First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Originally published in 1966. The main purpose of this book is not philosophical speculation, but to draw the obvious conclusions from political and historical facts about the prospects and methods of human political survival. The central theme is developed in the context of problems which cause most anxiety today: the mounting arms race, the unstable balance of power, the rapid growth of population, racial conflicts and ideological incompatibilities...read more

Product Description: Starting from ancient Greece and the writings of Thucydides and Plato, Professor Harris examines the major concepts of democracy developed by notable thinkers down through the ages. He presents a powerful and incisive explanation of the emergence of the democratic principle from Plato through Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, G...read more

Product Description: This work provides critical introductions to, and extensive annotations on, a number of the essays, many previously unpublished, of South African philosopher Arthur Ritchie Lord. The editors have compiled writings that show the extent of Lord's interests and present some of his original ideas on political philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of history...read more

Product Description: The essential puzzle of consciousness is how the electro-chemical activity constantly occurring in the brain translates into the conscious experience we enjoy. In this highly praised study, Errol Harris considers the attempts made by several important neuro-scientists and philosophers to address the question, and makes his own suggestions as to how it might be approached with the best prospect of intelligibility...read more

Product Description: The influence of scientific paradigms is much more widespread than usually realized. According to Harris, it permeates the whole of the culture of which science is an integral part. The paradigm of Newtonian science was essentially mechanistic and atomistic, and thinking in these terms not only penetrated philosophy, economics, morals and politics for the next three centuries, but remains latent in 20th century ways of thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The twentieth century has been marked by widespread attacks upon if not the complete repudiation of metaphysics. This has been due largely to the influence of empiricism, inspired by the presuppositions of Newtonian science. Some scientists refuse to admit that there is a metaphysic imbedded in science. Their self-defeating attacks on metaphysics ignore the contemporary revolution in physics, which introduced a new scientific paradigm inspired by quantum physics and relativity theory, and which requires a new metaphysic.No other contemporary philosopher has stressed more than Errol E. Harris the consequences of the twentieth-century scientific revolution for philosophy; nor have the bankruptcy and barrenness of current attacks on metaphysics been so cogently and effectively revealed. In this book, Harris examines the errors of empiricism, showing that the predominantly holistic character of contemporary science has been largely overlooked by current schools of philosophy, which have spawned the skepticism and relativism of postmodernism. He then develops the basis in physics for the restoration of metaphysics with its main features being holism, dialectical (and therefore teleological) progression, anthropomorphism, and theism. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Harris offers his unique interpretation of Spinoza as a dialectical thinker and addresses other commentators' misunderstandings of some of Spinoza's primary principles. The opening chapters discuss Spinoza's metaphysics and epistemology, the problem of relating finite to infinite in his system, the infinity of the attributes of substance, human nature and the body-mind relation, politics, and religion...read more

Errol E. Harris examines the world's current political and ecological problems and presents cogent arguments for a viable global solution. Harris argues that the one practicable solution is the establishment of a World Authority democratically elected and empowered to enforce World Law. Accordingly it is imperative that peoples and NGO's unite in an urgent campaign for the ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, already drafted by the World Constitution and Parliament Association, and discussed in detail in this important book.

Product Description: The Spirit of Hegel consists of a collection of essays covering almost every facet of Hegel's philosophy. Errol E. Harris emphasizes Hegel's contemporary relevance, elucidating difficult and controversial questions, and revealing Hegel's insight into key philosophical problems...read more

Product Description: Professor Errol E. Harris presented the first three chapters of Atheism and Theism as public lectures at Tulane University on January 20-22, 1975. The lecture series was made possible by a grant from the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation of New York City...read more

Product Description: This sequel to the highly acclaimed Cosmos and Anthropos demonstrates the impact on social, ethical, and theological doctrines of the twentieth-century scientific revolution, particularly the Anthropic Principle. Harris reviews the main arguments put forward in the Western philosophical tradition for the existence of God, as well as the critique of those arguments, and shows that the conflict between religion and science since the seventeenth century has resulted more from the implications of the Copernican-Newtonian scientific paradigm than from any insuperable divergence of dogma or ultimate aim...read more

Product Description: Spinoza's writings on metaphysics, ethics, and politics have had a remarkably diverse reception in recent times and have contributed to the current dialogue among philosophers, intellectual historians, and literary theorists.Errol E...read more

Product Description: Harris elucidates the important philosophical implications of the Anthropic Principle. Tracing the continuous development of the principle from physics through biology and psychology, he examines the case for the thesis that intelligent life is necessarily involved from the very beginning of physical reality and that the entire process of natural evolution comes to consciousness of itself in the human mind...read more

Product Description: "This is a substantial and well-written essay on a key topic in metaphysics, by a distinguished and seasoned metaphysician who is also a master of the scientific literature of recent decades. The writing is vigorous, concise, and clear, and the examples are aptly chosen and lucidly formulated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)