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Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment
(June 1972)
Gertrude Ezorsky - Editor
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"Punishment," writes J. E. McTaggart, "is pain and to inflict pain on any person obviously [requires] justification." But if the need to justify punishment is obvious, the manner of doing so is not. Philosophers have developed an array of diverse, often conflicting arguments to justify punitive institutions.
Gertrude Ezorsky introduces this source book of significant historical and contemporary philosophical writings on problems of punishme...(Read More) |
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Whitehead's Ontology
(June 1972)
John W. Lango - Author
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An examination of Whitehead’s metaphysics through a study of his Process and Reality.
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Ethics and Social Justice
(June 1970)
Howard E. Kiefer - Editor
Milton K. Munitz - Editor
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Hailed by philosopher Sidney Hook as "a landmark in the history of American philosophy," the International Philosophy Year in 1967-68 brought seventy of the Western world's most distinguished philosophers to the State University College at Brockport for a series of fourteen conferences devoted to different areas of philosophic inquiry.
Contemporary Philosophic Thought, which records the original papers of these conferences in four volu...(Read More) |
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The Philosophy of Chrysippus
(June 1970)
Josiah B. Gould - Author
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The Philosophy of Chrysippus is a reconstruction of the philosophy of an eminent Stoic philosopher, based upon the fragmentary remains of his voluminous writings. Chrysippus of Cilicia, who lived in a period that covers roughly the last three-quarters of the third century B.C., studied philosophy in Athens and upon Cleanthes’ death became the third head of the Stoa, one of the four great schools of philosophy of the Hellenistic ...(Read More) |
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Rabelaisian Dialectic and the Platonic-Hermetic Tradition
(June 1969)
George M. Masters - Author
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In this study, Professor Masters looks beyond the few critical attempts that heretofore have analyzed only isolated aspects of Platonism and Hermetism in Rabelaisian literature. He examines the closely related themes of Platonism, the Dionysian mysteries, and the Hermetic sciences in Rabelais’s work and concludes that Rabelais shared with the Platonic-Hermetic tradition both its dialectic and perception of man’s position in the u...(Read More) |
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Foundations of Knowledge
(June 1968)
E.P. Papanoutsos - Author
John P. Anton - Editor/translator
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“The inquiry into the foundations of knowledge is a systematic inquiry into the problem of truth. This problem constitutes one of the three main concerns of philosophical analysis, the others being the problem of beauty and the problem of goodness.” Thus Evangelos P. Papanoutsos, Greece’s leading contemporary philosopher, introduces this third book of his “Trilogy of the Mind.” The first two volumes covered aesth...(Read More) |
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Naturalism and Historical Understanding
(June 1967)
Essays on the Philosophy of John Herman Randall, Jr.
John P. Anton - Editor
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As philosopher, historian, and teacher, John Herman Randall, Jr. is world-renowned and universally respected. In more than fifty years of study he has probed Western thought inclusively from the early Greeks, Aristotle and the Peripatetics through contemporary European and American philosophers. Currently, Professor Randall is conducting his scholarly research at the University of Padua and the Columbia-Padua Institute, a society which he helped fou...(Read More) |
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Naturalism and Subjectivism
(June 1959)
Marvin Farber - Author
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This book will assist readers of philosophical literature to understand and to appraise a large section of the controversial philosophical thought of our time. The central theme is the conflict between naturalism and idealism. The idealist philosophy is considered in its historical outcome of subjectivism, as developed in the phenomenological movement. The use of phenomenology is discussed as a general philosophy, as well as with respect to ...(Read More) |
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