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by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1991
Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope...
Antigone elementare
Filosofia con i bambini della scuola primaria
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Questo commento all’Antigone di Sofocle deve la sua novità al fatto di avere come
autori bambine e bambini di dieci anni.
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school
Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick...
Who Am I?
And If So, How Many?
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
TRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
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What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book” (Tagesanzeiger Zürich), has traveled the globe...
Die Geburt der Tragödie
oder Griechentum und Pessimismus
Language: German
Release Date: July 2, 2016
Friedrich Nietzsche: Die Geburt der Tragödie oder Griechentum und Pessimismus Entstanden 1869/71. Erstdruck unter dem Titel »Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik«, Leipzig (E.W. Fritzsch) 1872. Neuausgabe unter dem Titel »Die Geburt der Tragödie oder Griechentum und Pessimismus« mit...
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Las obras màs importantes de Friedrich Nietzsche en una fantastica Antología con indice interactivo:
-Así habló Zaratustra
-La genealogía de la moral
-Más allá del bien y del mal
-El anticristo
-El nacimiento de la tragedia
Thomas Reid
Selected Philosophical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is the foremost exponent of the Scottish 'common sense' school of philosophy. Educated at Marischal College in Aberdeen, Reid subsequently taught at King's College, and was a founder of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. His Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles of...
Reconsidering C.B. MacPherson
From Possessive Individualism to Democratic Theory and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
C.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought. Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1991
Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension...
The Importance of Being Lazy
In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Drawing upon in-depth case studies of vacation habits and the observations of philosophers, writers, and sociologists such as Aristotle, Mark Twain and Thorstein Veblen, Al Gini argues why vacations are so venerated and why 'doing nothing' is a fundamental human necessity.
From shopping sprees...
The Philosophy Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Philosophy Book explains more than one hundred of the greatest ideas in philosophy through clear, succinct text and easy-to-follow graphics.
Using straightforward graphics and artworks, as well as thoroughly accessible text that elucidates more than two thousand years of philosophical thought,...
Examined Lives
From Socrates to Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living.
In...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective: this was the theme of the conference at the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K. U. L. ) from 29 November to 1 December 1991. Thirty years after Merleau Ponty's untimely death, it seemed appropriate to bring together scholars from...
The Theory of Descriptions
Russell and the Philosophy of Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project.