Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Metaphysics

This book explores precisely how mathematics allows us to model and predict the behaviour of physical systems, to an amazing degree of accuracy. One of the oldest explanations for this is that, in some profound way, the structure of the world is mathematical. The ancient Pythagoreans stated that everything is number . However, while exploring the Pythagorean method, this book chooses to add a second principle of the universe: the mind. This work defends the proposition that mind and mathematical structure are the grounds of reality.

This book offers a philosophical approach to religion that acknowledges both the diversity of religions and the many and varied dimensions of the religious life. Rather than restricting itself to Christian theism, it covers a wide range of religious traditions, examining their beliefs in the context of the actual practice of the religious life.

After outlining the aims of religion, the book focuses on claims to knowledge. What kinds of knowledge do religions purport to offer? In what idiom is it couched? From what sources do devotees draw their claims to knowledge? Are these sources...

Meno

by Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

COMPLETE ANCIENT CLASSICS

Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato.

This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, 'whether virtue can be taught.' Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. 'Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.' Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten what Gorgias said. Will Meno tell him his own notion, which is probably not very different from that of...

Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential and important books in the history of philosophy, but it was left unfinished. The parts we have of it, Divisions I and II of Part One, were meant to be merely preparatory for the unwritten Division III, which was to have formed the point of the entire book when it turned to the topic of being itself. In this book, leading Heidegger scholars and philosophers influenced by Heidegger take up the unanswered questions in Heidegger's masterpiece, speculating on what Division III would have said, and why Heidegger never published...

Are you a victim of America's real crack problem?

Every second millions of people are infected with the Big But Syndrome and every minute another million people's dreams are riddled with negativity and extinguished.

Are you one of the hardworking people desperately attempting to make your dreams a reality, BUT you can't seem to get where you want to go? Have you ever wondered who, and what's keeping you stuck, in the rut, of the BIG BUT.

A Southern Psychic's Guide to Fixin' The BIG BUT Syndrome answers these...

A Southern Psychic's Guide to Fixin' the BIG BUT Syndrome: originally published as Kicking the BIG BUT Syndrome

Are you a victim of America's real crack problem?

Every second millions of people are infected with the Big But Syndrome and every minute another million people's dreams are riddled with negativity and extinguished.

Are you one of the hardworking people desperately attempting to make your dreams a reality, BUT you can't seem to get where you want to go? Have you ever wondered who, and what's keeping you stuck, in the rut, of...

Steven Dean is a traveller, musician, artist, actor and writer currently based in South-Western Australia. With an inherent interest in philosophy and a great liking for other people, he began his quest for an understanding of our existence here early on in life. Giving much contemplation to many notions of varying feasibility over the years,
culminating in his being introduced to A Course in Miracles in 2010. After daily and devoted study thenceforth, he began teaching its Truth in January, 2015

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens of science, criticized Einstein's theory of time for being a metaphysics grafted on to science, one that ignored the intuitive aspects of time. The Physicist and the Philosopher tells the remarkable story of how this explosive debate...

Kant s view of the imagination is surrounded by one of the most salient and obscure discussions on his critical philosophy. Due to revisions and emendations and a seeming change in doctrine from the first to the third Critique, Kant s considered view of the imagination remains unclear. This collection of essays from Kant scholars illuminates the various treatments of imagination through its development in Kant s critical works.

What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the pre-Socratic philosophy of ancient Greece. It was then that certain thinkers first joined the ideas of techne and logos into a single worldview. The Greeks saw it as a kind of world-force, present in both the works of men and in nature itself. It was the very creative power of the cosmos. In the 20th century, German thinkers like Dessauer, Juenger,...

This volume collects 12 essays by various contributors on the subject of the importance and influence of Schopenhauer s doctoral dissertation (On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason) for both Schopenhauer s more well-known philosophy and the ongoing discussion of the subject of the principle of sufficient reason. The contributions deal with the historical context of Schopenhauer s reflections, their relationship to (transcendental) idealism, the insights they hold for Schopenhauer s views of consciousness and sensation, and how they illuminate Schopenhauer s theory of...

This book examines the unique views of philosopher Jacob Sigismund Beck, a student of Immanuel Kant who devoted himself to an exploration of his teacher's doctrine and to showing that Kant's transcendental idealism is, contra to the common view, both internally consistent and is not a form of subjective idealism. In his attempt to explain away certain apparent contradictions found in Kant's system, Beck put forward a new reading of Kant's critical theory, a view, which came to be known as the Standpunctslehre, the Doctrine of the Standpoint.

Author Lior Nitzan reconstructs,...