The Penumbra Unbound - 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 Penumbra Unbound write by Brook Ziporyn. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Penumbra Unbound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Penumbra Unbound is the first English language book-length study of the Neo-Taoist thinker Guo Xiang (d. 312 C.E.), commentator on the classic Taoist text, the Zhuangzi. The author explores Guo's philosophy of freedom and spontaneity, explains its coherence and importance, and shows its influence on later Chinese philosophy, particularly Chan Buddhism. The implications of his thought on freedom versus determinism are also considered in comparison to several positions advanced in the history of Western philosophy, notably those of Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Fichte, and Hegel. Guo's thought reinterprets the classical pronouncements about the Tao so that it in no way signifies any kind of metaphysical absolute underlying appearances, but rather means literally "nothing." This absence of anything beyond appearances is the first premise in Guo's development of a theory of radical freedom, one in which all phenomenal things are "self-so," creating and transforming themselves without depending on any justification beyond their own temporary being.
The Penumbra Unbound
The Penumbra Unbound - 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 Penumbra Unbound write by Brook Ziporyn. This book was released on 2003-03-18. The Penumbra Unbound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the work of Guo Xiang, a Neo-Taoist thinker who developed a radical philosophy of freedom and spontaneity.
Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions
Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions - 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 Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions write by Erik Baldwin. This book was released on 2018-11-29. Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To what extent can non-Christian religious traditions utilize Plantinga’s epistemology? And, if there are believers from differing religious traditions that can rightfully utilize Plantinga’s religious epistemology, does this somehow prevent a Plantingian’s creedal-specific religious belief from being warranted? In order to answer these questions, Baldwin and McNabb first provide an introduction to Plantinga’s religious epistemology. Second, they explore the prospects and problems that members of non-Christian religions face when they attempt to utilize Plantingian religious epistemology. Finally, they sketch out possible approaches to holding that a Plantingian’s creedal-specific religious belief can be warranted, even given believers from other religious traditions who can also rightfully make full use of Plantinga’s religious epistemology.
Philosophy for Militants
Philosophy for Militants - 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 for Militants write by Michael Munro. This book was released on 2017-03-15. Philosophy for Militants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "No longer imminent, the End is immanent." "Ends are ends," Frank Kermode goes on to clarify, "only when they are not negative but frankly transfigure the events in which they were immanent." From its imminence to its immanence, not "negative," "no longer," but transformative, how is "the End" in turn "transfigured"? In what may ending be said then to consist? To "the end times" of apocalypse and eschatology Giorgio Agamben, following Gianni Carchia, opposes messianism and "messianic time"--to the end of time, in a formula, the time of the end. To the writings of those for whom to philosophize is to learn how to die--from Plato to Montaigne and beyond--one may oppose, in like manner, the writings of Spinoza, who "thinks of death least of all things"--"for nature is Messianic by reason of its eternal and total passing away," as Benjamin writes--and so in whose pages "wisdom," transfigured, "is a meditation on life."
Freedom's Frailty
Freedom's Frailty - 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 Freedom's Frailty write by Christine Abigail L. Tan. This book was released on 2024-04-01. Freedom's Frailty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book starts with the radical premise that the most coherent way to read the Zhuangzi is through Guo Xiang (d. 312 CE), the classic Daoist text's first and most important commentator, and that the best way to read Guo Xiang is politically. Offering an investigation of the notions of causality, self, freedom, and its political implications, the book provides a comprehensive account of freedom that is both ontological and political, using Guo's notion of self-realization (自得 zide). This is a conception of freedom that introduces a "dependence-based autonomy," in which freedom is something we achieve and realize through our connection to others. The notion that a subject is born with freedom—and that one can return to it by isolating oneself from others—would be a strange idea not just to Guo but to most Chinese philosophers. Rather, freedom is complex and frail, and only the kind of freedom that is collectively attained through radical dependence can be worth having. In sum, the book makes a new contribution to Chinese philosophical scholarship as well as philosophical debates on freedom.
