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El Renacimiento se interesó en la subjetividad del hombre, enfocando la necesidad de su estudio en la búsqueda de sí mismo. Descartes, por su parte, reconoce la relación del hombre con el mundo y también la necesidad de canalizarla en su favor.En este afán de Descartes está presente un nuevo...

The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener showcases Martin Gardner as the consummate philosopher, thinker, and great mathematician that he is. Exploring issues that range from faith to prayer to evil to immortality, and far beyond, Garnder challenges the discerning reader with fundamental questions of...

André Comte-Sponville, uno de los grandes nombres de la filosofía popular, ha captado para los lectores la quintaesencia del pensamiento de los grandes autores y filósofos, de la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días: Aristóteles, Descartes, Spinoza, Alain, Schopenhauer, Camus… En esta obra...

Desde los años setenta y las obras de Paul Veyne, Hayde White y Michel de Certeau, los historiadores han discutido dos cuestiones esenciales: por un lado, la tensión entre la forma retórica y narrativa de la historia, compartida con la ficción, y su estatuto de conocimiento comprobado; por el...

An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect. An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete examples that should call the reader to a higher level of critical thinking and self-perception.

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror...

Philosophy of Mind: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major topics within philosophy of mind. Robb and O'Connor have carefully chosen articles under the following headings: *Substance Dualism and Idealism *Materialism *Mind and...

As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito, Socrates Against Athens provides valuable historical and cultural context to our understanding of the trial.

Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is increasingly influencing the shape of the world from business and politics to achieving personal goals. Here, Leonard Peikoff—Rand’s heir—explains how you can communicate philosophical ideas with conviction, logic, and, most of all, reason. Based...

"Human, All-Too-Human (Parts I and II)" is a collection of philosophical aphorisms by famed philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The first part, originally published in 1878, is a collection of 638 aphorisms in which Nietzsche discusses metaphysics, the Christian idea of good and evil, religious worship,...

Michael Inwood, an eminent scholar of German philosophy, presents a full and detailed new commentary on a classic work of the nineteenth century. Philosophy of Mind is the third part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, in which he summarizes his philosophical system. It is one...

George Berkeley (1685–1753) was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies associated with the Scientific Revolution. Accordingly,...

Si se han podido inyectar miles de millones de dólares en el sistema bancario mundial en un intento desesperado por estabilizar los mercados financieros, ¿por qué no se han podido unir las mismas fuerzas para afrontar la pobreza mundial y la crisis medioambiental? Sin dejar títere con cabeza,...

This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which...