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Revise Philosophy for AS Level is the definitive revision guide for students of the Advanced Subsidiary level syllabus. Following the AQA syllabus, it helps students revise using past exam questions, examiner's reports, and tips on revision for the examination. Also included are a helpful glossary...

Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the `sixties and `seventies. In the last two decades, however, Davidson has continued to work in many areas of philosophy, offering new contributions, many of which are highly...

Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman,...

'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written...

Not only does* Nietzsche For Beginners* delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also give a clear picture of the puzzling time in which he lived. We meet the luminaries of the day – Richard Wagner, Bismarck, Freud, and Darwin – and see their influences...

La più grande opera di Leopardi, composta di oltre 4000 pagine vergate tra il 1817 e il 1832. Come indica anche il titolo, che completo è 'Zibaldone - Pensieri di varia filosofia e di bella letteratura', questa è una raccolta di pensieri di vario genere, esattamente come la ricetta emiliana da...

The great French philosophy Directory 1264 pages   French philosophy Peter Abelard Existentialism Phenomenology (philosophy) Structuralism René Descartes List of French philosophers Firmin Abauzit Miguel Abensour Jean le Rond d'Alembert Sarane Alexandrian...

Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science, which he later described as 'perhaps my most personal book', when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, and the reader will find in it an extensive and sophisticated treatment of the philosophical themes and views which were most central to Nietzsche's own...

"A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O Magazine Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with...

How people around the world grapple with the great questions posed by Socrates. What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become...

_______ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER ‘Deeply informative, moving, wise and full of love’ Alain de Botton Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? In Happy...

Nous aurons fait un grand pas en ce qui concerne la science esthétique, quand nous en serons arrivés non seulement à l’induction logique, mais encore à la certitude immédiate de cette pensée : que l’évolution progressive de l’art est le résultat du double caractère de l’esprit apollinien...

Includes the essay "Notes on Camp," the inspiration for the 2019 exhibition Notes on Fashion: Camp at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never...

**      不正義的另一種面貌 　　貶低一個人的人性， 　　並且剝奪一個人的力量的最好方法， 　　就是剝奪他的發言權** 　　正義是哲學裡面最古老、最核心的主題，人們總以為只要了解正義是什麼，便能以否定的方式來理解所謂的不正義。然而，本書作者弗里克透過揭示認知活動的倫理向度，將焦點從正義轉向了不正義，藉由不正義開展的空間，更深刻反思正義是什麼。 　　在不正義的範疇中，除了女性和少數群體所面臨的社會或政治不正義之外，還存在著一種獨特的認知類型的不正義，叫做知識的不正義。 　　這種不正義又分成兩類。 　　證言不正義：我們常因一個人的身分，而貶低了他話語的可信度，這樣是對那人作為一個「認知者」的不尊重和傷害，更會產生不正義的後果，比方說那人無法伸冤。常見例子是兒童對於性騷擾的指控常遭大人漠視，或是警察因為你是黑人而不予採信你的證詞。在無法伸冤下，他們往往會繼續被騷擾或欺壓，因此可能懷疑自我的價值，認為自己低人一等，不值得被人所相信。 　　書中舉了哈波．李（Harper...