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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was...
by Kevin Burns
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
An introduction to three great philosophical traditions, namely those of India, the Middle East and the Far East. Fifty eastern thinkers are covered. Each is placed within the context of his or her own tradition and key ideas are explored together with relevant biographical information. The book focuses...
El pensamiento moderno
Filosofía del Renacimiento
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 7, 2013
En este ensayo, Villoro compara el pensamiento moderno con el renacentista, y con ello reinterpreta el Renacimiento a través de la modernidad. Para el filósofo, es en los siglos XV y XVI cuando se manifiesta el primer germen de lo que será un giro decisivo en la imagen del mundo y del hombre y...
English Writings of Hu Shih
National Crisis and Public Diplomacy (Volume 3)
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Hu Shih (1891-1962), Chinese philosopher, historian and diplomat. In the 1910s, Hu studied at Cornell University and later Columbia University, both in the United States. At Columbia, he was greatly influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and became a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change....
Nietzsche and Napoleon
The Dionysian Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Among Nietzsche’s favourite authors were Bonapartists, who largely formed Nietzsche’s view of Napoleon – open the pages of the Nietzschean corpus and you will find a Napoleonic landscape, and Nietzsche’s promotion of Napoleon serves to support the Bonapartist movement of the late nineteenth...
Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love
Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This book is the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's rich and complex theory of the type of self-love (amour propre ) that, for him, marks the central difference between humans and the beasts. Amour propre is the passion that drives human individuals to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or...
The Machiavellian Moment
Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other...
Plato’s Protagoras
Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book presents a thorough study and an up to date anthology of Plato’s Protagoras. International authors' papers contribute to the task of understanding how Plato introduced and negotiated a new type of intellectual practice – called philosophy – and the strategies that this involved. They...
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
Rationality without Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through conjectures and refutations, to his own development, by portraying him in his intellectual growth as...
by Jasper Reid
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The book surveys the key metaphysical contributions of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614–1687). It deals with such interwoven topics as: the natures of body and spirit, and the question of whether or not there is a sharp ontological division between them; the nature of spatial extension...
Theology after the Birth of God
Atheist Conceptions in Cognition and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist trajectory that has long been suppressed within the discipline of theology.
Hegel's Introduction to the System
Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences. These offered the best introduction to his philosophic system,...
by Emil Schlagintweit
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Buddhism In Tibet by Emil Schlagintweit
This mid-19th Century work is one of the few public domain descriptions of Tibetan Buddhism we have found. Desipte the sketchy knowledge of Buddhism in Europe at the time, this has a surprising level of detail about the subject, due to the pioneering...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the first and arguably most important treatise on ethics in Western philosophy. It remains to this day a compelling reflection on the best sort of human life and continues to inspire contemporary thought and debate. This Cambridge Companion includes twenty essays...