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Human Social Transcendence: a Blueprint for the Activation of Higher Order Humanity and the establishment of Utopian Societies by R. Kirk Packwood
mobi |eng | 2011-07-22 | Author:R. Kirk Packwood

Social Checking Processes Social checking is by definition a social process, though people can and often do perform social checks themselves. If the individual checked is a genuine member of ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 27,2020 )
The Philosophy of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer
epub |eng | 1987-07-15 | Author:Albert Schweitzer [Schweitzer, Albert]

There now sets in a development which works against the spirit of the age. The hitherto unopposed authority of the rational ideal is undermined. Forces of reality which are not ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality February 27,2020 )
A Short History of Truth by Julian Baggini
epub |eng | 2017-09-21 | Author:Julian Baggini [Baggini, Julian]

6. Creative truths In 2005, President George W. Bush stood on the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln and declared ‘mission accomplished’ in Iraq. Well, not quite. Bush never uttered those ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 27,2020 )
Culture and Materialism by Raymond Williams
epub |eng | 1980-02-26 | Author:Raymond Williams

Caste extends the social reference. An aristocratic officer courts the daughter of an unemployed and drunken workman; she is an actress. This outrages his mother, the Marquise. The girl, left ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings by Henri Lefebvre
epub |eng | 2003-12-12 | Author:Henri Lefebvre [Lefebvre, Henri]

There is a double reversal: the subordination of urban reality to its antecedents and conditions, and the subjection of habitation to supposedly higher levels of social practice. Hence a fundamental ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 27,2020 )
Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society by Mikael Stenmark & Steve Fuller & Ulf Zackariasson
epub |eng | | Author:Mikael Stenmark & Steve Fuller & Ulf Zackariasson

Phalén, A. 1922. Über die Relativität der Raum- und Zeitbestimmungen. Uppsala: Universitet and Leipzig Universität. Plotnitsky, A. 2002. The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought and the Two ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 26,2020 )
Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Philippe Descola [Philippe Descola]

10 Terms, Relations, Categories Now that we have completed this tour of ontologies, both exotic and familiar, we can define and enrich the table of modes of identification with more ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 25,2020 )
Just Giving by Rob Reich
epub |eng | | Author:Rob Reich [Rob Reich]

Conclusion Though people have engaged in philanthropy for millennia, the practice of giving money away has only recently become a tax-subsidized activity. Philanthropy is now embedded within a framework of ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 25,2020 )
Self and Society by William Irwin Thompson
epub |eng | 2017-01-11 | Author:William Irwin Thompson

Part Two Introduction: Beyond the Entranced and the Intransigent Our Zeitgeist is an oxymoron. Our new global state of emergence and emergency is a linkage of oppositions: of commerce and ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 20,2020 )
The Scottish Idealists by David Boucher
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:David Boucher

24 Wie eine Art Gespenst: in a letter dated April 1798 ( Werke, viii. p. 812). 25 Cf., for example, pp. 62-64 [of Hegelianism and Personality ]. 26 This argument ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 20,2020 )
What Am I Doing with My Life? by Stephen Law
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Law

23. When will my life begin? ▸ Result Many of us feel we’re stalled on the hard shoulder of life, watching in frustration as others whizz past towards their chosen ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 20,2020 )
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Amartya Sen

CHAPTER 6 CULTURE AND CAPTIVITY The world has come to the conclusion—more defiantly than should have been needed—that culture matters. The world is obviously right—culture does matter. However, the real ...
( Category: History & Theory February 16,2020 )
Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World by Hösle Vittorio; Hittinger Francis R.;
epub |eng | 2016-02-14 | Author:Hösle, Vittorio; Hittinger, Francis R.;

3.8 THE BARBARISM OF REFLECTION AND THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATIONS Nowhere does Vico so decisively depart from his time and from its optimistic faith in progress than he does in ...
( Category: Social Philosophy February 15,2020 )
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time) by Sen Amartya
epub |eng | 2007-02-17 | Author:Sen, Amartya [Sen, Amartya]

CHAPTER 6 CULTURE AND CAPTIVITY The world has come to the conclusion—more defiantly than should have been needed—that culture matters. The world is obviously right—culture does matter. However, the real ...
( Category: History & Theory February 15,2020 )
ON TRUTH by Simon Blackburn
epub |eng | 2018-02-10 | Author:Simon Blackburn

* * * * The kind of problem is illustrated by the Liar Paradox, in which a sentence appears to say of itself that it is false, in which case ...
( Category: Epistemology February 11,2020 )

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