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Expresa el desengaño del mundo mientras intenta dar una lección moral. El Criticón viaja a través de las edades del hombre mediante el diálogo entre un personaje maduro, Critilo (encarna el juicio y la reflexión) y otro joven, Andrenio (criado por una fiera, hombre natural y sin contacto social)....

Buddha, The Gospel By Paul Carus The core Buddhist scriptures in a single volume, including the life of Buddha and his most important teachings: the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and much more.

This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during Romania’s Communist regime. The lectures deal with a diverse range of topics, such as the function of the question, self-deception, banalities with a metaphysical dimension, and how the...

This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is not a predicate.” The...

Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, distinguished philosophers contribute valuable studies that illuminate and clarify the central problems to which Hempel was devoted. The essays enhance...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Narcisse ou l'amant de lui-même de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. -...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Le Persifleur de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. - Accédez instantanément...

Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, , course: International Teilhard Asia Conference 2006 Manila, Philippinen, August 200, language: English, abstract: The aim of the present article is to situate the Teilhardian vision of 'unification of all in Christ'...

Partez à la découverte de Saint-Simon et du saint-simonisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Né à Paris, en 1760, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, lointain cousin du mémorialiste Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, apparaît à la fois comme le dernier encyclopédiste...

This is one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought. Wood explains Marx's views from a philosophical standpoint and defends him against common misunderstandings and criticisms. All the major philosophical topics in Marx's work are considered: the central concept of alienation;...

Astronomers discarded first hand visual observations, because each observer measured a star's transit as occurring at a different time. Physicists soon followed them, so that now instrumental measurements are the only data that physics and astronomy accept. The theory of evolution followed them in...

This entire literary endeavor to separate Biblical literalism from observable reality was prompted by the fact that one supposedly erudite scholar managed to propound on American National Public Radio (with a presumably straight face) the "fact" that the Colorado River's Grand Canyon, a notable feature...

The properly metaphysical dimension of Augustine's thought has received little special attention among scholars - even "Scholastics. " The Thomist metaphysicians - especially we "Anglo-Saxon" ones - receive first honors for being the most neglectful of all. Why? I t is a puzzling...

La presente obra es ya un clásico de la historiografía filosófica. Publicada en castellano por primera vez en 1954, ha contribuido a la formación en filosofía de varias generaciones tanto en España con en América Latina. Johannes Hirschberger aspira a fundir la actividad historiográfica con...