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  • HOPE
    Edward Makhene
    Hope permeates our lives at every hour and minute of the day; we live with and in hope, even though we sometimes meet with disappointment when our hopes fall short of their realization. We hope for good health and happiness in the lives of our families, friends, and others. We hope for peace in the world, even though politicians thrust us into wars to boost their ratings and to...
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    17,48 €

  • THINGS, OBJECTS, and PERSONS
    Edward Makhene
    In this book I discuss the concepts of existence and substance in relation to the nature of things, objects, and persons and their persistence through time. What is this substance that constitutes things, objects, and persons? Is it something other than the Does it exist as an identifiable entity in the form of atoms and subatomic particles like protons, neutrons, electrons, q...
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    18,62 €

  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONCEPT OF BELIEF
    Edward Makhene
    Everyone believes something. Belief is the logical and epistemic prelude to knowledge; but belief should be governed by evidence rather than by fantasy or by transcendent faith. Concepts and truth serve as background to definitions of belief and of knowledge as true belief justified by relevant evidence. Ethical theory and practice also demand similar validation.Science is re...
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    25,42 €

  • The Human Agent
    EDWARD R W MAKHENE
    Most human beings are persons, and all persons are agents, made such by their intentional actions. The nature of persons, their rights and the laws by which they should be governed are critically examined in this book, with Ubuntu, the African equivalent of personhood, used as an example; so is the nature of human action and the thorny question of free will. Morality is di...
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    24,55 €

  • Mind Your Ps and Qs
    Edward R W Makhene
    One cannot know anything about what is in the natural world until one is presented with it; but how one views what is thus presented depends on one’s worldview and logical sagacity. Our actions,whether past, present, or future, were, are, and will be regulated by causes and their effects as manifested in events; in fact, our personal identities are defined by the events in our ...
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    20,84 €

  • HOMAN INHOMANITY
    Edward Makhene
    HOMAN INHOMANITY is a perspective on twin world, a possible world in our universe, and the way human inhumanity might have presented in our otherwise humane Christian world. Notable sections of the inhabitants of twin world are trapped in a miasma of vulgarity and self-aggrandizement that has prompted them to divide their homan population into superior, privileged homan beings ...
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    28,07 €

  • Philosophy for Medical Students and Practitioners
    Edward Makhene
    Merited attention to the scientific basis of Medicine should not eclipse the philosophical associations that run through its theory and practice as discussed in this book, especially its phenomenology. The role of precision in defining medical concepts like normality, knowledge, existence, signs and symptoms of disease, illness, and disability are discussed in the book; so are...
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    38,01 €

  • WHAT’S THAT, MUMMY?
    EDWARD R W MAKHENE
    Children’s questions reflect a philosophical subtlety that is often not fully appreciated. Their stock question: 'what’s that'? can be equated with Plato’s own presumed stock question: 'what is x'? (x=justice, virtue, good, love, etc.). As well, their other nagging question: 'why'? can be construed as a quest after immediate and ultimate reasons and clarity in the construction ...
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    19,69 €

  • OUR WORLD AND ITS VALUES
    EDWARD R W MAKHENE
    What are values? What principles underlie them? How ought we to apply them to our relations with our environment, other people in our communities, and international relations? What is the state and how should it treat its citizens--with justice and fairness. Can we have a morality without religion? Can we divest ourselves of the corrupting influence of money on human relations ...
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    33,86 €

  • Mind Your PS and QS
    Edward R. W. Makhene / Edward RWMakhene
    This is a philosophical dialogue between High School students who set out to explore the logical foundations of our commonly held opinions and beliefs, and their degree of certainty. ...
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    13,83 €