From Enlightenment to Receptivity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Enlightenment to Receptivity write by Michael Slote. This book was released on 2016-11. From Enlightenment to Receptivity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity. Recently the ideas of caring and empathy have received a great deal of philosophical and public attention, but both these notions rest on the deeper and broader value of receptivity, and in From Enlightenment to Receptivity, Slote seeks to show that we need to focus more on receptivity if we are to attain a more balanced sense and understanding of what is important to us. Beginning with a critique of Enlightenment thinking that calls into question its denial of any central role to considerations of emotion and empathy, he goes on to show how a greater emphasis on these factors and on the receptivity that underlies them can give us a more realistic, balanced, and sensitive understanding of our core ethical and epistemological values. This means rejecting post-modernism's blanket rejection of reason and of compelling real values and recognizing, rather, that receptivity should play a major role in how we lead our lives as individuals, in how we relate to nature, in how we acquire knowledge about the world, and in how we relate morally and politically with others.
A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind
A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind write by Michael Slote. This book was released on 2014. A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michael Slote argues that emotion is involved in all human thought and action on conceptual grounds, rather than merely being causally connected with other aspects of the mind. This kind of general sentimentalism about the mind goes beyond that advocated by Hume, and the book's main arguments are only partially anticipated in German Romanticism and in the Chinese philosophical tendency to avoid rigid distinctions between thought and emotion. The new sentimentalist philosophy of mind Slote proposes can solve important problems about the nature of belief and action that other approaches -- including Pragmatism -- fail to address. In arguing for the centrality of emotion within philosophy of the mind, A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind continues the critique of rationalist philosophical views that began with Slote's Moral Sentimentalism (OUP, 2010) and continued in his From Enlightenment to Receptivity (OUP, 2013). This new book also delves into what is distinctive about human minds, arguing that there is a greater variety to ordinary human motives than has been recognized and that emotions play a central role in this complex psychology.
A Secular Age
A Secular Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Secular Age write by Charles Taylor. This book was released on 2018-09-17. A Secular Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
George Washington's False Teeth
George Washington's False Teeth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Washington's False Teeth write by Robert Darnton. This book was released on 2003. George Washington's False Teeth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of articles concentrated on the Enlightenment in France argues for a scaled-down interpretation of the significance of the movement.
Instant Enlightenment
Instant Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Instant Enlightenment write by David Deida. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Instant Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explore the Other Side of Enlightenment Does enlightenment have a dark side? It does, explains David Deida, but instead of closing to what seems unloving, we can learn to open as what we would rather avoid. In Instant Enlightenment, this maverick author and teacher offers a "rude awakening" through a collection of daring exercises and practices intended to provoke, challenge, and immediately reveal the ever-present "love that lives all things." Each pithy chapter encourages readers to blast the light of consciousness on the taboos we hide in shadow, from our ideas about sex and money to emotions and spirituality. Instant Enlightenment will surprise and possibly offend you—but it will lead you "fast and suddenly" to the realization of the sacred entirety of your experience. "Dive straight into this book. Open to any page and read for two minutes, and you'll see that you are instant enlightenment."—Ken Wilber, author of A Brief History of Everything
