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Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is preferable to their nonexistence.Philosophical pessimists, by contrast, would prefer human nonexistence, considering the world to...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-12-18
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Fazang (643-712), third patriarch of the Huayan tradition of Buddhism, was one of the most celebrated and influential thinkers in the history of Chinese Buddhist philosophy. Much of his renown derives from his efforts to articulate a vision of reality as a realm of...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-12-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine is a guide to areas of current activity and change, not only in philosophy of medicine, but also in medical science and practice. It asks questions that concern core problems for this discipline as well as metaphysical...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-12-18
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In the last decade, interest in the writings of French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) has surged. Weil is admired for her militant syndicalism, her factory experience and participation in the French resistance, but it is above all the eclectic and rich...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-16
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Im ersten Teil der Abhandlung soll mit P.F. Strawson (und über ihn hinaus) der These das Wort geredet werden, dass unsere freiheitsimplizierende moralische Praxis, anders als z.B. der freiheitsskeptische Neurophysiologe W. Singer, aber auch sein freiheitsliebender...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-12-15
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This volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy. It consists of thirteen essays that analyse the philosophical tradition originating in Aristotle’s writings. Each essay tackles a particular problem that tests the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-15
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This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the philosophical dimensions of German Romanticism, a movement that challenged traditional borders between philosophy, poetry, and science. With contributions from leading international scholars, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-15
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Der "Macht - Knoten - Fleisch. Topographien des Körpers bei Foucault, Lacan und Merleau Ponty" greift eine Reihe von Begriffen und Konzepten der drei Referenzautoren heraus, die für ein zeitgemäßes Verständnis des Körpers entscheidend sind. Bei Foucault wird der Körper...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein - their arguments in favour or against suicide are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-12
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This collection explores the arguments related to veg(etari)anism as they play out in the public sphere and across media, historical eras, and geographical areas. As vegan and vegetarian practices have gradually become part of mainstream culture, stemming from multiple...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-12
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This edited collection investigates the kinds of moral reflection we can undertake within the imaginative worlds of literature. In philosophical contexts of ethical inquiry we can too easily forget that literary experience can play an important role in the cultivation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-11
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This book is the second of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. The first volume focuses on the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas this volume contains essays focused more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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This book is the first of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology.This volume considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas the companion volume focuses on theological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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This book is the second of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. The first volume focuses on the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas this volume contains essays focused more...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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This book is the first of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology.This volume considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas the companion volume focuses on theological...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy. As standardly read, he meant to introduce--and make crucial contributions to--the project of giving an account of the workings of (an improved version of) natural language....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy. As standardly read, he meant to introduce--and make crucial contributions to--the project of giving an account of the workings of (an improved version of) natural language....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-12-10
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This book explores the idea of a new cosmopolitan Japanese identity through a socio-cultural analysis of contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. It is the first monograph to apply the idea of cosmopolitanism to this writer’s global popularity widely known as...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-09
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This book proposes that technologies, similar to texts, novels and movies, ‘tell stories’ and thereby configure our lifeworld in the Digital Age. The impact of technologies on our lived experience is ever increasing: innovations in robotics challenge the nature of work,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This book is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate. The book is divided into two sections – Displacements and Disruptions. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-05
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