On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of the External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, 1

On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of the External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, 1
Author: Thomas Chalmers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1833
Genre: Human beings
ISBN:

"This chapter reflects on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God as manifested in the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man. The author addresses a number of topics including the economic well-being of society, the role of virtue in defining the character of man, the connection between the intellect and the emotions, and the defects and uses of natural theology." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Marx’s Ecology

Marx’s Ecology
Author: John Bellamy Foster
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2000-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1583670122

By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.

Citizens of the World

Citizens of the World
Author: Samara Anne Cahill
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611486858

Citizens of the World investigates an area of eighteenth-century cultural, intellectual, and day-to-day life that many have seen but few have explored: adaptation. Throughout the long eighteenth century, adaptation happened repeatedly and in diverse forms: in the experience of travelers, merchants, and expatriates who made their way in foreign lands; in the adjustment of ancient literary norms to modern themes, concerns, and expectations; in the development of scientific apparatus for the probing of newly-discovered phenomena; in translating; in the adjusting of familiar architecture for new environments; in speculating about and making provision for the future reception of contemporary works; in the tempering and symphonizing of musical instruments; and in dozens of other no less important ways. The eight essays in this book, composed by scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America, provide the first panoramic view of adaptation during the Enlightenment. Essays delve into such diverse forms of adaptation as the representation of cultural interchange on porcelain serving pieces; the attempt to come to terms with the demands of air travel through the often cumbersome technology of ballooning; the relevance of the English Enlightenment to present-day Caribbean literature; piracy as a form of recalibration; Vietnamese verse; Georgic envisioning of ecological stability; and the uncanny interactions of French provincial architecture with both eighteenth-century dwellers and their descendants. Cumulatively, the essays illuminate the process by which eighteenth-century thinkers, artists, and adventurers elevated adaptation from a mere necessity to a stimulating, happily unending cultural project.

The Nature of Nature

The Nature of Nature
Author: Bruce Gordon
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 967
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1497644372

The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic clash of worldviews among those who have thought most deeply about the nature of science and of the universe itself. Unmatched in its breadth and scope, The Nature of Nature brings together some of the most influential scientists, scholars, and public intellectuals—including three Nobel laureates—across a wide spectrum of disciplines and schools of thought. Here they grapple with a perennial question that has been made all the more pressing by recent advances in the natural sciences: Is the fundamental explanatory principle of the universe, life, and self-conscious awareness to be found in inanimate matter or immaterial mind? The answers found in this book have profound implications for what it means to do science, what it means to be human, and what the future holds for all of us.

From Passions to Emotions

From Passions to Emotions
Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2003-06-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113943697X

Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a distinct psychological category, replacing existing categories such as appetites, passions, sentiments and affections. By examining medieval and eighteenth-century theological psychologies and placing Charles Darwin and William James within a broader and more complex nineteenth-century setting, Thomas Dixon argues that this domination by one single descriptive category is not healthy. Overinclusivity of 'the emotions' hampers attempts to argue with any subtlety about the enormous range of mental states and stances of which humans are capable. This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.