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No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...

No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...

No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...

In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would...

In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material...

Per molti la filosofia è una disciplina astratta e inavvicinabile, che si esprime con un linguaggio respingente e tratta argomenti lontanissimi dalla concretezza della vita. Per altri è una materia affascinante; ma da dove cominciare per affrontarla? La risposta è in questa Breve storia della filosofia....

NOBEL LETTERATURA 1950 Vero e proprio capolavoro di sintesi e di chiarezza espositiva, la Storia della filosofia occidentale si offre come un quadro completo dello sviluppo del pensiero filosofico, all’interno del quale i singoli pensatori sono collocati nel loro contesto storico e sociale a dimostrazione...

Johann Gottfried von Herder war einer der einflussreichsten Schriftsteller und Denker deutscher Sprache im Zeitalter der Aufklärung und zählt mit Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang Goethe und Friedrich Schiller zum klassischen Viergestirn von Weimar. Herder war Geschichts- und Kultur-Philosoph der Weimarer Klassik.

Henry David Thoreau: Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat• Voll verlinkt, mit ePub-Inhaltsverzeichnis und verlinkten Fußnoten• In neuer, verbesserter Übersetzung• Mit dem englischen Originaltext im Anhang• Mit einem aktuellen Vorwort des Herausgebers (Juli/2013)»Wenn ungerechtes...

The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What...

With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including Epicureanism, humanism, Jewish and Arabic thought,...

Thinking Philosophically: An Introduction to the Great Debates presents a highly accessible introduction to five of the most fundamental debates in world philosophy. Introduces five fundamental philosophical debates in a highly engaging and accessible manner that invites readers to enter the...

Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents turns his attention to the insatiable quest for...