Broken Knowledge
Broken Knowledge

Author: Younglae Kim

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780761807803

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Broken Knowledge explores the impacts of the scientific and scholarly ideal of the modern university on theological education at Union Theological Seminary from 1887-1926. During this period, the marks of the modern university --specialization, the elective system, professionalization, and the empirical research orientation-- were incorporated into theological education. While vigorously implanting the new university's structural and functional patterns into theological education, the seminary and its theologians strove to bring theological discussions into the arena of secularized academia, to achieve independence from church dogmatism, to expand the scope of theological outlook in social domains, and to bind science and religion together. Without doubt, these efforts deserve due recognition. However, it is also undeniable that the current problems in theological education --the fragmentation of the theological curriculum and the loss of a holistic search for religious truth -- have to do with the seminary's adaptation to the new university ideal such as uncritical specialization and narrow modern epistemology at the turn of the century. This book explores how the decline of theology or the sacred in our modern world is connected with the dominance of modern scientific ways of knowing in our search for truth and the lack of holistic approaches to the issue of faith and knowledge. This book searches for the recovery of wholeness in theological education and higher learning in general.

Broken Knowledge
Broken Knowledge

Author: Vladimir Francois

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-12-31

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781542584364

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WHY THIS BOOK? All of the creators of machines, tools, objects, software, programs, companies, relationships, mindsets, ideologies and philosophies have one thing in common. The Ultimate Goal of This Book, Broken Knowledge is to help individuals Get What They Really Want. In Broken Knowledge, Vladimir Francois unveils a secret knowledge that will equip you with the necessary tools you need to stay in control and get what you really want. This book offers a simple but powerful step-by-step system which takes the mind from traditional ways of thinking to the ultimate way of thinking. LEARN HOW... You will learn how to disconnect your mind from the grid. Understand how to break the cycle of outdated ways of thinking, fear, stress, sadness, failure, low self-esteem and lack of understanding of the nature and capability of your own mind. In addition, this book will teach you how to unbuild, build and rebuild your mental foundations. You will garner the ultimate map and be conscious of how to become affluent through possibility thinking. "Take care of your mind; your mind will take care of you" Vladimir Francois In addition, Vladimir introduces the concept of Mindology. He gives a clear cut definition to the mind, and presents the critical steps that must be taken by any person who aspires to a meaningful life on earth. Broken Knowledge means mind's verity. It is what makes people envision and create. It is a very abstract concept; but using real life scenarios and easy approaches to help you couple with your mind and settle in security, peace, happiness and success.

Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon
Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon

Author: Joseph Marie comte de Maistre

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780773517271

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Although often neglected, this work is crucial for an understanding of Maistre's epistemology, which formed the philosophical basis for his critique of modern science as well as for his criticisms of other aspects of Enlightenment thought. Given Maistre's stature in the history of conservative thought, his critique of Bacon remains significant for what it tells us about Maistre's own thought, for what it reveals about attitudes toward science in his time, and for its relevance for issues that remain under debate today.

Knowledge Management in Tourism
Knowledge Management in Tourism

Author: Eduardo Fayos-Sola

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1780529805

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Knowledge Management in Tourism: Policy and Governance Applications is an indispensable instrument for everyone interested in the theory and practice of the quest for effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of tourism activities in helping build the future of mankind.

Broken Words
Broken Words

Author: Jonathan Dudley

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2011-04-05

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0307720799

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Abortion. Homosexuality. Environmentalism. Evolution. Conservative positions on these topics are the current boundaries of mainstream Evangelical Christianity. But what if the theological arguments given by popular leaders on these “big four” were not quite as clear cut as they claim? Growing up as an evangelical Christian, Jonathan Dudley was taught that faith was defined by the total rejection of abortion, homosexuality, evolution, and environmentalism. But once he had begun studying biology and ethics, his views began to change and he soon realized that what he had been told about the Bible – and those four big issues – may have been misconstrued. Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics assesses the scientific and cultural factors leading evangelicals to certain stances on each issue, shows where they went wrong, and critically challenges the scriptural, ethical, and biological arguments issued by those leaders today. In Broken Words, Dudley applies the Bible and biology to challenge the fixed political dogmas of the religious right. Evangelicals are confronted for the first time from within their ranks on the extent to which faith has been corrupted by conservative politics, cultural prejudice and naive anti-intellectualism. A re-ordering of American Christianity is underway – and this book is an essential part of the conversation.

Research in Crisis
Research in Crisis

Author: Les Coleman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-31

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1000172163

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This book explores the weak explanatory and predictive power of theories across disciplines, explains reasons for limited expertise after centuries of scientific effort, and sets forth strategies to accelerate knowledge and manage a future we can only dimly comprehend. Gaps in knowledge arose because common, natural and artificial phenomena are fundamentally hard to understand, and in expertise persists because research is unproductive. This book argues that weak research comes with huge opportunity cost because it stymies optimum decision making by government, corporations and individuals. Research needs restructuring which must come from governments’ top down requirement that funding bodies foster applied research with real-world impact, and that universities influence scientific publishers to improve their publications’ integrity. This book seeks to catalyse extinction events for theories in most disciplines, which would clear a path for solving multiple crises in research. The author cautions that this process would be disruptive, unpopular and painful.

Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725
Knowledge and the Public Interest, 1575–1725

Author: Vera Keller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1316395618

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Many studies relate modern science to modern political and economic thought. Using one shift in order to explain the other, however, has begged the question of modernity's origins. New scientific and political reasoning emerged simultaneously as controversial forms of probabilistic reasoning. Neither could ground the other. They both rejected logical systems in favor of shifting, incomplete, and human-oriented forms of knowledge which did not meet accepted standards of speculative science. This study follows their shared development by tracing one key political stratagem for linking human desires to the advancement of knowledge: the collaborative wish list. Highly controversial at the beginning of the seventeenth century, charismatic desiderata lists spread across Europe, often deployed against traditional sciences. They did not enter the academy for a century but eventually so shaped the deep structures of research that today this once controversial genre appears to be a musty and even pedantic term of art.

The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge
The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge

Author: Charles T. Wolfe

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-04-07

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9048136865

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It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. This volume focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body – as both the object of research and the subject of experience. Re-embodying empiricism shifts the focus of interest to the ‘life sciences’; medicine, physiology, natural history. In fact, many of the active members of the Royal Society were physicians, and a significant number of those, disciples of William Harvey and through him, inheritors of the empirical anatomy practices developed in Padua during the 16th century. Indeed, the primary research interests of the early Royal Society were concentrated on the body, human and animal, and its functions much more than on mechanics. Similarly, the Académie des Sciences directly contradicted its self-imposed mandate to investigate Nature in mechanistic fashion, devoting a significant portion of its Mémoires to questions concerning life, reproduction and monsters, consulting empirical botanists, apothecaries and chemists, and keeping closer to experience than to the Cartesian standards of well-founded knowledge. These highlighted empirical studies of the body, were central in a workshop in the beginning of 2009 organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney. The papers that were presented by some of the leading figures in this area are presented in this volume.

Reconsidering Evil
Reconsidering Evil

Author: Petruschka Schaafsma

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9789042918405

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The notion of evil is not undisputed in contemporary philosophy and theology. The reasons for this vary from aversion to the use of a vague, comprehensive term like evil to hesitation at the suggestion of an uncontrollable, non-human power of force that seems to cling to the idea of evil. On the other hand, in popular discourse speaking of evil prevails - one almost keeps stumbling over allusions to it. However, such language often seems to be incidental and not a natural part of a whole way of thinking. Thus the present situation demands a regauging of the notion of evil. Reconsidering Evil attempts this regauging by comparing the nature and status of the theme of evil in four different approaches. Paul Ricoeur's approach via symbols and myths of evil provides a focus that enables an analysis and comparison of the highly reflective views of Immanuel Kant, Karl Jaspers and Karl Barth - who represent an ethical, tragic and a non-theodician theological view respectively. This book sets out to determine whether one can claim that speaking of evil is most at home in a specific way of thinking. In the final chapter the notion of "the end of evil" turns out to be very important for understanding the specific character of a religious view of evil. In comparison with Kant's ethical view and Jaspers' tragic one, the broadest or richest understanding of evil is to be found in a religious context. However, the comparison of the different approaches also shows the possible dangers of this religious view. Thus, by means of an in-depth analysis and comparison of these thinkers, the relevance of the theme of evil for present day philosophy of religion is critically examined.

History as Wonder
History as Wonder

Author: Marnie Hughes-Warrington

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0429763158

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History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington unpacks the ways in which historians throughout the ages have tried to make sense of the world, and to change it. This book considers histories and historians across time and space, including the Ancient Greek historian Polybius, the medieval texts by historians such as Bede in England and Ibn Khaldun in Islamic Historiography, and the more recent works by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray and Ranajit Guha among others. It explores the different ways in which historians have called upon wonder to cross boundaries between the past and the present, the universal and the particular, the old and the new, and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Promising to both delight and unsettle, it shows how wonder works as the beginning of historiography. Accessible, engaging and wide-ranging, History as Wonder provides an original addition to the field of historiography that is ideal for those both new to and familiar with the study of history.