An Intelligent Persons Guide To History

Author : John Vincent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to History written by John Vincent and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1996 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive examination of the philosophy and evolution of history

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174056
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy written by Roger Scruton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of the field but a vivid, energetic, and personal account to guide the reader making his or her own venture into philosophy. Addressing a range of subjects from freedom, God, reality, and morality, to sex, music, and history, Scruton argues philosophy's relevance not just to intellectual questions, but to contemporary life.

Author : John Russell Vincent
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715635292
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to History written by John Russell Vincent and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive examination of the philosophy and evolution of history, this paperback edition includes an account by the author of the critical reception that greeted the book's original publication, and the controversy that it generated.

Author : Daniel Harbour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780715632291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism written by Daniel Harbour and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial study that argues for the value of atheism in modern society. The debate about atheism has staled since the time of Bertrand Russell. In this work, Daniel Harbour returns to its core issues - the existence of God, the values of faith, the role of religion in society - and casts them in an entirely new light. The real question, he argues, is how we should consider our urge to understand the world. Only then can we ask ourselves whether atheism or theism forms part of a coherent worldview. This new debate between atheism and theism forces us into an investigation of philosophy, science, history, ethics and aesthetics, and a desire for intellectual integrity and commitment to truth. It is far removed from the usual listing of the errors of theism. Not can atheism be equated with denialism. It holds real and practical implications for the place of religion and the obligations of atheists in our society.

Author : John Haldane
Publisher : Overlook Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585677221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Religion written by John Haldane and published by Overlook Press. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live, allegedly, in a postmodern age in which we have cast aside the narrative fantasies of the pre-modern era. If postmodernism represents the final abandonment of all grand theories, where does religion stand? If religion is a particularly unbelievable form of explanation, why does it power still affect social and political change? Here, like the skeptics of our age, the author asks, What has theology ever had to say that was of the slightest use to anyone? He argues that religion without God is like a car without an engine, and draws on many aspects of human culture to offer a defense of religion that is not only credible but necessary in an age when postmodernism itself has been exposed as a cruel illusion.

Author : Tony Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472913124
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education written by Tony Little and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A hugely reassuring, common-sense guide no parent of teenage boys should be without.' - Sunday Times In his bestselling An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education, Tony Little, former Head Master of Eton College, asks the fundamental questions about how we should make our schools and schoolchildren fit for the modern world. This book will enlighten teachers, students and anxious parents alike, providing advice from the author's many years as a teacher, headmaster and governor in both independent schools and academies, in answer to the key issues concerning education. Tony Little explains the research behind how teenagers' brains function and how they act accordingly, discusses how to deal with sex, drugs and poor discipline, reassesses the meaning of 'character' in a child's education, and provides his own list of books every bright 16-year-old should read. In addition, he offers tips for parents on dealing with adolescents and communicating with their child's school. Drawing on a lifetime's work in schools, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education is a refreshing, rational and original take on the most important stage in a child's development. An entertaining and essential book for teachers, parents and students interested in how education should serve our young people, now and in future.

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture written by Roger Scruton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and on the "culture of repudiation" which has infected the modern academy. But his book is not only negative. It is a celebration of the true heroes of modern culture and a call to the higher life. The American edition of this famous and notorious work has been revised to take account of the controversy which it has inspired, and contains new material specially directed to Americans.

Author : Eric Maisel
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1609258851
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Smart People Hurt written by Eric Maisel and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the most of your creative and intellectual gifts by overcoming the unique challenges they bring with this guide by the author of Natural Psychology. Many smart and creative people experience unique challenges as a result of their valuable gifts. These can range from anxiety and over-thinking to mania, depression, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel pinpoints these often-devastating challenges and offers solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology. Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. In Why Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel will teach you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself. In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find: · Evidence that you are not alone in your struggles · Strategies for coping with a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat · Questions that will help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful life

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408193507
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Culture written by Roger Scruton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.

Author : John Waters
Publisher : Gerald Duckworth
ISBN 13 : 9780715630914
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Ireland written by John Waters and published by Gerald Duckworth. This book was released on 1997 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Ireland, described variously as The Emerald Tiger, The Celtic Tiger and The Tiger Economy of Europe, is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe. Just 75 years into independence, less than 40 years from the stygian blackness of pre-modernity, and only a decade from what seemed to be an economic apocalypse, Ireland has finally modernized. With a young population and economic growth rates the envy of the western world, it should offer a model for all fledgling states to follow.