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HENRY BERGSON Premium Collection
Laughter, Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, Dreams & Meaning of the War & Dreams (From the Renowned Nobel Prize Winning Author & Philosopher)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II. Bergson is known for his influential arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than...
The Collected Works of Henri Bergson
Laughter, Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, Matter and Memory, Meaning of the War & Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness Creative Evolution Matter and Memory Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict Dreams
by Paul Strathern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Leibniz fue el primero de los grandes filósofos alemanes en producir un sistema filosófico omnicomprensivo. Llegó a la notable conclusión de que el tiempo y el espacio no existen, de que son suposiciones supersticiosas. Sólo las cosas existen, y sólo Dios es capaz de verlas como realmente son,...
by Paul Strathern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
La filosofía se puso realmente difícil con Hegel. Su método dialéctico produjo el más grandioso sistema metafísico que ha conocido el hombre. El propio Hegel admitió que "sólo existe un hombre que me entiende, y, en realidad, tampoco él". El sistema de Hegel abarca absolutamente...
by Paul Strathern
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Con Sócrates se inicia la gran época de la filosofía, transcurrido apenas un siglo desde sus comienzos. Sócrates dedicaba tanto tiempo a pasear por las calles de Atenas hablando de filosofía, que nunca llegó a escribir nada. Su método basado en preguntas provocadoras -lo que se llamó dialéctica-...
by Eva Brann
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Eva Brann, who has taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words: "The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides....
What is Orientation in Global Thinking?
A Kantian Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Starting from Kant's striking question 'What is orientation in thinking?', this book argues that the main challenge facing global normative theorising lies in its failure to acknowledge its conceptual inadequacies. We do not know how to reason globally; instead, we tend to apply our domestic political...
by Alain de Botton
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 23, 2016
«Un invito a adottare la filosofia come uno ‘stile di vita’... o come un efficace terapia contro il male di vivere.»
IL SOLE 24 ORE
La filosofia è inutile se non cura i turbamenti dell’anima, così come la medicina che non cura i dolori del corpo. Guidato da questo principio di Epicuro,...
My National Identity is My Pains
The Genesis Of Our Problems.
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
The renewed quest for an independent state of Biafra dates back to late 1960s. Biafra was first declared an independent state by Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu on 30th of May 1967, following the resolutions of the joint session of the Advisory Committee of Chiefs, Elders and the Consultative Assembly of...
Hegel's Thought in Europe
Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In a broad interdisciplinary perspective, established experts and leading young scholars bring together important currents of Hegelianism in Europe from the 19th to the 21st century to trace the political, social and intellectual contexts in which Hegel's philosophy was taken up and inspired very different forms of Hegelianism and Anti-Hegelianism.
Cuentos filosóficos
Una historia alternativa que nos descubre los personajes, las tramas y las escenas ocultas de la verdadera historia de la filosofía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 2, 2016
¿Realmente fue Sócrates esa especie de santo en que lo convirtió la filosofía posterior a él?
¿Por qué es dudoso que Descartes haya dicho realmente «pienso, luego existo»?
¿Y qué demonios tenía Sartre en contra de los camareros?
Este libro examina los fascinantes detalles...
¿Quién soy yo y...cuántos?
Un viaje filosófico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Convertido en un fenómeno sin precedentes, esta obra es una original introducción a la filosofía, divertida y erudita a la par, que entremezcla pensamiento clásico con cultura popular y que transita con soltura de Descartes a Star Trek, de Freud a los Monty Python.
Inspirada en las tres...
Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment
Interpretations of Locke
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The volume will consist of a series of interpretative studies of Locke’s philosophical and religious thought in historical context and consider his contributions to the Enlightenment and modern liberal thought.
by M. Rigoglioso
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin mothers in the earliest layers of their cults. By taking feminist analysis of divinities further, this book provides a fresh angle on our understanding of these deities.