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One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a leading Victorian...
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Penguin
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2006-04-27
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Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was...
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Oxford University Press
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2003-02-06
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Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-02-06
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Un epistolario che è il testamento spirituale e politico di uno degli intelletti più audaci e tormentati del Seicento europeo. Queste lettere ci consegnano il ritratto vivo e drammatico di Tommaso Campanella: frate domenicano, filosofo visionario, poeta e instancabile...
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Cactus
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2025-09-27
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È la primavera del 1790 quando Vittorio Alfieri inizia a scrivere la "Vita". Ha poco più di quarant'anni, ha già composto le tragedie e, soprattutto, sta sperimentando l'amara delusione della Rivoluzione francese, degenerata in violenza sotto i suoi stessi occhi. "Vita"...
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Cactus
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2025-01-16
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Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison in 2006. A petition against his imprisonment was initiated, with...
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University of Regina Press
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2014-10-10
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During the nineteenth century, traditional Catholic Spain and its "decadent intellectual climate" was chalenged by liberal Europeanizing influences. It had happened before, but this time the status quo was threatened by Krausism, an idealistic doctrine of universal...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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This work is an exposition of Salighed, a concept at the heart of Kierkegaard's thought, and the dialectical starting point for his reflections on what it means to live a genuinely human life. Kierkegaard studies to date appear to have underestimated the importance of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2006-01-01
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