuur en politiek (2006)
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
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    ISBN: 9789053569238
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (160 S.)
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Philosophy ; Political science ; Culture and institutions ; Anthropology ; Filosofie ; Politicologie ; Culture and instituten ; Anthropologie ; Sociology (General) ; Social sciences (General) ; Political institutions and public administration (General) ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophie ; Politische Wissenschaft
    Abstract: Philosophy; Political science; Culture and institutions; Anthropology
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    The Edge of Life : Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402031564
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 85
    DDC: 179.7
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Bioethical Issues ; Catholicism ; Personhood ; Philosophy, Medical ; Religion and Medicine ; Right to Die ethics ; Beginning of Human Life ethics ; Menschenwürde ; Lebensschutz
    Abstract: "The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics resituates bioethics in fundamental outlook by challenging both the dominant Kantian and utilitarian approaches to evaluating how new technologies apply to human life. Drawing on an analysis of the dignity of the human person, both as an agent and as the recipient of action, The Edge of Life presents a ""theoretical"" approach to the problems of contemporary bioethics and applies this approach to various disputed questions. Should conjoined twins be split, if the division will end the life of the weaker twin? Was Bush's stem cell research decision morally acceptable? Are the 'quality of life' and 'sanctity of life' ethics irreconcilably incompatible? Accessible to both scholars and students, The Edge of Life focuses particularly on the controversial issues surrounding the beginning and ending of human life, tackling some of the toughest practical questions of bioethics including new reproductive technologies (artificial wombs), stem cell research, abortion and physician assisted suicide, as well as many of its vexing theoretical disputes."
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; When Does a Human Being Become a Person?; All Human Beings are Persons; How is the Dignity of the Person as Agent Recognized?; An Ethical Assessment of Bush's Guidelines for Stem Cell Research; Moral Absolutism and Ectopic Pregnancy; Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?; Solomon's Dilemma; Capital Punishment and the Catholic Tradition
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3156-4
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    The Thomist Tradition (2002)
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    ISBN: 9789401599160
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 239 p) , digital
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Dougherty, Jude P. Book review 2004
    Series Statement: Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion 2
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Philosophy ; Modern philosophy. ; Medieval philosophy. ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy, modern ; Religion. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Thomismus ; Religionsphilosophie ; Thomismus ; Religionsphilosophie ; Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 ; Rezeption ; Neuthomismus
    Abstract: The Thomist Tradition focuses on central themes in contemporary Thomism, including religious knowledge, language, science, evil, morality, human nature, God and religious diversity
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9916-0
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    The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy : Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference (2000)
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    ISBN: 9789401593892
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 549 p) , digital
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Lasker, Daniel J. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (review) 2003
    Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 7
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Medieval philosophy. ; Philosophy, medieval ; History ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Humanities. ; Social sciences. ; Konferenzschrift 1998 ; Hebräisch ; Enzyklopädie ; Wissenschaft ; Philosophie ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Jüdische Philosophie ; Geschichte 1100-1400
    Abstract: In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. The primary purpose of the conference was to explore and define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book, the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, contains revised versions of the papers that were prepared for this conference. This volume also includes an annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias
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    Sanctity of life and human dignity (1996)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 318 Seiten)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 52
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Public health laws ; Konferenzschrift 1992 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Menschenwürde
    Abstract: `Sanctity of life' and `human dignity' are two bioethical concepts that play an important role in bioethical discussions. Despite their separate history and content, they have similar functions in these discussions. In many cases they are used to bring a difficult or controversial debate to an end. They serve as unquestionable cornerstones of morality, as rocks able to weather the storms of moral pluralism. This book provides the reader with analyses of these two concepts from different philosophical, professional and cultural points of view. Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity presents a comparative analysis of both concepts
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-1590-9
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