Essays

Essays
Author: Herbert Spencer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1910
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

The Unknowable

The Unknowable
Author: W. J. Mander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2020-05-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192537369

W. J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. The story focuses on the elaboration of, and differing reactions to, the concept of the unknowable or unconditioned, first developed by Sir William Hamilton in the 1829. The idea of an ultimate but unknowable way that things really are in themselves may be seen as supplying a narrative arc that runs right through the metaphysical systems of the period in question. These thought schemes may be divided into three broad groups which were roughly consecutive in their emergence but also overlapping as they continued to develop. In the first instance there were the doctrines of the agnostics who developed further Hamilton's basic idea that fundamental reality lies for the great part beyond our cognitive reach. These philosophies were followed immediately by those of the empiricists and, in the last third of the century, the idealists: both of these schools of thought—albeit in profoundly different ways—reacted against the epistemic pessimism of the agnostics. Mander offers close textual readings of the main contributions to First Philosophy made by the key philosophers of the period (such as Hamilton, Mansel, Spencer, Mill, and Bradley) as well as some less well known figures (such as Bain, Clifford, Shadworth Hodgson, Ferrier, and John Grote). By presenting, interpreting, criticising, and connecting together their various contrasting ideas, this book explains how the three traditions developed and interacted with one another to comprise the history of metaphysics in Victorian Britain.

Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative (Vol. 1-3)

Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative (Vol. 1-3)
Author: Herbert Spencer
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 1257
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This 3-volume book features a comprehensive collection of most significant scientific, political and speculative essays by Herbert Spencer. The first volume is made up of essays in which the idea of evolution, general or special is dominant. In the second volume essays dealing with philosophical questions, with abstract and concrete science, and with aesthetics, are brought together; but though all of them are tacitly evolutionary, their evolutionism is an incidental rather than a necessary trait. The ethical, political, and social essays composing the third volume, though mostly written from the evolution point of view, have for their more immediate purposes the enunciation of doctrines which are directly practical in their bearings._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ The Development Hypothesis_x000D_ Progress: Its Law and Cause_x000D_ Transcendental Physiology_x000D_ The Nebular Hypothesis_x000D_ Illogical Geology_x000D_ Bain on the Emotions and the Will_x000D_ The Social Organism_x000D_ The Origin of Animal Worship_x000D_ Morals and Moral Sentiments_x000D_ The Comparative Psychology of Man_x000D_ Mr. Martineau on Evolution_x000D_ The Factors of Organic Evolution_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ The Genesis of Science_x000D_ The Classification of the Sciences_x000D_ Reasons for Dissenting From the Philosophy of M. Comte_x000D_ On Laws in General, and the Order of Their Discovery_x000D_ The Valuation of Evidence_x000D_ What is Electricity?_x000D_ Mill versus Hamilton – The Test of Truth_x000D_ Replies to Criticisms_x000D_ Prof. Green's Explanations_x000D_ The Philosophy of Style_x000D_ Use and Beauty_x000D_ The Sources of Architectural Types_x000D_ Gracefulness_x000D_ Personal Beauty_x000D_ The Origin and Function of Music_x000D_ The Physiology of Laughter_x000D_ Volume 3:_x000D_ Manners and Fashion_x000D_ Railway Morals and Railway Policy_x000D_ The Morals of Trade_x000D_ Prison-ethics_x000D_ The Ethics of Kant_x000D_ Absolute Political Ethics_x000D_ Over-legislation_x000D_ Representative Government – What is It Good for?_x000D_ State-tamperings With Money and Banks_x000D_ Parliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safeguards_x000D_ "The Collective Wisdom"_x000D_ Political Fetichism_x000D_ Specialized Administration_x000D_ From Freedom to Bondage_x000D_ The Americans

Plants in Science Fiction

Plants in Science Fiction
Author: Katherine E. Bishop
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786835614

This is the first volume of its kind Plants in Science Fiction shows how considerations of plant-life in SF can transform our understanding of institutions and boundaries, erecting – and dismantling – new visions of utopian and dystopian futures. Its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics, and cultural life.

The Political Thought of Mori Arinori

The Political Thought of Mori Arinori
Author: Alistair Swale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134250975

This new study of the Meiji Government's controversial Education Minister and thinker, Mori Arinori, seeks to complement Ivan P. Hall's excellent earlier biography (1973) by providing an alternative interpretation of the man and his mission, namely that he is 'overwhelmingly closer to the social evolutionist's view of social change', with a considerable debt to the writings of Spencer rather than the Utalitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill. In other words, Mori was able to develop a workable philosophy of government and administration in line with the pragmatic needs of Japanese society. The book, therefore, will contribute to a radical rethink of Japanese perceptions of the Meiji reforms seen in their own terms.

The Game of Contradictions

The Game of Contradictions
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2022-12-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004528792

One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman’s work is here presented in English translation and with a new preface by the author.

Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought

Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought
Author: Camilla Boisen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-10-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317570561

Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and these answers have been diverse. This collection of essays approaches some of these questions and answers to shed light on neglected approaches to issues of distribution and how these issues have been dealt with historically, socially, conceptually, and practically. The volume moves away from the more dominating and traditionally cast understandings of distributive justice and shows novel and unique ways to approach distributive issues and how these can help enlighten our course of action and thought today by creating new pathways of understanding. The editors and contributors challenge readers by exploring the role and importance of restorative justice within distributive justice, exploring the long shadow of practices of trusteeship, and concepts of social and individual rights and obligations in welfare and economic systems, social protection/provision schemes, egalitarian practices and post-colonial African political thought. Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them.