Böcker av F. F. Centore

This book brings together the chief elements of 3,000 years of philosophy as found mainly in Western thought in a highly readable form. The work concentrates on problems and issues much more than on names, dates and places. he book includes an extensive bibliography of works related to the main themes of the text, followed by a long list of names and dates of leading historical figures in various fields, especially in science, philosophy, and theology.

Lacking until now, from the many works that have been written on post-modernism, is one that scrutinizes its fundamental assumptions and presuppositions. Being and Becoming fills this need by synthesizing the key developments in contemporary post-modernism.

Centore's work is an inquiry into the weaknesses and strengths of the two basic positions in ethics: the man-centered model and the God-centered model for deciding between right and wrong behavior.

"Centore...approaches the question of the nature of human personality by way of logical division, identifying six possible and mutually exclusive positions.... [R]eadable...can be understood by lower-division undergraduates."-Choice