Sentences with phrase «which philosophy books»

In a world in which philosophy books and books on ethics must be looked for among the superstitious mumbo - jumbo of the «New Age» section of a book shop people like Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt can flourish.

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Released this fall, his book Weology: How Everybody Wins When We Comes Before Me, outlines his leadership philosophy, which focuses on creating a positive business culture based on transparency, equality and collaboration.

With Stella & Dot now earning more than $ 300 million from the thousands of business owners in six countries, Herrin recently released a book, Find Your Extraordinary, which details her life, offers advice, secrets to success and depicts her business philosophy.

It comes with an awkward manifesto that nonetheless manages to gather an armful of social and economic trends and philosophies, including happiness research, the booming field of collaborative consumption (which uses new technology to share resources like cars, toys and books, on the Zipcar model) and data on the proven efficiencies of cities.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

I'm concerned about Tony's theology, whose philosophical foundations I criticized pretty consistently while I was involved in EC in 2004 - 7 before bowing out because Tony seemed more into pushing with some arrogance a pomo philosophy he never really studied in school than he was into fostering dialogue (I went back to just reading the wonderful books of Brian McLaren which is how I got involved in the first place).

In answer to this difficulty the author of the Book of Daniel puts forward a philosophy of history which may be shortly stated thus.

At any rate, Deleuze himself invites the comparison, referring to Process and Reality as «one of the greatest books of modern philosophy,» and linking his own use of «descriptive notions» to that deployment of «empirico - ideal notions [which] we find in Whitehead» (cf. D&R 284).

If there is continuity between the conceptions of the two books, it should be in terms of the original text, before Whitehead introduced those ideas which revolutionized his philosophy to create process theism.

The message of this book is that democratic life should be conceived not as an enterprise of autonomous men, no matter how clever they may be in organizing to pursue their interests, but as a way of realizing the Will of Heaven — that is, of doing the truth and serving the right in which man's proper being and destiny consist, This is another manner of signifying the «public philosophy» earlier mentioned.

In the General Introduction to the series of which this book was one, R. Gregor Smith says that «neither the idealist nor the linguistic philosophy, neither the liberal nor the neo-Calvinist nor the neo-Thomist theology is able itself to speak properly to the needs of our time.»

In her book Pure Lust, which is an elemental feminist philosophy, Daly discusses separatism in relationship to Be-Friending, a term which suggests the ontological status of female friendship.

For Buber's own discussion of the development of his dialogical thinking and the circumstances under which he wrote I and Thou [including his statement that he did not read Rosenzweig and Ebner's books till later because of a two - year period of «spiritual askesis» in which he could do no work on Hasidism nor read any philosophy], see his «Nachwort» to Martin Buber, Die Schriften über das Dialogische Prinzip [Heidelberg: Verlag» Lambert Schneider, 1954].

An unqualified rejection of Karl Barth's dichotomy of theology and religion is a leitmotif throughout the book, and Barr has a correspondingly high estimation of the contributions to biblical theology of natural theology and philosophy (though which philosophy is never specified).

That led on to my reading Charles Hartshorne's first book The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, which really brought the emotive side of life and the cognitive side together.

But very early in the book the pattern which would continue to govern Wieman's appropriation of Whitehead's views is evident: Whitehead's philosophy, particularly his views published prior to Process and Reality, is transformed into American pragmatism.

During the intervening six decades, Kaplan produced an enormous output of essays, articles and books in which he sought to elucidate the significance of the national element in the Jewish religion and the spiritual components of Jewish identity in the light of new developments in the social sciences, philosophy, and theology.

The book demonstrates the range of Hartshorne's interests and competence, which included aspects of psychology (sensation) and ornithology (oscines)-- his first (Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation) and twelfth books (Born to Sing) were devoted to these subjects.

It is a book in which lucid and illuminating reflections on the history of science in relation to philosophy are interspersed with technically difficult passages; the book might have been written, as one reviewer remarked, by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Emmett, 1967, p. 293).

Poetry merges with philosophy in the Book of Job, which dramatically probes the problem of evil and comes out, not with a solution, but with spiritual mastery through recognition of the power of the Almighty.

R. E. Hume's book, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, 29 contains a translation of those which are rather generally accepted as basic to a study of Hindu religion and philosophy.

An attempt to explicate that understanding of theology and its problematic nature which underlies this whole book, and Cobb's own understanding of the nature of philosophy and theology.

Given the tremendous insights offered by the use of Aristotle's Metaphysics (which he called first philosophy) for speculative philosophy itself as well as theology, other writings of his were accepted as equally as insightful, including his book, the Physics.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

For more than a thousand years after Islam came to China there was no translation of the Qur» an or the Hadith, nor were there books which touched on Islam's philosophy, history, science, and literature.

Cobb's deep conviction, which he defends at length in his new book, is that the fortunes of natural theology today depend on Christian theologians appropriating the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.

Careful reading of Book Z of the Metaphysics, to be sure, makes clear that there are at least two conceptions of substantial form in Aristotle's philosophy: one more Platonic in character whereby the form possesses its own substantial unity and communicates that unity to the material elements (stoicheia) from the outside, so to speak; the other apparently originating with Aristotle himself according to which the substantial form comes into being as it unifies the elements into an organic whole (cf. TKT 67 - 120).

While I sought to avoid the ultra-dull prose style in which so much contemporary moral philosophy is written, the quasi-mathematical coolness of the book's tone is an inherent feature of my chosen genre of analytic political theory.

A great book which is both an introduction to philosophy, and an introduction to theology, showing how philosophy guided and informed our theology, and why this is not bad, as long as we maintain a balance between «the one and the many» or God and humanity.

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

Taking up the question of architecture, music, sculpture, painting, literature, philosophy, and the artistic life, Christian next refers to George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral, which uses Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (representing religious art) and La Grande Arche de la Defense (representing secular art) to ask, Which culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democwhich uses Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (representing religious art) and La Grande Arche de la Defense (representing secular art) to ask, Which culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democWhich culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democracy?

Whitehead speculates that the disconnection is not quite that sharp, and Charles Hartshorne developed this speculation in a remarkable book, The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, in which he provides supportive scientific data.

This primary empirical consideration, which affirms the importance of the mind - body distinction, is strongly contested, says Searle, by «the professionals in philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, and cognitive science» («Consciousness and the Philosophers,» The New York Review of Books [March 6,1997], 43 - 50).

Four essays represent Wach's third and last phase: «Radhakrishnan and the Comparative Study of Religion,» which appeared in P. A. Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1952), pp. 443 - 58; «Religion in America,» which was based on notes from lectures given at various universities in the United States; «On Teaching History of Religions,» which appeared in a memorial volume to honor G. van der Leeuw called Pro Regno Pro Sanctuario (Nijkerk: G. F. Callenbach, 1950), pp. 525 - 32; and «On Understanding,» which appeared in A. A. Roback, ed., The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book (Cambridge, Mass.: SCI - Art Publishers, 1946), pp. 131 - 46.

In his first book, entitled The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, Hartshorne announces his agreement with the Whiteheadian idea that the materials of all nature are events composed of aesthetic feeling,» claiming the additional support of modern physics for the contention; and he has never wavered in this conviction.17 Moreover, he also expounds in this work the further Whiteheadian notion, which he tirelessly repeats in his later works, that what the Constituent experiences or feelings of the universe experience are other experiences.

Author of more than 37 text books on atheistic philosophy, of which his most popular have been studied for decades in colleges all over the world:

One of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine of the Church came to an abrupt end with the death of the last apostle and the conclusion of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.

Sharps tend to share our philosophy and consistently bet underdogs, which means that this is the best type of book to bet on favorites.

«I appreciate finding books like this which help inform my «on cue» breastfeeding & childrearing philosophy and reference recent international research.

Dina's the author of It's Not About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids a Lifetime of Healthy Eating, a thought - provoking book which encourages parents to worry less about nutrition and more about instilling good eating habits — a philosophy that's well reflected in today's post.

Sears, William & Martha THE DISCIPLINE BOOK: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Better Behaved Child from Birth To Age Ten Little, Brown, 1995 Explores a wide variety of parenting options and helps parents decide which type of parenting philosophy will work best for their family.

I am doing a homeschool preschool with my twins with some friends, and I don't know what «philosophy» it falls under, but when I teach, I really like doing a wide variety of activities (songs, games, puzzles, books, drawing, coloring, art, etc) all based on a theme (which is based on a letter).

All together, Cuomo has earned $ 783,000 in income from the book, which served as both a memoir and an outline of his governing philosophy.

The Institute, which publishes the right - wing Claremont Review of Books, was founded in 1979 by students of Harry Jaffa, a philosophy professor who studied under neocon patriarch Leo Strauss and the author of Barry Goldwater's famous call for «extremism in defense of liberty.»

And the real paradox which — I am going to give away the end of the book — the very last lines of the book are about how, here's this man who is virtually incapable of emotion but one has to categorize his scientific philosophy as being one in which emotion, your aesthetic appreciation, is your principle guiding factor.

* «Treat others the way you wish to be treated» was the most popular choice among various phrases / philosophies / book titles which provide the best advice.

I am readying «the Lean Start Up» an excellent book about the Lean Start Up Philosophy which has become quite the big thing here in Northern California tech circles.

One of the things that I really liked about this book is that Jon focuses on whole unprocessed food in its natural state, instead of all of the highly processed junk that fills the grocery stores these days... which coincides EXACTLY with my philosophy on food!

Then, in 2003, he brought his diet philosophy to the greater public by publishing the book The South Beach Diet, which became a worldwide phenomenon.

He has both an e-book (and hard copy book) available that covers in great detail his program and philosophy, which you can find here.