Philosophy and Religion

Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades.

In der aktuellen sprachphilosophischen Debatte um die Semantik/Pragmatik-Unterscheidung bezieht die Autorin gegen eine kontextualistische und zugunsten einer minimalistischen Position Stellung, der zufolge der genuin semantische Gehalt eines geäußerten Satzes nicht von Sprecherintentionen abhängt, sondern allein unter Rekurs auf die konventionelle Bedeutung der verwendeten Ausdrücke und die Regeln ihrer Komposition bestimmt wird.

Philosophers of religion are often caught up with the epistemic justification of their religious beliefs, rather than the qualities of the religious life that make it valuable.

This hardcover is designed for regular use and has a sturdy binding and a cover that lies flat.

Modern developments in philosophy have provided us with tools, logical and methodological, that were not available to Medieval thinkers - a development that has its dangers as well as opportunities.

Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aesthetics presents a practical study guide to emerging topics and art forms in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models.

East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger's writings.

First published in 1938, An Essay on Critical Appreciation aims to provide a language suited for the explication on beauty.

Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas'' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.

This book explains how religious politics, repressive institutions, and leaders'' political strategies intersected in the US Global War on Terror.

Many pastors are confused about what to say during children's time in churches.

Dieses auf drei Bände angelegte Werk ist wissenschaftliche Untersuchung und praktisches Plädoyer zugleich.

The ancient Indian text of Kautilya's Arthasastra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR).

This book discusses Lucretius' refutation of Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras and other, unnamed thinkers in De Rerum Natura 1, 635-920.

Ein Grundkurs hat die Aufgabe, philosophisches Basiswissen zu vermitteln, mit dessen Hilfe die Studierenden sich in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion orientieren können.

Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school.

Less and less Christian demographically, America is now home to an ever-larger number of people who say they identify with no religion at all.

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In Coercion and Responsibility in Islam, Mairaj Syed explores how classical Muslim theologians and jurists from four intellectual traditions argue about the thorny issues that coercion raises about responsibility for one's action.

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building 'better Britains' overseas.

The year 1998 was the 800th anniversary of the election of Lotario dei Conti di Segni as Pope.

Loss of biodiversity is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity but unfortunately efforts to reduce the rate of loss have so far failed.

Many observers greeted the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) as the most important religious event in the twentieth century.

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c.

SECIII-Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT Welcome to the post-conference book of SECIII, the IFIP Open Conference on Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues of Informatics and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) which took place from July 22-26, 2002 at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in co-operation with the German computer society (Gesellschaft flir Informatik).

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism.

This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present.

The mission of the Church has always been to "e;go and make disciples of all people"e;.

This book includes an analysis of the Jehoash Inscription Tablet, which describes renovations made to the First Temple and is considered the only written evidence of its existence.

Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979.

A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United StatesThe Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the orders impact on higher education.

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How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960sMichel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard.

The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas.

On Science: Concepts, Cultures, and Limits explores science and its relationship with religion, philosophy, ethics, mathematics, and with socio-economic changes.

Explores the basis of Kant''s anti-naturalist, secular, humanist vision of human flourishing, presented in an accessible and engaging way.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.