There is no such thing as a rational belief. In all the incidents of life we ought to preserve our scepticism. Humes ideas about the nature of certainty revolutionized Western philosophy. This radical mind discovered a missing step in 18th century thinking and brought to the for an observational awareness that restrains the minds tendency to go beyond actual experience. This fascinating introduction to Humes philosophy with extensive excerpts from his writings offers insights into his theories of causation, impression, innate ideas, personal identity, free choice, ethics, sympathy, justice, religion, and divine design.

The Vision of Hume

Politics & Social Sciences

Appelbaum, David

Philosophy

iUniverse

Drawing on clues from Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Jacobson, Condillac, and Diderot, Appelbaum investigates the vocalized, acoustical aspect of audible expression. He analyzes the tendency to equate voice with speaking, and speaking with writing, the result being that vocalizing is equivalent to thinking aloud. Appelbaum affirms the body's role in vocalizing expression by proposing a new and radical interpretation of the truth of voice: that it is true if it provides a disclosure of our human contradictions. Sound, or the acoustical properties of a person's voice, is able to bring about the revolutionary new set of conditions which reveal the truth of one's condition. The author provides a unique account of the subjugation of voice by thought, indicating means for reversing the authority of the sound and for freeing up the voice. He concludes with the argument that poetic voice reconciles the search for semantic meaning with the raw, acoustical effect that the free voice causes.

Voice

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

State Univ of New York Pr

Drawing on clues from Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Jacobson, Condillac, and Diderot, Appelbaum investigates the vocalized, acoustical aspect of audible expression. He analyzes the tendency to equate voice with speaking, and speaking with writing, the result being that vocalizing is equivalent to thinking aloud. Appelbaum affirms the body’s role in vocalizing expression by proposing a new and radical interpretation of the truth of voice: that it is true if it provides a disclosure of our human contradictions. Sound, or the acoustical properties of a person’s voice, is able to bring about the revolutionary new set of conditions which reveal the truth of one’s condition. The author provides a unique account of the subjugation of voice by thought, indicating means for reversing the authority of the sound and for freeing up the voice. He concludes with the argument that poetic voice reconciles the search for semantic meaning with the raw, acoustical effect that the free voice causes.

Everyday Spirits

Transformation of being begins exactly where one is. This is, for most of us, at home. We are acted upon by objects familiar to us, influenced in unfelt ways, and moved toward a destiny proper to a responsible being. Dwelling is complemented by journeying. To live in a home is to journey on the path that leads through the home to a world beyond. A householder becomes a traveler. A traveler is a seeker after new impressions, fresh impressions of a reality that beckons. Opening to the commonplace--what stands in front of us on the daily round--we are open to the call to respond to our role as mediator between heaven and earth. Everyday Spirits is a book about self-perception.

Transformation of being begins exactly where one is. This is, for most of us, at home. We are acted upon by objects familiar to us, influenced in unfelt ways, and moved toward a destiny proper to a responsible being. Dwelling is complemented by journeying. To live in a home is to journey on the path that leads through the home to a world beyond. A householder becomes a traveler. A traveler is a seeker after new impressions, fresh impressions of a reality that beckons. Opening to the commonplace―what stands in front of us on the daily round―we are open to the call to respond to our role as mediator between heaven and earth. Everyday Spirits is a book about self-perception.

State University of New York Press

The Stop (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

This book is about the turn toward consciousness by which we pass from ignorance to knowledge. The stop is the spark of initiation that arouses our habitual inattentiveness, motivating us toward a higherunderstanding. The central axis of The Stop is the secret turn of awareness by which we pass from ignorance to knowledge. The stop, then, is the spark of initiation, intense enough to arouse consciousness from its slumber and to motivate the difficult journey to a higher understanding. To stop is to begin a movement toward consciousness.

The Stop (S U N Y SERIES IN WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITIONS)

This book is about the disruption of the intellect that awakens consciousness to its wholeness and purpose. When consciousness is fractured, its world-making powers are momentarily disrupted. In the gap, during which spatio-temporal categories of thought cease to apply, consciousness realigns with that which it is meant to serve. The moment of self-remembering--shocking, unique, and truthful--leaves a call to obedience in its wake. To refuse to respond is to cease to be human.

Disruption (Philosophical Society; 85, 4, 1995)

This book is about the disruption of the intellect that awakens consciousness to its wholeness and purpose. When consciousness is fractured, its world-making powers are momentarily disrupted. In the gap, during which spatio-temporal categories of thought cease to apply, consciousness realigns with that which it is meant to serve. The moment of self-remembering―shocking, unique, and truthful―leaves a call to obedience in its wake. To refuse to respond is to cease to be human.

Disruption

The Delay of the Heart

Explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an “initiatory ethics.”The final installment in Appelbaum’s three-volume exploration of the “intervening subject”―volumes one and two are The Stop and Disruption, also published by SUNY Press―The Delay of the Heart explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an “initiatory ethics.” It intimates a secret of delay that is behind all traditional teachings and suggests ways that a sensitivity to a sacred obligation emerges from the heart of human experience.

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The Vision of Hume

Voice

Voice

Everyday Spirits

Everyday Spirits

The Stop (S U N Y SERIES IN WESTERN ESOTERIC TRADITIONS)

The Stop (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

Disruption (Philosophical Society; 85, 4, 1995)

Disruption

The Delay of the Heart