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Practical Ethics
A Collection of Addresses and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1998
A classic work in the field of practical and professional ethics, this collection of nine essays by English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was first published in 1898 and forms a vital complement to Sidgwick's major treatise on moral theory, The Methods of Ethics. Reissued here...
Hegel's Discovery of the Philosophy of Spirit
Autonomy, Alienation, and the Ethical Life: The Jena Lectures 1802-1806
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means for overcoming subjectivity and domination.
Kantian Ethics
Value, Agency, and Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about value. Stern then considers where this places Kant...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Kant infamously claimed that all human beings, without exception, are evil by nature. This collection of essays critically examines and elucidates what he must have meant by this indictment. It shows the role which evil plays in his overall philosophical project and analyses its relation to individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book reassesses the origins, development and legacy of the philosophy of the British idealists, demonstrating the enduring relevance of their thought for the modern discipline. This body of work coheres around the single unifying theme of the self – a concept of central importance to the idealist...
Cogito?
Descartes and Thinking the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Decartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. Joseph Almog is a Descartes analyst whose last book WHAT AM I? focused on the second half of this expression, Sum--who is the "I" who is existing-and-thinking and how does this...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the role and place of science in the humanities, religion, and the social sciences.
Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies...
Gesammelte Werke: Philosophische Schriften + Kulturgeschichtliche Werke + Romane + Erzählungen + Autobiografie
34 Titel in einem Buch: Der letzte Tod des Gautama Buddha + Aus dem Märchenbuch der Wahrheit + Wörterbuch der Philosophie + Hypatia + Der neue Ahasver + Kritik der Sprache + Der Atheismus + Spinoza
Language: German
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Philosophische Schriften + Kulturgeschichtliche Werke + Romane + Erzählungen + Autobiografie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923) war ein deutschsprachiger...
by Iddo Landau
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
In Is Philosophy Androcentric?, Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed....
by Pino Perriello
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Come nasce il male? Cosa lega il male alla paura? Quando ha cominciato il male a imitare il bene? Perché il libero arbitrio non ci protegge dal male? Come fanno maschere e menzogne a servire il male?
Da queste domande parte un’indagine appassionata alla ricerca delle radici del male, del primo...
Socrate in giardino
Passeggiate filosofiche tra gli alberi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 29, 2014
La filosofia come cura di sé, come esercizio per vivere meglio, per trasformare se stessi e i luoghi in cui viviamo, che sono parte di noi: dunque non una filosofia speculativa, astratta e lontana, ma la ricerca di una saggezza e di una felicità immanente. Andrée Bella parla proprio di questo ma...
Nature and the Artificial
Aristotelian Reflections on the Operative Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
For years now much attention has been given to the phenomenon of the artificial. Speculation regarding “what is real?” abounds in the sciences, literature, as well as films and other visual arts. This work presents the first critical, sustained, philosophical study on this topic.
Nature and the...
by Robert J. Fogelin
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Why did David Hume feel so deeply about publishing The Dialouges Concerning Natural Religion that he set aside funds in his will providing for its posthumous publication? Part of the answer is that it provided a literary, satirical work responding to his mean-spirited theological critics. In Hume's...
Bishop Joseph Butler and Wang Yangming
A Comparative Study of Their Moral Vision and View of Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This book is a comparative study of the Anglican Bishop Joseph Butler’s and Neo-Confucianist Wang Yangming’s ethical enterprise. It first analyses, within their respective historical context, the two thinkers’ overarching worldviews and their seminal conception of conscience / liang-chih as...