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Den Belangen der menschlichen Seele hat sich Ludwig Wittgenstein nahezu in seinem gesamten philosophischen Schaffen gewidmet – doch v.a. in seinen letzten Schriften verdichten sich seine Bemerkungen zu Problemen des Fremdseelischen, die sich in der Frage ausdrücken...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-01-08
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This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable contradictions that are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-08
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Explore the fascinating historical and contemporary philosophical issues that arise in Black Panther In Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer The World, a diverse panel of experts delivers incisive critical reflections on the Oscar-winning 2018 film,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-01-07
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-07
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Mental illness is an issue of great practical importance. Yet, despite sustained inquiry from scientists and philosophers alike, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of mental disorder to agency and responsibility. While there is some work that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-07
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Philosophy of Mind: A Very Short Introduction probes some of the great philosophical questions about the mind: What is the relationship between mind and matter? Can science unravel the mystery of consciousness? How can our thoughts represent things in the world? Are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-06
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It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed “African metaphysics” remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity. African ideas about the nature of being, God, causality,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-05
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This book examines aesthetic issues based on humanities principles and creates a theory of Chinese aesthetics from a global perspective by applying China’s traditional and cultural history to a Western theoretical framework. In particular, this book emphasizes the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-04
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Despite numerous publications on the philosophy of technology, little attention has been paid to the relationship between being and value in technology, two aspects which are usually treated separately. This volume addresses this issue by drawing connections between the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude — overcoming feelings of resentment and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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An exploration of everything Kant's philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties.
Immanuel Kant is well known as one of the towering figures of Western...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-03
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Though little known today, Johann Friedrich Herbart was one of the leading philosophers of his age, the competitor of Schelling and Hegel. Although he was trained by Fichte, Herbart soon became a critic of the idealist tradition and developed a philosophy antithetical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular" humanism...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
Collection :
Studies in Humanism and Atheism
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This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology). By drawing on everyday experience, and dissociating the notion of value from that of tradition, it shows how emotional sensibility can be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book explores and elaborates three theories of public reason, drawn from Rawlsian political liberalism, natural law theory, and Confucianism. Drawing together academics from these separate approaches, the volume explores how the three theories critique each other,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the differences between common law and civil law systems from various theoretical perspectives. Written by a global network of experts, it explores the topic against the background of a variety of legal traditions.Common law and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book offers a critical examination of certain ideas and values—such as remembering, forgiveness, story-telling through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, etc.—that under-gird the transitional practices and mechanisms of societies emerging from conflicts. It does...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century
How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This monograph presents a general theory of weakly implicative logics, a family covering a vast number of non-classical logics studied in the literature, concentrating mainly on the abstract study of the relationship between logics and their algebraic semantics. It can...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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