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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Comte believes that society evolves through a series of stages that are ruled by social laws and culminate in a superior form of social life. Positivism itself is a combination of philosophy and way of life. Comte goes into surprising detail, going so far as to describe minute like how children should be educated,...
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In this bold work, of broad scope and rich erudition, Richard Miller sets out to reorient the philosophy of science. By questioning both positivism and its leading critics, he develops new solutions to the most urgent problems about justification, explanation, and truth. Using a wealth of examples from both the natural and the social sciences, Fact and Method applies the new account of scientific reason to specific questions of method in virtually...
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One of the foremost figures of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century, John Stuart Mill offered up examinations of human rights, personal and societal rights and responsibilities, and the striving for individual happiness that continue to impact our philosophies, both private and political, to this day. This concise but explosive essay is perhaps the best example of how far-reaching-and necessary on an ongoing basis-his thinking was....
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This book is an attempt to fill the present striking need for an introduction to contemporary linguistic philosophy as it bears on theological discourse. Wherever I have gone, recently, among educated Christians in Britain and America, I have encountered profound curiosity - and a good deal of anxiety - concerning modern methods in philosophy as they relate to the logical nature and validity of theological affirmations. Similarly I have found many...
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“Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory” is the philosopher Herbert Marcuse's first major work in English-a masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the present day.
“Reason & Revolution”, written in 1941, was the first Hegelian Marxist text to appear in English, the first systematic study of Hegel by a Marxist, and the first...
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Children's Press
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2025.
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"Learning social skills is a key element of early childhood development and in helping kids develop a healthy identity. These relatable stories in familiar settings explore some of the most important social/emotional needs of young children, encouraging them to recognize, understand, express, and navigate various emotions and situations they might experience every day at school and at home"--
11) The disrupted
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Passion River
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[2021]
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It dives deep inside the lives of three Americans working harder than ever, as their place in the middle class slips away. For a farmer, a factory worker, and an Uber driver, rising income inequality betrays the American Dream.
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Croom Helm
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[1974]
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Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 February 1798? 5 September 1857), better known as Auguste Comte, was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.