Surveys category: 1940 books

This book provides an exciting and diverse philosophical exploration of the role of practice and practices in human activity. It contains original essays and critiques of this philosophical and sociological attempt to move beyond current problematic ways of thinking in the humanities and social sciences....

The Collected Works of Spinoza: Complete Digital Edition, combining volumes I and II, provides for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done...

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact...

In Archetypes of Thought, originally published in 1991 with the title Philosophical Grounds, Thomas Molnar follows seven basic themes of Western philosophical speculation from their development in the earliest times of systematic thought through their evolution through the centuries and civilizations...

The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930, belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the...

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label. The collection of original essays...

Es muy significativo que ideas y realidades que actualmente se discuten con calor tengan su fuente original en alguna utopía, y que dichas ideas fuesen consideradas en sus días como descabelladas y producto de la imaginación febril de un soñador.

Tomás Moro elabora una reflexión sobre las condiciones sociales de la Inglaterra del siglo XVI valiéndose de su enorme talento literario. Las implicaciones y las condiciones de una ficticia sociedad perfecta le permitieron identificar los aspectos negativos de su entorno. Su crítica hacia la organización...

‘Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration. . . the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.’ Immanuel Kant (1724– 1804) remains a major influence in philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology, ethics, theology, political theory and aesthetics....

In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 A History of Western Philosophy to offer a concise single-author review of the complete history...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth / Der Fall Wagner / Nietzsche contra Wagner Richard Wagner in Bayreuth: Erstdruck: Leipzig (E.W. Fritzsch) 1876. Der Fall Wagner: Erstdruck: Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1888. Nietzsche contra Wagner: Erstdruck: Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1889. Neuausgabe mit einer...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift In seiner vielleicht einflussreichsten Schrift überhaupt verzichtet Nietzsche auf die sonst vielbemühten Aphorismen und arbeitet systematisch historische Entwicklungen und psychologische Bedingungen moralischer Wertsetzungen heraus....

"Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato." Giordano Bruno. Achtung: Dieses Buch ist eine Fälschung, aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach! Dennoch ist es ein faszinierendes Buch. Es steckt voller überraschender Einsichten, ungewöhnlichen Assoziationen und verrückten Umkehrungen des Blickwinkels. Es ist dem...

"Was also ist Wahrheit? Ein bewegliches Heer von Metaphern, Metonymien, Anthropomorphismen kurz eine Summe von menschlichen Relationen, die, poetisch und rhetorisch gesteigert, übertragen, geschmückt wurden, und die nach langem Gebrauche einem Volke fest, canonisch und verbindlich dünken:...