The True Philosopher and Other Cat Tales
Author | : Peggy Bacon |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Cats |
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Author | : Peggy Bacon |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Cats |
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Author | : John Gray |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0374718792 |
The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826494047 |
In this acclaimed book, Scruton takes the issues relating to vivisection, hunting, animal testing and BSE and places them in a wider framework of thought and feeling. Now available in paperback
Author | : Robert M. Martin |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2005-11-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1460401565 |
Philosophical Conversations is a light, informal, and contemporary introduction to the study of philosophy. Using a dialogue format, Robert M. Martin delves into the traditional questions of philosophy in a manner that readers will find engaging. These substantive yet entertaining conversations emphasize that philosophical questions are contested and open-ended. The characters in each dialogue advocate different answers to questions on religion, ethics, personal identity, and other topics equitably and without naming any clear winners. Philosophic positions are presented with maximum clarity and persuasiveness, so that readers can appreciate all sides of an issue and make their own choices. An excellent tool for newcomers to philosophy, Philosophical Conversations provides the necessary background for further study while vividly portraying the back-and-forth argument that is essential to the philosophical method.
Author | : Mark Siderits |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317081943 |
What does it mean to be a person? The philosophical problem of personal identity has been the subject of much debate in both Western philosophy and Buddhist philosophy. This book initiates a conversation between the two traditions showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems arising in another, particularly as regards the philosophical investigation of persons. The recent controversy over personal identity has concerned reductionism, the view that persons are mere useful fictions. Mark Siderits explores the most important objections that have been raised to reductionism, and shows how some key arguments and semantic tools from early Buddhism can be used to answer those objections. Buddhist resources are used to examine the important ethical consequences of this view of persons. The second half of the book explores a new objection to reductionism about persons that originates in Mahayana Buddhist philosophy.
Author | : Professor Mark Siderits |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2015-11-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1472466101 |
Fully revised and updated, and drawing on developments in the author's own thinking, Siderits's second edition explores the conversation between Buddhist and Western Philosophy showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems arising in another. Siderits discusses afresh areas involved in the philosophical investigation of persons, including recent attempts by scholars of Buddhist philosophy to defend the attribution of an emergentist account of personhood to at least some Buddhists, and whether a distinctively Buddhist antirealism can avoid problems that beset other forms of ontological anti-foundationalism.
Author | : Bo Mou |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004368442 |
From the vantage point of doing philosophy of language comparatively, Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy explores how reflective elaboration of some distinct features of Chinese and of relevant resources in Chinese philosophy and the development of philosophy of language can contribute to each other.
Author | : Peter S. Williams |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2019-02-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725240327 |
A Faithful Guide to Philosophy is the only British Christian introduction to philosophy, a book that will be used as a course textbook and by church study groups and individual readers alike. It covers a broad range of subjects of central importance to the Christian worldview, and will be prized by many.
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 1919 |
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