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Presenting a comprehensive portrayal of the reading of Chinese and Buddhist philosophy in early twentieth-century German thought, Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century German Thought examines the implications of these readings for contemporary issues in comparative and intercultural philosophy. Through a series of case studies from the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Eric Nelson focuses on the reception and uses...

The founding fathers were rebels against the British Parliament, Eric Nelson argues, not the Crown. As a result of their labors, the 1787 Constitution assigned its new president far more power than any British monarch had wielded for 100 years. On one side of the Atlantic were kings without monarchy, on the other, monarchy without kings.

Pray that I may be able to speak boldly as I ought to speak" (Ephesians 6:20, NET).¿¿Following the boldest teaching on "spiritual warfare" in the Bible, Paul sought even more boldness. If Paul prayed for this as he neared the finish line of his "race, " how much more should we? We are closer to Christ's return than ever before, and prophetic voices around the world are calling us to get ready for a great outpouring of God's glory for the End-T...

In this unique and innovative contribution, Eric S. Nelson offers a systematic consideration of the German language translations and interpretations that shaped Heidegger's engagement with Daoism. Encompassing numerous forgotten and recently published historical sources, including Heidegger's Daoist related reflections in his recently published lectures and notebooks that have not yet been considered in the literature on Heidegger and East A...

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Want to harvest and consume your crops without using toxic chemicals to ward off dangerous pests? Are you considering a planting technique that benefits the environment? This book is ideal for you if the answer is yes. Before there were pesticides and herbicides, early settlers employed companion planting to ward off dangerous pests and increase agricultural harvests. To balance the soil's nutritional levels, plants were frequently grown in pa...

The Worldly Teacher is a picture book about Fannie Jackson Coppin, a brilliant educator who became the first black woman to serve as the principal of a school for higher learning in the USA, known today as Cheyney University. Read along with Author Eric Nelson as he takes you on a fun filled journey of determination as he tells of Principal Coppin's dedication to excellence in education.

This book explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. The author explores early Daoism to provide insights for cultivating an expansive ecological ethos and environmental culture of nature.

Horse Not Zebra, we learn in the title poem of this collection, refers to advice given to medical students-to look first to "the common, not the exotic" when diagnosing patients. Eric Nelson embraces that advice in his poems, exploring the common rituals of daily life-family interactions, gardening, long walks with or without dogs, even the clomp of a neighbor's boots can be, for him, a call to attention. He acknowledges the darker moments of ...

This volume shows how Dilthey's philosophical concepts can be understood in relation to their historical situation. It explores how they remain relevant to current philosophical issues concerning art, literature, the biographical and autobiographical self, knowledge, language, science, psychology, the embodied mind, culture, history, and society.

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, edited by Eric Nelson. Hobbes translated the Homeric poems into English verse during the course of the 1670s, when he was already well into his eighties. These texts constitute his most extensive single undertaking, as well as his last major work. Yet, despite the explosion of interest in Hobbes over the last fifty years, ...

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This book sets up a dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor W. Adorno, using their thought to address contemporary environmental and social-political situations. Eric S. Nelson explores the "non-identity thinking" of Adorno and the "ethics of the Other" of Levinas with regard to three areas of concern: the ethical position of nature and "inhuman" material others such as environments and animals, the bonds and tensions between ethics and ...

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas's and Adorno's thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

This volume explores the conceptualisation and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. Through the prism of layering, it demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reificaiton in the landscape were posed by religious be

Originally published in 2003. Justice and Violence brings together a fascinating and varied volume that focuses on the ethics of both political violence and pacifism. Incorporating historical, geopolitical and cultural case studies, it takes a unique look at comparative analyses of these two phenomena and contending world views.

This atlas comprehensively covers the use of basic ultrasound (US) scanning technologies to recognize both normal and pathologic states. It covers how to use US for soft tissue diagnosis, assessing cardiac function, pericardial effusion, tamponade, peripheral veins, gallbladder, bowel, kidneys, skull, sinuses, eye, pleura, scrotum and testes. Atlas of Handheld Ultrasound provides detailed clinically relevant examples of how US can be used to a...

Grammar Advantage is a course text and self-study tool for advanced learners of English as a second language (C-TOEFL score of at least 190 or equivalent). Clear examples and explanations are followed by varied and abundant exercises. Topics that are important in academic contexts are highlighted: sentence structure, transitions, and sentence flow, verb tenses, active and passive voice, gerunds and infinitives, reporting and noun clauses, rela...

Originally published in 2003. Justice and Violence brings together a fascinating and varied volume that focuses on the ethics of both political violence and pacifism. Incorporating historical, geopolitical and cultural case studies, it takes a unique look at comparative analyses of these two phenomena and contending world views.

Modern liberal political philosophy is closely associated with post-1945 secularism. But Eric Nelson contends that the liberal tradition founded by John Rawls is an unwitting outgrowth of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. When we understand this, we can better untangle the knotted strands of liberal political thought.