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Perché mai Nietzsche descriveva il suo Così parlò Zarathustra come un “libro sacro”, per l’esattezza un “quinto vangelo”? E perché, al contempo, lo definiva il “dono più grande” mai fatto all’umanità? Quale dono immaginava di offrire? E cosa si attendeva in cambio? Un...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-01-14
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Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature...
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Polity
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2020-01-14
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Ethics is a field of study that we all need. This is because we all make choices, and ethics is about the general norms that govern how we should make those choices. Not surprisingly, there is disagreement over what the “norms” are, but by working through such...
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Polity
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2020-01-14
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What is Philosophy?
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This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas. According to the authors’ view, qiyas represents an innovative and sophisticated form of...
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Springer
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2020-01-13
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Premodern societies believed in something sacred that obliged unconditionally. Modern societies rely on fallible science. Do they also need something absolute, a secular sacred? Steinvorth analyzes the writings of modern philosophers who claim that there is an absolute...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-01-13
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Claims to self-determination are rife in world politics today. They range from Scottish and Catalonian campaigns for independence to calls for the devolution of power to regions and cities. But is self-determination meaningful or desirable in the twenty-first century,...
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Polity
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2020-01-13
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Political Theory Today
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Representing the world is a puzzling thing. How can it be that mundane events such as processing a thought--and from there putting those thoughts into words--acquire this property of 'aboutness'? How can expressions, which depend on anything from the most fundamental...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-09
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Paula Scholemann überträgt in einem Gedankenexperiment das begriffliche Netzwerk der Kreativitätsforschung auf die Politikwissenschaft. Politik definiert sie als das Ergebnis von Kreativität. Die innovative These ist, dass wir Kreativität brauchen, um die Demokratie...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-09
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The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended a protracted violent conflict in Northern Ireland and became an international reference point for peace-building. Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969–2019 traces the roots and out-workings of the Agreement,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-09
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The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended a protracted violent conflict in Northern Ireland and became an international reference point for peace-building. Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969–2019 traces the roots and out-workings of the Agreement,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-01-09
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For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage – from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, politics seems...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-01-07
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In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-07
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In this book, Paulo Guilherme Santos studies diagonalization in formal mathematics from logical aspects to everyday mathematics. He starts with a study of the diagonalization lemma and its relation to the strong diagonalization lemma. After that, Yablo’s paradox is...
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Springer Spektrum
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2020-01-04
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Gang Yi legt eine neue Perspektive dar, aus der das Problem des so genannten Konflikts zwischen Platons Ablehnung der Akrasia im Protagoras und seiner Anerkennung der Akrasia in der Politeia betrachtet wird. Er kombiniert die philologische Analyse des Originaltexts mit...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-01-04
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Most of the research on the epistemology of perception has focused on visual perception. This is hardly surprising given that most of our knowledge about the world is largely attributable to our visual experiences. The present volume is the first to instead focus on the...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-03
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This book presents the research achievements of Jin Yuelin, the first logician and a prominent philosopher in China, who founded a new philosophical system combining elements from Western and Chinese philosophical traditions, especially the concept of Tao. It consists...
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Springer
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2020-01-02
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Buddhism is one of the oldest and largest of the world's religions. But it is also a tradition that has proven to have enormous contemporary relevance. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, who came to be called the Buddha, the religion has spread from its origins in northeast...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-02
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Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes' conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-02
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Karen Ng sheds new light on Hegel's famously impenetrable philosophy. She does so by offering a new interpretation of Hegel's idealism and by foregrounding Hegel's Science of Logic, revealing that Hegel's theory of reason revolves around the concept of organic life....
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-02
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This book takes an in-depth look at the integration of fashion and philosophy. It challenges the deeply rooted prejudice or misconception that fashion is a field limited to body-oriented and appearance-related themes and practices. It also reveals that fashion is...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-01
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