Author: Walter Cooper Dendy
Publisher:
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Category : Apparitions
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438417985
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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"This is my major thesis. Mystery is inherent in both the nature of things and the nature of rationality. I will sustain this thesis by a review of some of the central issues of philosophy to elucidate their mysterious qualities. More important, however, I will develop in detail an explanation of mystery and trace some of its important ramifications." "I will argue that an ordinal metaphysics, with its associated theory of query, provides an account of mystery that no other theory can provide. "While the theory presented here is a theory of philosophical mystery, it has fundamental implications for all branches of knowledge, including the physical and social sciences. "In short, I speak against a simplistic view of the world and of experience based on a simplistic and narrow conception of understanding and rationality. Mystery calls not for veneration and awe, but for a full and complex activity of mind, broaching all established conditions in its pursuit of answers....Reason is fulfilled as completely in mysteries which persevere throughout our efforts to resolve them as in mysteries which are resolved and dissipated, passing into new questions to which we must find new answers, in an unterminating process of rational interrogation." — From the Preface by Stephen David Ross

Author: Jeffrey Dirk Wilson
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813234182
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Philosophy is born in its history as pursuit of the wisdom we are never able fully to know. Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom both argues for that method and presents the results it can achieve. Editor Jeffrey Dirk Wilson has gathered essays from six philosophical luminaries. In “History, Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy,” Timothy B. Noone provides the volume’s discourse on method in which he distinguishes three tiers of history. History of philosophy as method occupies the third and highest tier. John Rist reckons with contemporary corruption of the method in “A Guide for the Perplexed or How to Present or Pervert the History of Philosophy.” Wilson’s own essay, “Wonder and the Discovery of Being: From Homeric Myth to the Natural Genera of Early Greek Philosophy,” shows the loss of wonder, so evident in mythology, by early Greek thinkers and its recovery by Plato and Aristotle. In “Metaphysics and the Origin of Culture,” Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates the wide cultural implications of philosophical discoveries even when the discovery is the boundary of what humans can know. William Desmond offers an essay, “Flux-Gibberish: For and Against Heraclitus,” that owes as much to the humor of James Joyce as to the philosophical insights of philosophers, ancient, medieval, and modern. Eric D. Perl’s essay turns to the apophatic character of pursuing wisdom, perhaps especially when asking what may be the most fundamental metaphysical question: “Into the Dark: How (Not) to Ask, ‘Why is There Anything at All.’” Philipp W. Rosemann concludes the volume with the question best asked at the end of this literary seminar, “What is Philosophy?” Although there are philosophers within the analytic and continental schools who are committed to the history of philosophy, Mystery and Intelligibility demonstrates that history of philosophy as a third and distinct philosophical method is revelatory of the nature and structure of reality.

Author: Walter Cooper Dendy
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House Private Limited
ISBN: 9789359046358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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""The Philosophy of Mystery"" by Walter Cooper Dendy is a seminal work that explores the profound nature of mysteries and their impact on human thought. Dendy delves into the realm of the unknown, investigating the mysterious phenomena that have fascinated and perplexed humanity throughout history. Drawing from various philosophical traditions and scientific disciplines, he examines the philosophical implications of mystery, questioning its role in shaping our understanding of the world. Dendy offers insightful reflections on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the limits of human knowledge, challenging readers to contemplate the profound mysteries that surround us. With clarity and depth, ""The Philosophy of Mystery"" illuminates the intricate interplay between the known and the unknown, inviting readers on a captivating intellectual journey that delves into the mysteries that define the human experience.

Author: Walter Cooper Dendy
Publisher:
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Category : Apparitions
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: María José García Blanco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443889598
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The contributions to this book offer a broad vision of the relationships that were established between Greek Philosophy and the Mystery Cults. The authors centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and the Neoplatonist philosophers, who used – and in some cases criticised – doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking. Thus, the volume provides a new approach to some of the most renowned Greek philosophers, highlighting the influence that Mystery Cults, such as Orphism, Dionysianism, or the Eleusinian rites, had on the formation of fundamental aspects of their thinking. Given its interdisciplinary character, this book will appeal to a broad academic readership interested in the origin of Hellenic thinking and culture. It will be especially useful for those eager for a deeper approach to two fundamental domains that attract the attention of many Antiquity scholars: Greek philosophy and religion.

Author: Peter Kingsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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More specifically, he traces for the first time a line of transmission from Empedocles and the early Pythagoreans down to southern Egypt, and from there into the world of Islam. "Highly polemical new book ... The thesis is argued with immense learning." "Times Higher Education Supplement".

Author: WALTER COOPER. DENDY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033521915
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Guy Murchie
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395957912
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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"All life in all worlds" -this was the object of the author's seventeen-year quest for knowledge and discovery, culminating in this book. In a manner unmistakably his own, Murchie delves into the interconnectedness of all life on the planet and of such fields as biology, geology, sociology, mathematics, and physics. He offers us what the poet May Sarton has called "a good book to take to a desert island as sole companion, so rich is it in knowledge and insight."

Author: Walter Cooper Dendy
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357919245
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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