Issue: Philosophy

How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

Posted by | Sep 7, 2020 | |

In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought.

One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same time. These early philosophies have had a profound impact on the development of distinctive cultures in different parts of the world. What we call ‘philosophy’ in the West is not even half the story.

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For the Glory of God: How Monotheism led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts and the End of Slavery

For the Glory of God: How Monotheism led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts and the End of Slavery

Posted by | Sep 3, 2020 | |

Rodney Stark’s provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted–almost inevitably and for the same reasons–in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European witch-hunts, and the Western abolition of slavery. In the process, he explains why Christian and Islamic images of God yielded such different cultural results, leading Christians but not Muslims to foster science, burn “witches,” and denounce slavery.

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Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Posted by | Sep 2, 2020 | |

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.

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Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Dialogue in a Pluralistic World

Posted by | Sep 1, 2020 | |

Pluralism is a characteristic features of the world we live in. People belonging to different cultures, religions, languages, traditions and ways of the together in reasonable harmony.These cultural and religious traditions and woven together in such a way that, while every culture and religion keeps its uniqueness, it is also enriched by other cultures and religions. But in recent years there has been an increased rupture in harmonious living.The communal conflicts and violence in the past few years is causing to the beautiful fabric of humanity.

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