A Philosopher Looks At The Religious Life

Author : Zena Hitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108995012
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life written by Zena Hitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book rich in personal and practical wisdom pointing to the meaning of a religious life and its promised happiness.

Author : Zena Hitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691229198
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Thought written by Zena Hitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz's own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought. Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us. Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.

Author : Thomas V. Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195101195
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God and the Philosophers written by Thomas V. Morris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together a series of essays by a group of highly regarded philosophers on the role of God and spirituality in their lives and in their philosophies.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108930611
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher Looks at Work written by Raymond Geuss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey on the nature of work, integrating conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary.

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108909566
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher Looks at Architecture written by Paul Guyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, functionality, and aesthetic appeal - have remained valid despite constant changes in human activities, building materials and technologies, as well as in artistic styles and cultures. Guyer discusses philosophers and architects throughout history, including Alberti, Kant, Ruskin, Wright, and Loos, and surveys the ways in which their ideas are brought to life in buildings across the world. He also considers the works and words of contemporary architects including Annabelle Selldorf, Herzog and de Meuron, and Steven Holl, and shows that - despite changing times and fashions - good architecture continues to be something worth striving for. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004497
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phenomenology of Religious Life written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Scrupulously prepared and eminently readable,” this volume presents Heidegger’s most important lectures on religion from 1920–21 (Choice). In the early 1920s, Martin Heidegger delivered his famous lecture course, Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, at the University of Freiburg. He also prepared notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Though he never prepared this material for publication, it represents a significant evolution in his philosophical perspective. Heidegger’s engagements with Aristotle, Neoplatonism, St. Paul, Augustine, and Martin Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature expression of his thought. Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche.

Author : Nancy Cartwright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009201905
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher Looks at Science written by Nancy Cartwright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The author's innovative and thoughtful book draws on examples from the physical, life, and social sciences alike, and focuses on all the products of science – not just experiments or theories – and how they work together. She reveals just what it is that makes science ultimately reliable, and how this reliability is nevertheless still compatible with a view of nature as more responsive to human change than we might think. Her book is a call for greater intellectual humility by and within scientific institutions. It will have strong appeal to anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in society.

Author : Stephen Mumford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108994938
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Philosopher Looks at Sport written by Stephen Mumford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, exploring the place of sport in our lives.

Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190469692
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Need Religion written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253025028
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith written by Jeffrey Hanson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thorough, considered, and provocative treatment of what justifiably remains Kierkegaard’s most famous book.” —Marginalia Review of Books Soren Kierkegaard’s masterful work Fear and Trembling interrogates the story of Abraham and Isaac, finding there one of the most profound and critical dilemmas in all of religious philosophy. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight to all three of Kierkegaard’s “problems,” dealing with Fear and Trembling as part of the entire corpus of Kierkegaard’s thought and putting all parts into relation with each other. Additionally, he offers a distinctive analysis of the Abraham story and other biblical texts, giving particular attention to questions of poetics, language, and philosophy, especially as each relates to the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Presented in a thoughtful and fresh manner, Hanson’s claims are original and edifying. This new reading of Kierkegaard will stimulate fruitful dialogue on well-traveled philosophical ground.