Concepts of Time, Ancient and Modern

Concepts of Time, Ancient and Modern PDF Author: Kapila Vatsyayan
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Contributed papers presented in a seminar of Kala (time).

Concepts of Time, Ancient and Modern

Concepts of Time, Ancient and Modern PDF Author: Kapila Vatsyayan
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Contributed papers presented in a seminar of Kala (time).

Concepts of Nature

Concepts of Nature PDF Author: R. J. Snell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498527558
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians, political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.

Time and Clocks

Time and Clocks PDF Author: Sir Henry Hardinge Cunynghame
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Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History

Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History PDF Author: Neville Morley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134536100
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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The first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history.

The Concepts of Time in Anglo-Saxon England

The Concepts of Time in Anglo-Saxon England PDF Author: Kaifan Yang
Publisher: utzverlag GmbH
ISBN: 3831646856
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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The book examines the diachronic change of time perception throughout Anglo-Saxon England, with the conversion as a turning point. It draws evidence from a variety of sources, in particular from a close reading of Bede’s historical writings and his treatises on time, from Old English poetry, especially The Dream of the Rood, The Phoenix, The Wanderer, Beowulf, The Ruin, Deor, from the literature of the Alfredian period, and from the lexical and statistical analysis of Old English time words. It offers insights into the complexity of time in the Anglo-Saxon context, and shows how the change of time can help to understand the conceptual system of the Anglo-Saxons.

Phenomenology of Religion

Phenomenology of Religion PDF Author: Archana Barua
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739125199
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Phenomenology of Religion is designed to be a practical introduction to the discipline of acquiring an understanding of the art of communication, including religious communication, from a phenomenological perspective. It is an exploration of the meaning of specific expressions of religious life in a manner that does them justice, a manner that is emphatically sensitive to the viewpoint of the participants as well as appropriately objective. Out of the wide variety of themes covered by Husserl's phenomenology and later developed by Heidegger, Merleau Ponty, and others in different possible directions, the present work is an attempt at indicating the few features of the method which derives from Edmund Husserl's basic themes of the phenomenological movement and its methodology. It is an attempt at exploring the manner in which this method has been applied to the study of art and religion by other phenomenologists and accordingly to state and introduce the problem of this profound bulk--namely, the phenomenological apporach to religion--mostly in their terms. The present work seeks to provide insights into J. N. Mohanty's vision of phenomenology and of Husserl's ideas in particular, and contains discussion of some of the central issues which form the foundation of Husserlian transcendental phenomenology. Phenomenology of Religion will be of immense relevance to those who wish to pursue phenomenology from a cross-cultural perspective.

The Forgotten God

The Forgotten God PDF Author: Paul J. Achtemeier
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664222765
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the unity and diversity behind biblical conceptions of "God." This is accomplished by respecting the distinctive theology of each canonical book and by placing reflection about God in conversation with major themes of biblical theology--Christology, pneumatology, anthropology. Four essays examine the Old Testament images of God while ten essays address the way in which God is presented in the New Testament. The volume is rounded off with an essay exploring biblical preaching about God.

Time in History

Time in History PDF Author: G. J. Whitrow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192852113
Category : Chronology
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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In this intriguing book G.J. Whitrow traces the evolution of our general awareness of time and its significance from the dawn of history to the present day. His absorbing study ranges from Ancient Egypt and Persia, Greece, and Israel, to the Islamic world, India and China, and Europe andAmerica, showing the different ways time has been perceived by various civilizations.

Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern

Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern PDF Author: Kapila Vatsyayan
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 8170172527
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology PDF Author: Fan Dainian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401587175
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original research in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of their efforts during the initial phase. To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and Chinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and mathematics, etc. Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern science and technology, the most distinctive of which are macro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west. Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in the history of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the history of modern physics and biology, the history of historiography of science in China and the history of regional development of Chinese science and technology. Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinese scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang (1833–1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940), who contributed greatly to the introduction of western science and scholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have been included introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars and three great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert A. Millikan.