Subject(s): Knowledge, Theory of
Contents:What is knowledge? -- Some preliminaries -- Types of knowledge -- Basic requirements on knowledge : truth and belief -- Knowing versus merely getting it right -- A brief remark on truth -- The value of knowledge -- Why care about knowledge? -- The instrumental value of true belief -- The value of k
Subject(s): Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, 1883-1950 | Economists -- Biography -- United States | Capitalism
Contents:L'Enfant terrible, 1883-1926: Innovation and economics -- Prologue: Who he was and what he did -- Leaving home -- Shaping his character -- Learning economics -- Moving out -- Career takeoff -- War and politics -- Gran Rifiut
Subject(s): Muslims -- Religion -- United States | Muslims -- Political activity -- United States | Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States | Muslims -- Religion -- Europe | Muslims -- Political activity -- Europe | Muslims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe | Islamic fundamentalism -- United States | Islamic fundamentalism -- Europ
Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy History
Contents:Introduction : remarks on political philosophy -- Lectures on Hobbes. Hobbes's secular moralism and the role of his social contract ; Human nature and the state of nature ; Hobbes's account of practical reasoning ; The role and powers of the sovereign ; Appendix : Hobbes
Subject(s): Creation -- History of doctrines | Power (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines | Human ecology -- Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines | Philosophical theology
Contents:Introduction : points of departure -- A genealogy of the Christian colonial mindset : ex nihilo from disputed beginnings to orthodox origi
Subject(s): Sunday | Sabbath | Rest -- Religious aspects
Contents:Sunday gladness, Sunday gloom -- Sunday in antiquity -- Sunday in Elizabethan and Jacobean England -- Sunday in eighteenth-century England and Scotland -- Varieties of Sunday observance : Boswell and his contemporaries -- The rise and decline of the Victorian Sunday -- Four
Providence Lost
Knowledge Resources | Dar Al-hikmah Library | Public Access
Subject(s): Providence and government of God
Contents:Introduction -- Euripides, philosopher of the stage -- The world of men and gods -- Agreeing with nature : fate and providence in stoic ethics -- Augustine : divine justice and the "ordering" of evil -- The philosopher and the princess : Descartes and the philosophical life -- L
Subject(s): Mutanabbi, Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn, 915 or 16-965 -- Criticism and interpretation
Holdings:
,Book - General,Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Library,General Collection,Open Shelf,PJ7750M8Z4 1992v2,Available,00000787440
