Without God or His Doubles : Realism, Relativism and Rorty /
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Without God or His Doubles offers a sympathetic, but critical interpretation of the philosophy of Richard Rorty. Rorty is one of the most widely discussed of contemporary philosophers, but there exist few attempts to deal with the full scope of Rorty's writings in a systematic fashion. This book shows that the unifying theme that runs through Rorty's writings on epistemology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and political philosophy is a quasi-religious conception of human creativity and human freedom. In other words, Rorty's attempt to avoid both realism and relativism is best understood in relationship to his claim that traditional philosophy has been god-obsessed. The animating spirit of Rorty's philosophy is to complete the Enlightenment project, to completely wean philosophy away from both God and the various god-doubles (Reason, Nature, Mind, Man, Science, Art). Rorty believes that a radical secularity will result in a kind of human emancipation and a heightened sense of human freedom. The book concludes with a critique of Rorty's proposal for philosophy and culture after the final departure of all the gods.
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An Aristocratic Compatibilist's Providence : Components of Aquinas's Soft Determinist View /
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This monograph discusses different philosophical and theological components of Aquinas's view regarding the relation between human agency and divine providence. Against many contemporary scholars it argues that this view includes a plausible for
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1 online resource (670 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004549708
De Rotterdamse Woelreus : De <i>Rotterdamsche Hermes</i> (1720-1721) van Jacob Campo Weyerman: Cultuurhistorische verkenningen in een achttiende-eeuwse periodiek /
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13 september 1720... aan de Kralingse Oudedijk, in Leeuwenburg , resideert 'kasteelheer' Jacob Campo Weyerman als Rotterdamsche Hermes . Dit 'Monster aan de Maze', kwelgeest van professie, beheerst met een scherpe pen zijn omgeving en bespot mens en wereld. Hij voert ons door Kralingen en Rotterdam, door de Republiek en de buurlanden, kwistig strooiend met schimpscheuten. Maar wie bereid is tot nader vorsen, treft daaronder een schat aan feiten en meningen. Over die rijkdommen gaat dit boek. Het geeft een beeld van wat Weyermans eerste periodiek, de Rotterdamsche Hermes , oproept én verbergt. We zien zijn alter ego , Hermes, in Rotterdamse kroegen en koffiehuizen, schimpend op kooplieden, windhandelaars en kunstenaars. Niets en niemand ontkomt aan zijn venijnige satire: Rooms-katholieken noch quakers, orthodoxen noch vrijdenkers, artsen noch kwakzalvers, dichters noch acteurs, immigranten noch autochtonen. Dit boek ontmaskert de Rotterdamsche Hermes als een rijke bron van kennis over het verleden en een kleurrijk vuurwerk van taal. Het boek is geïllustreerd en telt 597 pagina's, ontsloten door een uitvoerige index van 31 bladzijden.
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1 online resource (652 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004655195
The Influence of Ezekiel in the Fourth Gospel, Intertextuality and Interpretation.
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This monograph presents important research regarding the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture, specifically the book of Ezekiel. It provides the first detailed comparison of the theological vocabularies of the two works, identifying intertextual links and themes. This is a major update and expansion of the doctoral dissertation of William Fowler from 1995 (\'The Influence of Ezekiel in the Fourth Gospel\', PhD diss. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary).
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Intellectual traditions in Islam /
: Papers derived from a seminar entitled "Intellectual Traditions in Islam," organized by The Institute of Ismaili Studies at the Mellor Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, August 14-20, 1994. : xvii, 252 pages ; 23 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index. : 186064435X
M.N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography /
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Focusing on the career of the Soviet historian M.N. Pokrovskii, the author examines the evolution of historical writing in the first decade of Soviet rule. As Deputy People's Commissar for Education, Pokrovskii was among those who established th
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1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004703889
Revolution as Realpolitik : Ernst Meyer (1887-1930) - Biography of a KPD Chairman /
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Ernst Meyer was one of the most important figures of the German Communist Party in the Weimar Republic. He was a founding member of the Spartacus League, a member of the KPD Centre after the First World War and party chairman in 1921-22. A passionate defender of the necessity of inner-party democracy against the "ultra-left" leadership around Ruth Fischer and later the Thälmann Central Committee, as well as a supporter of revolutionary realpolitik, Meyer played a significant role in the development of the communist united front strategy and, as a critic of Stalin, later argued against the disastrous thesis of "social fascism". Despite this, Meyer has largely been forgotten. Florian Wilde now traces for the first time the political and private life and work of this disciple of Rosa Luxemburg, highlighting the strategic debates within the KPD and the alternatives to its Stalinisation, inherent in the development of the party.
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1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004750678
Recovering the Nature: Ma Yifu's New Confucian Thought and Its Intellectual Background /
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Numerous great Chinese thinkers attempted to realise a transcendent ontological foundation in order to live an ideal life informed by the Confucian way. To this end, they sought answers to how the unconditioned foundation could be realised through cognitive awareness that is circumscribed by the conditioned nature of human existence. Inspired by earlier Confucian and Buddhist thinkers, Ma Yifu attempted to offer more refined responses to these two questions. In addressing them, Ma and other modern thinkers also sought to justify the contemporary significance of the Confucian way in a modernising China. This book presents a rich landscape of these ideas. Many primary materials translated and analysed here are introduced in English for the first time.
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1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004761421
John Duns Scotus and his Parisian Interlocutors /
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When John Duns Scotus arrived at the University of Paris in 132 he came face to face with a vibrant intellectual community. Every religious order seemed to have a significant thinker active, such as Hervaus Natalis for the Dominicans and Gerard of Bologna for the Carmelites, and the secular theologians were represented by no less than Godfrey of Fontaines. The present volume builds upon previous scholarship on Duns Scotus' Parisian experience by investigating his interactions with his contemporaries at the university rather than on his doctrine in isolation. This new perspective is greatly enhanced by a plethora of texts edited herein for the first time, including Duns Scotus' debate with Godfrey of Fontaines and various quaestiones by Jean de Pouilly, Gonsalvus Hispanus, and Alexander of Alessandria. Contributors are William J. Courtenay, Stephen D. Dumont, Marina Fedeli, Wouter Goris, Hernán Guerrero Troncoso, Timothy B. Noone (†), Mikołaj Olszewski, Alessandro de Pascalis, Christian Rode, Witold Grzegorz Salamon, Chris Schabel, and Garrett R. Smith.
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1 online resource (512 pages) : illustrations. :
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Paradise on the Instalment Plan : The Economic Thought of the Australian Labour Movement between the Depression and the Long Boom /
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Contemporary labour movement thinking about the Australian economy took shape between the depression of the 193s and the long post-war boom, in the form of moderate and, today much diminished, left nationalist currents. Economic conditions, the level of the class struggle and the political proclivities of different classes, particularly as expressed in the working class's main organisations - the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and trade unions. This study focuses on labour movement understandings of three fundamental aspects of Australian capitalism: the country's place in the world; its class structure; and its experience of severe economic fluctuations.
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1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004756731
Empires of Slavery: Rights and Power in the Early Modern Iberian World /
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Enslavement was central to the early modern Iberian empires. No one at the time seriously questioned its legality, yet widespread reports of violent practices of captivity and human trafficking contrasted sharply with the Christian ideal of charity. This volume explores how Spanish and Portuguese theologians, jurists, and missionaries grappled with this moral dilemma. These thinkers developed ideological tools to protect the souls of those who appeared to be in a state of mortal damnation. Slavery prompted Iberian intellectuals to rethink the boundaries between property and person, law and religion, and household and commonwealth. By reconstructing these debates, this volume offers a new narrative about the relationship between individual rights and political power in the early modern Iberian world.
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1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004760592