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Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. It shows how any jobs allegedly done by God are better done by impersonal Platonic objects. Without Platonic objects, atheism degenerates into an illogical nihilism. Atheistic Platonism instead provides reality with foundations that are eternal, necessary, rational, beautiful, and utterly mindless. It argues for a plenitude of mathematical objects, and an infinite plurality of possible universes. It provides mindless rational grounds for objective values, and for objective moral laws for the persons who evolve in universes. It defines a meaningful way of life, which facilitates self-improvement. Atheistic Platonists argue for computational theories of life after death. Atheistic Platonism includes a rich system of spiritual symbols. It values transformational practices and ecstatic experiences. Where atheisms based on materialism fail, atheisms based on Platonism succeed. Eric Charles Steinhart is Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University. Among many articles and books, he has authored Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death and Believing in Dawkins: The New Spiritual Atheism.

Philosophy --- Religious studies --- filosofie --- godsdienstfilosofie --- oudheid --- Atheism --- Realism. --- Philosophy. --- Plato.

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Persistence realism is the view that ordinary sentences that we think and utter about persisting objects are often true. Persistence realism involves both a semantic claim, about what it would take for those sentences to be true, and an ontological claim about the way things are. According to persistence realism, given what it would take for persistence sentences to be true, and given the ontology of our world, often such sentences are true. According to persistence error-theory, they are not. This Element considers several different views about the conditions under which those sentences are true. It argues for a view on which it is relatively easy to vindicate persistence realism, because all it takes is for the world to be the way it seems to us. Thereby it argues for the view that relations of numerical identity, or of being-part-of-the-same-object, are neither necessary nor sufficient for persistence realism.

Realism. --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Empiricism --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Nominalism --- Positivism --- Rationalism --- Metaphysics

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Art --- art history --- realism [artistic form of expression] --- art theory --- historiografie van de kunstgeschiedenis --- Hollandse school --- Netherlandish --- anno 1600-1699 --- Netherlands

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Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, this introduction traces the genre's relationship with powerful, often violent, social conflicts involving race, gender, class and national origin. It also examines how the realist style was created; the necessarily ambiguous relationship between realism produced on the page and reality outside the book; and the different, often contradictory, forms 'realism' took in literary works by different authors. The most accessible yet sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available, this volume will be of great value to students, teachers and readers of the American novel.

Fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Littérature réaliste --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Literature and society --- Realism in literature. --- Popular literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- 20th century --- United States --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Littérature et société --- Réalité --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle --- Dans la littérature

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This book poses the question: what happens when reading enters the realist process? and answers it by way of a critical study of Stendhal's writing. Ann Jefferson argues that a recognition of the role of reading in representation is particularly crucial to an understanding of Stendhal's realism, and her account includes substantial discussions of De l'Amour, Le Rouge et le Noir, the Vie de Henry Brulard and La Chartreuse de Parme. Her study also draws a number of illuminating parallels between Stendhal and aspects of modern critical theory, and uses them in order to reveal the high degree of sophistication and self-consciousness in Stendhal's writing, qualities which are attributed here to the intensity of his preoccupation with his readers. By focusing on the issue of reading in Stendhal this book not only proposes a reassessment of Stendhal's own work, but also opens up lines of enquiry on the critical problem that is realism.

Stendhal --- 840 "18" STENDHAL --- Realism in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--STENDHAL --- -Criticism and interpretation --- 840 "18" STENDHAL Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--STENDHAL --- -Beyle, Henri --- Beyle, Marie-Henri --- M. B. A. A. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stendhal, --- Brulard, Henry, --- Beyle, Henri, --- Stendalʹ, --- Beĭlʹ, Anri, --- Beĭlʹ, Mari-Anri, --- Beyle, Marie Henri, --- Bombet, L. A. C., --- Sŭtʻangdal, --- Ssu-tʻang-ta, --- Sutandāru, --- Beyle, Arrigo, --- Стендаль, --- סטנדאל --- סטנדל --- סטנדל, --- スタンダール, --- Stendalis, --- Beyle de Stendahl, Henri, --- Stendahl, Henri de, --- Stendahl, M. de, --- Beyle, Enrico, --- Bayle, Enrico Maria, --- Bombet, Louis-Alexandre-André-César, --- Stendals, --- Stantal, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Istāndāl, --- استاندال --- スタンダール --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Realism in literature.