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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Irrealism in Ethics presents a collection of six original essays contributed by prominent moral philosophers that address various forms of the philosophical position of ethical irrealism.
Addresses various forms of the philosophical position of ethical irrealism
Presents arguments both for and...
Volume 21, Tome II: Cumulative Index
Index of Names, L-Z
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This last volume of Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources is a cumulative index to all the volumes of the series. The series was originally designed in a systematic fashion in order to make it as easily usable and accessible as possible. The individual parts of the series and the...
Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy
Arguments and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Does philosophy have a timeless essence? Are the writings that have come down to us over the centuries from philosophers of genius mere souvenirs from a bygone era? Or are their thoughts still eminently worth examining with care?
Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy argues pondering past philosophy...
by Russell B. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and the romantics (or 'transcendentalists') Emerson...
Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion
Descartes and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy...
Knowledge and Demonstration
Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
This study explores the theoretical relationship between Aristotle’s theory of syllogism and his conception of demonstrative knowledge. More specifically, I consider why Aristotle’s theory of demonstration presupposes his theory of syllogism. In reconsidering the relationship between Aristotle’s...
Analytic Philosophy in America
And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the...
Paradise Postponed
Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Aesthetic Origins
Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Sources of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
While it is gaining in academic prominence, discussion of the imagination is too often neglected. Society is dangerously unaware of the intimate relationship between culture and politics, ethics and aesthetics. Challenging this, Jay Patrick Starliper examines the imagination through the lens of the...
by Charles de Rémusat
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
L’Écosse est un peu oubliée. Le temps n’est pourtant pas si éloigné où la raison, l’imagination, l’amour de la vérité, de la poésie, de la nature, dirigeaient vers ce pays et nos esprits et nos pas. La voix de maîtres respectés...
by Charles de Rémusat
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Première partie Et ce Locke en un mot dont la main courageuse A de la vérité posé la borne heureuse. Voltaire parlait ainsi, et on l’en croyait : temps heureux, jours de certitude et d’espérance ! On ne doutait guère alors, et en métaphysique...
by Charles de Rémusat
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 16, 2015
« Vous dites, écrivait le poète Gray à un de ses amis, que vous ne pouvez concevoir comment lord Shaftesbury est parvenu à être un philosophe en vogue. Je vous le dirai. D’abord il était lord. Secondement, il était aussi vain qu’aucun de ses...
Sapere aude I
Festschrift zum 75. Geburtstag von Wolfgang Deppert
Language: German
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Als Vertreter der philosophischen Disziplin „Wissenschaftstheorie“ hat sich Professor Dr. Wolfgang Deppert in seiner akademischen Wirksamkeit darum gekümmert, Philosophie nicht als einen Hort geistigen Museumswissens zu verstehen, sondern philosophisches Denken möglichst auf die Probleme der heute...
Nur ein Versuch - Die Schrift und ihre Schöpfung
Die Schrift und ihre Schöpfung
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Epochenübergreifende Abhandlungen, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Flensburg (ehem. Universität Flensburg) (Institut für Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Derridas Grammatologie als Medienphilosophie , 20 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache:...