Author: David Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578260904
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Presents a basic program of self-defense to help teach effective physical, psychological, and verbal and non-verbal techniques to avoid and survive dangerous situations.
Common Sense Self-Defense
Author: David Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578260904
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Presents a basic program of self-defense to help teach effective physical, psychological, and verbal and non-verbal techniques to avoid and survive dangerous situations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578260904
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Presents a basic program of self-defense to help teach effective physical, psychological, and verbal and non-verbal techniques to avoid and survive dangerous situations.
In Defense of Common Sense
Author: Lodi Nauta
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism. This study examines Valla's attack on major tenets of Aristotelian metaphysics, showing how Valla employed common sense and linguistic usage as his guides. It then explicates Valla's critique of Aristotelian psychology and natural philosophy and discusses his moral and religious views, including Valla's notorious identification of Christian beatitude with Epicurean pleasure and his daring views on the Trinity. Finally, it takes up Valla's humanist dialectic, which seeks to transform logic into a practical tool measured by persuasiveness and effectiveness. Nauta firmly places Valla's arguments and ideas within the contexts of ancient and medieval philosophical traditions as well as renewed interest in ancient rhetoric in the Renaissance. He also demonstrates the relevance of Valla's conviction that the philosophical problems of the scholastics are rooted in a misunderstanding of language. Combining philosophical exegesis and historical scholarship, this book offers a new approach to a major Renaissance thinker.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist's attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism. This study examines Valla's attack on major tenets of Aristotelian metaphysics, showing how Valla employed common sense and linguistic usage as his guides. It then explicates Valla's critique of Aristotelian psychology and natural philosophy and discusses his moral and religious views, including Valla's notorious identification of Christian beatitude with Epicurean pleasure and his daring views on the Trinity. Finally, it takes up Valla's humanist dialectic, which seeks to transform logic into a practical tool measured by persuasiveness and effectiveness. Nauta firmly places Valla's arguments and ideas within the contexts of ancient and medieval philosophical traditions as well as renewed interest in ancient rhetoric in the Renaissance. He also demonstrates the relevance of Valla's conviction that the philosophical problems of the scholastics are rooted in a misunderstanding of language. Combining philosophical exegesis and historical scholarship, this book offers a new approach to a major Renaissance thinker.
Sense and Goodness Without God
Author: Richard Carrier
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452059268
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning of life, and much more, arguing from scientific evidence that there is only a physical, natural world without gods or spirits, but that we can still live a life of love, meaning, and joy.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452059268
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what’s true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without complex jargon. A complete worldview is presented and defended, covering every subject from knowledge to art, from metaphysics to morality, from theology to politics. Topics include free will, the nature of the universe, the meaning of life, and much more, arguing from scientific evidence that there is only a physical, natural world without gods or spirits, but that we can still live a life of love, meaning, and joy.
Common Sense
Author: Noah Lemos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143455
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Noah Lemos defends the common sense tradition--the view that permits us to justify the philosophical inquiry of many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of this tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm in a text that will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521143455
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Noah Lemos defends the common sense tradition--the view that permits us to justify the philosophical inquiry of many of the things we ordinarily think we know. He discusses the main features of this tradition as expounded by Thomas Reid, G.E. Moore and Roderick Chisholm in a text that will appeal to students and philosophers in epistemology and ethics.
Defense
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Heresy of Heresies
Author: Timothy M. Mosteller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725255758
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"The heresy of heresies was common sense." --George Orwell, 1984. This book is a defense of common-sense realism, which is the greatest heresy of our time. Following common-sense philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and J. P. Moreland, this book defends a common-sense vision of reality within the Christian tradition. Mosteller shows how common-sense realism is more reasonable than the materialist, idealist, pragmatist, existentialist, and relativist spirits of our age. It maintains that we can know the nature of reality through common-sense experience and that this knowledge has profound implication for living the good life and being a good person.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725255758
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"The heresy of heresies was common sense." --George Orwell, 1984. This book is a defense of common-sense realism, which is the greatest heresy of our time. Following common-sense philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and J. P. Moreland, this book defends a common-sense vision of reality within the Christian tradition. Mosteller shows how common-sense realism is more reasonable than the materialist, idealist, pragmatist, existentialist, and relativist spirits of our age. It maintains that we can know the nature of reality through common-sense experience and that this knowledge has profound implication for living the good life and being a good person.
Sea Power
Author: Charles Henry Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Sea Power
Author: Charles Hall (H.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Civil Defense
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Real Knockouts
Author: Martha McCaughey
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755771
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Unprecedented numbers of American women are today learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. From behind the scenes of gun ranges, martial arts dojos, fitness centers offering "Cardio Combat", and in padded attacker courses like "Model Mugging", Real Knockouts demonstrates how self-defense trains women out of the femininity that makes them easy targets for men's abuse. And yet much feminist thought, like the broader American culture, seems deeply ambivalent about women's embrace of violence, even in self-defense. Investigating the connection between feminist theory and a woman's balled fist, McCaughey found self-defense culture to embody, literally, a new kind of feminism, one that will change forever the way we think of gender politics, the female body, and feminism itself.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755771
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Unprecedented numbers of American women are today learning how to knock out, maim, even kill men who assault them. From behind the scenes of gun ranges, martial arts dojos, fitness centers offering "Cardio Combat", and in padded attacker courses like "Model Mugging", Real Knockouts demonstrates how self-defense trains women out of the femininity that makes them easy targets for men's abuse. And yet much feminist thought, like the broader American culture, seems deeply ambivalent about women's embrace of violence, even in self-defense. Investigating the connection between feminist theory and a woman's balled fist, McCaughey found self-defense culture to embody, literally, a new kind of feminism, one that will change forever the way we think of gender politics, the female body, and feminism itself.