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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2024

        Anticlerical legacies

        The deistic reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740

        by Elad Carmel

        Anticlerical legacies explores the reception of Thomas Hobbes's political and religious ideas by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century deists and freethinkers, such as Charles Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others. It shows that these writers were indebted to various aspects of Hobbes's thought, that they engaged with his ideas explicitly in their published and unpublished works, and that they invoked his authority consistently despite the explosive reputation of the 'monster of Malmesbury'. Hobbes emerges from this study as a major source of anticlerical ideas and tools-something that his contemporary admirers and critics seemed to agree on but that has been understudied in the scholarship. The battle of Hobbes and his successors against the orthodoxy was also a battle for civil peace, and the rich anticlerical legacies that they left remained influential long after their lifetime.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2021

        Saint and the Atheist

        Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

        by Catalano, Joseph S.

        It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. The former was a thirteenth-century Dominican friar known for reconciling the teachings of the Catholic Church with Aristotelianism. The latter was a twentieth-century intellectual known as the central figure in the literary-philosophical movement known as existentialism. The former was a firm believer; the latter was a notorious atheist. And yet, in The Saint and the Atheist, philosopher Joseph Catalano shows that a conversation between the two, bringing them closer to reveal similarities and bring out the real import of their differences, is fruitful for thinking through some of the central questions about faith, conscience, freedom, and the meaning of life. Written in an accessible style that presupposes no previous philosophical experience, Catalano’s book offers a compelling and profound point of entry to two of history’s most important and influential thinkers and what they can still offer to us in the present.

      • Philosophy of religion

        Why Are We Here?

        by James Kilcullen

        PHILOSOPHICAL ANSWER TO WHY HUMAN BEINGS EXIST AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE. Where did we come from? Where are we going? Do we have spirits? Do we live once or many times? Is there a creator? Why is this world in such a mess? How can we cope with inequality, violence, abortion and global warming?

      • Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice
        September 2005

        Shadow, Self, Spirit

        Essays in Transpersonal Psychology

        by Daniels, Michael, A01

        Transpersonal Psychology concerns the study of those states and processes in which people experience a deeper sense of who they are, or a greater sense of connectedness with others, with nature, or the spiritual dimension. This book brings together the author's writings on the topic over recent years.

      • Philosophy of religion
        August 2008

        Faith in a Hard Ground

        Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

        by Anscombe, G.E.M., A01; Geach, Mary, B01; Gormally, Luke, B01

        Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics published in...

      • Gardening
        June 2013

        Life, the Universe & Gardening

        by Coles, Sarah

        In each of us lies a deep psychic need to create our garden of the golden age, to find our paradise... A gardening feast for the soul. Sarah Coles has written for the Royal Horticultural Society journal The Garden, as well as The Field, Hortus, and other publications. For years she wrote a monthly garden column for the Hampshire County Magazine, assessed gardens for the Good Gardens Guide, served on the committee of the Historic Roses Group of the Royal National Rose Society and taught as horticultural tutor at Southampton University. Sarah is the author of two novels and Chalk and Limestone Gardening, A Guide to Success on Alkaline Soils.

      • Mind, Body, Spirit
        July 2012

        The Divine Dance In the Sacred Landscape of Britain

        by Lewis, Abad-Pedrosa

        Drop into the ancient landscape of Britain with this delightful book by Frances Lewis and Adelina Abad-Pedrosa. From ancient hill forts to dramatic cliff tops by the sea, from churches to caves – this book has everything to tempt you and invite you out of your armchair into the spectacular healing landscape of nature and earth energy. This book provides a beautiful insight into the journey that Frances and Adelina followed as they danced and photographed all the points where the Michael and Mary ley lines meet in Britain. It represents both a personal journey and a journey for the world. Balancing the male and female energies within ourselves and around the world has the potential to bring us into a saner, more sustainable way of living.

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