In Defense of Reason
Author: Yvor Winters
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 611
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In Defense of Pure Reason
Author: Laurence BonJour
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780521597456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.
In Defense of Advertising
Author: Jerry Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA theoretical defense of advertising, based on the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the economics of Ludwig von Mises. The author defends advertising because it appeals to the self-interest of consumers and promotes the profit-making gains of the capitalists.
C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea
Author: Victor Reppert
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2009-09-20
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780830874651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis. Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.
In Defense of Lost Causes
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2009-10-19
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 1844674290
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Return to Reason
Author: Kelly James Clark
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1990-03-22
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780802804563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClark provides a penetrating critique of the Enlightenment assumption of evidentialism--that belief in God requires the support of evidence or arguments to be rational. His assertion is that this demand for evidence is itself both irrelevant and irrational. His work bridges the gap between technical philosopher and educated layperson.
In Defense of Elitism
Author: Joel Stein
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1455591467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite. "I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate as a baby full of soft-boiled eggs." —Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn't economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street, academics, policy papers, Davos, international treaties and the people who think they're better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump represented something far more appealing, which was beating up people like Joel Stein. In a full-throated defense of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein fights against populism. He fears a new tribal elite is coming to replace him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send the country hurtling backward to a time of wars, economic stagnation and the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats. To find out how this shift happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists. All the while using the biggest words he knows.
In Defense of Nature
Author: John Hay
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2007-08-15
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 160938010X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1969, In Defense of Nature is an eloquent and prescient plea on behalf of the natural world. Devoid of sentimentality yet lyrical and deeply moving in its portrayals of our despoliation of nature, Hay’s classic work is now available to a new generation of readers.
Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Author: Clifford Williams
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-03-18
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1725264692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLived faith involves doctrines, evidences and rational coherence—but it includes much more. Philosopher Clifford Williams puts forth an argument as to why certain needs, desires and emotions have a legitimate place in drawing people into faith in God. Addressing the strongest objections to these types of grounds for faith, he shows how the personal and experiential aspects of belief play an important part in coming to faith and in remaining a believing person.
In Defense of Kant's Religion
Author: Chris L. Firestone
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-10-09
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0253000718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChris L. Firestone and Nathan Jacobs integrate and interpret the work of leading Kant scholars to come to a new and deeper understanding of Kant's difficult book, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In this text, Kant's vocabulary and language are especially tortured and convoluted. Readers have often lost sight of the thinker's deep ties to Christianity and questioned the viability of the work as serious philosophy of religion. Firestone and Jacobs provide strong and cogent grounds for taking Kant's religion seriously and defend him against the charges of incoherence. In their reading, Christian essentials are incorporated into the confines of reason, and they argue that Kant establishes a rational religious faith in accord with religious conviction as it is elaborated in his mature philosophy. For readers at all levels, this book articulates a way to ground religion and theology in a fully fledged defense of Religion which is linked to the larger corpus of Kant's philosophical enterprise.
