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The author is in his eighth decade of life and claims to have found the key to the issues that have occupied him since childhood. As a regular-ordinary individual, he has concluded that his observations can apply to all others, regardless of...

"I’m not sure I like this about Sedartis. His clarity. His straightforwardness. His unreconstructed linearity. Aren’t we supposed to have moved into the Age of Diffusion? Of vulnerabilities and fluidity, of connectedness, in all...

The Developing Course of Chinese Philosophy deals with the thoughts of Chinese philosophers and the historical process of philosophical development from pre-Qin to Ming and Qing dynasties from a new perspective, elaborating the emergence, development,...

Divided Legacy (Vols. I-IV) is a history of Western medical philosophy from the time of Hippocrates to the twentieth century, treating it as a unified system of thought rather than a series of fortuitous discoveries. Dr. Coulter interprets the...

Stoicism is coming back in a big way. Seen as a remedy for the craziness of the times we live in, it is experiencing a great surge in academic and cultural interest. Yet, can one live stoically and be a creative artist at the same time? Delving into its...

Process and Dipolar Reality takes up Whitehead's challenge to philosophy to regain its proper status, namely, an adventure in speculative thought elaborating a categoreal scheme aiming to be the coherent, conceptual framework within which every possible...

The Philosophy of Forgiveness, Volume III: Forgiveness in World Religions is a collection of essays that explores the philosophy of forgiveness in different religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Each...

Combined here in one volume are two books, The Crisis of Religious Symbolism and Symbolism and Reality. Although published seven years apart, these two works are integral to one another. Symbolism and Reality represents a kind of sabbath rest--its...

JCL Studies in Comparative LawSecond Series, No. 8The World Picture of Comparative LawEvery discipline perceives and constructs the world in its own way, structuring an aspect of reality and developing a research program and methodology with a specific...

What is the Victory Consciousness?Success is the byword of our modern civilization. Yet, few people reach the pinnacles of success that many dream of. For most of us the sense of true accomplishment is moderate. Or we feel boxed in by the ideal of...

Since wisdom is the ultimate human virtue, its application is important for humans and civilization. Cognitive Informatics and Wisdom Development: Interdisciplinary Approaches argues that wise civilization cannot function without wise people and vice...

Life is more powerful than death. God’s plan for man is to enjoy everlasting life. This book explores themes of life and death, exposing the source of death and revealing God’s heart for life for everyone. This is a well-researched book...

The supposed tension between religion and science is explored in this book in a most anecdotal and refreshing way. From the beginning, the author, Xavier L. Suarez, makes no assumptions about the existence of God, or the nature of God, if he/she/it...

This book contains seventy short chapters. They are all meant to say something new about the subjects dealt with.

This is a tale, written contemporaneously, of nature’s power to have a significant, positive, and lasting impact on our world. It begins on a mountaintop in a small village north of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the summer of 2015. A description of...

Many believers are stagnated in their Christian growth, because they do not understand the constitution of their natures. Evil always seems as if it is something extrinsic to us over which we have no control. According to Scripture, this is not so. The...

"Into the Myths" presents an analytical perspective of ancient and Indian Mythology. It goes beyond the traditional realm of beliefs and understanding to delve deep into Rationalism. The rationale behind writing this book is to demystify the mystic and...

Each paragraph of my books contains a mixture of philosophy, psychology, biblical passages, romance, spirituality, suspense, and all human emotions in a rap. It is poetic dialogue meant for readers with intellectual and gifted minds. There is a true...

It is a unique treatise on human soul (life-force). It fully illustrates scientific facts, not the myths, about the origin, the nature and destiny of human soul. It is quite and unmatched approach utterly based on science. It is so to say, a narration of...

Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of ""technique"" and bureaucracy? Is all politics, then, just...

The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement is a virtual dialogue between Transhumanists of the "Oxford School" and the thought of Joseph Ratzinger. Set in the key of hope and despair, it considers whether or not the transhumanist interpretation of...

This is a study about the meaning of happiness (εὐδαιμονία) in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (EN). It is argued that εὐδαιμονία in EN means actuality, and it has to be interpreted through the lenses of two metaphors used by Aristotle in EN 1.7 1098a21...

Apuntes para abandonar el derecho: estado de excepción colonial en Puerto Rico es una intervención crítica urgente en la coyuntura actual puertorriqueña. Propone una re-visión en clave decolonial al "estado de excepción" elaborado por Agamben, entre...

Have you ever asked yourself the following hard questions about God's existence? Is God a personal transcendent being? Does He abide in a real place in the heavens, sit on a real throne or are these only metaphors of reality. Another way, in laymen...

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Existentialism Now brings the reader face to face with the stunning realization that each of us has total freedom and total responsibility for the entire world. Setting this realization of salvation in motion is easily arrived at by simply challenging...

Contemporary philosopher William Desmond has many companions in thought, and one of the most important of these is Augustine. In lucid prose that draws on the riches of a vibrant philosophical-theological tradition, Renee Kӧhler-Ryan explores Desmond's...

For centuries, Christians have pondered the following questions:-Are we free?-What is ""freedom""? -What impact would it have if we weren't free? -Is it possible that we are determined, and yet free in a sense too?-Is there any way we can know which is...

In November 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In something of a Tea Party sweep, the iconic Russ Feingold lost his seat in the U.S. Senate and the Wisconsin legislature became Republican in both chambers. In early 2011,...

How do mathematics, philosophy, and theology intersect? In Ideas at the Intersection of Mathematics, Philosophy, and Theology, Carlos Bovell proposes a wide range of possibilities. In a series of eleven thought-provoking essays, the author explores such...

Description:Illusions of Freedom examines the opinions and ideas of two twentieth-century writers--Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk living in the United States, and Jacques Ellul, a French Protestant. Contemporaries, they never met or corresponded with...

God for an Old Man blends elements of careful academic thought about God with elements of personal autobiography and memoir. The author is deeply influenced by modern process thought about God, stemming from the thought of Alfred North Whitehead and...

Folk is an analog foundation in a digital world. Phenomenology is a big word about a small, impossible task: trying to imagine the real. This book describes this task in relation to its foundation. Most of all, Folk Phenomenology is a defense of the...

Metaethics is the study of moral language, moral ontology, and moral epistemology. This book addresses each of these in a way accessible to both students and professional philosophers. Van Reken defends the classic view of moral realism, advanced by...

In The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood, Chris Altieri contends that the forma mentis of the founders of the political society often viewed--by its members and by those external to it--as the non plus ultra of modernity,...

Developments in biblical studies, neurosciences, and Christian philosophy of mind force theologians to reconsider the traditional concept of the immortal soul. At the same time, the concept itself tends to create axiological dualism between the body and...

Is it possible to found a Heideggerian ethic around the notion of a relationship to being (Bezug zum Seyn)? Going against much of the Western tradition, Gupta considers if the being-relationship could result in a feeling or mystical experience that is...

Contemporary philosophy and theology are ever more conscious of the fact that the model of relations between religion and culture developed in modernity is fundamentally flawed. The processes of the secularization of society, culture, and even religion...

GEO SOCIO is designed as reference to global event and presents a new area of study.To cross reference (what is known as) a time and space would include daily media reporting from (the four) natural selection together with seismic, atmospheric, solar...

Romance, Society and Philosophy are three facets of Life, and this book summarises their aspects. Through poems, the poets have tried to juxtapose the outer world with the deepest inner emotions; to explore the outer world and take a plunge within. This...

For decades, the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has known no peace...in a cycle of government affronts, actions and inactions, and counteractions by the aggrieved and marginalized people, a potent web of violence, aggression and counter-aggression is...

Pillars of Greatness is a piece that considers life pursuits from the perspective of purposefulness and sustainable fulfillment. It emphasizes the need to live life purposefully. While most of us are basically in constant pursuit of success, there is...