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Tommaso Campanella
The Book and the Body of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period. His philosophical project centred upon the idea of reconciling Renaissance philosophy with...
VOLTAIRE: 60+ Works in One Volume - Philosophical Writings, Novels, Historical Works, Poetry, Plays & Letters
Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Voltaire's philosophical writings, novels, historical works, poetry, plays & letters. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. François-Marie Arouet...
The Philosophy of Voltaire - Collected Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato's Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable…
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: June 28, 2017
This unique collection of Voltaire's most renowned philosophical books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks...
by Henry Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The romantic growth and imaginative shaping of chivalric love having been followed in the fortunes of its great exemplars, Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, Parzival, a different illustration of mediaeval passion may be had by turning from these creations of literature to an actual woman, whose...
Utopia
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Saint Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More’s...
Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit
Translated with introduction and commentary
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this central work to the modern reader in an intelligible and accurate new translation....
by Håvard Løkke
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire notions of them? Should we rely on arguments? How do we come to make so many mistakes?
The author...
Dialogue
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Partez à la découverte du dialogue avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'entrée en dialogue paraît d'autant plus désirable que le partenaire est plus différent ou plus lointain. Le dialogue répond à une préoccupation éthique – il serait l'antiviolence par excellence – et à un...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
A preface explains the study of history as a purge of corruption from society and men. It notes the contrary view that sees history as food to enliven, build up and sustain culture. Chapter 1 states what history is, its logical justification, its difficulty in proving the events within it. It notes...
by Vladimir Antonov
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Since the very beginning of the existence of humankind on the Earth, God has been teaching people what He wants them to be, what is the meaning of human life, and how one can realize it. Let us look at what He has been teaching from the time of Atlantis — up to our days. We may see that His Teachings...
Philosophy in the Islamic World
A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by providing full coverage of Jewish and Christian...
Subjectivity
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Subjectivity, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought. Some critics of modernity reject the turn to the subject as a specifically modern error, arguing that it logically leads to nihilism...
by Nick Srnicek
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major...
by Nicholas Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute...