Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more “scientific” study. This book offers a way for social scientists and political theorists to reintegrate the empirical and the normative, proposing a way out of the scientism that clouds our age. In Alasdair MacIntyr…
What should we believe, and why should we believe it? This book addresses these questions through a critical exposition of the work of the contemporary philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre and of the theologian George Lindbeck, the father of postliberal theology. The book argues that MacIntyre's philosophical development can be seen as a response to the question of how belief in a comprehensive metap…
We spend a good amount of time in our lives managing waste: washing ourselves, taking out the trash, sorting recyclables, going to the toilet, deleting e-mail, picking out old clothes to give to charity, filling the compost bin, multitasking to save time, clipping coupons to save money. But waste is much more than what we want to get rid of or avoid. Far beyond terms like rubbish, trash, or lit…
This book gives an extended argument for epistemic authority from the implications of reflective self-consciousness. Epistemic authority is compatible with autonomy, but epistemic self-reliance is incoherent. The book argues that epistemic and emotional self-trust are rational and inescapable, that consistent self-trust commits us to trust in others, and that among those we are committed to tru…
Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in huma…
Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing new features, and enhancing accessibility. Stecker introduces students to the history and evolu…
Memberi inspirasi tidak dengan cara yang biasa-biasa saja. Di dalam buku ini pemikiran para filsuf dunia digali untuk memberi pencerahan bagi para profesional. Penilikan akan menyingkap bahwa kita saling menolong sebagai sesama manusia lewat profesi yang kita emban. Jadi, profesi bukan alat mata pencarian belaka, juga bukan kendaraan bagi ambisiambisi dan kepongahan manusia. Penyelidikan …
Tidak ada penulis tentang gerakan ekologis lainnya yang mengemukakan analogi secara efektif setara Thomas Berry. Di masa beberapa puluh tahun ke depan akan ada lebih banyak orang lagi, setidaknya puluhan juta yang akan menyadari sepenuhnya bahwa krisis ekologi merupakan hal pokok, sebagaimana telah ditekankan Berry sepanjang karirnya. Tokoh-tokoh lain tampil dengan berbagai rumusan dan usulan …
Inilah buku tuntunan yang sangat bagus untuk memasuki 20 karya filsafat terbesar, terutama bagi Anda yang sama sekali yang tidak punya waktu untuk membaca karya-karyanya. James Garvey memberikan catatan pendahuluan dari buku-buku yang harus dibaca dari seluruh sejarah tulisan filsafat. Dari dialog-dialog Plato, melalui karya-karya Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, dan Hume, sampai ke tulisan-tulis…
Buku ajar ini sebagai pengayaan bagi mahasiswa yang mengikuti mata kuliah kajian puisi. Buku ini diharapkan penulis menjadi salah satu alternatif pemahaman puisi melalui metode pembacaan semiotik sekaligus sebagai solusi dari keterbatasan buku referensi khususnya buku aplikasi teori puisi bagi mahasiswa.