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A Dissertation on the Passions / Eine Dissertation über die Affekte
Englisch/Deutsch (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2016
David Hume war zeitlebens unzufrieden mit der Breitenwirkung seiner Schriften. Er verfasste deshalb einige Neufassungen seiner Werke, so 1757 mit der "Dissertation on the Passions" eine von Buch II seines berühmten "Treatise of Human Nature".Inhaltlich geht es um die Entstehung...
Receptions of Descartes
Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in...
Models of the History of Philosophy
Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the Kantian Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie”...
Models of the History of Philosophy
Volume II: From Cartesian Age to Brucker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This volume is the translation of "Dall'età cartesiana a Brucker", the second volume of the multi-volume work "Storia delle storie generali della filosofia". It guides the reader from the Cartesian rejection of the ‘philosophical past’ that found voice in the work of Malebranche, to the establishment...
A Common Humanity
Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, A Common...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin? Do Renaissance philosophers have something in common, which distinguishes them from Early Modern philosophers? And ultimately, what defines the modernity of the Early Modern period, and what role did the Renaissance play in shaping...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical...
Prophecy
The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to...
by Catherine H. Zuckert
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Machiavelli is popularly known as a teacher of tyrants, a key proponent of the unscrupulous “Machiavellian” politics laid down in his landmark political treatise The Prince. Others cite the Discourses on Livy to argue that Machiavelli is actually a passionate advocate of republican politics who...
Self
Philosophy In Transit
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In the third in a new series of short, provoking books of original philosophy, acclaimed thinker Barry Dainton takes us through the nature of Self
When you think 'What am I?', what's actually doing the thinking? Is it a soul, or some other kind of mental entity separate from your body, or are...
Philosophy, Science, and History
A Guide and Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Philosophy, Science, and History: A Guide and Reader is a compact overview of the history and philosophy of science that aims to introduce students to the groundwork of the field, and to stimulate innovative research. The general introduction focuses on scientific theory change, assessment, discovery,...
Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition
Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy. These papers are dedicated to Jan Wolenski to honor his 60th birthday. Jan Wolenski is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He is likely...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon,...
by Nicholas Rescher
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces us to the major thinkers, texts, and historical periods of Western philosophy, recounting many of the stories philosophers have used over time to engage...