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John Brown in memory and myth / by Daigh, Michael, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Dies irae, dies illa -- The means to real peace -- Upon these stones -- Like ashes in the fall -- The revelation of John Brown -- The metaphysics of the hangman -- Where faith is needed -- The history of an error -- The last witness.…”
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Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas / by Vries, Hent de

Table of Contents: “…Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.…”
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Minimal Theologies : Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas / by Vries, Hent de

Table of Contents: “…Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.…”
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Second philosophy a naturalistic method / by Maddy, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…-- An illustration : truth and reference -- Reconfiguring the debate -- Disquotation -- Minimalism -- Correlation -- A second philosophy of logic -- Naturalistic options -- Kant on logic -- Undoing the Copernican revolution -- The logical structure of the world -- The logical structure of cognition -- The status of rudimentary logic -- From rudimentary to classical logic -- Caveats -- Second philosophy and mathematics -- Second philosophy of science -- Mathematics in application -- Second methodology of mathematics -- Second philosophy of mathematics -- Second metaphysics.…”
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Essay on transcendental philosophy by Maimon, Salomon, 1754-1800

Table of Contents: “…. -- Truth, subjective, objective, logical, metaphysical -- On the I, materialism, idealism, dualism, etc. -- Short overview of the whole work -- My ontology -- On symbolic cognition and philosophical language.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter by Klein-Braslavy, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.…”
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Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought representation and will and their Indian parallels / by Cross, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy --Schopenhauer and Indian thought.…”
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Essay on transcendental philosophy by Maimon, Salomon, 1754-1800

Table of Contents: “…. -- Truth, subjective, objective, logical, metaphysical -- On the I, materialism, idealism, dualism, etc. -- Short overview of the whole work -- My ontology -- On symbolic cognition and philosophical language.…”
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Maimonides as biblical interpreter by Klein-Braslavy, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.…”
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Schopenhauer's encounter with Indian thought representation and will and their Indian parallels / by Cross, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Schopenhauer in context: the "oriental renaissance" -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Hinduism -- Schopenhauer's Indian sources: Buddhism -- "Representation": Schopenhauer and the reality-status of the world -- The reality-status of the empirical world: the Mādhyamika teaching -- Advaita Vedānta: the world as illusory appearance -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's doctrine of representation and its Indian affinities -- Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will -- Schopenhauer: the will in its general forms (ideas) -- Metaphysical factors behind the empirical world: Advaita Vedānta -- The arising of the empirical world in Buddhism: the Yogācāra teaching -- Conclusions: Schopenhauer's will and comparable Indian ideas -- The ontological status of will -- Beyond the will: "better consciousness" and the "pure subject of knowing" -- The hidden compass: Schopenhauer and the limits of philosophy --Schopenhauer and Indian thought.…”
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Second philosophy a naturalistic method / by Maddy, Penelope

Table of Contents: “…-- An illustration : truth and reference -- Reconfiguring the debate -- Disquotation -- Minimalism -- Correlation -- A second philosophy of logic -- Naturalistic options -- Kant on logic -- Undoing the Copernican revolution -- The logical structure of the world -- The logical structure of cognition -- The status of rudimentary logic -- From rudimentary to classical logic -- Caveats -- Second philosophy and mathematics -- Second philosophy of science -- Mathematics in application -- Second methodology of mathematics -- Second philosophy of mathematics -- Second metaphysics.…”
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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life by Francis, Mark, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…I: An individual and his personal culture -- A portrait of a private man -- The longing for passion -- The problem with women -- Spencer's feminist politics -- Culture and beauty -- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism -- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism -- Sociology as an ethical discipline -- Sociology as political theory -- Progress versus democracy.…”
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The concept of logical consequence an introduction to philosophical logic / by McKeon, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…Truth in a structure ; Model-theoretic consequence defined ; The metaphysics of domains ; Interpretations ; The adequacy of the model-theoretic characterization of logical consequence ; What is a logical constant? …”
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Nature in American philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Mansfield -- Holmes on natural law / Robert P. George -- Dewey's metaphysics of existence / Joseph Margolis -- Perspectives on nature in American thought / Nicholas Rescher.…”
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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life by Francis, Mark, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…I: An individual and his personal culture -- A portrait of a private man -- The longing for passion -- The problem with women -- Spencer's feminist politics -- Culture and beauty -- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism -- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism -- Sociology as an ethical discipline -- Sociology as political theory -- Progress versus democracy.…”
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The concept of logical consequence an introduction to philosophical logic / by McKeon, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…Truth in a structure ; Model-theoretic consequence defined ; The metaphysics of domains ; Interpretations ; The adequacy of the model-theoretic characterization of logical consequence ; What is a logical constant? …”
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Nature in American philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Mansfield -- Holmes on natural law / Robert P. George -- Dewey's metaphysics of existence / Joseph Margolis -- Perspectives on nature in American thought / Nicholas Rescher.…”
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Philosophic values and world citizenship Locke to Obama and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Farr -- Multicultural education, metaphysics, and Alain Locke's post-metaphysical alternative / Christopher J. …”
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Philosophic values and world citizenship Locke to Obama and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Farr -- Multicultural education, metaphysics, and Alain Locke's post-metaphysical alternative / Christopher J. …”
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Law and disorder in the postcolony

Table of Contents: “…Caldeira -- Death squads and democracy in Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Some notes on disorder in the Indonesian postcolony / Patricia Spyer -- Witchcraft and the limits of the law: Cameroon and South Africa / Peter Geschiere -- The ethics of illegality in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman -- Criminal obsessions, after foucault: postcoloniality, policing, and the metaphysics of disorder / Jean Comaroff and John L. …”
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