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Cover of Nine Thinkers
by Hercules Bantas
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012

Each chapter in this volume is dedicated to an idea that helped shape our world. We begin with Plato's inspired discussion of the many faces of love in The Symposium, in which he suggests that not all love is equal. In the second chapter, Aristotle cast aside religious dogma and uses logic and reason...
Cover of Of The Conduct Of The Understanding
by John Locke
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Cover of Maimonides and Spinoza

Maimonides and Spinoza

Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature

by Joshua Parens
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact...
Cover of The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label. The collection of original essays...
Cover of Utopías del renacimiento
by Tomás Moro, Tomaso Campanella, Francis Bacon
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2010

Es muy significativo que ideas y realidades que actualmente se discuten con calor tengan su fuente original en alguna utopía, y que dichas ideas fuesen consideradas en sus días como descabelladas y producto de la imaginación febril de un soñador.
Cover of Utopía
by Tomás Moro, Agustín Millares Carlo, Gerardo Villadelángel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2016

Tomás Moro elabora una reflexión sobre las condiciones sociales de la Inglaterra del siglo XVI valiéndose de su enorme talento literario. Las implicaciones y las condiciones de una ficticia sociedad perfecta le permitieron identificar los aspectos negativos de su entorno. Su crítica hacia la organización...
Cover of Richard Wagner in Bayreuth / Der Fall Wagner / Nietzsche contra Wagner
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: July 2, 2016

Friedrich Nietzsche: Richard Wagner in Bayreuth / Der Fall Wagner / Nietzsche contra Wagner Richard Wagner in Bayreuth: Erstdruck: Leipzig (E.W. Fritzsch) 1876. Der Fall Wagner: Erstdruck: Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1888. Nietzsche contra Wagner: Erstdruck: Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1889. Neuausgabe mit einer...
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Zur Genealogie der Moral

Eine Streitschrift

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Friedrich Nietzsche: Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift In seiner vielleicht einflussreichsten Schrift überhaupt verzichtet Nietzsche auf die sonst vielbemühten Aphorismen und arbeitet systematisch historische Entwicklungen und psychologische Bedingungen moralischer Wertsetzungen heraus....
Cover of Meine Schwester und ich
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: October 11, 2013

"Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato." Giordano Bruno. Achtung: Dieses Buch ist eine Fälschung, aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach! Dennoch ist es ein faszinierendes Buch. Es steckt voller überraschender Einsichten, ungewöhnlichen Assoziationen und verrückten Umkehrungen des Blickwinkels. Es ist dem...
Cover of Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: October 7, 2015

"Was also ist Wahrheit? Ein bewegliches Heer von Metaphern, Metonymien, Anthropomorphismen kurz eine Summe von menschlichen Relationen, die, poetisch und rhetorisch gesteigert, übertragen, geschmückt wurden, und die nach langem Gebrauche einem Volke fest, canonisch und verbindlich dünken:...
Cover of Der Wanderer und sein Schatten
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2017

Friedrich Nietzsche: Der Wanderer und sein Schatten Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich Nietzsche: Werke in drei Bänden. Band 1, Herausgegeben von Karl Schlechta. München: Hanser, 1954. Die Paginierung...
Cover of Götzen-Dämmerung

Götzen-Dämmerung

oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert

by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: July 2, 2016

Friedrich Nietzsche: Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert Erstdruck: Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1889. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich Nietzsche: Werke in drei Bänden. Herausgegeben...
Cover of Jacob Sigismund Beck’s Standpunctslehre and the Kantian Thing-in-itself Debate

Jacob Sigismund Beck’s Standpunctslehre and the Kantian Thing-in-itself Debate

The Relation Between a Representation and its Object

by Lior Nitzan
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014

This book examines the unique views of philosopher Jacob Sigismund Beck, a student of Immanuel Kant who devoted himself to an exploration of his teacher's doctrine and to showing that Kant’s transcendental idealism is, contra to the common view, both internally consistent and is not a form of subjective...
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Kant's Idealism

New Interpretations of a Controversial Doctrine

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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010

This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant’s doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject. Well-known Kantians Karl Ameriks and Manfred Baum present their considered views on this...
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