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• Hope
• Interlude : on being partial to the truth
• Trust
• Interlude : because who you are not
• Forgiveness.

"Hope, trust, and forgiveness have the potential to enrich and empower human lives. Each is a facet of a life well lived, but each also possesses significant challenges from complex personal, interpersonal, and institutional forces. In Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness, John T. Lysaker draws our attention to the ways in which hope, trust, and forgiveness are capacities that intimately contend with the finitude of ethical life. Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness explores the contentions of each at length, clarifying those challenges and empowering us to meet them. In doing so, Lysaker grapples with the question of how a philosophical essay can offer ethical insight. He answers with an experimental, improvisational moral perfectionism that refuses the lure of universalized moral claims as well as the parochialism of conventional accounts of ethical life"-- Provided by publisher.

• Intro
• Halftitle page
• Epigraph
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication page
• Contents
• How to Read This Book
• 1. What's the Point of Living?
• Digging Deeper
• 2. Why Science Points to Purpose
• Digging Deeper
• 3. Why Consciousness Points to Purpose
• The Problem of Meaning Zombies
• The Revenge of Schrödinger's Cat
• Natural Agents
• Searching for the Neural Correlates of Consciousness
• Freedom Evolves
• Freedom from Physics
• The Mystery of Psycho-Physical Harmony
• The Purpose in Consciousness
• Digging Deeper
• 4. Why the Omni-God Probably Doesn't Exist

• Why Does the Universe Exist?
• Digging Deeper
• 5. Cosmic Purpose without God
• Non-Standard Designers
• Teleological Laws
• Digging Deeper
• 6. A Conscious Universe
• What Breathes Fire into the Equations?
• The Mind-Body Problem
• Can Panpsychism Account for Cosmic Purpose?
• What Would You Say to the Truth Demon?
• Digging Deeper
• 7. Living with Purpose
• Spiritual Advancement
• Spiritual Communities
• Owning and Belonging
• P.S. Is Taxation Theft?
• Desert or Entitlement?
• Is Property Theft?
• Three Theories of Property Rights
• What Do I Have a Right to?
• Endnotes

• Chapter 1: What's the Point of Living?
• Chapter 2: Why Science Points to Purpose
• Chapter 3: Why Consciousness Points to Purpose
• Chapter 4: Why the Omni-God Probably Doesn't Exist
• Chapter 5: Cosmic Purpose without God
• Chapter 6: A Conscious Universe
• Chapter 7: Living with Purpose
• P.S. Is Taxation Theft?
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index

• Pt. 1. Devenir Je
• "Le moi si enflé qu'il ferme l'âme"
• Le passé recherché, le passé joué (la mémoire)
• De l'image du moi à l'estime de soi (le jugement)
• Le double sens du futur (l'imagination)
• Du Je au Nous
• Pt. 2. Un Je qui est un Nous
• Un moi qui n'est pas Le moi (Montaigne)
• Un Je qui est un Nous (Descartes)
• "S'éloigner de son pays et de ses livres"
• "Se rendre comme maîtres et possesseurs de la nature"
• Du sens commun
• Le commun contre la communauté
• Pt. 3. "Nous" sommes tous des hommes
• Je humain/moi social
• "La pensée de derrière"
• Les pensées de derrière la tête. Grandeur d'établissement, respect d'établissement
• Je, une troisième personne
• De l'homme à l'humain
• L'homme déchargé de son moi : le groupe en fusion
• L'homme détaché de son moi : le cogito déterritorialisant
• La connaissance du cœur
• Conclusion. Je galiléen, moi géocentrique
• Pt. 4. L'homme et la nature
• Questions et réponses
• L'homme est-il le maître de la nature ?
• L'homme est-il une partie de la nature ?
• La nature est-elle substance ?
• Post-scriptum : l'individualisme est-il un humanisme ?
• Conclusion. Le lien substantiel.

"Luttant à la fois contre le culte moderne du moi et le communautarisme qui divise les hommes, ce livre révèle la fonction civilisatrice du Je. Notre époque semble être obsédée par la quête de l'identité, celle du moi comme celle des communautés qui fragmentent et démantèlent le monde commun. Qu'il s'agisse du moi de chacun ou du nous qui n'en est que la forme agrandie, nous devrions rechercher et revendiquer la sacro-sainte "différence" entre moi et les autres, entre nous et les autres. L'ambition de L'Homme sans moi est de démontrer le caractère factice de ce moi largement imaginaire en le distinguant nettement du Je de l'homme conçu comme un être portant en lui-même une dimension cosmopolitique, capable par la pensée de changer de place, de se comprendre lui-même comme l'un des référentiels possibles du monde commun. Cet essai sur l'identité qui mobilise les ressources des grandes pensées philosophiques, notamment celles de Descartes, Pascal, Husserl et Levinas, défend l'idée plus actuelle et plus nécessaire que jamais que c'est en tant qu'êtres singuliers et universels que les hommes forment la communauté indéfiniment ouverte des citoyens égaux d'un même monde."--Page 4 of cover.

• Part 1. Forerunners: 1. An exercise in "thinking nature" : Eriugena's Periphyseon against the background of the history of exegesis and patristic reception / Willemien Otten
• 2. "Blessed Jerome" : the Protestants and the Vulgate in the sixteenth century / Bruce Gordon
• 3. Waiting for the miracle : uncertainty, superstition, and trust in Jean Gerson / Matthew Vanderpoel.
• Part 2. The Reformation: 4. Early modern Protestants and the "hard knots" of the Epistle to the Hebrews : a study of Reformation certainty / Ronald K. Rittgers
• 5. Melanchthon and the utility of the liberal arts / Ralph Keen
• 6. Distinguishing divine and human speech : idolatry and the words of institution in the eucharistic debates / Daniel Owings
• 7. The Reformation of doubt : incredulity, faith, the body, and the search for certitude in early Lutheran interpretations of John 20:24-31 / Barbara Pitkin
• 8. A clearness uneasily observed : leprosy, perception, and certitude in Calvin's A harmony of the Gospels Matthew, Mark, and Luke / Mark M. Lambert
• 9. Not without scripture : William Perkins, the light of nature, and proofs of the existence of God / Richard A. Muller
• 10. The suffering and death of Christ as epistemological framework in Reformation-era Lutheran teaching : Martin Luther, Veit Dietrich, and Cyriacus Spangenberg / Vincent Evener.
• Part 3. Into modernity: 11. Visions and prophets in seventeenth-century Lutheran Germany : the case of Jacob Fabricius / Jonathan Strom
• 12. "Much more for use in this present age" : Augustine Baker and life-writing at Cambrai Abbey, 1624-1633 / Karen E. Park
• 13. Evidence of things unseen : John Wesley's hermeneutics of conscience / William Schweiker
• 14. The Bible and evangelical Christianity in fascist Italy : the Vatican and polemical and physical violence / Kevin Madigan
• Afterword: Pages on life's way / Elizabeth Palmer.

"Reading Certainty offers incisive historical analysis of the foundational questions of the Christian tradition: how are we to read scripture, and how can we know we are saved? This collection of essays honors the work and thought Susan E. Schreiner by exploring the import of these questions across a wide range of time periods. With contributions from renowned scholars and from Schreiner's students from her more than three decades of teaching, each of the contributions highlights the nexus of certainty, perception, authority, and exegesis that has defined her scholarly work. Intellectual historians, early modernists, and scholars of Christianity will all appreciate this testament to Schreiner's influence. Contributors include: Vincent Evener, Bruce Gordon, Ralph Keen, Mark Lambert, Kevin J. Madigan, Richard A. Muller, Willemien Otten, Daniel Owings, Elizabeth Palmer, Karen Park, Barbara Pitkin, Ronald K. Rittgers, William Schweiker, Jonathan Strom, and Matthew Vanderpoel"-- Provided by publisher.

• This is how the world began
• God does not exist
• Bridge-builders and ground-diggers
• That's pantheism, that's horrible
• Do radical theologians pray?
• The mystical sense of life
• Who do they say Jesus is?
• Suppose everything just vanished?
• What is really going on?
• What is going on in the name of God?
• Whether God will have been
• Making ourselves worthy of what is happening to us
• So what?
• A parting word (or two) : yes, yes.

"What to Believe? is an engaging introduction to radical theology for spiritual seekers, "Nones," and others outside the academy as well as students in philosophy, religion, and theology departments who are curious about what religion can mean today, 60 years after the revolutionary "death of God" movement. Radical theology is post-theism--atheism about theism. Rather than a personal God, we personify God--we give a name to sense of meaning that we cannot name as an act of imagination, a reflection of an idea that is not supernatural but resonant within human consciousness and the world at large and available through works of art or scientific encounters. It negates typical binaries like religious and secular, theist and atheist, faithful and rational. For Caputo, God is not a question about the existence of a being but rather a question about the worth of the world"-- Provided by publisher.

• Note de l'éditeur
• Pt. 1. Les tâtonnements
• Les données paléolithiques
• Les mythes cosmogoniques
• Enseignements
• Pt. 2. Les conditions générales de l'aboutissement
• La néolithisation
• Enseignements
• Pt. 3. L'invention de dieu en Asie antérieure
• Les faits
• L'explication
• Les particularités pertinentes de l'Asie antérieure
• La ville
• La hiérocratie
• Le Dieu personnel
• Israël
• Le sort des absolus alternatifs
• Le Devenir
• L'Âtman
• Pt. 4. L'invention de l'atman en Inde
• Les faits
• L'explication
• La société aryenne
• La religion védique
• L'Âtman
• Le régime des castes
• Les alternatives
• Pt. 5. L'invention du devenir en Chine
• Les faits
• L'explication
• Le Paléolithique
• Le Néolithique
• Les Shang (1766-1122)
• Les Zhou Occidentaux.

"L'absolu a-t-il été inventé par l'espèce humaine ? Si oui, quand, dans quelles circonstances, à quelles fins et dans quelles conditions ? Si ce n'est pas le cas, est-à-dire que l'absolu serait une donnée immédiate de la conscience humaine ? Et si tel est le cas, peut-on le vérifier et qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? À travers une enquête de sociologie historique, qui remonte au paléolithique et examine aussi bien la pensée indienne (avec la notion d'Atman dans les Upanisads), les pensées en Asie Mineure (qui conçurent le concept de Dieu) ou les philosophies chinoises (qui thématisèrent les premières la notion de Devenir), le présent essai a pour vocation d'expliquer ce qui semble destiner l'espèce humaine à se poser des questions métaphysiques."--Page 4 of cover.

• Hope
• Interlude : on being partial to the truth
• Trust
• Interlude : because who you are not
• Forgiveness.

• The Cunning of Unreason
• Mythical, Religious, and Philosophical Roots
• Francis Bacon
• The Seventeenth Century and After
• Science and Domination
• Science and Nature
• Technology and Domination
• The Liberation of Nature?

"Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we're at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the delicate balance of organic life in the global ecosystem will result in devastating problems for future generations. In The Domination of Nature William Leiss argues that this global predicament must be understood in terms of deeply rooted attitudes towards nature. He traces the origins, development, and social consequences of an idea whose imprint is everywhere in modern thought: the idea of the domination of nature. In Part One Leiss traces the idea of the domination of nature from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Francis Bacon's seminal work provides the pivotal point for this discussion, and through an original interpretation of Bacon's thought, Leiss shows how momentous ambiguities in the idea were incorporated into modern thought. By the beginning of the twentieth century the concept had become firmly identified with scientific and technological progress. This fact defines the task of Part Two. Using important contributions by European sociologists and philosophers, Leiss critically analyzes the role of science and technology in the modern world. In the concluding chapter he puts the idea of mastery over nature into historical perspective and explores a new approach, based on the possibilities of the liberation of nature. Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. In a new preface Leiss explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligations of human citizens of the twenty-first century."-- Provided by publisher.

• V. 1. Body and soul
• v. 2. Living together

"Essays on Aristotle's "hylomorphism" - i.e., his conception of an organism's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê). Common readings - that there is only one form per species and that matter is what distinguishes individuals within a species from one another - are rejected in favor of the view that each member of a biological species has its own numerically distinct form. Original grounds are given for Aristotle's conception of soul as "the form and essence" of an organic body: he thinks it needed to account for the distinction between generation and destruction simpliciter and the mere alteration of existing stuff. The compatibility of this with Aristotle's conception of matter as the substratum of coming-to-be and passing-away is defended by appeal to a distinction between functionally defined organic parts (such as eyes) and the elements that constitute them. An original reading of the perceiving part of soul as one with the desiring part is given and asymmetries afforded by Aristotle's teleology explored. "Normative" cases (where formal explanations dominate) are contrasted with "defective" ones (where matter is incompletely "mastered" by form), with special attention to akratic subjects: their desires are not fully mastered by practical reason, which stands in normative cases as form to matter. The role played by Aristotle's conception of soul in his account of rational agency is employed against the dogma that he lacked the allegedly "modern" conception of "self" found in Locke and an original reading of Locke's account of personal identity is developed"-- Provided by publisher.

"A monumental and riveting account of how a poet, a physicist, and a philosopher pursued truth to the very limits of human apprehension and revealed the fundamental nature of our place in the universe Spiraling in the wreckage of a failed love affair, Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges channeled his devastation into his work, reassessing the slippery nature of our own identities and the way we perceive reality, ultimately securing his place in the literary pantheon. Doggedly fighting against the scientific establishment for his controversial interpretation of quantum mechanics, German physicist Werner Heisenberg dared to accept the experimental evidence at face value, leading him to a principle that has been a guiding light for physicists ever since. Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, horrified by the possibility that all knowledge might rest on uncertain grounds, undertook to test the limits of reason, placing human understanding on a firmer footing than ever before. What these three thinkers shared, in addition to their uncommon intellect, was their skepticism-not only of the accepted wisdom of their culture, but also of their own reasoning. What set them apart was their willingness to submit their ideas to the same rigor they would bring to someone else's. In so doing, they made extraordinary leaps in answering some of the most enduring questions about the nature of reality-about the flow of time in human consciousness, about the origins and nature of the universe, but most importantly, about the possibility of coming to know reality as it is itself. In an era like ours, in which dogma of all kinds seems to rule the day, the story of these thinkers serves as a crucial reminder that maverick thinking demands submitting our intuitions and even our own deeply held beliefs to the cold light of reason. In their lives and work we recognize that the mysteries of our place in the world may always loom over us, not as a threat, but as a reminder of our humble humanity"-- Provided by publisher.