Nothing Natural
Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780749390563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Random House (UK)
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780749390563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joan Cadden
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0812208587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects and events in nature. With this philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals asked whether such dispositions might arise from anatomy or from the psychological processes of habit formation. As the fourteenth-century philosopher Walter Burley observed, "Nothing natural is shameful." The authors, scribes, and readers willing to "contemplate base things" never argued that they were not vile, but most did share the conviction that they could be explained. From the evidence that has survived in manuscripts of and related to the Problemata, two narratives emerge: a chronicle of the earnest attempts of medieval medical theorists and natural philosophers to understand the cause of homosexual desires and pleasures in terms of natural processes, and an ongoing debate as to whether the sciences were equipped or permitted to deal with such subjects at all. Mining hundreds of texts and deciphering commentaries, indices, abbreviations, and marginalia, Joan Cadden shows how European scholars deployed a standard set of philosophical tools and a variety of rhetorical strategies to produce scientific approaches to sodomy.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0195128427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the tradition of "Longitude, " a small and engagingly written book on the history and meaning of zero--a "tour de force" of science history that takes us through the hollow circle that leads to infinity. 32 illustrations.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1933495510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-10
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1451624476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end. Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking.
Author: Brayton Polka
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0739152335
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Between Philosophy and Religion Volumes I and II, Brayton Polka examines Spinoza's three major works_on religion, politics, and ethics_in order to show that his thought is at once biblical and modern. Indeed, Polka argues that Spinoza is biblical only insofar as he is understood to be one of the great philosophers of modernity and that he is modern only when it is understood that he is unique in making the interpretation of the Bible central to philosophy and philosophy central to the interpretation of the Bible. This book and its companion volume are essential reading for any scholar of Spinoza.
Author: A E Wilder-Smith
Publisher: Word for Today
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781931713504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today in nearly all colleges, universities, high schools and elementary schools the theory of evolution is taught as scientific fact, a theory that states that creation evolved from a single accident. But proof exists to dispute that theory as a hoax. Dr. Wilder-Smith gives one proof after another disputing the evolutionary philosophy of life. Every theory surrounding evolution is discussed and examined in length, and then compared with the undisputed truth that we are all created by God.
Author: Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Philosophical Letters is a compilation by Margaret Cavendish. It features a series of letters to prominent persons, debating issues within natural philosophy.
Author: Charles Frederick Partington
Publisher:
Published: 1838
Total Pages: 1116
ISBN-13:
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