Heresy & Metaphysics

Heresy & Metaphysics

Author: Borislav Vakinov

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-11-13

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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In his book, Heresy & Metaphysics, Borislav Vakinov explores and discusses philosophical, historical, occult, existential, mythological, gnostic and pagan themes and concepts. Thematically, the core of the book deals with pre-Christian, Pagan practices and beliefs, and also delves into Fortean topics such as; the paranormal, chaos magic and "conspiracy theories", which roots and foundations are strongly based in antiquity as well as in more current times. Heresy & Metaphysics rides on the towering wave of probability and high weirdness, and one of the main goals that the author set out to achieve with his book, was to excavate the mystical, the paranormal, the super natural and the occult, and to give it a slightly different perspective; a more down-to-earth snap shot and free of new age or materialist type of dogma, sugar-coated in mainstream language; in other words, the hyper update of the decade! Heresy & Metaphysics taps into archetypes, metaphors and subconscious concepts that hasn't been properly explored for years since the so called "truth movement" began in Europe and North America in the later part of the decade after the events of 9/11. The book fuels the engine of creativity and peels off layer after layer of lies, deceit and fake promises of a better tomorrow, in a world where the mass media, the politicians, (the so-called elites behind the veil), and the global corporations dictate how or whether or not we should have an authentic experience. Whether we should look for answers beyond the five sense reality or express ourselves as human beings. The time has come to embark on a solo magical journey through the fields, forests and suburban dark alleys of our towns and cities, and put on the "wizard" disguise in order to achieve highly concentrated and structured models of improving our lives. With the writing and the publication of Heresy & Metaphysics, Borislav's stongest desire is to take the reader on that lone ship in the middle of the ocean, where the captain strives to pull up the anchor and lift up toward the unknown. In a completely unpretentious and unapologetic way, the book tries to push further ahead into new territories and break the thick blocks of stagnation, while steering the wheel back into familiar grounds and visit old places. At the same time, the main quest of this book is to deliver something deeply weird, practical, entertaining and authentic. Much of Borislav's work concentrates on the world that is ignored by the mainstream and pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete or simply marginalized, it is a world of the "unseen", "the hidden" and of the "unknown", that doesn't fit into a twenty-second news media bite or a Facebook and Twitter feed. Borislav has spent the last ten years traveling across Europe and his native land documenting this world, and has a story to share. This is his first published book.


Spinoza's Heresy

Spinoza's Heresy

Author: Steven Nadler

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2001-12-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0191529974

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At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s. After considering the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the eternity of the mind and the role that that the denial of personal immortality plays in his overall philosophical project. Nadler argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism.


Incomprehensible Certainty

Incomprehensible Certainty

Author: Thomas Pfau

Publisher:

Published: 2022-06

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9780268202484

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Thomas Pfau's study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the word "image" (eikōn) not only as the essential medium of art and literature but as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our "lifeworld," Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato's later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image (eikōn) as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function, namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, Cézanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau's previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensive Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.


The Fragmentation of Being

The Fragmentation of Being

Author: Kris McDaniel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-08-04

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0191030384

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The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.


The Heresy of Heresies

The Heresy of Heresies

Author: Timothy M. Mosteller

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1725255758

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"The heresy of heresies was common sense." --George Orwell, 1984. This book is a defense of common-sense realism, which is the greatest heresy of our time. Following common-sense philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, and J. P. Moreland, this book defends a common-sense vision of reality within the Christian tradition. Mosteller shows how common-sense realism is more reasonable than the materialist, idealist, pragmatist, existentialist, and relativist spirits of our age. It maintains that we can know the nature of reality through common-sense experience and that this knowledge has profound implication for living the good life and being a good person.


Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006)

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine (2006)

Author: Thomas F. Glick

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1351676172

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First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation. In Europe, the Islamic world, South and East Asia, and the Americas, individuals built on earlier achievements, introduced sometimes radical refinements and laid the foundations for modern development. Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine details the whole scope of scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 300 A to Z entries. This comprehensive resource discusses the research, application of knowledge, cultural and technology exchanges, experimentation, and achievements in the many disciplines related to science and technology. It also looks at the relationship between medieval science and the traditions it supplanted. Written by a select group of international scholars, this reference work will be of great use to scholars, students, and general readers researching topics in many fields, including medieval studies, world history, history of science, history of technology, history of medicine, and cultural studies.