Mengikuti perkembangan diskusi dan penelitian terbaru, semesta pemikiran, yang telah dipakai luas dalam beragam perkuliahan, memberikan penjabaran yang ringkas dan jelas tentang dasar-dasar berbagai wawasan dunia yang paling berpengaruh saat ini, mulai dari theisme Kristen, sampai pemikiran zaman baru dan postmodernisme. Setiap wawasan dunia diuji dengan tujuh pertanyaan paling mendasar: Apakah…
James W. Sire explains the basics of Christians theism, deism, naturalism, nihilism, existentialism, Eastern pantheistic monism, New Age philosophy and postmodernism. This new edition includes updates throughout. But most significantly, it reflects refinements in Sire's definition and thinking about the nature of worldviews themselves, which are taken up in greater detail in the companion volum…
An “open self in an open society” is the ideal which Charles Morris sets forth. America’s foremost younger philosopher describes in popular terms how modern philosophy copes with some of the major problems of today. In these pages he explores the main roads to self-knowledge, and the correlation of the individual with society. Not one to rely on mere airy speculation, Dr. Morris polled mo…
The book is in one sense a narrative account of events--from the numbing telephone call on a sunny Sunday afternoon that tells of 25-year-old Eric's death in a mountain-climbing accident, to a graveside visit a year later. But the book is far more than narrative. Every event is an occasion for remembering, for meditating, for Job-like anguish in the struggle to accept and understand.. A profoun…