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Author: Kathleen Marie Higgins

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Hi ...

Author: Leonard Grob

This collection of spiritual testimonies is committed to the idea that genuine dialogue between men and women that acknowledges the essential fully-gendered human aspect of each is the foundation for achieving true li ...

Author: Francois Jullien

The undraped human form is ubiquitous in Western art and even appears in the art of India and Japan. Only in China, Francois Jullien argues, is the nude completely absent. In this enthralling extended essay, he explores ...

Author: Kariamu Welsh Asante

While the field of aesthetics has long been dominated by European philosophy, inquiries have expanded the arena to accommodate different cultures as well as different definitions and meanings. Aesthetics often establishe ...

Author: Gemeentebibliotheek Rotterdam & Lsi

The Rotterdam City Library contains the world's largest collection of works by and about Desiderius Erasmus (1469?-1536), perhaps Rotterdam's most famous son. The origin of this unique collection dates back to the 17th c ...

Author: S. Daniel Breslauer

This reference provides a comprehensive survey of human rights in Judaism. It includes both theoretical discussions of the nature and substance of human rights and practical applications of that theory either by Jews ...

Author: Willem B. Drees

What does it mean to be human in a world of technology? What could be the role of religion in responding to the ecological crisis? Should we be concerned about the modification of food, and even of ourselves? Who do we t ...

Author: Tanya Fusco Johnson

Johnson addresses ethical issues in aging in a variety of contexts--the social cultural environment, physical health care, mental health care, social health care, legal care, and spiritual care. Because long-term agin ...

Author: R. Murray Thomas

While conducting research into crimes, the treatment of crimes and the aim of these treatments, Thomas was frustrated by the lack of an available classification system that organised this material. This book was written ...

Author: Katherine Fishburn

Offering a revolutionary way of reading 19th-century slave narratives, Fishburn seeks to recover the philosophical foundations of African American literature. Underlying slave narrative is an expression of the problem ...

Author: Stephen R. Haynes & John K. Roth

The Death of God theologians represented one of the most influential religious movements that emerged of the 1960s, a decade in which the discipline of theology underwent revolutionary change. Although they were from ...

Author: Philip E. Devine

The natural law tradition, which takes as central to moral discussion an appeal to our common humanity, provides a sustainable and attractive approach to problems of ethics and morals. This volume presents a contempor ...

Author: William Irwin

The tension between the roles of authorial intention and the text itself is a basic concern of contemporary hermeneutics. Challenging much of the current thinking in the field, this volume argues that the text itself, ...

Author: Nina Reid-Maroney

Rather than treating the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment as defining opposites in 18th century American culture, this study argues that the imperatives of the great revival actually shaped the pursuit of enlight ...

Author: Christopher D. Green & Philip R. Groff

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The modern view of the mind is the result of thousands of years of thought, discussion, and experimentation. This volume examines how the foundations of this concept were laid in the ancient world, focusing on the ...

Author: Charles P. Nemeth

Outlines and discusses St. Thomas Aquinas's insights into legal reasoning and judgments, and the nature and role of judges and lawyers. Using St. Thomas Aquinas's natural law philosophy and Divine Exemplar argument to pr ...

Author: Colin McGinn

Problems in Philosophy is a critical introduction to philosophy. The author offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as reason and truth, consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a ...

Author: R. G. Frey & Christopher Wellman

In recent years, many important moral, social, and political issues have come under philosophical scrutiny, with the result that applied or practical ethics has become one of the largest areas of growth in philosophy. Th ...

Author: David Curtis

Cornelius Castoriadis (b.1922) cofounded the now legendary revolutionary group and journal "Socialisme ou Barbarie" (1948-1967). Presently a Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Pari ...

Author: Heimir Geirsson & Michael Losonsky

aeo Students are engaged in metaphysical issues through emphasis on ethical, social and political concerns. aeo Up--to--date discussion is followed by classical and contemporary selections. aeo Includes classroom tested ...