Petite philosophie à l'usage des non-philosophes

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The Dalai Lama

"In India, at the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment, it has become a well-established tradition for the Dalai Lama to spend several days each year giving teachings to Buddhists from all over the world. Following his teachings, he used to hold informal group discussions with Western students of Buddhism. The high points of those discussions are presented here.". "In these lively exchanges the Dalai Lama exhibits clear and penetrating insight into issues that are most important to Western students. Some of the topics discussed are: psychology, Christianity, being a practicing Buddhist in the West, spiritual teachers, reincarnation, emptiness, tantra, protector deities, liberation, meditation, compassion, disciplining others, the power of holy places, and retreats."--BOOK JACKET.

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Paul Imhof and Hubert Biallowons

Those familiar with Rahner's writings will recognize here the distinctive theological emphases and interests he elsewhere pursued in detail and depth - theological anthropology, pluralism of religions, atheism, science and theology, death, hope and religious experience, to name some of them. The discussions in this book are clear and concrete, indicating at almost every turn Rahner's courage and humility in theological construction and criticism.

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Jason Evert

Via a question and answer format, provides Catholic teens and their parents with solutions to problems related to sexuality.

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Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson

Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. The volume is unique in incorporating essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general science studies. In so doing, they explore notions at the heart of the philosophy of science, including the nature of objectivity, truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the relationship between science and values. Contributors also explore the question of what categories should figure in the explanatory principles employed in the philosophy of science and how, if at all, feminist science scholarship bears on this issue. Audience: Philosophers of science, feminist scholars in philosophy and epistemology, historians in science, sociologists and anthropologists.