The Perfection Of Nature

Author : Mackenzie Cooley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822281
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfection of Nature written by Mackenzie Cooley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but, as Mackenzie Cooley uncovers in this timely book, there is a dark parallel to this fãeted era. Those same men and women who were offering profound advancements in our understanding of the human condition-and laying the foundations of the Scientific Revolution-were also obsessed with controlling that condition and the wider natural world. Cooley traces how the Renaissance world, from the Mediterranean to Mexico City to the high mountains of the Andes, was marked by a lingering fascination with breeding. While one strand of the Renaissance celebrated a liberal view of human potential, another limited it by biology, reducing man to beast and prince to stud. 'Race,' Cooley explains, first referred to animal stock honed through breeding. And, to those who invented the concept, race was not inflexible but the fragile result of reproductive work. She follows these early modern breeders' work with Italian horses, Mesoamerican dogs, Andean camelids, and other creatures, discussing it in tandem with natural philosophers' efforts to make sense of inheritance, modification, and the new concept of race. In doing so, she shows how, as the Spanish empire expanded, the concept of race moved from nonhuman to human animals"

Author : Nicholas Morgan (of Crolane.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfection of Horse-Manship, Drawne from Nature, Arte, and Practise, Etc written by Nicholas Morgan (of Crolane.) and published by . This book was released on 1609 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheila M. Rothman
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Perfection written by Sheila M. Rothman and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rothmans, both highly respected historians at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, show readers what the pursuit of biological perfection through drugs and hormones means to consumers.

Author : Lonchen Rabjam
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861717252
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Perfection written by Lonchen Rabjam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dzogchen, or the "Great Perfection," is considered by many to be the apex of Tibetan Buddhism, and Longchen Rabjam is the most celebrated of all the saints of this remarkable tradition. Natural Perfection presents the radical precepts of Dzogchen, pointing the way to absolute liberation from conceptual fetters and leading the practitioner to a state of pure, natural integration into one's true being. Transcending the Tibetan context or even the confines of Buddhist tradition, Longchen Rabjam delivers a manual full of practical wisdom. Natural Perfection is a shining example of why people have continued to turn to the traditions of Tibet for spiritual and personal transformation and realization. Keith Dowman's illuminating translation of this remarkable work of wisdom provides clear accessibility to the profound path of Dzogchen in the here-and-now.

Author : Human life
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human life, the phenomena of its divine nature and capacity for perfection, by hoi duo adelphoi hoi cheirourgoi written by Human life and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : DC Schindler
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227906225
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfection of Freedom written by DC Schindler and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways by the German thinkers Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, connects freedom, not exclusively with power and possibility, but rather, most fundamentally, with completion, wholeness, and actuality. What is unique here is specifically the interpretation of freedom in terms of form, whether it be aesthetic form (Schiller), organic form (Schelling), or social form (Hegel). Although this book presents serious criticisms of the three philosophers, it shows that they open new avenues for reflection on the notion of freedom; avenues that promise to overcome many of the dichotomies that continue to haunt contemporary thought - for example, between freedom and order, freedom and nature, and self and other. The Perfection of Freedom offers not only a significantly new interpretation of Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, but also proposes a modernity more organically rooted in the ancient and classical Christian worlds.

Author : Sharon Butala
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443403121
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfection Of The Morning written by Sharon Butala and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published, The Perfection of the Morning catapulted Sharon Butala into literary stardom, causing the Toronto Star to crown her as "one of this country's true visionaries." At once a meditation on the world of nature and a personal and spiritual exploration of the roots of creativity, The Perfection of the Morning is Sharon Butala's search for a connection with the prairie that encompassed and often overwhelmed her. More resonant today than ever before, The Perfection of the Morning is a book for Butala's many loyal readers, as well as the perfect introduction for new fans.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191037176
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Necessity written by Alvin Plantinga and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1978-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.

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Publisher : New York : Viking Studio
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfection of Wisdom written by and published by New York : Viking Studio. This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the heart of Buddhism lies the doctrine of the perfection of wisdom. The foremost principles of this teaching are the bodhisattva ideal of the religious life and the essential emptiness of all existence. The sutras known as The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines are the oldest version of this important Buddhist text, dating some two thousand years, and are the basis for the present translation." "The message of The Perfection of Wisdom is as applicable to the modern reader as it was to the monks who first studied the text two millennia ago: through an understanding of the perfection of wisdom, it is possible for all of us to detach from the suffering that binds us to the material world, and so move toward enlightenment. This important text is illustrated with extraordinary images taken from the earliest surviving Indian and Nepalese illustrated manuscripts of The Perfection of Wisdom - most of which have never been reproduced before."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : William Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Workes of William Ames, Translated Out of the Latine for Publike Use written by William Ames and published by . This book was released on 1643 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: