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Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism

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Authors:
  1. Manfred S. Frings

    1. DePaul University, USA

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Part of the book series: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library (MNPL, volume 20)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Manfred S. Frings
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Three Characters of Absolute Time

    • Manfred S. Frings
    Pages 13-39

  4. The Impulsion of Life

    • Manfred S. Frings
    Pages 40-61

  5. Mind and the Genesis of Human Ideas

    • Manfred S. Frings
    Pages 62-91

  6. The Unfinished Idea of Man

    • Manfred S. Frings
    Pages 92-141

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 142-149
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About this book

There is little more than a decade left before the bells allover the world will be ringing in the first hour of the twenty-first century, which will surely be an era of highly advanced technology. Looking back on the century that we live in, one can realize that generations of people who have already lived in it for the better parts of their lives have begun to ask the same question that also every individual person thinks about when he is faced with the first signs of the end of his life. It is the question: "Why did everything in my life happen the way it did?" Or, "It would have been so easy to have channelled events into directions other than the way they went. " Or, "Why, in all the world, is my life coming to an end as it does, or, why must all of us face this kind of end of our century?" Whenever human beings take retrospective views of their lives and times - when they are faced with their own personal "fin du siecle" - there appears to be an increasing anxiety throughout the masses asso­ ciated with a somber feeling of pessimism, which may even be mixed with a slight degree of fatalism. There is quite another feeling with those persons who were born late in this century and who did not share all the events the older generation experi­ enced.

Authors and Affiliations

  • DePaul University, USA

    Manfred S. Frings

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy of Prediction and Capitalism

  • Authors: Manfred S. Frings

  • Series Title: Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3637-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3542-6Published: 30 June 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8127-6Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3637-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0168-5090

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 149

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Sociology, general, Philosophy, general

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