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Ethics 101
From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.
Ethics 101 offers an exciting look into the...
Truth
A Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2005
The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general...
by Paul Janet
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016
L’idéalisme jouit depuis quelques années d’une assez grande faveur auprès d’une certaine portion de la jeunesse philosophique de notre pays. Quelques esprits distingués qui ne veulent pas du matérialisme parce qu’il leur paraît une doctrine grossière, ni du spiritualisme parce que c’est,...
The American Philosopher
Interviews on the Meaning of Life and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Over the course of nearly a decade, Phillip McReynolds conducted a series of interviews with prominent American philosophers including, among others, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Joseph Margolis, Richard Bernstein, Bruce Wilshire, John Lachs, Richard Shusterman, and Crispin Sartwell. The American...
100 pagine di filosofia
Le origini del pensiero occidentale
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Il pensiero greco da Talete a Parmenide, da Socrate a Plotino, passando per Platone e Aristotele. Un testo divulgativo, scritto in maniera semplice, e soprattutto ideale per chi si vuole approcciare per la prima volta alla storia della filosofia.
L'autore
Luca Falchi, architetto,...
The Philosophy Of Praxis
Marx, Lukács And The Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Philosophy of Praxis examines the work of four Marxist thinkers, the early Marx and Lukács, and the Frankfurt School philosophers Adorno and Marcuse. The book holds that fundamental philosophical problems are in reality social problems, abstractly conceived. This argument has two implications: on...
La Jeunesse de Friedrich Nietzsche – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de La jeunesse de Friedrich Nietzsche de Théodore de Wyzewa.
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Freud
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, gender studies, philosophy, cultural...
Treatise on Tolerance
From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "Treatise on Tolerance” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Treatise on Tolerance was Voltaire's first major philosophical work in his battle against the infamous. The text aims at the rehabilitation of Jean Calas, a...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
by Charles Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise...
Princeton Readings in Political Thought
Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology
This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first...
by Frederick Beiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex...
by S. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments.