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Author: Barbara Hannan Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199702578 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 177
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This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought--he was torn between idealism and realism, and between denial and affirmation of the individual will. In addition to providing a useful summary of Schopenhauer's main ideas, Hannan connects Schopenhauer's thought with ongoing debates in philosophy. According to Hannan, Schopenhauer was struggling half-consciously to break altogether with Kant and transcendental idealism; the anti-Kantian features of Schopenhauer's thought possess the most lasting value. Hannan defends panpsychist metaphysics of will, comparing it with contemporary views according to which causal power is metaphysically basic. Hannan also defends Schopenhauer's ethics of compassion against Kant's ethics of pure reason, and offers friendly amendments to Schopenhauer's theories of art, music, and "salvation." She also illuminates the deep connection between Schopenhauer and the early Wittgenstein, as well as Schopenhauer's influence on existentialism and psychoanalytic thought.
Author: Barbara Hannan Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199702578 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 177
Book Description
This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought--he was torn between idealism and realism, and between denial and affirmation of the individual will. In addition to providing a useful summary of Schopenhauer's main ideas, Hannan connects Schopenhauer's thought with ongoing debates in philosophy. According to Hannan, Schopenhauer was struggling half-consciously to break altogether with Kant and transcendental idealism; the anti-Kantian features of Schopenhauer's thought possess the most lasting value. Hannan defends panpsychist metaphysics of will, comparing it with contemporary views according to which causal power is metaphysically basic. Hannan also defends Schopenhauer's ethics of compassion against Kant's ethics of pure reason, and offers friendly amendments to Schopenhauer's theories of art, music, and "salvation." She also illuminates the deep connection between Schopenhauer and the early Wittgenstein, as well as Schopenhauer's influence on existentialism and psychoanalytic thought.
Author: Joseph Rosenbloom Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9780806962528 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 132
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Riddles for children, including "What is green and goes slam, slam, slam, slam?" (A four-door pickle) and "What snack do robots serve at parties?" (Assorted nuts.).
Author: Disney Book Club Staff Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780394825212 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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A collection of riddles for young readers illustrated with Disney characters.
Author: A.G. Riddle Publisher: Atlantis Trilogy ISBN: 1784970131 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale have prevented a fierce plague from wiping out humanity – but the struggle to survive is far from over.
Author: A. G. Riddle Publisher: ISBN: 1789543223 Category : Climatic changes Languages : en Pages : 0
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'Apocalyptic sci-fi at its best... The action is anything but frozen' DAILY MAIL. WITHIN THREE MONTHS, ICE WILL COVER THE EARTH, AND LIFE AS WE KNOW IT WILL END. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned and humanity has been forced to confront its own extinction. Billions have fled the glaciers, crowding out the world's last habitable zones. They can run from the ice, but they can't escape human nature: a cataclysmic war is coming. In orbit, a group of scientists is running the Winter Experiments, a last-ditch attempt to understand why the planet is cooling. None of the climate models they build makes sense. But then they discover an anomaly, an unexplained variation in solar radiation... and something else. Close to the burning edge of the sun, they catch a fleeting glimpse of something that shouldn't be there... Suddenly humanity must face the possibility it is not alone in the universe. And the terrifying possibility that whatever is out there may be trying to exterminate us. 'A complex, multi-stranded narrative spanning 700 pages that reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton' THE GUARDIAN.
Author: Margalit Fox Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062228889 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 248
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The discovery and deciphering of Europe’s earliest known written language is recounted with “almost nail-biting suspense” in this prize-winning account (Booklist, starred review). In 1900, famed archaeologist Arthur Evans uncovered the ruins of Knossos, a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s Classical Age. The massive discovery included a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain an enigma. Award–winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox follows this intellectual mystery from the Bronze Age Aegean to a legendary archeological dig at the turn of the twentieth century, and on to the brilliant decipherers who finally cracked the code in the 1950s. These include Michael Ventris, the amateur linguist who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of his findings; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code. Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Author: Barbara Hannan
Author: Barbara Hannan
Author: Joseph Rosenbloom
Author: Joseph Rosenbloom
Author: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Author: Disney Book Club Staff
Author: A.G. Riddle
Author: A. G. Riddle
Author: Alexander Pope
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Author: Margalit Fox