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Becoming Human: Li Zehou's Ethics
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, believes that ethics is the most important philosophical discipline. He aims to revive, modernize, develop, and complement Chinese traditional ethics through what he calls …
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- Volume: 20
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- 978-90-04-42366-4
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Beauvoir in Time
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
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- Volume: 348
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- 978-90-04-43121-8
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Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism
The Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) is famous for polemic against Islamic philosophy, theology and rationalizing mysticism, but his positive theological contribution has not been well understood. This comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s theodicy helps to rectify this lack. Exposition and analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s writings on God’s justice and wise purpose, divine determination and…
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- 978-90-47-42019-4
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- xii, 276 pp
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- Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, Volume: 73
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Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation : A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql…
In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers the first comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation). In his colossal riposte to the Muslim philosophers and rationalist theologians, the towering Ḥanbalī polymath rejects the call to prioritize reason over reve…
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- 978-90-04-41286-6
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- xiv, 444 pp
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- Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, Volume: 111
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Begegnung mit dem eigenen Tod = Nahtoderfahrungen als Brüche und Kontinuitä…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Nahtoderfahrung (NTE) als Phänomen im Kontext der Erforschung des Todes, daraus abgeleitete Todesdefinitionen und ihr Wandel vor dem Hintergrund historischer Entwicklungen und ihren gesellschaftlichen Trends beleuchtet. Mit dem Bekanntwerden des Phänomens können in Bezug auf die Aussagekraft von NTE verschiedene Deutungen identifiziert werden, die sich zum…
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- 1
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- 9783658457266
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- IX, 313 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Evidence-Based Medicine - A Paradigm Ready To Be Challenged? = How Scientific…
This open access book aims to clarify the term „evidence-based medicine“ (EBM) from a philosophy of science perspective. The author, Marie-Caroline Schulte discusses the importance of evi-dence in medical research and practice with a focus on the ethical and methodological prob-lems of EBM. The claims that EBM can herald a new theory of epistemology and a Kuhnian paradigm will be refuted. T…
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- 1
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- 9783476057037
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- IX, 148 ill; lamp
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Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice
This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of utopianism, we must acknowledge their potential to exceed the individualist vs. collectivist dichotomy ascribed to traditional …
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- 1
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- 9783031759451
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- IX, 156 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Expert Consensus in Science
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the is…
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- 9789819792221
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- XVII, 231 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope
This open access volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel per…
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- 9783030464899
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- XVI, 263 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion = Culture, Economy…
This open access book analyses the global diffusion of social policy as a process driven by multiplex ties between countries in global social networks. The contributions analyze links between countries via global trade, colonial history, similarity in culture, and spatial proximity. Networks are viewed as the structural backbone of the diffusion process, and diffusion is anlaysed via several su…
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- 9783030834036
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- XVI, 272 ill; lamp
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