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The article aims to present the philosophical argumentation in favor of the
Christian idea of the creation of the world exposed in the work of the
seventh century author Maximus the Confessor. Maximus the Confessor developed
his doctrine of creation on the basis of the philosophical arguments of his
Christian predecessors, above all, Gregory of Nyssa, Nemesius of Emesa and
Dionysius the Areopagite. The core of Maximus? argumentation on the creation
of the world is similar to the position of the Alexandrian philosopher John
Philoponus (6th century), but it is additionally enriched with ideas deriving
from the works of the aforementioned Christian authors. Some of the ideas
that form the scaffolding of Maximus? doctrine of creation are: the fivefold
division of beings, which has its climax in the division between the created
and uncreated nature, the movement of creatures towards God, who alone is the
true goal of their movement, the eternal existence of the world in logoi as
expressions of divine will, God?s providential care not only for the
universal but also for the individual beings and the deification of the
entire created world as the initial purpose of creation. Maximus? views on
creation are conveyed in a language that combines Aristotelian, Stoic and
Neoplatonist philosophical vocabulary.

"In this book, Rupert Read outlines the first resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein school, of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein's later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport. Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon Baker, he calls a liberatory reading. Liberatory philosophy is philosophy that can liberate the user from compulsive (and destructive) patterns of thought, freeing one for possibilities that were previously obscured. Such liberation is our prime goal in philosophy. This book consists in a sequential reading, along these lines, of what Read considers the most important and controversial passages in the Philosophical Investigations: 1, 16, 43, 95 & 116 & 122, 130-3, 149-151, 186, 198-201, 217, and 284-6. Read claims that this liberatory conception is simultaneously an ethical conception. The PI should be considered a work of ethics in that its central concern becomes our relation with others. Wittgensteinian liberations challenge widespread assumptions about how we allegedly are independent of and separate from others. Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, and to scholars of the political philosophy of liberation and the ethics of relation"--

This book situates the social construction of crime and criminal behaviour within the philosophical context of phenomenology and explores how these constructions inform, and justify, the policies employed to address them. It is essential reading for academics and students interested in social theory and theories of criminology.

part Part one: The search for significance -- chapter 1 Absurdity. The gulf between man and his world. Camus -- chapter 2 Transcendence. The pursuit of meaning as a necessary but 'useless passion'. Sartre -- chapter 3 Participation. A vindication of being-in-itself as meaningful. Louis Lavelle -- part Part two: The role of reason and the concept -- chapter 4 As mediation between subject and object. Alquié -- chapter 5 As an assimilating force within the world. André Lalande -- chapter 6 As a dissimilating force. Gaston Bachelard and E.Morot-Sir -- chapter 7 The concept as expression. The extraction of provisional meanings from the permanently indeterminate. Merleau-Ponty -- chapter 8 The rejection of 'expressionism'. The 'logos' as the 'rule' of thought. Brice Parain -- part Part three: Norms and values -- chapter 9 Closed and open evolutionary morality. Bergson's The Two Sources -- chapter 10 Involutionary morality. André Lalande -- chapter 11 The creation of values. Raymond Polin -- chapter 12 The contingency of value. Vladimir Jankélévitch -- chapter 13 Detail and atmosphere. René Le Senne -- part Part four: Towards a definition of authenticity -- chapter 14 The instant -- chapter 15 Choice -- chapter 16 The authentic and the everyday. Camus -- chapter 17 Universality and particularity -- chapter 18 Saint-Exupéry.