Barbarous Philosophers

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous Philosophers written by Christopher Coker and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Barbarous Philosophers' discusses the nature of war through the work of 16 philosophers, from Heraclitus in the 6th century B.C. to the philosopher-physicist Werner Heisenberg writing in the 1950s.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199327249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous Philosophers written by Christopher Coker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book about philosophy and war. It is a book on contemporary conflict in which the author invokes philosophy to help understand the problems that we face in fighting war today. Barbarous Philosophers sets out to discuss the nature of war through the work of sixteen philosophers from Heraclitus in the sixth century BC to the philosopher-physicist Werner Heisenberg writing in the 1950s. Each section begins with a brief epigram representative of each writer's thinking. The contention of the book is that war, as opposed to warfare, is largely an invention of philosophy--our reflection on organised collective violence that date from the time we emerged from the hunter-gatherer stage of development and created the first civilisations centred around city life. The Greek philosophers were the first to invent what Pascal called the 'rules' of war and in representing the nature of war they also influenced how it was conducted to the extent that generals allowed their minds to be shaped over time by the work of philosophy. The purpose of philosophy, writes Herbert Simon, is to understand meaningful simplicity in the midst of disorderly complexity. Behind the flux of everyday life there is an 'ordered' existence which it is the task of philosophy to uncover if it can. Behind the ever changing character of war lies its nature that needs to be grasped if it is to be waged successfully.

Author : Christopher Coker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous Philosophers written by Christopher Coker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Heraclitus in the sixth century B.C.E. to the twentieth-century philosopher-physicist Werner Heisenberg, intellectuals have struggled to make sense of war and its presence in human society. Yet Christopher Coker contends that philosophers are the ones who created the concept of war, largely by defining its rules and establishing an oppositional dialectic of peace. The Greeks were the first to outline what Blaise Pascal called the "rules of war," and through their description of its "nature," influenced the thinking of contemporary generals and military strategy. Nevertheless, Coker's book focuses less on the philosophical underpinnings of war and more on the particular problems we face while fighting war today. Guided by the work of sixteen major thinkers, it examines several paradoxes of combat: the belief that war is a continuation, rather than a negation, of politics by other means; the idea that we should respect those who don't respect us; the notion that war can help a soldier reaffirm his humanity; and the odd fact that the concept of peace is still contested. Coker draws on the work of philosophers who have tackled war directly and intensely in their writing. Each chapter begins with an epigram distilling the essence of a chosen philosopher's thinking on war and uses it as a prism through which to analyze aspects of war most relevant to contemporary combat. Barbarous Philosophers entirely reorients our understanding of armed conflict throughout human history.

Author : Petra Mundik
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826356710
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bloody and Barbarous God written by Petra Mundik and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all esoteric religions, and how these traditions have influenced the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Mundik argues that McCarthy continually strives to evolve an explanatory theodicy throughout his work, and that his novels are, to a lesser or greater extent, concerned with the meaning of human existence in relation to the presence of evil and the nature of the divine.

Author : Jason M. Wirth
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438448481
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbarian Principle written by Jason M. Wirth and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the end of his life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty made a striking retrieval of F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature. The Barbarian Principle explores the relationship between these two thinkers on this topic, opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that will be of special interest to philosophers working in phenomenology and German idealism.

Author : Eugenio Garin
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904202321X
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Italian Philosophy written by Eugenio Garin and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a treasure house of Italian philosophy. Narrating and explaining the history of Italian philosophers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, the author identifies the specificity, peculiarity, originality, and novelty of Italian philosophical thought in the men and women of the Renaissance. The vast intellectual output of the Renaissance can be traced back to a single philosophical stream beginning in Florence and fed by numerous converging human factors. This work offers historians and philosophers a vast survey and penetrating analysis of an intellectual tradition which has heretofore remained virtually unknown to the Anglophonic world of scholarship.

Author : William Cooke Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State written by William Cooke Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Minerva Spencer
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420147242
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarous written by Minerva Spencer and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling Regency romance from the author of Dangerous. “Spencer shines in her sophomore effort, burnishing her reputation as an author to watch.”—Kirkus Reviews He could be her ruin Hugh Redvers is supposed to be dead. So the appearance of the sun-bronzed giant with the piratical black eye patch is deeply disturbing to Lady Daphne Davenport. And her instant attraction to the notorious privateer is not only wildly inappropriate for a proper widow but potentially disastrous. Because he is also the man Daphne has secretly cheated of title, lands, and fortune. She could be his salvation Daphne’s distant, untouchable beauty and eminently touchable body are hard enough to resist. But the prim, almost severe, way she looks at him suggests this might be the one woman who can make him forget all the others. His only challenge? Unearthing the enemy who threatens her life . . . and uncovering the secrets in her cool blue eyes. Praise for Dangerous “Minerva Spencer’s writing is sophisticated and wickedly witty. Dangerous is a delight from start to finish with swashbuckling action, scorching love scenes, and a coolly arrogant hero to die for.”—Elizabeth Hoyt, New York Times bestselling author “Readers will love this lusty and unusual marriage of convenience story.”—Madeline Hunter, New York Times bestselling author “Smart, witty, graceful, sensual, elegant and gritty all at once. It has all of the meticulous attention to detail I love in Georgette Heyer, BUT WITH SEX!”—Jeffe Kennedy, RITA Award-winning author

Author : General history
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order by R. Kerr. Vol.12 (ch.3, sect.5) -vol.17 written by General history and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A general history and collection of voyages and travels written by Robert Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: