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Provocations eBook Series

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  • Abolishing Freedom

    A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

    by Frank Ruda ...
    Series series Provocations
    Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.Abolishing Freedom demonstrates how the greatest philosophers of the rationalist tradition and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    "Common Sense" is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America.Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) was an English-American ... Read more

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  • A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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    by Edmund Burke ...
    'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us. The preference for the Sublime over the Beautiful was to mark the transition from the ... Read more

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  • Modern Conspiracy

    The Importance of Being Paranoid

    by Dr. Emma A. Jane, Dr. Chris Fleming ...
    While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media.Rather than seeing the imminent death of Enlightenment reason and a ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Following the Rules

    Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint

    by Joseph Heath ...
    For centuries, philosophers have been puzzled by the fact that people often respect moral obligations as a matter of principle, setting aside considerations of self-interest. In more recent years, social scientists have been puzzled by the more general phenomenon of rule-following, the fact that people often abide by social norms even when doing so produces undesirable consequences. Experimental ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Individual without Passions

    Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond

    by Elena Pulcini ...
    Translated by Karen Whittle ...
    The Individual without Passions: Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond offers an innovative look at an extremely timely and important issue—individualism—from the point of view of a theory of passions. This book underlines the importance of the problem of the passions in both forming individual identity and building the social bond. Drawing inspiration from classic authors that ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Conscience and Its Critics

    Protestant Conscience, Enlightenment Reason, and Modern Subjectivity

    by Edward Andrew ...
    Series series Heritage
    Conscience and Its Critics is an eloquent and passionate examination of the opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Seeking to illuminate what the United Nations Declaration of Rights means in its assertion that reason and conscience are the definitive qualities of human beings, Edward Andrew attempts to give determinate shape ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • The End of History

    An Essay on Modern Hegelianism

    by Barry Cooper ...
    Series series Heritage
    History ended, according to Hegel according to Kojève, with the establishment and proliferation in Europe of states organized along Napoleonic lines: rational, bureaucratic, homogenous, atheist. This state lives in some tension with the popular slogan that helped give it birth: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. But there is now also totalitarianism – the only new kind of regime, according to Arendt, ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Discover Plato: Flash

    by Dr Roy Jackson ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Discover Plato is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the works of Plato. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all his ideas, from the Theory of Forms to Platonic Love. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Moon Through the Lonely Window: Explorations in Philosophy

    by David J Guyton ...
    Questions burn within us all. At times, the answers bring an inferno of their own, laying waste to our comfortable traditions and beliefs. The light of that mighty fire will either destroy us or light the pathway towards truth. We march forward with no shield to protect us; reason our only weapon.The Moon Through the Lonely Window is a collection of philosophical thoughts by David J. Guyton. These ... Read more

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  • The Way We Think: Step Reasoning and Stage Reasoning

    by Geoffrey Tingate ...
    By and large human reasoning proceeds in short steps restricted almost entirely to the surface, thereby falling short of what is called for in the modern world. In contrast, the reasoning of a rare minority proceeds in immensely more powerful stages. Included in this minority are those whose inductive stage reasoning enables them to probe far beneath the surface and reveal Nature's most hidden ... Read more

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  • The Barbarism of Reason

    Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment

    Edited by Asher Horowitz, Terry Maley ...
    Series series Heritage
    The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays ... Read more

    $35.99 USD