Coming Into Being

Coming Into Being
Author: William Irwin Thompson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1998-06-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0312176929

A stunning New Age tour through literature, sculpture, and science that looks at the archetype of the human ascent to the heavens

Coming Into Being

Coming Into Being
Author: William Irwin Thompson
Publisher: MacMillan
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998
Genre: Consciousness
ISBN: 9780333741801

The author of this book takes the reader on a journey through the evolution of consciousness from the preverbal communications of early stone carvings, to the writings of Marcel Proust, around the monumental wrappings of Christo and up to the rebirth of interest in the Taoist philosophy of Lao Tzu.

Coming into Being

Coming into Being
Author: Victoria Bailey
Publisher: Demeter Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2023-05-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772584576

This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists. Experiences of motherhood can involve unique discriminations and oppressions, as well as new challenges and possibilities. What may have been overlooked, tolerated, or perhaps even gone unnoticed before becoming a mother, can become overtly apparent or even unavoidable afterwards. Becoming a mother may also lead to a questioning of current feminist priorities and practices, and a recognition of the need for, or even demand for, a mother-centred mode of feminism. This anthology, separated into three sections &– &‘ Losing and Finding,' &‘ Challenging and Critiquing,' and, &‘ Connecting and Conversing' &– provides intersectionally sensitive and broad-ranging interdisciplinary insights into mothers' perceptions of, connection to, and realizations of, feminism. International contributors examine this complex topic through a wide variety of texts including personal and scholarly essays, creative non-fiction, letters and Q and A style discussion, poetry, art, and photography.

Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines

Coming into Being Among the Australian Aborigines
Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136548378

This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines and subjects it to a scientific examination in the light of biological, social and psychological research. First published in 1937. This edition reprints the revised edition of 1974.

Better Never to Have Been

Better Never to Have Been
Author: David Benatar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2008
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199549265

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. David Benatar presents a startling challenge to these assumptions. He argues that people systematically overestimate the quality of their life, and suffer quite serious harms by coming into existence.

How Humanity Came Into Being

How Humanity Came Into Being
Author: M. G. Lockley
Publisher: Floris Books
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780863157325

A fascinating journey through our anthropological history which points towards an emerging collective awakening for the human race.

An Approach to Aristotle's Physics

An Approach to Aristotle's Physics
Author: David Bolotin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780791435519

Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9

Philoponus: On Aristotle Physics 1.4-9
Author: Philoponus,
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472501578

Aristotle's Physics 1.4-9 explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter, and the issue of whether things can come into being out of nothing, and if so, in what sense that is true. Philoponus' commentaries do not merely report and explain Aristotle and the other thinkers whom Aristotle is discussing. They are also the philosophical work of an independent thinker in the Neoplatonic tradition. Philoponus has his own, occasionally idiosyncratic, views on a number of important issues, and he sometimes disagrees with other teachers whose views he has encountered perhaps in written texts and in oral delivery. A number of distinctive passages of philosophical importance occur in this part of Book 1, in which we see Philoponus at work on issues in physics and cosmology, as well as logic and metaphysics. This volume contains an English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, commentary notes and a bibliography.

Whitehead's Ontology

Whitehead's Ontology
Author: John W. Lango
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1972-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438410077

An examination of Whitehead's metaphysics through a study of his Process and Reality.