Spiritual Writings

A New Translation and Selection

by Soren Kierkgaard & George Pattison

In "Spiritual Writings", renowned Oxford theologian George Pattison presents previously neglected Christian writings that will forever alter our understanding of the great philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In fact, Pattison argues that the ...

ISBN: 9780061875991

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Kierkegaard's Writings: Fear and Trembling/ Repetition v. 6

by Soren Kierkegaard

Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Soren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names ...

ISBN: 9780691020266

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Kierkegaard's Writings: Prefaces: Writing Sampler v. IX

by Soren Kierkegaard

Prefaces was the last of four books by Sren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. Three Upbuilding Discourses and Philosophical Fragments were published first, followed by The Concept of Anxiety and its companion--published on the ...

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Kierkegaard's Writings: Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress v. XVII

by Soren Kierkegaard

First published in 1848, "Christian Discourses" is a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles. Parts One and Three, "The Cares of the Pagans" and "Thoughts That Wound from Behind - for Upbuilding", serve as a polemical ...

ISBN: 9780691140780

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Hegel and the Spirit

Philosophy as Pneumatology

by Alan M. Olson

Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel's philosophy of spirit, according to Olson, is a speculative pneumatology ...

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Worldviews and Cultures

by Nicole Note, Raul Fornet-Betancourt, Josef Estermann & others

Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on ...

ISBN: 9789048171361

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Man as a Place of God

by Renee D.N. van Riessen

This book offers an examination of Levinas's philosophy of religion in light of his ethics and anthropology. It provides critical perspectives on Levinas by relating his work to that of Heidegger, Ricoeur, Rorty, Derrida and Vattimo.

ISBN: 9789048175758

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Ancient Philosophy of the Self

by Pauliina Remes & Juha Sihvola

This collection studies the various ways and conceptual frameworks with which the ancients approached selfhood. What am I, fundamentally, as a reasoning, acting and affected subject, interpreting the world around me, being distinct from others ...

ISBN: 9789048179275

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Good God

The Theistic Foundations of Morality

by David Baggett & Jerry L. Walls

Moral arguments for God's existence have undergone something of a resurgence in recent years. For quite a while they were out of vogue for a variety of reasons, but recent advances in the philosophy of language and philosophical and natural ...

ISBN: 9780199751815

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Absence of Mind

by Marilynne Robinson

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought - science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her ...

ISBN: 9780300171471

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A History of Women Philosophers: Medieval, Renaissance and Enlightenment Women Philosophers, 500-1600 v. 2

by Mary Ellen Waithe

edited by Mary Ellen Waithe Series: HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS volume: 2 The second volume in this series surveys women philosophers from the medieval through enlightenment periods. Like their male counterparts, women philosophers addressed ...

ISBN: 9789024735723

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Human Cloning

Religious Responses

by Ronald Cole-Turner

<p>Is human cloning equal to playing God? Is the technology--despite being scientifically exciting--a moral option in our world? In this volume, Ronald Cole-Turner gathers twelve nontechnical and highly accessible essays that explore this ...

ISBN: 9780664257712

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God, Free Will and Morality

Prolegomena to a Theory of Practical Reasoning

by R.J. Richman

ISBN: 9789027715487

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Hinterlands and Horizons

Excursions in Search of Amity

by Margaret Chatterjee

Margaret Chatterjee's new work Hinterlands and Horizons-a collection of nine phenomenological essays ranging across cultures and time periods-studies the historical and cultural evolution of the idea of amity and the concomitant concepts of ...

ISBN: 9780739103975

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Melusine the Serpent Goddess in Myth and Literature

Specifically Alluding to A.S. Byatt's Fairy Melusine in "Possession"

by Gillian M.E. Alban

Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically ...

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Theism

by Clement Dore

ISBN: 9789027716835

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Emerging Moral Vocabularies

The Creation and Establishment of New Forms of Moral and Ethical Meanings

by Brian M. Lowe

One of the central observations of the social sciences has been that the modern age is an age of constant change. This change has resulted in the emergence of new moral and ethical claims and understanding, which author Brian Lowe refers to as ...

ISBN: 9780739109809

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Sharing Poetic Expressions

by A. T. Tymieniecka

A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare. The interface between cultures - at the moment especially between the Occident and ...

ISBN: 9789400707597

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A Comprehensible Universe

by George V. Coyne & Michael Heller

Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over ...

ISBN: 9783642096372

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Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

by Brian Davies

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to ...

ISBN: 9780742543430

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$64.95