History Criticism category: 15616 books
Come essere stoici
Riscoprire la spiritualità degli antichi per vivere una vita moderna
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2017
I dodici principi dello stoico
Evitare reazioni affrettate
Ricordarsi della transitorietà delle cose
Scegliere obiettivi in nostro potere
Essere virtuosi
Prendersi un momento e respirare profondamente
Mettere i problemi in prospettiva
Parlare poco e bene
Scegliere in modo accorto le proprie...
Hegel's Political Philosophy
On the Normative Significance of Method and System
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Hegel famously argues that his speculative method is a foundation for claims about socio-political reality within a wider philosophical system. This systematic approach is thought a superior alternative to all other ways of philosophical thinking. Hegel's method and system have normative significance...
Steeds als ik de zin van het leven te pakken heb, komen ze met iets nieuws
levenslessen van grote filosofen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Als jongeman hield Daniel Klein een schriftje bij met korte citaten en levenslessen van grote filosofen, voorzien van eigen commentaar. Op gevorderde leeftijd vindt hij het schriftje terug. Hij raakt opnieuw geïnspireerd door deze denkers en door wat ze te melden hebben over de juiste manier van...
Van oude en nieuwe deugden
Levenskunst van Aristoteles tot Nussbaum
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Levenskunst is een manier om de zoektocht naar het goede leven vorm te geven. De westerse mens heeft de vrijheid veroverd om te kiezen wie hij wil zijn. Maar hoe die vrijheid in te vullen? En hoe kan een maatschappij vol vrije individuen goed functioneren? Daarvoor is een nieuwe moraal nodig die niet...
Pontano’s Virtues
Aristotelian Moral and Political Thought in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern moral and...
by Jay Stevenson PhD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Beginning with the pre-Socratics and Eastern philosophers, including religious philosophy, all major philosophers and schools are covered, right up to present day. The new edition includes more visual illustrations and pictures to further explain and enhance the subject of philosophy. Included are:
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A Real Mind
The Life and Work of Axel Hägerström
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
This comprehensive presentation of Axel Hägerström (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism. Based on his complete work, including unpublished...
Our Practices, Our Selves
Or, What it Means to Be Human
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
A book for everyone interested in learning how philosophy is done and what it can tell us about who we are.
The Individual without Passions
Modern Individualism and the Loss of the Social Bond
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
The innovative characteristic of the book lies in its tackling an extremely timely and important issue—mainly individualism—from the original point of view of a theory of passions. It underlines the importance of the problem of the passions both in forming individual identity and in building the...
by K. Gevirtz
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.
In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy...
A Dissertation on the Passions / Eine Dissertation über die Affekte
Englisch/Deutsch (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek)
Language: German
Release Date: July 8, 2016
David Hume war zeitlebens unzufrieden mit der Breitenwirkung seiner Schriften. Er verfasste deshalb einige Neufassungen seiner Werke, so 1757 mit der "Dissertation on the Passions" eine von Buch II seines berühmten "Treatise of Human Nature".Inhaltlich geht es um die Entstehung...
Receptions of Descartes
Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in...
A Common Humanity
Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, A Common...