“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)

“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)

Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we con...(展开全部)

Nothing is not. Yet it seems that we invoke absences and nothings often in our philosophical explanations. Negative metaphysics is on the rise. It has been claimed that absences can be causes, there are negative properties, absences can be perceived, there are negative facts, and we can refer to and speak about nothing. Parmenides long ago ruled against such things. Here we con...(展开全部)

When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing, she knows there's absolutely, DEFINITELY no way there...(展开全部)

Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little room for God. Cosmologists have rolled back their theories to the moment of the Big Bang, the discovery of DNA reveals the ke...(展开全部)

Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little room for God. Cosmologists have rolled back their theories to the moment of the Big Bang, the discovery of DNA reveals the ke...(展开全部)

理查德·斯温伯恩(Richard Swinburne)，牛津大学基督教哲学诺罗斯教席(Nolloth Professor)教授，当代最著名的宗教哲学家之一，有“当代阿奎那”之美誉。其著作有：《有神论的连贯性》(1977)，《论上帝的存在》(1979)，《理性与信仰》(1981)，《灵魂的演化》(1986)，《责任与救赎》(1989)，《启示》(1991)，《基督徒的上帝》(1994)，《认识论的证明》(2001)等。

维尔纳·桑巴特，Werner Sombart (1863～1941)，德国经济学家、社会学家。1863年1月19日生于德国埃姆斯勒本的富裕的中产阶级家庭，1882年起在华河大学和柏林大学学习法律和经验，1888年获得柏林大学博士学位，后留学意大利。1888—1890年任布莱门商会会长，1890年-1906年任布莱斯劳大学副教授（经济学特别教职），在这里，桑巴特开始了资本主义和社会主义问题的研究，并取得了丰富的成果。 1906年，在完成《为什么美国没有社会主义》一书后不久，他离开了布列斯劳大学，来到柏林商业大学，并在那里获得教授职位。1918年任柏林大学教授。1931年他成为荣誉退休教授，结束了正式的学术生涯。1941年5月18日卒于柏林。桑巴特曾与马克斯·韦伯、费迪南·滕尼斯共同创立德国社会学学会，并合办了《社会科学与社会政策》杂志。桑巴特一生著述甚...(展开全部)

维尔纳·桑巴特，Werner Sombart (1863～1941)，德国经济学家、社会学家。1863年1月19日生于德国埃姆斯勒本的富裕的中产阶级家庭，1882年起在华河大学和柏林大学学习法律和经验，1888年获得柏林大学博士学位，后留学意大利。1888—1890年任布莱门商会会长，1890年-1906年任布莱斯劳大学副教授（经济学特别教职），在这里，桑巴特开始了资本主义和社会主义问题的研究，并取得了丰富的成果。 1906年，在完成《为什么美国没有社会主义》一书后不久，他离开了布列斯劳大学，来到柏林商业大学，并在那里获得教授职位。1918年任柏林大学教授。1931年他成为荣誉退休教授，结束了正式的学术生涯。1941年5月18日卒于柏林。桑巴特曾与马克斯·韦伯、费迪南·滕尼斯共同创立德国社会学学会，并合办了《社会科学与社会政策》杂志。桑巴特一生著述甚...(展开全部)