A Dialogue on Language and Other Essays
Author: S. K. Verma (Prof.)
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 144
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Author: S. K. Verma (Prof.)
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 144
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wole Soyinka
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNever less than profound, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's fierce and provocative contribution to the debate on multiculturalism brings together 19 iconoclastic essays on African, European, and American literature, culture, and politics. "Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer".--New York Times
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-09-11
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0199552401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1982-02-24
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0060638591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume Martin Heidegger confronts the philosophical problems of language and begins to unfold the meaning begind his famous and little understood phrase "Language is the House of Being." The "Dialogue on Language," between Heidegger and a Japanese friend, together with the four lectures that follow, present Heidegger's central ideas on the origin, nature, and significance of language. These essays reveal how one of the most profound philosophers of our century relates language to his earlier and continuing preoccupation with the nature of Being and himan being. One the Way to Language enable readers to understand how central language became to Heidegger's analysis of the nature of Being. On the Way to Language demonstrates that an interest in the meaning of language is one of the strongest bonds between analytic philosophy and Heidegger. It is an ideal source for studying his sustained interest in the problems and possibilities of human language and brilliantly underscores the originality and range of his thinking.
Author: David Shatz
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781934843420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected in this volume present carefully crafted and often creative interpretations of major Jewish texts and thinkers, as well as original treatments of significant issues in Jewish theology and ethics. Conversant with both Jewish philosophy and the methods and literature of analytic philosophy, the author frequently seeks to bring them into dialogue, and in addition taps the philosophical dimensions of Jewish law.. The book opens with a philosophical analysis of biblical narratives. It then investigates the relationship between Judaism and general culture as conceived by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, followed by interpretations of Maimonides' moral theory and his views on human perfection. The remainder of the volume examines both critically and constructively the relationship between religious anthropology and theories of providence; the problem of evil; the challenges that neuroscience poses to religion; law and morality in Judaism; theological dimensions of 9/11; the limits of altruism; concepts of autonomy in Jewish medical ethics; and the epistemology of religious belief.
Author: Peter Szondi
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780719014635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rajendra Prasad
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Davidson
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0191519243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTruth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for human thought without reducing it to something material and mechanistic? Davidson's underlying picture, which can be seen in many of these essays, is that we are acquainted directly with the world, not indirectly via some intermediary such as sense-data, representations, or language itself; that thought emerges in the first place through interpersonal communication in a shared material world, and continues to develop as we engage each other in dialogue; and that language depends on communication, not vice versa. This is the triangulating situation - two creatures communicating about a common world - about which Davidson has written elsewhere. As for the mind-body relation: our ontology need posit nothing more that material objects and events; but as explainers we require two mutually irreducible vocabularies: mind and body. In the last six essays Davidson finds interconnections between his own views and those of some of the major philosophers of the past. Including a new introduction by his widow, Marcia Cavell, this volume completes Donald Davidson's colossal intellectual legacy.
Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521339537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays explore Hans-Georg Gadamer's writings on art and literature in English.