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Author : Ephraim Radner
Release : 2019
Genre : Holy Spirit
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Book Rating : 796/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Profound Ignorance by : Ephraim Radner
Download or read book A Profound Ignorance written by Ephraim Radner. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charts the rise of pneumatology alongside developments in modern history and proposes an alternate doctrine of the Spirit to address perennial existential questions"--
Author : David Lawrence Levine
Release : 2015-10-30
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 77X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Profound Ignorance by : David Lawrence Levine
Download or read book Profound Ignorance written by David Lawrence Levine. This book was released on 2015-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning from the battle of Potidaea, Socrates reenters the city only to find it changed, with new leadership in the making. Socrates assumes the mask of physician in order to diagnose the city’s condition in the persons of the young and charismatic Charmides and his ambitious and formidable guardian Critias. Beneath the cloak of their self-presentations, Doctor Socrates discovers a profound and communicable disease: their incipient tyranny, “the greatest sickness of the soul.” He thereby is able to “foresee” their future and their role in the oligarchy (The Thirty Tyrants) that overthrows the democracy at the end of the Peloponnesian War. The unusual diagnostic instrument of this physician of the city: the question of sophrosyne (customarily translated as moderation). The analysis of the soul of this popular favorite uncovers a distorted development with little prospect of self-knowledge, and that of the guardian, a profound disabling ignorance, deluded and perverted by his presumed practical wisdom. Alongside on the bench sits Socrates whose ignorance, by contrast, shows itself to be enabling, measured and prospective. In this way, the profound ignorance of the tyrant and the profound ignorance of the philosopher are made to mutually illuminate one another. In the process, Levine brings us to see Plato’s extended apologia or defense of Socrates as “a teacher of tyrants” and his counter-indictment of the city for its unthinking acceptance of its leaders. Moreover, in the face of modern skepticism, we are brought to see how such “value judgments” are possible, how Plato conceives the prospects for practical judgment (phronȇsis). In addition we witness the care with which Plato presents his penetrating diagnoses even amidst compromised circumstances. Levine, further, is at pains to situate the specific dialogic issues in their larger significance for the philosophic tradition. Lastly, the author’s inviting style encourages the reader to think along with Socrates. The question of tyranny is always relevant. The question of our ignorance is always immediate. The conversation about sophrosyne needs to be resumed.
Author : Owen Whooley
Release : 2019-04-23
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 41X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Heels of Ignorance by : Owen Whooley
Download or read book On the Heels of Ignorance written by Owen Whooley. This book was released on 2019-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatry has always aimed to peer deep into the human mind, daring to cast light on its darkest corners and untangle its thorniest knots, often invoking the latest medical science in doing so. But, as Owen Whooley’s sweeping new book tells us, the history of American psychiatry is really a record of ignorance. On the Heels of Ignorance begins with psychiatry’s formal inception in the 1840s and moves through two centuries of constant struggle simply to define and redefine mental illness, to say nothing of the best way to treat it. Whooley’s book is no antipsychiatric screed, however; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving. On the Heels of Ignorance draws from intellectual history and the sociology of professions to portray an ongoing human effort to make sense of complex mental phenomena using an imperfect set of tools, with sometimes tragic results.
Author : Stuart Firestein
Release : 2012-04-23
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ignorance by : Stuart Firestein
Download or read book Ignorance written by Stuart Firestein. This book was released on 2012-04-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.
Author : John Mighton
Release : 2011-06-01
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 444/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Ignorance by : John Mighton
Download or read book The End of Ignorance written by John Mighton. This book was released on 2011-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn. The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind—a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children. A passionate examination of our present education system, The End of Ignorance shows how we all can work together to reinvent the way that we are taught.
