The Nature Of Existence
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Author | : Richard M. Gale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107142350 |
This influential book evaluates the arguments for the existence and nature of God that emerged in the late twentieth century.
Author | : Ivor Leclerc |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317852982 |
This is Volume II of six in a collection on Epistemology. Originally published in 1972, the central concern of this book is the understanding of the nature of the universe. Its field is thus that which until the eighteenth century had been known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature. The aim of the book is to elucidate and examine the fundamental concepts in terms of which the universe is understood.
Author | : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1988-07-29 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521357692 |
Author | : Joshua Hoffman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2002-02-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134831358 |
Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex subject, Substance provides both the historical and contemporary overview of the debate. Great Philosophers of the past, such as Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, and Berkeley were profoundly interested in the concept of substance. And, the authors argue, a belief in the existence of substances is an integral part of our everyday world view. But what constitutes substance? Was Aristotle right to suggest that artefacts like tables and ships don't really exist? Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first non-technical, accessible guides to this central problem and will be of great use to students of metaphysics and philosophy.
Author | : Edward O. Wilson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 087140480X |
National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence—from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.
Author | : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Ontology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruno Latour |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2013-08-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674728556 |
In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.
Author | : Christopher Greenwood |
Publisher | : Bookbaby |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781483578231 |
The universe has a great nature we are all apart of from the studies of philosophy , science, and history the whole of existence is a completely uniquely infinite . That is how pantheism has its importance as a philosophy to know existence and the rest of human history surrounded in great achievements due curiosity of nature . As a work of knowledge philosophy and science has the greatest achievements of the universes history.
Author | : John McTaggart |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1988-07-29 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521357685 |
Author | : Charlotte Harkness |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2018-11-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1137576871 |
This textbook explores the relationship between the natural world and psychological well-being. It draws upon a wide context, brings the experience of our existence as part of the wider natural world to the forefront throughout, and relates it to therapy practice in mainstream settings.