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Lettres morales – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Lettres morales de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie).
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A Sneetch is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries
Finding Wisdom in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Taking Picture Books Seriously: What can we learn about philosophy through children's books?
This warm and charming volume casts a spell on adult readers as it unveils the surprisingly profound philosophical wisdom contained in children's picture books, from Dr Seuss's Sneetches to William...
Retrieving the Radical Tillich
His Legacy and Contemporary Importance
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological landscape one dominated by the notion...
The Fragility of Goodness
Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made...
by Shinichi Nagao
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?' The essays belong to the second half of the century and...
by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...
The Rise of Man (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Sketch of the Origin of the Human Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Here is the evolution of man through the eyes of Dr. Carus. Opening with a chapter on divinity, he then charts the rise of man: “Anthropoid Apes,” “Primitive Man,” “Neanderthal Man,” as well as further sections on civilization, race, and a Darwinian chapter entitled, “The Triumph of the Best.”
A Rumor of Empathy
Rewriting Empathy in the Context of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity becomes the scandal of empathy in Lipps and Strachey. Yet when all the philosophical arguments and categories are complete and all the hermeneutic circles spun out, we are quite simply in the presence of another human being.
Figuratively Speaking
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J. Fogelin examines figures of speech that concern meaning--irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others--to show how they work and to explain their attraction. Building on the ideas of Grice and Tversky, Fogelin contends...
Hegel teologo
e l’imperdonabile assenza del «principe di questo mondo»
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 29, 2018
«Un’interpretazione originalissima, un Hegel inedito, non soltanto ripensato, ma che – meraviglia! – viene raccontato e per questo diviene finalmente leggibile.»
Elmar Salmann
«Un lavoro avvincente… nuovo e originale per quanto riguarda il significato complessivo del pensiero hegeliano…...
Interaction and Everyday Life
Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Essays in Honor of George Psathas
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the papers in this book, which come from scholars in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and...
Enlightenment Contested
Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking...
by Jon Nuttall
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest theories in the philosophy of mind, An Introduction to Philosophy provides clear and incisive discussion of the key areas of philosophy for students new...
by Zuzana Parusniková
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book studies Hume’s scepticism and its roots, context, and role in the philosopher’s life. It relates how Hume wrote his philosophy in a time of tumult, as the millennia-old metaphysical tradition that placed humans and their cognitive abilities in an ontological framework collapsed and gave...