Here is material for a complete introductory course in philosophy. The reader is presented with a comprehensive selection of the major classical texts, all accompained by explanatory commentary and criticism. Each work is placed in its historical context—from the pre-Socratic to the twentieth century—showing how each author marked a milestone in the history of Western thought. Where possible, complete texts have been used; longer works are covered by selections carefully made to illuminate central concepts. Explanation and criticism are couched in straightforward language and technicalities within the texts are also clearly presented, making difficult arguments and ideas easily intelligible.

Fundamentals of philosophy; a study of classical texts

Harris, Errol E.

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Fundamentals of philosophy,

Allen& Unwin

Foundations of Metaphysics in Science (Muirhead Library of Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

George Allen& Unwin Ltd

Nine well-known authors associated with the world federalist movement critique the 1995 Report of the Commission on Global Governance entitled Our Global Neighborhood. Although the contributors manifest a variety of viewpoints, styles, and approaches, they are unanimous in condemning the Report as insufficiently imaginative and visionary. Despite repeated calls in the Commission Report for a radically new way of thinking, the substance of the Report mindlessly rubber-stamps the legitimacy of the sovereign nation-state system of today, by means of summarily and peremptorily dismissing even the possibility of a supernational government qualitatively beyond the United Nations.According to the contributors, the concept of genuine world government is sufficiently advanced, and the circumstances of the present day are conducive, so that this concept is deserving of the most careful and serious attention by the general public and the political leadership. Despite their unconventional conclusions, these essays are lucid, judicious, and commanding.

Toward Genuine Global Governance: Critical Reactions to Our Global Neighborhood

Business & Money

Yunker, James A.

International

Praeger

The influence of scientific paradigms is much more widespread than usually realized. According to Harris, it permeates the whole of the culture of which science is an integral part. The paradigm of Newtonian science was essentially mechanistic and atomistic, and thinking in these terms not only penetrated philosophy, economics, morals and politics for the next three centuries, but remains latent in 20th century ways of thought.
As Harris illustrates, the Newtonian paradigm is obsolete in confronting today's global problems. While Planck and Einstein introduced a new scientific revolution at the beginning of the century, it has yet to be reflected in common habits of thinking. It is now urgently necessary to adopt the new conceptual scheme in other fields as it has come to dominate science if global issues are to be resolved. A provocative analysis that will be of particular interest to students, teachers, and policymakers involved with public policy, the history of science and philosophy, and ethics.

Apocalypse and Paradigm: Science and Everyday Thinking

Cosmos and Anthropos: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle

Humanities Press

Spinoza's writings on metaphysics, ethics, and politics have had a remarkably diverse reception in recent times and have contributed to the current dialogue among philosophers, intellectual historians, and literary theorists.Errol E. Harris has written a brief and simplified introductory presentation of the major branches of Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza's ideas are put forward in plain language and supported by convincing argument. Technicalities are either clearly explained or entirely avoided. Professor Harris also shows the student how Spinoza succeeded in reconciling the insights of both the British empiricists and the continental rationalists.

Spinoza's philosophy, an outline

Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S.

Spinoza's writings on metaphysics, ethics, and politics have had a remarkably diverse reception in recent times and have contributed to the current dialogue among philosophers, intellectual historians, and literary theorists. Errol E. Harris has written a brief and simplified introductory presentation of the major branches of Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza's ideas are put forward in plain language and supported by convincing argument. Technicalities are either clearly explained or entirely avoided. Professor Harris also shows the student how Spinoza succeeded in reconciling the insights of both the British empiricists and the continental rationalists.

Spinoza's Philosophy: An Outline

Prometheus+books

This sequel to the highly acclaimed Cosmos and Anthropos demonstrates the impact on social, ethical, and theological doctrines of the twentieth-century scientific revolution, particularly the Anthropic Principle. Harris reviews the main arguments put forward in the Western philosophical tradition for the existence of God, as well as the critique of those arguments, and shows that the conflict between religion and science since the seventeenth century has resulted more from the implications of the Copernican-Newtonian scientific paradigm than from any insuperable divergence of dogma or ultimate aim.

Cosmos and Theos: Ethical and Theological Implications of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle

Science & Math

The Spirit of Hegel consists of a collection of essays covering almost every facet of Hegel's philosophy. Errol E. Harris emphasizes Hegel's contemporary relevance, elucidating difficult and controversial questions, and revealing Hegel's insight into key philosophical problems. Harris presents Hegel's philosophy as consistent, credible, and prophetic in its anticipation of modern scientific developments. Hegel is shown to succeed in reconciling idealism with realism, rationalism with empiricism, and relevation with reason. Most of these essays have been previously published in various journals or as chapters contributed to anthologies. But all of them have been revised by the author and in part rewritten, in order to improve and update them. Some are new, having been especially written for this volume, and others were written some time ago but have never before been published. (Publisher)

The Spirit of Hegel

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