Potency of the Common - 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 Potency of the Common write by Gert Melville. This book was released on 2016-09-26. Potency of the Common available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The central question of the book is as follows: To what extent does the community present a challenge in the life of the individual? Well-known international Philosophers, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, theologians and sociologists attempted to find explications by intercultural comparison.
Natural Potency and Political Power
Natural Potency and Political Power - 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 Natural Potency and Political Power write by Sarinda Singh. This book was released on 2012-01-31. Natural Potency and Political Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forests, as physical entities, have received considerable scholarly attention in political studies of Asia and beyond. Much less notice has been paid to the significance of forests as symbols that enable commentary on identity, aspirations, and authority. Natural Potency and Political Power, an innovative exploration of the social and political importance of forests in contemporary Laos, challenges common views of the rural countryside as isolated and disconnected from national social debates and politics under an authoritarian regime. It offers instead a novel understanding of local perspectives under authoritarianism, demonstrating that Lao people make implicit political statements in their commentary on forests and wildlife; and showing that, in addition to being vital material resources, forests (and their natural potency) are linked in the minds of many Lao to the social and political power of the state. Sarinda Singh explores the intertwining of symbolic and material concerns in local debates over conservation and development, the popularity of wildlife consumption, the particular importance of elephants, and forest loss and mismanagement. In doing so, she draws on ethnographic fieldwork around Vientiane, the capital, and Nakai, site of the contentious Nam Theun 2 hydropower project—places that are broadly reflective of the divide between urban prosperity and rural poverty. Nam Theun 2, supported by the World Bank, highlights the local, regional, and global dynamics that influence discussions of forest resources in Laos. Government officials, rural villagers, and foreign consultants all contribute to competing ideas about forests and wildlife. Singh advances research on forest politics by rethinking how ideas about nature influence social life. Her work refutes the tendency to see modern social life as independent of historical influences, and her attention to viewpoints both inside and outside the state prompts an understanding of authoritarian regimes as not only sources of repression, but also sites of negotiation, engagement, and debate about the legitimacy of social inequalities.
Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being
Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being - 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 Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being write by Edith Stein. This book was released on 2009. Potency and Act: Studies Toward a Philosophy of Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Potency and Act is the second of three works in which Edith Stein said she endeavored to fulfill her “proper mission’ in philosophy, her “life’s task”: relating the phenomenology of her teacher Edmund Husserl and the scholasticism of St. Thomas Aquinas. But more than “critically comparing” the two ways of thinking, she wished to “fuse” them into her own “philosophical system,” searching for that perennial philosophy lying “beyond ages and peoples, common to all who honestly seek truth.” More Information Edith Stein was a Jewish phenomenologist who became a Catholic after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Jesus and entered the order of Discalced Carmelites founded by the saint. Stein died in Auschwitz in 1942 and was herself canonized in 1998 as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her philosophical thinking had been formed by Husserl, but she came to “find a home in Aquinas’s thought world.” In Potency and Act she “aimed to get from scholasticism to phenomenology and vice versa” and “allow the two ways of doing philosophy to come to resolution within herself.” The first of the three works in which she carried out her mission was a play where Husserl and Aquinas appear on stage to discuss their agreements and differences (in Knowledge and Faith, ICS Publications, Edith Stein’s Collected Works, vol. 8). The second, Potency and Act, was written in 1931 but published for the first time in 1998. The third was her major work, Finite and Eternal Being, written around 1935 and also published posthumously, in 1950 (Collected Works, vol. 9). Potency and Act is complementary to Finite and Eternal Being, for they are quite different in content. The approach to the study of being in Potency and Act is “modal” as the title implies; her treatment of possible worlds and of form prescribing possibilities relates to phenomenological themes and also to recent developments in logical semantics. Philosophy of religion, of course, is a central concern. We reach God not only through faith and contemplation, she says, but “by thinking,” using “logical reasoning” both from the world without (as in St. Thomas) and from the world within (“the way of St. Augustine”); indeed, God’s existence is also a “purely formal conclusion.” Her many searching analyses are suggestive in their own right: on human freedom, temporality, self-knowledge, individuality, evolution (which she “fits into the “scholastic world view”), atheism, eschatology.
Philosophy of Being
Philosophy of Being - 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 Philosophy of Being write by Gerard Smith. This book was released on 2020-04-08. Philosophy of Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Treatise on the soul
The Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Treatise on the soul - 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 The Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Treatise on the soul write by Aquinas Saint Thomas. This book was released on 1949. The Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Treatise on the soul available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle's Treatise on the soul. Tanslated by R. A. Kocourek.
