Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 251 << page
of 26
>>
Sort by

Book
Our shadowed world : reflections on civilization, conflict, and belief
Authors: ---
ISBN: 1532661754 9781532661754 Year: 2019 Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Civilization is often equated with the story of human advancement and progress. Yet it is also the story of human oppression, exploitation, war, and empire. In our own time, modern global civilization has brought us to the brink of planetary destruction. By offering an understanding of our past, this book aims to provide a stimulus to considering a different future. Our Shadowed World considers how we have been brought to this point. It describes how the fragmented and conflicted state of humanity has "progressed" from the earliest city-states to the devastation of world war and holocaust--how civilization has brought its own form of savagery. What beliefs have underlain and motivated human action? How have humans tried to understand their world? Driven by the relentless quest for power, by greed, and by extreme beliefs, the human enterprise today has placed the very idea of civilization under threat, the subject of radical questioning. Despite a new ecological awareness dedicated to saving the planet from civilization's carelessness, and a preoccupation with the nature of apocalyptic thinking, a question mark looms over the very survival of humanity in its present state--a question mark that now overshadows the world. --


Book
Raconter et mourir : Aux sources narratives de l'imaginaire occidental
Author:
Year: 2005 Publisher: Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

La mort est la grande affaire de l'humanité et le récit est la forme que prend dans presque toutes les cultures le désir de se continuer. Se raconter, c'est ne pas mourir. Parce que les hommes se savent mortels, ils racontent pour nourrir la mémoire de ceux qui prendront le relais. Ils racontent et meurent apaisés d'avoir vécu et transmis. À travers la lecture des grands récits qui marquent l'imaginaire occidental, ce livre s'attache aux thèmes et aux moments clés de cette transmission : des voyages d'Ulysse aux aventures de Don Quichotte en passant par la Bible, la Divine Comédie, ou la quête du Graal.


Book
Batı'ya Yön Veren Metinler I
Author:
Year: 2010 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Kapi Yayinlari,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

On altıncı yüzyıl Osmanlı aydınının, Batı'nın dünya ve evren görüşünü altüst eden, Avrupa Aydınlanmasının yollarını döşeyen Kopernik, Bruno, Galile, Brahe gibi bilim adamlarının radikal çıkışlarından haberi yoktur. Tanzimat'la birlikte Batılılaşma sürecine girdiği kabul edilen Osmanlı toplumuna sunulan ilk çeviri ürünler, Türk okuyucusunu Voltaire, Rousseau, Fénelon, Fontenelle, Montesquieu gibi düşünürlerle tanıştırırken, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke gibi rasyonalistleri, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx gibi ekonomistleri, Herbert Spencer gibi hukukçuları, Frederich Nietzsche'yi, hatta Francis Bacon gibi bilimadamlarının yapıtlarını ıskalar. Batı zihniyetinin gerçeğini aydınlatmakta yetersiz kalınmış, "rakip" kültürü hakkıyla değerlendirmek yolunda tatminkâr sonuçlara ulaşılamamıştır. Buna karşın Batı karşısında geri kalmışlık duygusu, bilincimize adeta bir sosyo-kültürel çıkmaz olarak kazınmakta, kendi kültürümüz hakkındaki tasavvurlarımızın hırpalanmasını da beraberinde getiren uzun bir savunma sürecine girilmektedir. Hayli gecikmiş bir girişim olmakla birlikte, Batı'ya Yön Veren Metinler, Türk okurunun hızla küreselleşen dünyayı şekillendirmeye aday olan Batı düşünce kalıplarını ve onları oluşturan düşün serüveninin tarihsel gelişimini, kendi dilinde okuyup kavramasına olanak sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır. İÖ 1400'lü yıllardan başlayan, 1970'lere kadar gelen yaklaşık 3500 yıllık bir süreçte Batı zihniyetini şekillendirdiği kabul edilen yaklaşık bin metni kapsayan dört ciltlik bu eserde, Eski Ahit'in Aziz Markos'undan Hamurabi'ye, 1215 tarihli Magna harta'dan, Çar İkinci Aleksander'ın Özgürlük Fermanı'na, Abraham Lincoln'ün Özgürlük Bildirgesi'nden, Bart Kosko'nun Saçaklı Mantık Devrimi'ne kadar çok sayıda metin ilk kez belirgin bir sistematikle Türkçeleştirilerek sunulmuştur. Seçilen metinlerin, Batı'nın "kendi zihniyetini kendi gençlerine aktarma" yöntem ve tercihlerini yansıttığından emin olmak için, Avro-Amerikan dünyasının en saygın üniversitelerinin kendi öğrencileri için bir araya getirdikleri derlemeler rehber alınmış, böylece Batı'ya Yön Veren Metinler'e aşinalık geliştirecek gayretli ve ciddi okurun Batı'nın düşünce dünyasını çözerken, kendi medeniyetimizin düşünsel ürünleriyle de hesaplaşabileceği zemin hazırlanmıştır. Birinci ciltte, Batı geleneklerinin Yahudi-Hıristiyan, Yakın Doğu, Yunan-Roma geleneklerinin kaynakları ile Hıristiyan toplum tasavvuruna ışık tutan metinleri bulacaksınız. Yolunuz açık olsun!


Book
Western Civilization 1.
Author:
ISBN: 9781423240785 Year: 2018 Publisher: Newburyport : BarCharts, Inc.,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
A people's history of civilization
Author:
ISBN: 1627310711 1627310592 9781627310598 9781627310710 Year: 2018 Publisher: Port Townsend, Washington : Feral House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Fundamentals of Chinese culture
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9789048554126 9789463729659 9048554128 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Chinese culture, to readers of English, is somewhat veiled in mystery. Fundamentals of Chinese Culture (in pinyin, Zhongguo wenhua yaoyi), a classic of great insight and profundity by noted Chinese thinker, educator and social reformist Liang Shuming, takes readers on an intellectual journey into the five-thousand-year-old culture of China, the world's oldest continuous civilization. With a set of "Chinese-style" cultural theories, the book well serves as a platform for Westerners' better understanding of the distinctive worldview of the Chinese people, who value family life, group-centered life and social stability, and for further mutual understanding and greater mutual consolidation among humanities scholars in different contexts, dismantling common misconceptions about China and bridging the gap between Chinese culture and Western culture. As a translation of Liang Shuming's original text, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal to Westerners a highly complex and nuanced picture of a fascinating people.


Book
One Another’s Equals : The Basis of Human Equality
Author:
ISBN: 0674978846 0674978862 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, Jeremy Waldron attempts to remedy that shortfall with a subtle and multifaceted account of the basis for the West's commitment to human equality. What does it mean to say we are all one another's equals? Is this supposed to distinguish humans from other animals? What is human equality based on? Is it a religious idea, or a matter of human rights? Is there some essential feature that all human beings have in common? Waldron argues that there is no single characteristic that serves as the basis of equality. He says the case for moral equality rests on four capacities that all humans have the potential to possess in some degree: reason, autonomy, moral agency, and ability to love. But how should we regard the differences that people display on these various dimensions? And what are we to say about those who suffer from profound disability--people whose claim to humanity seems to outstrip any particular capacities they have along these lines? Waldron, who has worked on the nature of equality for many years, confronts these questions and others fully and unflinchingly. Based on the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 2015, One Another's Equals takes Waldron's thinking further and deeper than ever before.--


Book
Understanding Europe
Author:
ISBN: 0813218357 9780813218359 9780813215440 0813215447 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"In a time of remarkable but selective amnesia in the West reflected perhaps most dramatically in the denial of the Christian roots of Europe in the first drafts of the European constitution, "Understanding Europe" is as relevant today as it was on its first appearance in 1952. Christopher Dawson wrote of the uneasiness that characterized twentieth-century Western civilization in the aftermath of two disastrous global conflicts and the attempt to build a new secular civilization on impersonal economic forces. He desired a unified Europe, but one unified by a common Christian religion. Recognizing the emphasis on economic utility and mass productivity in European culture, Dawson argued that a renewed study of Christian faith and culture was essential in order to recover the deeper sense of European unity. In "Understanding Europe", Dawson expresses a desire for Europe to rediscover and renew its foundational Christian sources in order to recover a deeper sense of integrity."--Book cover


Book
Steppenwolf
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0875867855 9780875867830 0875867839 9780875867847 0875867847 9780875867854 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Thomas Wayne presents a contemporary take on Hesse's classic story, so apt today, of the lone individual lost in the ironic good fortune and security of bourgeois banality and cultural conformity. Harry Haller has all the insight, all the leisure, all the material goods he needs, yet he is not at peace with his life. A potent combination of Eastern and Western insights into the human search for meaning is given new life in a fresh translation.


Book
Western civilization 2.
Author:
ISBN: 1423233883 Year: 2003 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : BarCharts, Inc.,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The most significant historical people, places, and events written by our experienced author and professor of history are laid out in a succinct timeline from 1500 to 2016. In 6 laminated pages and with dates listed to easily find what you need, a frequent review of this guide especially before exams will boost your grade in any Western Civilization, Western Culture, or History course. For any history buff as well, there is no easier and more concise reference that paints a broad yet digestible picture of human history.Suggested uses:o Quick Reference - instead of digging into a large book to find a core answer you need while studying, use the guide to reinforce quickly and repeatedlyo Memory - refreshing your memory repeatedly is a foundation of studying, have the most significant points in history as a framework to anchor all other history

Listing 1 - 10 of 251 << page
of 26
>>
Sort by