This exceptional anthology immerses students in such powerful ideas that they will find themselves not just reading about, but actually participating in, the kind of philosophical thinking that can change the way they look at their lives and the world around them. Now in a new edition, TheExperience of Philosophy features eighty-five readings that challenge students' thinking about God, freedom, reality, nothingness, death, and their own identities. Provocative and accessible, these selections have been carefully chosen for their ability to draw students out of an ordinary...
This exceptional anthology immerses students in such powerful ideas that they will find themselves not just reading about, but actually participating ...
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and...
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to...
Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It emphasizes the enormous intellectual transformation in the 18th century, when the religious soul was replaced first by a philosophical self and then by a scientific mind. The authors show that many supposedly contemporary theories of the self were actually discussed in the 18th century, and recognise the status of William Hazlitt as one of the most important Personal Identity theorists of the British Enlightenment, for his direct relevance to contemporary...
Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It emphasizes the en...
Raymond Martin's book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self, personal identity, and survival. Its distinctive methodology is one that is phenomenologically descriptive rather than metaphysical and normative. This is the first book of analytic philosophy directly on the phenomenology of identity and survival. It aims to build bridges between analytic and phenomenological traditions and, thus, to open up a new field of investigation.
Raymond Martin's book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self, personal identity, and survival. Its distinct...
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and...
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to...
Why do we interpret the past as we do, rather than in some other way or not at all? What is the significance of the fact that we interpret the past? What are historical interpretations? Raymond Martin's approach to these questions transcends both the positivist and humanistic perspectives that have polarized Anglo-American philosophy of history. Martin goes to the source of this polarization by diagnosing a deep-seated flaw in the dominant analytic approach during the period from 1935 to 1975, namely, the emphasis on conceptual analysis rather than the examination of actual historical...
Why do we interpret the past as we do, rather than in some other way or not at all? What is the significance of the fact that we interpret the past...
"Rollicking fun stories and poems about growing up and being a bartender in the DC club scene." Jack Scarry, The Irish Times. Raymond Martins first book, The Trouble with Bartenders, contains 58 narrative poems and stories about bars, nightclubs and hotels. These poems and stories offers a commentary on the late-night characters who you will find on both sides of the bar. Most of the stories were written as they happened and just recently edited and assembled for this collection. The second story is of his first bartending experience which happened when he was twelve. His formal introduction...
"Rollicking fun stories and poems about growing up and being a bartender in the DC club scene." Jack Scarry, The Irish Times. Raymond Martins first bo...
