William - Philosophy 18

Well-Being and Theism is divided into two distinctive parts. The first part argues that desire-fulfillment welfare theories fail to capture the 'good' part of 'good for', and that objective list wel……続きを見る

This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look……続きを見る

In 'Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics', William Thomas Thornton delves into the intricate relationship between ethics and metaphysics in a manner that is both profound and accessible……続きを見る

How does the theme of the other–-as person, experience or alternative conceptual schemeーallow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts? This book employs phenomenology and semiotics to……続きを見る

Contains all the major political, philosophical and educational writings of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers of his age. His work on government and individual freedom, "Political Jus……続きを見る

This essay about Mother Shipton was written in the year 1881; it gives the text of the earliest Mother Shipton prophecies, which primarily concern events from the reign of Henry the Eighth. As it tu……続きを見る

The 'Arcane Formulas' is a supplementary addition to the 'Arcane Teaching', and includes exercises to achieve a higher consciousness to be used to transmute one mental state into another. Its occult……続きを見る

The self-consciousness and human knowledge of Christ is a contemporary christological issue which seeks to understand the awareness that the God-man, Jesus Christ, possessed of himself during his li……続きを見る

First published in 1907, "Pragmatism", a philosophical work by American philosopher William James, is an exploration of what is known as the pragmatic method, designed as a way to reconcile the clai……続きを見る

First published in 1902, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James, a psychologist and philosopher who taught at Harvard, contains, in edited form, a series of natural theology lectur……続きを見る

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. ……続きを見る

The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Repub……続きを見る

In the early days of the Theosophical Movement in the United States, William Quan Judge was in intimate contact with American students, with whom he maintained a large correspondence. "Letters That ……続きを見る

A theosophist and believer of the Occult, Wlilliam Scott-Elliot gives us in "The Story of Atlantis", first published in 1896, a description of the history and structure of Atlantis, along with what ……続きを見る

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theolog……続きを見る

It can be easily argued that the radical nature and challenge of Heidegger’s thinking is grounded in his early embrace of the phenomenological method as providing an access to concrete lived experie……続きを見る

What is the purpose of sport, and how are ethical conceptions of sport shaped by the answers to this question? In Sport and Moral Conflict, William Morgan investigates, examining sport as a moral cr……続きを見る

A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties. 続きを見る

This intriguing and compact book investigates whether or not philosophy can have a use in the face of ‘capitalist realism’ today. Can philosophy study everyday objects like computers and mobile phon……続きを見る

Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC’s The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show’s philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and ……続きを見る

In his book The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, William V. Spanos critiqued the traditional Western concept of humanism, arguing that its origins are to be found not in ancient Greece's love ……続きを見る

Known especially for his original system of metaphysics in a trilogy of books published between 1995 and 2008, and for his scholarship on Hegel, William Desmond has left his mark on the philosophy o……続きを見る

Why revive Antigoneーagain? And why now? William Robert responds to these questions through an inventive reading of Sophocles's Antigone, reimagining Antigone in unprecedented ways. These new possib……続きを見る

This book presents a popular and authoritative account of the dramatically different ways in which philosophers have thought about the mind over the last hundred years. It explores the effect of the……続きを見る

First published in 1918, "The Candle of Vision" by Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell, is a set of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name Æ (which ……続きを見る

"The Soul is the friend of Self and also its enemy; and, that a man should raise the self by the self." This book is meant for sincere students, and especially for those who have some glimmering of ……続きを見る

In William Ralph Inge's book 'The Idea of Progress,' readers are taken on a thought-provoking journey through the concept of progress and its impact on society. Written in a reflective and introspec……続きを見る

Analytic theology can flourish in the secular academy, and flourish as authentically Christian theology. Analytic Theology and the Academic Study of Religion explains analytic theology to other theo……続きを見る

“The growing soul must realize that it has within itself all that it requires.” ーW. W. ATKINSON William Walker Atkinson was an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. In this work, he makes u……続きを見る

Mind, Body, World (Nonfiction: Psychology, 83,000 words). We are the minds that know themselves. Other animals act in the world with practical knowledge, but humans ask, “What does it mean?” We know……続きを見る