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Vagaries of Value
Basic Issues in Value Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Pragmatism's founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William James changed pragmatism into a way of undermining commitment to rational cogency. With the subsequent turn of various contemporary pragmatisms to relativism...
by Michael Slote
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 1995
In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense...
Voltaire - The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…
From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “Voltaire - The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table...
Bible et Science
Création ou évolution ? Quelques réflexions
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2014
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Cet ouvrage ne prétend pas répondre aux nombreuses questions que posent...
by Edith Sichel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art,...
Der Antichrist
Fluch auf das Christentum
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Friedrich Nietzsche: Der Antichrist. Fluch auf das Christentum Abgeschlossen 1888. Erstdruck in: »Nietzsches Werke«, Band 8, Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1889. Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich...
by René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
René Descartes was a prominent French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Descartes’ greatly influenced modern Western philosophy with his writings. Meditations on First Philosophy is still one of the widest read works in philosophy. This edition of Selections from the Principles of Philosophy includes a table of contents.
Historia de la filosofía III
Filosofía del siglo XX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 9, 2015
La presente obra es ya un clásico de la historiografía filosófica. Publicada en castellano por primera vez en 1954, ha contribuido a la formación en filosofía de varias generaciones tanto en España con en América Latina. Johannes Hirschberger aspira a fundir la actividad historiográfica con...
Bescherelle Chronologie de l'histoire de la philosophie
de la philosophie orientale au XXIe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: August 24, 2016
L’histoire de la philosophie, des origines à nos jours, mise en perspective à travers 128 dates emblématiques.
• Un panorama de l’histoire des idées – de la philosophie orientale aux mutations de la pensée au XXIe siècle –, dans les différents domaines : métaphysique, morale,...
by E.D. Klemke
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this volume, I have given attention to what I consider to be some of the central problems and topics in the philosophical thought of SJ2jren Kierkegaard. Some of the chapters have been previously publish ed but were revised for their appearance here. Others were written expressly for this book....
Wittgenstein's Investigations 1-133
A Guide and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Phenomenology of Time
Edmund Husserl’s Analysis of Time-Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Edmund Husserl occupied himself with the analysis of time-consciousness throughout his life. In this book, the three stages that may be distinguished in Husserl's occupation with this theme are discussed in their interrelationship. The first stage consists of a lecture manuscript from 1905; the second...
by Montesquieu
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence Montesquieu, philosophe français (1689-1755) Texte établi par Édouard Laboulaye, Garnier, 1876
Ce livre numérique présente les "Considérations...
by Walter Ott
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naïve realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created a problem for seventeenth century philosophers:...