Tag: Philosophies

Free Download John M. Koller, "Asian Philosophies Ed 7"
English | ISBN: 1138629723 | 2018 | 428 pages | PDF | 6 MB
With an inside view from an expert in the field and a clear and engaging writing style, Asian Philosophies, Seventh Edition invites students and professors to think along with the greatminds of the Asian traditions. Eminent scholar and teacher John M. Koller has devoted hislife to understanding and explaining Asian thought and practice. He wrote this text to givestudents access to the rich philosophical and religious ideas of both South and East Asia.

Free Download Jon Mills, "Underworlds: Philosophies of the Unconscious from Psychoanalysis to Metaphysics"
English | ISBN: 0415749891 | 2016 | 202 pages | EPUB | 624 KB
This book presents a unique study of differing philosophies of the unconscious, providing a detailed analysis of the history of the unconscious from the underworlds of Greek and Egyptian mythology to psychoanalysis and metaphysics.

Free Download Coming to life : philosophies of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering By LaChance Adams, Sarah; Lundquist, Caroline R
2013 | 401 Pages | ISBN: 0823244601 | PDF | 3 MB
Coming to Life does what too few scholarly works have dared to attempt: It takes seriously the philosophical significance of women’s lived experience. Every woman, regardless of her own reproductive story, is touched by the beliefs and norms governing discourses about pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.The volume’s contributors engage in sustained reflection on women’s experiences and on the beliefs, customs, and political institutions by which they are informed. They think beyond the traditional pro-choice/pro-life dichotomy, speak to the manifold nature of mothering by considering the experiences of adoptive mothers and birthmothers, and upend the belief that childrearing practices must be uniform, despite psychosexual differences in children. Many chapters reveal the radical shortcomings of conventional philosophical wisdom by placing trenchant assumptions about subjectivity, gender, power and virtue in dialogue with women’s experience

Free Download Karl H. Potter, Harold G. Coward, "Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies Vol. V: The Philosophy of Grammarians"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 8120804260 | PDF | pages: 624 | 17.9 mb
This volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies is devoted to the Philosophy of the Grammarians. The introductory essay summarizes the main philosophical ideas contained in the grammatical works. The summaries of the main sources that follow concentrate on the philosophical ideas contained therein, so that philosophers who are unable to read the original Sanskrit can get an idea of the positions taken and arguments offered. Covered in this text are chapters on Metaphysics, Epistemology, Word-meaning and Sentence meaning, Accounts of Vedic literature like Yaska`s Nirukta, Panini`s Astadhyayi, Patanjali`s Mahabhasya and 80 other accounts. An exhaustive bibliography of original and secondary writings on the philosophy of grammar is included. Cumulative Index is also given. Bhartrhari, Mandanamisra, Kondabhatta and Nagesa have been dealt with at length.

Free Download Karl H. Potter, M. M. Agarwal, "Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies: Bhedabheda and Dvaitadvaita Systems – v. 15"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 8120836375 | PDF | pages: 700 | 29.7 mb
All too frequently the term Vedanta is used when what is meant, whether recognized or not, is Advaita Vedanta and more specifically, the philosophical system associated with Sankaracarya. Yet in fact Vedanta, literally meaning "the concluding portions of the Veda", i.e., the Upanisads, is properly used in Indian philosophy to designate those systems that take such texts as the Upanisads authoritatively along with a few others such as the Brahmasutras, alternatively known as the Vedantasutras. There are a goodly number of philosophical systems, other than Sankara’s, that fall into the classification of Vedanta systems, many of them virtually unknown to most students.

Free Download Karl H Potter, "Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophies, v. XI. Advaita Vedanta from 800-1200 AD"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 812083061X | PDF | pages: 837 | 28.3 mb
Each volume consists of an extended analytical essay together with summaries of every extent work of the system.

Free Download Martijn W. Hesselink, "Justifying Contract in Europe: Political Philosophies of European Contract Law "
English | ISBN: 0192843656 | 2021 | 512 pages | PDF | 51 MB
This title explores the normative foundations of European contract law. It addresses fundamental political questions on contract law in Europe from the perspective of leading contemporary political theories. Does the law of contract need a democratic basis? To what extent should it be Europeanised? What justifies the binding force of contract and the main remedies for breach? When should weaker parties be protected? Should market transactions be considered legally void when they are immoral? Which rules of contract law should the parties be free to opt out of? Adopting a critical lens, this book interrogates utilitarian, liberal-egalitarian, libertarian, communitarian, civic republican, and discourse-theoretical political philosophies and analyses the answers they provide to these questions. It also situates these theoretical debates within the context of the political landscape of European contract law and the divergent views expressed by lawmakers, legal academics, and other stakeholders.

Free Download Philosophies of Liturgy: Explorations of Embodied Religious Practice (Expanding Philosophy of Religion) edited by Bruce Ellis Benson, Neal DeRoo, J. Aaron Simmons
English | July 27, 2023 | ISBN: 1350349224 | True EPUB/PDF | 326 pages | 0.8.4.2 MB
Mainstream philosophy of religion has primarily focused on the truth and justification of religious beliefs even though belief is only one small facet of religious life. This collection remedies this by taking practice and embodied action seriously as fundamental elements of any philosophy of religion.

Free Download Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy by François Laruelle, translated by Rocco Gangle
English | March 3, 2011 | ISBN: 0826436633, 1350030295 | True EPUB/PDF | 256 pages | 0.6/2.2 MB
A crucial text in the development of François Laruelle’s oeuvre and an excellent starting point for understanding his broader project, Philosophies of Difference offers a theoretical and critical analysis of the philosophers of difference after Hegel and Nietzsche. Laruelle then uses this analysis to introduce a new theoretical practice of non-philosophical thought.

Free Download Ivana Greguric, "Philosophies of the Future and the Non-Human"
English | ISBN: 1527502511 | 2023 | 169 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines philosophical aspects of the future of man and humanity, focusing on questioning what is and what constitutes "being human" in the face of scientific and technological developments and possible coexistence with machines and artificial intelligence. In this sense, the contribution of these authors is the establishment of a new discipline that analyses our technological future, which may be populated by enhanced cyborgs, avatars, and autonomous robots. This scientific-technological future brings about practically inconceivable social and philosophical consequences. Thus, this book answers the questions: What are the ethical and ontological issues and assumptions we make about humans and how will these change with time? Moreover, how should we think of human existence in this new and emerging world?