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Author |
: Marco Simionato |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2021-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783868385878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3868385878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Vindication of Nothingness by : Marco Simionato
The philosophical question of nothingness has often been controversial. The main core of the question is the use of ‘nothing’ or ‘nothingness’ as a noun phrase rather than a quantifier phrase. This work deals with the question of nothingness and metaphysical nihilism in analytic philosophy. After evaluating an account of nothingness based on the notion of an empty possible world, the present work proposes two original arguments for metaphysical nihilism. With a preface by Graham Priest. “Simionato’s book delivers a welcome deepening of our understanding of nothing.” Graham Priest
Author |
: Robert S. Corrington |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2017-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498545181 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498545181 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nature and Nothingness by : Robert S. Corrington
Is nothingness found in nature or is it in some realm disconnected from nature? Nature and Nothingness: An Essay in Ordinal Phenomenology argues for the former and explores four types of nothingness as found in nature: holes in nature, totalizing nothingness in horror, naturing nothingness, and encompassing nothingness. Using ordinal phenomenology, Robert S. Corrington reveals the great perennial fissuring within the one nature that there is. The book includes a detailed analysis of religious violence as it correlates to the hoes in nature, such as anxiety, bereavement, loss, fear of fragmentation, and loss of identity. It also examines the various ways in which horror is encountered in a literary context, using the work of Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. The analysis is comparative and makes use of feminist philosophy as well as Buddhist, Taoist, theosophical, and American philosophy. Using resources from ecstatic naturalism and deep pantheism, Corrington argues that though nothingness takes many forms, they are all guises of the same vast Nothingness.
Author |
: Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 869 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780671867805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0671867806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being and Nothingness by : Jean-Paul Sartre
Sartre explains the theory of existential psychoanalysis in this treatise on human reality.
Author |
: E. H. Andrews |
Publisher |
: EP BOOKS |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0852341202 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780852341209 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Nothing to Nature by : E. H. Andrews
Author |
: Nicholas Waghorn |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2014-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472534569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472534565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nothingness and the Meaning of Life by : Nicholas Waghorn
What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues about ways our lives could have more or less meaning, the focus is rather on the idea of ultimate meaning, the issue of whether a life can attain meaning that cannot be called into question. Waghorn sheds light on this most fundamental of existential problems through a detailed yet comprehensive examination of the notion of nothing, embracing classic and cutting-edge literature from both the analytic and Continental traditions. Central figures such as Heidegger, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Nozick and Nagel are drawn upon to anchor the discussion in some of the most influential discussion of recent philosophical history. In the process of relating our ideas concerning nothing to the problem of life's meaning, Waghorn's book touches upon a number of fundamental themes, including reflexivity and its relation to our conceptual limits, whether religion has any role to play in the question of life's meaning, and the nature and constraints of philosophical methodology. A number of major philosophical traditions are addressed, including phenomenology, poststructuralism, and classical and paraconsistent logics. In addition to providing the most thorough current discussion of ultimate meaning, it will serve to introduce readers to philosophical debates concerning the notion of nothing, and the appendix engaging religion will be of value to both philosophers and theologians.
Author |
: James Biser Whisker |
Publisher |
: Nova Science Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1536198021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781536198027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nihilism: by : James Biser Whisker
Nihilism is a highly negative system of thought with roots in early Greek philosophy. It came into prominence as a major movement with Friedrich Nietzsche's unparalleled assault on Christianity and Christian morality. It became a dominant theme in the dark philosophical system known as existentialism, and thus became an important force in nineteenth century literature and in twentieth century ideologies. It seeks destruction of one or more aspects of society without offering a viable alternative, frequently assuming that the better world will automatically appear after the old world is obliterated. Loathing the building blocks of the present system, nihilism asserts that the better world will be composed of new, but unspecified, components.French philosophy during and after the French Revolution, and virtually all nineteenth century Russian literature, was dominated by nihilism. German Nazism had a nihilistic base which was carefully concealed by racist rantings. Marxism, with so many of its ideas stolen from Russian and French nihilists, proclaimed that faulty economics brought about misery and poverty which would be eradicated by the new but unspecified and undescribed socialist ethic.Revolutionary systems in the twentieth century have delved heavily into the rich trove of nihilist literature to promote, describe, and espouse revolutions which have marked much of that century. Few contemporary nihilists have offered any new insights into reality, choosing only to manipulate the basic concepts heretofore advanced. But the earlier nihilistic ideas have become an all-inspiring training primer for nihilists of future polities. To understand the philosophy of nihilism is to understand the revolutions that have continued to challenge modern societies.
Author |
: Frank Close |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2007-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199225903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199225907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Void by : Frank Close
What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This little book explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why our very latest discoveries about the vacuum can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. - ;What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This little book explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. Frank Close tells the story of how scientists have explored the elusive void, and the rich discoveries that they have made there. He takes the reader on a lively and accessible history through ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research. He describes how scientists discovered that the vacuum is filled with fields; how Newton, Mach, and Einstein grappled with the nature of space and time; and how the mysterious 'aether' that was long ago supposed to permeate the void may now be making a comeback with the latest research into the 'Higgs field'. We now know that the vacuum is far from being 'nothing' - it seethes with virtual particles and antiparticles that erupt spontaneously into being, and it also may contain hidden dimensions that we were previously unaware of. These new discoveries may provide answers to some of cosmology's most fundamental questions: what lies outside the universe, and, if there was once nothing, then how did the universe begin? - ;It covers very complicated concepts in a mostly accessible way. - Lawrence Rudnick, Nature;A fascinating subject covered by a fascinating book. - Marcus Chown, Focus
Author |
: Sebastian Gardner |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826474681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826474683 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness' by : Sebastian Gardner
This text presents a concise and accessible introduction Jean-Paul Satre's existentialist book 'Being and Nothingness'.
Author |
: Thomas Merton |
Publisher |
: Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2003-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781933495514 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1933495510 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis When the Trees Say Nothing by : Thomas Merton
First published in 2003 and now available in paperback to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Thomas Merton's birth, When the Trees Say Nothing has sold more than 60,000 copies and continually inspires readers with its unique collection of Merton's luminous writings on nature, arranged for reflection and meditation. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, author, poet, social commentator, and perhaps the most influential and widely published spiritual writer of the twentieth century. In When the Trees Say Nothing, editor Kathleen Deignan sheds new light on Merton by focusing on a neglected theme of his writing: the natural world as a manifestation of the divine. Drawing from Merton's voluminous writing on nature, Deignan has thematically assembled a collection of lucid, poetic reflections. Chapters on the four elements, the seasons, the Earth and its creatures, and the sun, moon, and stars provide brief passages from his diverse works that reveal the presence of God in creation.
Author |
: Martin Heidegger |
Publisher |
: Livraria Press |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 1962-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783989882904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3989882902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being and Time by : Martin Heidegger
A new 2024 translation of Martin Heidegger's major work "Being and Time" (Sein und Zeit), originally published in 1927 in multiple publications. This edition contains a new afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Heidegger's life and works, a philosophic index of core Heideggerian concepts and a guide for terminology across 19th and 20th century Existentialists. This translation is designed for readability and accessibility to Heidegger's enigmatic and dense philosophy. Complex and specific philosophic terms are translated as literally as possible and academic footnotes have been removed to ensure easy reading. Being and Time presents a complex philosophical discourse on the nature of being (Sein) and time (Zeit), focusing in particular on the temporal-existentialist concept of Dasein, a term that combines the German words for "to be" (sein) and "there" (da). This classic philosophic work examines the traditional metaphysical understanding of being, arguing that this understanding, typically based on the idea of a constant presence, fails to account for the temporal and existential dimensions of being. Heidegger proposes that an understanding of being requires an analysis of Dasein, which is characterized not only by its existence, but also by its being in the world and its temporal existence. The concept of Dasein is central to the his argument, emphasizing that Dasein is always already situated in a world, and its understanding of being is shaped by its temporal existence. This perspective challenges traditional metaphysical notions of being as static and unchanging, proposing instead that being is fundamentally temporal and connected to human existence and understanding. As the title suggests, Heidegger sees the question of Being as indistinguishable from Time, arguing that Newtonian conceptions of time as a series of now-points are inadequate for understanding the being of Dasein. His Ontochronology argues that the existential and ontological analysis of Dasein reveals a more fundamental concept of time, one that is integral to the structure of Being itself. The text further elaborates on the idea of "thrownness" and several other existentialist themes. Thrownness is one of the three conditions that signifies Dasein's immersion in the world, where it finds itself already entangled in a web of relations and meanings. This "thrownness", combined with Dasein's inherent being-toward-death, underscores the existential condition of human beings, framing their existence as a continual engagement with their own finitude and the possibilities of their being. Heidegger posits that understanding the nature of being requires a fundamental rethinking of both being and time, dogmatically stating that the true nature of being can only be grasped through an understanding of the temporality that characterizes the existence of being.