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How near is the omega? / How shall we work the cities - from without? / How shall we work the cities - from within? / Ellen White and literary dependency / Inquire of the Lord / Did Mrs. White "borrow" in reporting a vision? / Letter to the editor regarding "Did Mrs. White 'borrow' in reporting a vision?" / The footprints of God / Ellen White as a reader and a writer / The Ellen G. White writings and the church / Ellen White's use of sources -- "There simply is no case" -- The story behind this research -- "This work is of God, or it is not" / How does God speak? / From Sinai to Golgotha-1 / One law, two mountains (From Sinai to Golgotha-2) / The story of a pilgrimage (From Sinai to Golgotha-3) / Ellen White's pilgrimage to Golgotha (From Sinai to Golgotha-4) / The theology of Ellen White: The great controversy story (From Sinai to Golgotha-5) / Inspiration/revelation: What it is and how it works, The prophetic gift in operation / Infallibility: Does the true prophet ever err? / The relationship between the Ellen G. White writings and the Bible / From vision to prophecy / Ellen White: prophet or plagiarist? Closed windows or open doors? / Literary thief or God's messenger? -- Human thoughts or divine truths? -- The two mind-sets / The "I saw" parallels in Ellen White's writings / The truth about the white lie -- The use of literary sources -- The pioneers and the prophet -- Ellen White and the Bible -- The question of infallibility -- The visions -- The shut door -- The literary assistants -- White Estate research policies -- The basic issues -- The choice is ours -- For further study -- The inspiration and authority of the Ellen G. White writings -- Who reads Ellen White? / Science has its limits! / How the gift of prophecy relates to God's word / The sources of inspired writings / "I live with the project 24 hours a day" / When God overrules / Ellen White: Guilty or not? / God speaks with a human accent / Ellen White and modern medicine Ellen White's criticism of nineteenth century medicine / Would Ellen White favor medicines used today? / Ellen White's attitude toward medical progress / Roots in a worldwide movement / A search for truth / Following prophetic guidance / The power of the press / A ministry of health / Mission: The world / Proclaimers of good news / Preparing youth for service / Seventh-day Adventist historical highlights -- Ellen G. White's use of historical sources in The Great Controversy / Ellen White in perspective / Physicians say Ellen White's visions not result of epilepsy /
Indianapolis ; Cambridge : Hackett Publishing Company, [2016]
9781624664397 (pbk.)
Theoretical wisdom as a science concerned with primary causes and starting-points -- Wisdom as the science of god -- The four causes: formal, material, moving, final Earlier thinkers recognized the material cause: Homer, Hesiod, Thales, Anaximenes, Diogenes, Hippasus, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Parmenides, Hermotimus -- The moving cause: Hesiod, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Leucippus, Democritus -- The starting-points of mathematics as the starting-points of beings: Pythagoreans -- Plato and Forms -- Earlier thinkers latched on to the material cause and moving cause, but not the formal one, although Plato touches on it, as do he and others on the final cause No one mentions any others -- Errors of the physicists, including positing elements of bodies only, though non-bodily ones are also beings, as the Pythagoreans recognized -- Criticisms of Plato and the Platonists -- Earlier thinkers touched only vestigially on the four causes and on none beyond them How to achieve a puzzle-free condition about these causes -- The primary causes of beings are, as such, clear by nature, but our understanding of them is clouded -- Arguments that there must be some starting-point or primary cause of beings -- The audience for the Metaphysics must already be well educated -- A list of the fourteen puzzles (P1-14) about primary starting-points and causes that need to be resolved -- Discussion of P1-5 -- Discussion of P6-7 -- Discussion of P8-11 -- Discussion of P14 -- Discussion of P12, P13, P14a (not listed in B 1) -- The science of being qua being introduced and contrasted with the special sciences -- Something is said to be in many ways, but with reference to one thing and one nature, making a science of it possible Tasks for the science of being qua being -- Getting a theoretical grasp on what mathematicians call axioms is one such task The most stable starting-point of all (PNC) introduced and characterized -- A defense of PNC in seven arguments (A1-7) -- Discussion of Protagoras' argument that man is the measure of all things -- The discussion continued -- Discussion of PEM -- Discussion of the view that nothing is true and of the view that everything is true -- Starting-point -- Cause -- Element -- Nature -- Necessary -- One -- Be -- Substance -- Same -- Opposite -- Prior and Posterior -- Capacity, Potentiality, Power -- Quantity -- Quality -- Relative -- Complete -- Limit -- On the Basis of Which -- Disposition -- Having or State -- Affection -- Lack -- To Have or Hold -- Of or From -- Part -- Whole -- Docked -- Genus or Race -- False -- Coincident -- The three theoretical philosophies-mathematical, natural, and theological-and the differences between the essences that are their starting-points -- Coincidental being and why there is no science of it What happens for the most part -- Starting-points of coincidental beings Luck -- Being in the sense of being true -- Substance as primary being What is being = what is substance -- Are there any substances beyond perceptible ones? -- A sketch of substance Substance as primary underlying subject Form as substance -- Logico-linguistic investigation of essence and definition -- Discussion of definition continued -- Discussion of essence continued: is each thing the same as its essence? -- Form in matter-form compounds -- Form in matter-form compounds continued -- Form in matter-form compounds continued -- Definition and its relation to form -- Form and its parts -- Definition again -- Are universals substances? -- No definitions or demonstrations of what is particular, and so none of Platonic Forms either -- Most of the things that seem to be substances-parts of animals, the four elements-are in fact capacities -- A fresh start on substance looking to its role as starting-point and cause -- Summary of Zeta -- Substance as activation of perceptibles -- Composite substances vs their activations -- The matter of composite substances -- How the matter of a thing is related to its contrary states -- What makes a definiens or a definiendum one? -- Potential being (capacities) -- Rational and non-rational capacities -- The Megarians on capacities -- Capacities and incapacities -- Capacities and their acquisition More on rational capacities -- Being as activity What activity is -- When a given thing is potentially something -- The priority of activity to potentiality -- Activity more estimable than potentiality Activity and potentiality in knowledge and understanding -- True and false being The case of incomposites Understanding and error -- The ways in which beings are said to be intrinsically one What the being for one is vs what things are one -- The substance and nature of the one -- The one and the many: same, similar, distinct (or other), different, contrary -- Contrariety -- Puzzles about how the equal is opposed to the great and the small -- Puzzles about how the one is opposed to the many -- Contraries and intermediates -- Distinctness in species -- Puzzles about distinctness and species The case of female and male -- Things capable of passing away and things incapable of doing so must be distinct in genus -- The puzzles from Beta revisited: P1-8 -- More puzzles: P9-16 -- Gamma 1-2 revisited -- Parts of Gamma 3 revisited -- Parts of Gamma 3 revisited -- Parts of Gamma 4 and 5 revisited -- Epsilon 1 revisited -- Epsilon 2-4 revisited -- Parts of Physics III recapitulated -- Parts of Physics III recapitulated -- Parts of Physics V recapitulated -- Parts of Physics V recapitulated -- Substance and its varieties -- perceptible and capable of passing away -- perceptible and eternal -- immovable The nature of change -- Matter and change Change from what is potentially to what is actively -- Coming to be and its causes -- The causes and starting-points of distinct things are in a way distinct and in a way the same-form, matter, lack of form, and the external moving cause -- More on the causes and starting-points of substances -- The need for an eternal immovable substance that is in essence an activity -- The unmoved mover and how it moves things The primary god -- The number of unmoved movers needed to explain astronomical phenomena Why there is one heaven -- The nature of the divine understanding The primary god as an active understanding of active understanding -- The relationship between the divine understanding and "the nature of the whole" -- Are mathematical objects and Platonic Forms or Ideas non-perceptible substances? Are they causes and starting-points of beings? -- The objects of mathematics cannot exist either in perceptibles or separate from them -- The way mathematical objects do exist -- The Socratic origins of the theory of Forms Alpha 6 and 9 partially recapitulated -- What the Forms contribute to perceptibles Alpha 9 partially recapitulated -- The consequences of taking numbers to be separable substances The views of Pythagoreans and Platonists -- Units and the consequences for Plato's account of making them combinable or non-combinable -- The views of Speusippus, Xenocrates, and the Pythagoreans Arguments against theories that treat numbers as separable intrinsic beings -- More such arguments Ideas as causes and starting-points of beings, and as both universal and particular -- Are the elements and starting-points of substances separable in the way substances themselves must be? The scientific knowability of substances as the greatest puzzle A resolution offered -- Contraries cannot be starting-points Consequences for those who make the one a starting-point together with some contrary -- Can eternal things consist of elements? Further difficulties for those thinkers who treat both the one and something else as elements How being can come from non-being, how it can be many -- The existence of numbers and mathematical objects -- How are these mathematical elements and the starting-points related to the good and the noble? -- More on this topic Just how are beings supposed to "come from" numbers? Other related puzzles -- More on numbers and the good Ratios.
the edge question / the dawn of entanglement / The bookless library / The invisible college / Net gain / Let us calculate / The waking dream / To dream the waking dream in new ways / Tweet me nice / The dazed state / What's missing here? / Power corrupts / The rediscovery of fire / The rise of social media is really a reprise / The internet and the loss of tranquility / The greatest detractor to serious thinking since television / The large information Collider, BDTs, and gravity holidays on Tuesdays / The web helps us see what isn't there / Knowledge without, focus within, people everywhere / A level playing field / Move aside, sex / Rivaling Gutenberg / The shoulders of giants / Brain candy and bad mathematics / Publications can perish / Will the great leveler destroy diversity of thought? / We have become hunter-gatherers of images and information / The human texture of information / Not at all / This is your brain on internet / The sculpting of human thought / What kind of a dumb question is that? / Public dreaming / The age of (quantum) information? / Edge, A to Z (pars pro toto) /
Albany : State University of New York Press, [1985]
0873959841 : $39.50
The Critical Philosophy and its First Reception -- Introduction: The Facts of Consciousness / The Foundation of Philosophical Knowledge (excerpt) / Aenesidemus (excerpt) / Review of Aenesidemus (complete) / Letters of Philaletes to Aenesidemus (excerpt) / The Standpoint from which Critical Philosophy is to be Judged (excerpt) / The Critical Philosophy and the Critical Journal of Schelling and Hegel -- Introduction: Skepticism, Dogmatism and Speculation in the Critical Journal / The Critical Journal, Introduction: On the Essence of Philosophical Criticism Generally, and its Relationship to the Present State of Philosophy (complete) / How the Ordinary Human Understanding Takes Philosophy (as Displayed in the Works of Mr. Krug) (complete) / On the Relationship of Skepticism to Philosophy, Exposition of its Different Modifications and Comparison of the Latest Form with the Ancient One (complete) / On the Relationship of the Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy in General (complete) /
Introduction / Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- Dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020
Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y. : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; [etc.].
volume 1. Aboriginal America. [c1889] -- volume 2. Spanish explorations in America from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. [c1886] -- volume 3. English explorations and settlements in North America, 1497-1689. [c1884] -- volume 4. French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700. [c1884] -- volume 5. The English and French in North America, 1689-1763. [c1887] -- volume 6-7. The United States of North America. [c1887-88] -- volume 8. The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America. [c1889].
The critical philosophy and its first reception ; Introduction: The facts of consciousness / The foundation of philosophical knowledge (excerpt) translation and notes by George di Giovanni / Aenesidemus (excerpt) translation and notes by George di Goivanni / Review of Aenesidermus (complete) translation and notes by George di Giovanni / Letters of Philaletes to Aenesidermus (excerpt) translation and notes by George di Giovanni / The standpoint from which critical philosophy is to be judged (excerpt) translation and notes by George di Giovanni / The critical philosophy and the critical journal of Schelling and Hegel ; Introduction: Skepticism, dogmatism and speculation in the critical journal / The critical journal, Introduction: On the essence of philosophical criticism generally, and its relationship to the present state of philosophy (complete) translation and notes by H. S. Harris / How the ordinary human understanding takes philosophy (as displayed in the works of Mr. Krug) (complete) translation and notes by H. S. Harris / On the relationship of skepticism to philosophy, exposition of its different modifications and comparison of the latest form with the ancient one (complete) translation and notes by H. S. Harris / On the relationship of the philosophy of nature to philosophy in general (complete) translation by George di Giovanni and H. S. Harris. Notes by H. S. Harris /
The Great Discovery -- Grant's Roots and Formative Years -- War and 'Conversion' -- Post-war Writings -- Grant's Study of Theology and Philosophy -- The Theology of the Cross: Its Origins, Meaning, and Significance -- The Origins and Meaning of the 'Theology of the Cross' -- The Significance of the Theology of the Cross for Grant -- Philosophy in the Mass Age -- The Mass Society: What It is and How It Came to Be -- The Consequences of the Mass Society on Human Life: Simone Weil and Existentialism -- Simone Weil's Analysis of Force and Affliction -- Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism: The Tragic Vision of Life -- Western Liberalism and the Mass Society: The Theology of Glory in North America -- Education, Religion, and Mental Health in the Mass Society -- Modern Liberalism-Hegel, Liberal Humanism, Marxism -- The Struggle toward a Theology of the Cross for the Mass Age: Weil versus Hegel -- The Purpose of Philosophy in the Mass Society -- Weil's Vision of the Good -- Grant's Earliest Encounters with Weil and the Insights Arising Therefrom -- Loving the World Concretely -- The Growing Influence of Weil and the Allure of Hegel -- Intimations of Deprivation -- A Deepening of Perspective -- The Darkness of the Technological Society: Its Nature and Essence -- Jacques Ellul: The Technological Society 'As It Is' -- Leo Strauss: The Irreconcilability of Ancient and Modern Visions of Society -- Philip Sherrard: The Corruption within Western Civilization As a Whole
Rise and transformation of the American corporation / How American is the American corporation? : the corporation and the law, 1959-1994 / Financing the American corporation : the changing menu of financial relationships / U.S. corporation and technical progress / American corporation as an employer : past, present, and future possibilities / Corporation faces issues of race and gender / Corporate education and training / Modern corporation as an efficiency instrument : the comparative contracting perspective / Corporation as a dispenser of welfare and security / Almost everywhere : surging inequality and falling real wages / Corporation as a political actor / Architecture and the business corporation /
