Forms Of Life
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Speaking Of Forms Of Life
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Author : Claudio Campagna
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-26
Speaking Of Forms Of Life written by Claudio Campagna and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-26 with Science categories.
Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms. The human-induced extinction rate has been compared to “mass extinctions” of the past. But this language masks the fact that the crisis is due to voluntary, and thus, avoidable choices and actions. “Speaking of Forms of Life” shows that at the root of this crisis is the tragic inadequacy of the language predominantly used to represent and address what we are doing, including the language of “sustainable development,” “rights” for animals and the rest of nature, their “intrinsic value,” and conservation of species as “populations.” This talk alienates us from the other living things, from what they actually are, have and do, and it perpetuates the harm and loss. Campagna and Guevara compellingly argue, on rigorous but accessible grounds, that there is an alternative language to guide conservation, in confronting the radically urgent, ethical issues it faces. This is a language with which we are all familiar, mastered by naturalists, from Aristotle to Audubon. It articulates the primary value in life and the standard that must guide how human beings should live, as one form of life, among countless others. This book is a homecoming for those who practice conservation to, above all else, secure a creature’s ability to satisfy the necessities of its form of life. "This is an essential book for anyone who cares about conservation and is concerned about the frightening pace of extinctions. The great theme of the book is the importance of the language in which we think and talk about living beings. Daniel Guevara and Claudio Campagna make available for conservationists the ground-breaking work of Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson on natural goodness and on our thought about living beings. They show how it can be brought to bear on the threats that confront conservation and on disputes that may seem irresolvable. I recommend Speaking of Forms of Life as strongly as I can.” Cora Diamond, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Professor of Law, and University Professor, University of Virginia “Our current conservation language is shot through with economic platitudes that don’t explain anyone’s real motives for conserving biodiversity. Campagna and Guevara’s new book lays out a convincing alternative, grounding conservation goals in the objective goodness of life’s many ways of flourishing. Speaking of Forms of Life is inspiring, informative, well-grounded in the relevant philosophy and conservation literatures but never pedantic. Both activists and thinkers will find much of value in Speaking of Forms of Life.” Philip Cafaro, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University “Speaking of Forms of Life” helps us confront the fact that language often obscures, rather than facilitates, our understanding of living things. Our language reflects past misperceptions, current ignorance, and our shockingly limited intellectual ability to comprehend where we are in space and time, and who we are with on this strange planet with its soap-bubble coating of life. The language in use has abetted, and accelerated the catastrophic course we daily continue to choose. “Speaking of Forms of Life” shows us why and how this must change. It’s a crucial revelation that we must heed, because our species alone can consider changing course—and our species alone must do so. Carl Safina, MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina Research Chair for Nature and Humanity, Stony Brook University "Our biosphere is a miracle. Communicating the sense of awe and wonder that it instills in many of us is essential to shift from wanton destructionof our natural world for short term economic profit to health and prosperity for all creatures - including us humans. Speaking of Forms of Life is the first book that unveils how the way we speak to each other affects the way we value and care for our planet. An essential read for everyone who cares about the future of nature and humanity." Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and Hubbard Medalist
Life
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Author : Valentin Matcas
language : en
Publisher: Valentin Leonard Matcas
Release Date : 2014-04-20
Life written by Valentin Matcas and has been published by Valentin Leonard Matcas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-20 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
You are an intelligent living human being, and in order to assure your meaning and success throughout life, you have to know everything about life, everywhere, in all forms and realities. You have to learn everything about nature, society, and organic life, about the true origins of life, about creating life and about the divine, and about your own meaning in life and in the world as an intelligent living human being. While these are not random ideas, but these specific needs for higher knowledge are embedded continuously within your own higher level intelligent needs and meanings, just because this is the case with all intelligent life. But is this important knowledge about life actually available to you and everyone else? Yes or no, since there are many instances to consider. Yet when you are capable to find the necessary knowledge about life, meaning, society, and the world, you are truly capable to live your life at the intelligent human level. While if you cannot find it, you keep on searching, since your own higher level needs and meanings never leave you alone until you learn everything necessary in life and in the world. And so you do, otherwise, you end up living your life on lower developmental levels, addicted, in servitude, or only intuitively, through animal instincts. And it certainly matters, just because you are an intelligent living human being by nature, now forced to live life below your level, unfulfilled and even punished intrinsically for your continuous failure. But where exactly can you find this important knowledge? Who can shine a living light on the accurate truth? Do you still wait for science to do so, when science had already offered you everything that it knows since high school? Throughout this book, we model life in all significant details, as we study everything alive and intelligent, from the smallest cellular components to the entire human body, mind, and spirit, and to all forms of life, because everything is alive and meaningful in the world. If you want to learn more about life in all forms and realities, this book is for you.
Life Forms And Meaning Structure
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Author : Alfred Schutz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Life Forms And Meaning Structure written by Alfred Schutz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Philosophy categories.
This volume contains a translation of four early manuscripts by Alfred Schutz, unpublished at the time, written between 1924 and 1928. The publication of these four essays adds much to our knowledge and appreciation of the wide range of Schutz’s phenomenological and sociological interests. Originally published in 1987. The essays consist of: a challenging presentation of a phenomenology of cognition and a treatment of Bergson’s conceptions of images, duration, space time and memory; a discussion of the meanings connected with the grammatical forms of language in general; a consideration of the relation between meaning-contents and literary forms in poetry, literary prose narration and dramatic presentation; and an examination of resemblances and differences in the inner forms and characteristics of the major theatrical art forms.
Forms Of Life
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Author : Martin Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-23
Forms Of Life written by Martin Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-23 with Characters and characteristics in literature categories.
The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral imagination--the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and complexities--emerge fictional persons through whom we learn to read ourselves. This eloquent book, exploring fictional lives in crucial moments of choice and change, stresses both their difference from and their deep connections with life. Martin Price writes here about ways in which character has been conceived and presented in the novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with chapters that cogently argue the artistic value of character, Price then deals with the different forms character has taken in individual novels. His first discussions center on authors--Jane Austen, Stendhal, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy--who define individuals by their adherence or opposition to social norms. The next chapters deal with novelists for whom the moral world is largely internalized. The characters of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster live in society and act upon it, but the authors are particularly concerned with the confusions, terrors, and heroism that lie within consciousness. The last chapter uses novels about the artist by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Mann in order to apprehend the process by which experience is transformed into art. Avoiding both formalistic and moralistic extremes, this new book by a distinguished critic helps us recover a fuller sense of literary form and the forms of life from which it emerges.
Knowledge Of Life
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Author : Georges Canguilhem
language : en
Publisher: Forms of Living
Release Date : 2008
Knowledge Of Life written by Georges Canguilhem and has been published by Forms of Living this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Fran ois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that seek to establish and clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of philosophical and biological concepts that defined the rise of modern biology. How do transformations in biology and modern medicine shape conceptions of life? How do philosophical concepts feed into biological ideas and experimental practices, and how are they themselves transformed? How does knowledge "undo the experience of life so as to help man remake what life has made without him, in him or outside of him?" Knowledge of Life is Canguilhem's effort to explain how the movements of knowledge and life come to rest upon each other. Published at the dawn of the genetic revolution and still pertinent today, the book tackles the history of cell theory, the conceptual moves toward and away from mechanical understandings of the organism, the persistence of vitalism, and the nature of normality in science and its objects.
The Life Of Forms In Art
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Author : Henri Focillon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Life Of Forms In Art written by Henri Focillon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Art categories.
Considers the problem of stylistic change in art, arguing that art is not reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants
Polyextremophiles
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Author : Joseph Seckbach
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Polyextremophiles written by Joseph Seckbach and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with Science categories.
Many Microorganisms and some macro-organisms can live under extreme conditions. For example, high and low temperature, acidic and alkaline conditions, high salt areas, high pressure, toxic compounds, high level of ionizing radiation, anoxia and absence of light, etc. Many organisms inhabit environments characterized by more than one form of stress (Polyextremophiles). Among them are those who live in hypersaline and alkaline, hot and acidic, cold/hot and high hydrostatic pressure, etc. Polyextremophiles found in desert regions have to copy with intense UV irradiation and desiccation, high as well as low temperatures, and low availability of water and nutrients. This book provides novel results of application to polyextremophiles research ranging from nanotechnology to synthetic biology to the origin of life and beyond.
Atlas Of Life On Earth
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Atlas Of Life On Earth written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Animals, Fossil categories.
Extraterrestrial Life
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Author : NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Extraterrestrial Life written by NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Life on other planets categories.
Sessional Papers
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Author : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Sessional Papers written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Ontario categories.