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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

15 reviews
David Hume

Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1993

As Exciting and Thought-Provoking as Philosophy Gets
Hume, I and many others think, was the greatest philosopher to have written in English, and this is the book to pick up if you want to introduce yourself to Saint David's distinctive brand of classical empiricism. This is a must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in philosophy, and it's hard for me to see how anyone interested in the history of modern thought can avoid reading this ...

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

4 reviews
David Hume

Digireads.com, 2006

Hume at his best
David Hume was perhaps the leading light in the Empiricist movement in philosophy. Empiricism is seen in distinction from Rationalism, in that it doubts the viability of universal principles (rational or otherwise), and uses sense data as the basis of all knowledge - experience is the source of knowledge. Hume was a skeptic as well as empiricist, and had radical (for the time) atheist ideas that ...

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide

7 reviews
David Hume, Richard H. Popkin

Hackett Publishing Company

Does God exist?
David Hume, a philosopher of the period often classified as British Empiricism, is the intellectual associate of philosophers John Locke and George Berkeley. Born in Edinburgh in 1711, he attended the University of Edinburgh but did not graduate. He went to France during his 20s, and spent time there working on what would become his most famous work, 'An Enquiry into Human Understanding', first ...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

13 reviews
Wassily Kandinsky

Dover Publications, 1977

"to break the bonds which bind". . . "to an impoverishment of possibility"
Kandinsky had risen to positions of influence in other disciplines (political science/economics and law) before directing his considerable intellect to painting. His insights extended into the historic 'meta' trends of the arts and sciences, including the physical sciences, and had his interests been directed more to the history and philosophy of science instead of the history and philosophy of ...

The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Dover Thrift Editions)

1 review
John Locke

Dover Publications, 2002

Most Representative Thinker in Anglo-American Tradition
John Locke (1632-1704) wrote "Second Treatise of Government" in 1690, it was the main political philosophical source that our "Founding Fathers" went to in writing the "Declaration of Independence" and in forming our government. I think you should know something of Locke to understand what influenced his thinking. His father was a small landowner, attorney, Puritan and his political sympathies ...

The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays

2 reviews
Martin Heidegger

Harper Perennial, 1982

Heidegger at his best and most relevant
The Question Concerning Technology frequently has been criticized as lacking content beneath Heidegger's stormy language. Not true! It may take more than one reading (it took me about 5), but once the meaning of the concept of Enframing really takes a hold of you, it becomes the most powerful and relevant philosophical concept since Nietzsche's will to power. Responding to the challenge of ...

Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

5 reviews
John Locke

Digireads.com, 2005

Most Representative Thinker in Anglo-American Tradition
John Locke (1632-1704) wrote "Second Treatise of Government" in 1690, it was the main political philosophical source that our "Founding Fathers" went to in writing the "Declaration of Independence" and in forming our government. I think you should know something of Locke to understand what influenced his thinking. His father was a small landowner, attorney, Puritan and his political sympathies ...

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

10 reviews
John Locke

Hackett Publishing Company, 1996

Only to Be Used in Scholarly Research
The Nidditch edition of Locke's Essay is commonly considered the authoritative version of the text. This in mind, the Nidditch text is to be avoided for the beginner to Locke. This is not due to any oversights or editorial intrusion that corrupts the work. Considering Nidditch restored the text and avoided the common editorial tendency to use paragraph introductions for each section (which ...

She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

68 reviews
Michael Lee West

Avon A, 1995

Always Wonderful
Every novel by Michael Lee West has been wonderful. I love her colorful description of Southern Women. As a Yankee, who has moved to the South, I appreciate the incite and commentary on Southern Women. Living in Alabama now, I love her references to locations in Alabama. It is a great story and it follows well with the other books. Even if you have never read another on of her stories, you ...

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)

60 reviews
Roger Penrose

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

A great, great book.
I was compelled to write as I came by on the way to buying Dr. Penrose's more recent book ("Road to Reality") and was appalled that Amazon features 2 out of 3 negative views on the first page, including one which dismisses the "Emperor's new mind" as "rubbish". Surely the book is controversial in certain quarters, but the vehemence of much of the criticism can only make me wonder why some people ...

Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding

2 reviews
F. S. C. Northrop

Ox Bow Press, 1979

The Meeting of East and West
This is one of those truly great books that slaps your mind awake, offering you a completely new world view and interpretation of intellectual history. This book is partially responsible for my choice to study for a PhD in philosophy.It was a life-changer for me and is especially relevant now with its novel, and I believe, accurate understanding of Mexican culture. A monumental work!

An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics)
David Hume

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of reasoning from experience, and against the "sophistry and illusion"of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when faith and science continue to clash. The Enquiry considers the origin and processes ...

Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals

4 reviews
David Hume

Oxford University Press, USA, 1975

A Classic Edition of Two Philosophical Masterworks
Hume's Enquiries are more or less a repackaging of the material from Books I and III of his earlier A Treatise of Human Nature. Ever desirous of literary fame and dismayed by the lack of interest others had shown for his prior tome, Hume went back to the drawing board and attempted to present his philosophical system in a way that would be palatable to the reading public. We should feel ...

A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted (Hpc Classics Series)

6 reviews
John Locke, James Tully

Hackett Publishing Company, 1983

A CLASSIC AGAINST INTOLERANCE
This work by Locke, in spite of its brevity, is a required piece of reading in order to put in perspective the other endeavors of the author. The issues discussed in this Essay were at the base of the formation of political theory in the Western world, during the centuries of enlightenment. Locke's effort in the case of this Letter (of the 4 he wrote, this is the first one, published in 1689 in ...

An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (Oxford Philosophical Texts)

6 reviews
David Hume

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Outstanding Edition
This is another outstanding edition in the Oxford Philosophical Texts series. This is a first rate book for both students and experts on Hume. It contains an excellent annotated edition of the Enquiry itself, excellent background information on Hume, a very nice introduction to the Enquiry written by Tom Beauchamp, a leading Hume scholar and moral philosopher, an outstanding guide to the Hume ...

The Talmud Unmasked: The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians

19 reviews
I. B. Pranaitis

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006

A note about statement regarding Pranaitis
I did not read the book yet. But I am interested in the book. Before reading the book, I was checking the reviews. It is interesting to know, that in general the opinions are very opposite. Some hate jews based on the books, such as Pranaitis's or similar. The others are trying to make arguments, that all the hatred addressed to the jews historically is totally unbased and without any ...

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (On the Shoulders of Giants)

4 reviews
Galileo Galilei, Stephen Hawking

Running Press, 2005

Fantastic Journey of Science
Galileo's masterpiece comes through to all who are blessed enough to read it. Copernicus would be proud.

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science)

5 reviews
Galileo

Modern Library, 2001

The Dialogues of Galileo - with Modern Solutions
This edition of the Dialogues of Galileo Galilei includes mathematical solutions to the problems Galileo treats in plain language and an introduction describing a new cannon-ball experiment of the type used by Galileo that may be used to distinguish between the predictions of General Relativity and the editor's unified field theory. The Dialogues are then more interesting to the modern physics ...

Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father : Being the Narratives Compiled by the Servant ...

17 reviews

St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1998

Life-Changing Experience
A life so filled with the Love of the Lord Jesus Christ spreads the Glory of God wherever that life is told. The living word of God written in the heart of Father Arseny shows us Christ within this humble Orthodox priest. I cannot read more than three pages or so without weeping, both in joy and in profound sorrow that I fall far short of such a Christian. This is not only a book, but a ...

Concerning the Origins of Malignant Tumours
Theodor Boveri

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2007

An English translation of Boveri's famous monograph which was first published in Germany in 1914. Written almost a hundred years ago, Theodor Boveri's Zur Frage der Entstehung maligner Tumoren has had a momentous impact on cancer research. In it he argues that malignancy arises as a consequence of chromosomal abnormalities and that multiplication is an inherent property of cells. With astonishing prescience, Boveri predicts in this monograph ...

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