The Fifth Essence
| Author | : Lawrence M. Krauss |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Dark matter (Astronomy) |
| ISBN | : |
The Elusive Essence
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The Elusive Self
| Author | : Hywel David Lewis |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1982-06-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1349055166 |
Surfaces and Essences
| Author | : Douglas Hofstadter |
| Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
| Total Pages | : 594 |
| Release | : 2013-04-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0465018475 |
Shows how analogy-making pervades human thought at all levels, influencing the choice of words and phrases in speech, providing guidance in unfamiliar situations, and giving rise to great acts of imagination.
The Essence of Camphor
| Author | : Naiyer Masud |
| Publisher | : Katha |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9788185586823 |
From the magic realm of a glass wharf to the sorrows of a community of wastelanders. From the visceral immediacy of filial bonds to memories that haunt, Naiyer Masud s fictional world is an experience. The Essence of Camphor, the first ever English translation of Masud s work, is evidently an example of Masud s unique and original style that is unparalleled.
Lessons in Essence
| Author | : Dana Standridge |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2006-04-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1593761090 |
Imbued with the tension of Taipei and the beauty of mountain seclusion, Lessons in Essence uncovers timeless human truths in the crises faced by an honest and vulnerable man Teacher Li is a grumbling Taiwanese master of ancient Chinese arts who suffers constant nightmares about a military takeover of Taiwan by China. His family is in New York seeking U.S. citizenship when Teacher Li has an almost accidental sexual encounter with a student. Knowing everything, his wife returns to Taipei. Miserable, but finding no solace in the city, Teacher Li retreats to the mountains like the Zen hermits of old to write a book about aesthetics. But the purity he seeks is elusive even in mountain exile—he finds a rotting house for shelter, and for company the contrary Dr. Gao and his dropout student lover. Their cynicism juxtaposes Teacher Li's innocence as New York is attacked on September 11, Taiwan's president is shot in an assassination attempt, and the poles of the world seem to shift. With keen insight into human nature, subjects as diverse as erotic paintings, Virginia Woolf's punctuation, and the casual savagery of children, Dana Standridge delivers a powerful story from a complex time in history.
The Life and Work of an Atheist Pioneer
| Author | : Christos Tzanetakos |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2011-09-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1462044972 |
Author Christos Tzanetakos adheres to the profound statement of Emile Zola: Civilization will thrive when the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. This memoir narrates the stories of Tzanetakos lifelong adventures and presents his thoughts, philosophy, and work regarding atheism. Augmented with photos, The Life and Work of an Atheist Pioneer tells of Tzanetakoss childhood, growing up in Greece with his parents and four siblings, and of the seafaring career that took him around the world for ten years before finally settling in Miami, Florida, in 1969. Here he built his business, married, and started a family with his wife, Alice; he also immersed himself in activism for various social issues. The Life and Work of an Atheist Pioneer includes interesting and descriptive details from his life, but also discusses how he became a champion in the cause of the separation of church and state and the advancement of atheism.
The Elusive God
| Author | : Yakir Z. Shoshani |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2019-10-18 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1527541908 |
What meanings can be ascribed to the existence of God? This question has been investigated by prominent thinkers throughout the ages, and led several of them to suggest arguments for proving this existence and explaining its meaning. The first part of this book reviews some of these proofs and their criticism. Following this discussion, it suggests a new meaning and characterization of God as a connector between different types of entities. This idea sheds new light on several interesting problems, including the emergence of plurality in reality from the unity of God. The second section deals with God and the human mind, and focuses mainly on the mind-body bifurcation problem, the problem of free will, and the existence of consciousness and soul. The third part discusses several problems associated with God and the world. Special emphasis is laid here upon God and the laws of nature, the creation of the universe, and the impact of modern Physics on the belief in God’s existence.
Trees
| Author | : Richard Hayman |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781852852993 |
In this book, Richard Hayman traces the different values and virtues people have seen in trees and forests over the course of history, reflecting the changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and urbanization. Tacitus, followed by Romantics and historians of liberty, located freedom in the German forests. Medieval forests were both protected hunting parks and the refuge of Robin Hood. Shakespeare contrasted the simplicity of life in the Forest of Arden with the artificial manners of the court. Since the 18th century, poets such as Wordsworth, Clare, and Hardy have drawn inspiration from trees. How we see trees today will dictate how trees are treated in the future.
Phenomenology
| Author | : Chad Engelland |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2020-08-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0262539314 |
A concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, which investigates the experience of experience. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. Founded by Edmund Husserl (1859–1938) and expounded by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, phenomenology ventures forth into the field of experience so that truth might be met in the flesh. It investigates everything as experienced. It does not study mere appearance but the true appearances of things, holding that the unfolding of experience allows us to sort true appearances from mere appearance. The book unpacks a series of terms—world, flesh, speech, life, truth, love, and wonder—all of which are bound up with each other in experience. For example, world is where experience takes place; flesh names the way our experiential exploration is inscribed into the bearings of our bodily being; speech is instituted in bodily presence; truth concerns the way our claims about things are confirmed by our experience. A chapter on the phenomenological method describes it as a means of clarifying the modality of experience that is written into its very fabric; and a chapter on the phenomenological movement bridges its divisions while responding to criticisms from analytic philosophy and postmodernism.
