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Truth and Responsibility: A Personalist Reading of Newman
This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of Newman’s works, it may also be of wider interest to students of history, philosophy, theology and spirituality. More generally, its unusual focus on Newman’s epistemology …
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- 9789004682818
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- 244 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close collaboration, and personal friendship, but also by controversies that were as heated as they were rarely fought out in public. Carnap and Neurath were, in the words of Olga …
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- 9789004680203
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- Studien zur Österreichischen Philosophie, Volume: 50
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Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on t…
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- 978-3-030-28408-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
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François Hemsterhuis, Œuvres philosophiques
This book has been published in open access thanks to the financial support of the Open Access Book Fund of the University of Groningen. François Hemsterhuis (1721-1790) was a Dutch philosopher on the crossroad of Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism. He published his treatises in French, with a beautiful lay-out. They were read and discussed immediately, by outstanding philosophers an…
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 238/15 Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, Volume: 238/15
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Transformational Ethics of Film = Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philo…
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying p…
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- 9789004460874
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- 334 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 365 Philosophy of Film, Volume: 365
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Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but also participants in situations of contact are forced to conceptualize themselves and the other. Taking its point of departure from the contact-based approach to the study of …
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- 978-90-04-71490-8
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- xiv, 598 pp.
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- Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 15
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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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The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics = Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio on P…
This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present a coherent account of the Platonic tradition as such (unified through the concord of Proclus and Dionysius) and at the same time to consolida…
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- 9789004471023
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- 520 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Volume: 2
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New Music and Institutional Critique
While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s institutions, their critique, and their transformations. For scholars, leaders, a…
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- 9783662671313
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- XIV, 205 ill; hlm
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The Khōjā of Tanzania - Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity …
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- 9789004292888
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- 244 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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