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A New Buddhist Ethics' offers a different approach to tackling moral issues, using the Middle Way originally inspired by the Buddha. It aims to free Buddhist ethcs from karma, rebirth, and the revelations of the enlightened. Robert M. Ellis has been developing a universal philosophy of the Middle Way. Here he applies this approach to issues of practical ethics. The Middle Way is a practical approach to ethics which avoids the delusions of eith...

This book is a critique of Buddhism by a philosopher with about 20 years' experience of practising Buddhism. It attempts to judge Buddhism by the standards of its own key insight of the Middle Way. This book argues that Buddhism has often abandoned the Middle Way and allowed dogmatic metaphysical assumptions to take its place. The Buddha criticised appeals to metaphysics, yet many of the trappings of traditional Buddhism are built on it - whet...

This book was originally written as an accredited Ph.D. thesis - but one that broke all the usual rules. Rather than focusing on a small area like most theses, this is a inter-disciplinary philosophical treatise that attempts to establish a new approach to the whole question of objectivity, especially in ethics. Inspired by the Buddhist Middle Way, but argued in Western terms from first premises, this book challenges widespread assumptions fou...

We are not single selves, but constantly meet conflicts of desire both within and beyond ourselves. We meet conflict at different levels, from everyday distraction, to the suffering of the addict, through even to world war. The integration of desire is the process of bringing opposing desires to work together, whether at the psychological or the political level. Robert M Ellis here brings together approaches that have previously been separated...

A furious woman with a dead baby haunts thinkers through the ages, from the Buddha and Jesus to Descartes, Hume and Jung. Her questions to them all are similar: Why am I suffering? Do I deserve this? Why is it allowed? Why do women particularly have to suffer like this? Can the baby be brought back to life? The answers, however, vary greatly. A practising philosopher who is also an amateur musician, Robert M. Ellis here turns to fiction to exp...

Sporting journalists o ften use religious language in covering sports events... Perhaps, somewhere beyond the cliched hyperbole, there is some theological truth in all this a fter all.

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An original and self-contained treatment of some key ideas in the abstract theory of topological dynamics, focussing on the role of automorphisms and equivalence relations. This approach leads to simpler proofs of classical results and provides motivation for further study, making this lucid book ideal for graduate students and researchers.

Part of a dispute between scholarly rivals, this 1867 book considers all the possible routes over the western Alps.

In The Games People Play, Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations. Using historical narrative and social analysis to enter the debate on sport as religion, Ellis shows that modern sport may be said to have taken on some of the functions previously vested in organized religion. Through biblical and theological reflection, he ...

A vigorous scholarly dispute arose with the publication of this book by classicist Robert Ellis in 1853.

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Inmensa, vibrante e infinitamente diversa, la India siempre ha fascinado a los viajeros por su cultura antigua y compleja, contrastes impresionantes y bellezas fisicas que a veces dejan sin palabras al emocionado espectador. Todavia profundamente arraigada en el pasado, la India tiene algo de espectaculo puro y mucho de desfile humano, con su profusion casi desconcertante de razas, lenguas y costumbres diferentes. Desde la cadena montanosa del...

Comprehensive coverage of the identification, assessment, and management of biological hazards. - Serves as a resource for those involved in biological safety, including program managers, biological safety professionals.

Migglism' is a short term for Middle Way Philosophy, a practical philosophical approach developed by Robert M. Ellis in a Ph.D. thesis and a series of books. Middle Way Philosophy brings together insights from Buddhism, philosophy and psychology to offer a framework of thinking for a range of integrative practices. This book introduces these ideas in an accessible way. 'The Middle Way' is not a compromise, but a process of navigating between d...

Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the gilded age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take "all knowledge to be my province”. He soon realized the difficulty of his task, but in the process of his study he posed two related questions which he understood better than any other man of his time: can human beings respect and obey nature, and can they also command nature?

A departure at right angles to thinking in the modern Western world. An important, original work, that should get the widest possible hearing" (Iain McGilchrist, author of The Master and his Emissary) Middle Way Philosophy is not about compromise, but about the avoidance of dogma and the integration of conflicting assumptions. To rely on experience as our guide, we need to avoid the interpretation of experience through unnecessary dogmas. Draw...

Excerpt from On the Safe Abolition of Pain: In Labour and Surgical Operations, by Anæsthesia With Mixed Vapours It must needs be superfluous for me to speak of the vast good which has arisen from the discovery of anæsthesia, whether by ether, or by chloroform. This little work was not designed for so trite a purpose. Neither has it been my object to advocate the use of one agent to the exclusion of others. My design has been to rob insensibil...

Excerpt from The Mathematical and Other Writings of Robert Leslie Ellis: With a Biographical Memoir About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections pres...

Excerpt from A Treatise on Hannibal's Passage of the Alps: In Which His Route Is Traced Over the Little Mont Cenis In the course of a series of excursions in the Alps, the attention of the Author had naturally been drawn to the subject of Hannibal's passage of those mountains. On a subsequent examination of Polybius' account of that expedition, it appeared almost certain that the prominent and distinguishing characteristics of the pass which ...