Published by Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016
ISBN 10: 1472907442 ISBN 13: 9781472907448
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London, 2015
ISBN 10: 1472907442 ISBN 13: 9781472907448
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In Why Believe? (Continuum) Professor John Cottingham argued that every human being possesses impulses and aspirations for which religious belief offers a home. His new book, How to Believe is concerned not so much with why we should believe as with what leads a person to become a believer. Cottingham challenges believers and non-believers alike to think afresh about the need to change their lives and about what such change might involve. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford, 1988
ISBN 10: 0192891901 ISBN 13: 9780192891907
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The seventeenth century saw a fundamental shift in our ways of thinking about ourselves and the universe. The reassuring medieval view of an earth-centred cosmos designed expressly for the benefit of mankind had been steadily eroded; yet at the same time there emerged a new optimism about the possibility of developing a clear and comprehensive account of the workings of the universe, together with a determination to penetrate the nature of the human mind and its relation to the material world. Against this background John Cottingham traces the attempts of the three great rationalist philosophers - Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz - to come to terms with man's new role in nature and to devise new systems of philosophy that would provide a unified understanding of reality. He aims to show how closely their ideas are related, and analyses their ways of tackling such central issues as the relation between mind and body, the nature of substance, and the way to achieve a free and fulfilled Human life. He engages with their ideas in a vigorously critical way, and in so doing reveals their capacity to throw light on major philosophical topics which are still very much alive today. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2011
ISBN 10: 144114305X ISBN 13: 9781441143051
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Examines our society s struggle with the concept of belief. This book shows how the religious outlook connects with our human longings, how it links up with our moral and aesthetic experience, how it is integrally involved in the quest for self-understandin.