For over forty years, Dr Marvin Brown served the medical needs of the inhabitants in and around a small town in central New York State. Throughout the challenges, frustrations, rewards, and triumphs of his chosen path, Dr Brown was blessed with the unfailing love and support of his beloved wife and children. This book talks about Dr Marvin Brown.
The doggedness and tenacity of America's neo-fundamentalists have resulted in wave after wave of attacks on rational inquiry and the scientific method. This collection of papers attests to the deep concern of these humanists for the fate of reason and free inquiry within the human community.
What can black leaders offer African Americans who lack worthy values and are often willfully illiterate? This book places an emphasis on empowerment rather than despair.
Answers the need for an alternative to recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction. This book aims to help non-religious alcoholics to maintain philosophical integrity while achieving the goal of lifelong sobriety. It also offers insights and suggestions for developing coping skills and regaining self-esteem through self-reliance.
Offers an account of the bloody, corruption-laden history of land speculation in America, from pre-colonial times to the election of President Thomas Jefferson. This work exposes the real motives influencing some of the major events in our nation's history while placing the lives and careers of America's forefathers in a disturbing light.
What constitutes a biblical ethic? Should the Bible be construed as the only basis for moral teaching? Is morality dependent upon God and "revealed truths" found in scripture? This work features essays that demonstrate a diversity of perspective and breadth of insight that can shed much needed light on the nature of ethics.
Demonstrates how the Gospels surpassed the expectations of their authors and influenced generations by creating an understanding of the nature of Jesus of Nazareth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the leading political philosophers of the Enlightenment. He sought to ground his political theory in an understanding of human nature, which he believed to be basically good. Here self-interest degenerated into a state of war from which humanity could only be extricated by the imposition of a contract.
What is man's true nature? How did capitalism gain such a foothold on Western society? What is alienation and how does it threaten to undermine the proletariat? This book addresses these questions. It offers Karl Marx's theory of human nature and an analysis of emerging capitalism's degenerative impact on man's sense of self and his potential.
