BEYOND PERMANENCE

BEYOND PERMANENCE
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781456858117
ISBN-13 : 1456858114
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Download or read book BEYOND PERMANENCE written by Craig Eisendrath and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Permanence: The Great Ideas of the West covers the full range of Western thought. Th e fi rst part reviews Western thought from its earliest beginnings in the civilization of Sumer through the philosophy of Hegel. After Sumer, it covers Egypt, Judaism, Classical philosophy focusing on Plato and Aristotle, Christianity and the Gnostics, the medieval church and the mystics, and the fi nal attempt by philosophers like Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant to “pin down” the world in a comprehensive philosophy. Th e aim was permanence of explanation describing a world of permanence whose actions refl ected the essential nature of its constituents. Th e second part moves into the modern age with the new physics and biology and the philosophies of William James and Alfred North Whitehead. It shows, for example, how the mind is not the permanent soul, but is rather the manifestation of the body, particularly the brain. Th rough the work of John Dewey and others, it outlines a new activism whereby people don’t accept society as a permanent order, but think of it as constantly subject to improvement. We are not “in” society, but society is in us, and is open to our needs and desires.


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