Free Will Determinism category: 515 books

Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what...

Les Essais sont l'œuvre majeure de Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), à laquelle il travaille de 1572 jusqu'à sa mort. Ils traitent de tous les sujets possibles, sans ordre apparent : médecine, livres, affaires domestiques, chevaux, maladien 1 entre autres, auxquels Montaigne mêle des réflexions...

Lo scritto di Tolstoj, La schiavitù del nostro tempo (1900), apparso per la prima volta in Italia all’inizio del Novecento e da allora mai più pubblicato, viene qui presentato in una nuova traduzione. A questo testo sono stati accostati altri scritti brevi che consentono di ricostruire lo sviluppo...

«Cuando Jesús dijo a sus discípulos: “Si tuvierais fe como un grano de mostaza, diríais a esta montaña: muévete hasta allí, y se movería”, se refería evidentemente a una montaña simbólica. La montaña representa las grandes dificultades de la vida que sólo la fe nos permite mover,...

«¿Por qué la mayoría de los humanos dejan que sus tendencias instintivas se desarrollen libremente sin permitir que sus facultades superiores las controlen, las orienten?... O por el contrario, se enfrentan a ellas para eliminarlas como si fuesen enemigas de su evolución. Pues bien, en ambos...

He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film. In 1908 The Old Wives' Tale was published and was an immediate success throughout the English-speaking world. His style was traditional rather than modern, which made him an obvious...

Montesquieu left two great legacies to the world: He formulated the theory of the British constitution which held the field for a century, and was the foundation of every constitutional government established during that period; and he gave a new direction to the study of legal and political science....

Edith Stein's doctoral dissertation under Husserl, with index.  Early in Edith Stein's philosophical output stands her doctoral dissertation defended in 1916 at Freiburg-im-Breisgau. On the Problem of Empathy is the fruit of several years' work with the founder of phenomenology...

Edith Stein's analysis of the interplay between the philosophy of psychology and cultural studies, particularly psychoanalytic theory and behaviorism. Contains a fully linked Index. More Information: "Do I have to?" is the most human of all questions. Children ask it when told to...

Is a person's decision to kill himself always wrong? Is his thinking irrational? Who has the right to stop him?This is a continuation and expansion of David Hume's essay with the same name.A modern-language version of David Hume's essay follows. A link is provided to the original essay.

Der Gang durch die Natur als Heilmittel gegen die Unbilden der Zivilisation: Für den berühmten Autor von 'Walden' sind solche Streifzüge Akte der Reinigung von Körper und Geist. 'On Walking' ist ein ebenso lebenskluger wie stilistisch brillanter Essay.

William James, (born Jan. 11, 1842, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Aug. 26, 1910, Chocorua, N.H.), American philosopher and psychologist, a leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism and of the psychological movement of functionalism.   The work of William James, a leader of the...

Any state exists only for the benefit of human beings.  This basic tenet of Edith Stein's political thought rests on her conviction that humanity is fundamentally one community, precious beyond measure.  Differences of race, culture, and language offer us means to grasp the values of life...

A Platonic dialogue about living a life of pleasure. The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has begun to alter, and the dramatic and poetical element has become subordinate to the speculative and philosophical. In the development of abstract thought great...