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Spinoza's Dream.
Meaning and nature are this book's principal topics. Setting one against the other makes reality contentious. Is reality divided: nature vs. lived experience? Or is experience, with all its meanings and values, the complex expression of natural processes? Weissman champions the comprehensive na...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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De Gruyter,
2016.
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| Colección: | Categories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction ; 1. Nature ; 1.1 An analogy ; 1.2 Categorial form ; 1.3 Selves ; 1.4 Society and culture ; 1.5 Summary ; 2. Silent Conditions ; 2.1 Conditions that elude observation ; 2.2 Examples ; 2.3 Rationales ; 2.4 Appraisal ; 2.5 Attitudes.
- 3. Existence Proofs 3.1 Self-perception ; 3.2 Ephemeral conscious data ; 3.3 Percepts ; 3.4 Material objects and constraints ; 3.5 Emotion ; 3.6 Intuition ; 3.7 A priori existence proofs ; 3.8 Remarks ; 4. Other Ontologies ; 4.1 Illusion ; 4.2 Construction ; 4.3 Theism.
- 4.4 Ontology and value 5. Meaning, value, and truth ; 5.1 Problematic ; 5.2 Context ; 5.3 Meaning ; 5.4 Significance ; 5.5 Value ; 5.6 Value's relation to meaning and significance ; 5.7 Truth ; 5.8 Meaning/significance or truth ; 5.9 Is science indifferent to meaning and value?
- 5.10 Mysteries and mythologies 6. Practical Life ; 6.1 Overview ; 6.2 Needs and wants ; 6.3 Action ; 6.4 Error ; 6.5 Systems and their meanings ; 6.6 Two perspectives ; 6.7 Ethical practice ; 6.8 Culture ; 6.9 Innovation/Distraction ; 7. Mental functions ; 7.1 Meaning.
- 7.2 Valuation 8 Last thoughts ; 8.1 Contingency ; 8.2 Spirituality ; 8.3 A paradox ; Bibliography ; Index.