Social Philosophy
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-19 | Author:Alain Badiou;

Relation To think of one thing in terms of another has ever been the task of the philosopher, which is why Badiou’s choice of category theory as the logical/mathematical base ...
( Category: Social Philosophy January 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Paul A. Kottman [Kottman, Paul A.]

Lovemaking To make love, we can now say, is to experience our inability to ‘live out’—to carry out sexually—the social authority of sexual reproduction and of sexual domination. To make ...
( Category: Social Philosophy January 19,2020 )