The Mind and Its Creations: an Essay of Mental Philosophy
Author: Alban J. X. Hart
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 92
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Author: Alban J. X. Hart
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-17
Total Pages: 843
ISBN-13: 1139446568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
Author: Joseph Gillow
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 710
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-11-22
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0199919755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Gillow
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Dick
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 688
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