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Gedankenexperimente weisen in der Philosophie einen widersprüchlichen Status auf: Sie werden einerseits regelmäßig entworfen und breit diskutiert, andererseits werden sie ebenso häufig kritisiert oder sogar als Methode abgelehnt. Dies liegt vor allem an der narrativen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-10-30
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It is well known that philosophy has a history that spans over more than two thousand years.It is less known, however, that the discipline narrating philosophy's past emerged much later, namely in the 18th century. That new discipline was called 'history of philosophy'....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-19
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It is well known that philosophy has a history that spans over more than two thousand years.It is less known, however, that the discipline narrating philosophy's past emerged much later, namely in the 18th century. That new discipline was called 'history of philosophy'....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-19
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Hobbes's Elements of Law was written in 1640, on the eve of the English Civil War. It circulated in manuscript, and eleven manuscripts now survive. Two of them contain a substantial amount of material inHobbes's own handwriting. Soon after writing it, Hobbes fled to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-16
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This volume brings into focus the unique philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus writings. These contributed essays show that Wittgenstein’s earliest writings are worth studying for their own sake. They also reveal how much one can still...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-01
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Over the last two decades, scholarship on Kant and modern German philosophy has become increasingly focused on understanding their historical roots. Central to this development is the work of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-62), whose textbooks profoundly influenced...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays by a distinguished set of international experts examining the legacy and influence ofSpinoza on German thought in the long nineteenth century. The focus on Spinoza's influence illuminates both the nature of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties defends Kant's doctrine that all human beings have a moral capacity that gives them unconditional dignity. It explains how the reception of this influential doctrine was marred by serious misunderstandings, and how Kant himself fell...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated, America incarnates a dark continent whose strangeness and singularity has...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
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Theory Redux
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Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties defends Kant's doctrine that all human beings have a moral capacity that gives them unconditional dignity. It explains how the reception of this influential doctrine was marred by serious misunderstandings, and how Kant himself fell...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-03
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Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays by a distinguished set of international experts examining the legacy and influence ofSpinoza on German thought in the long nineteenth century. The focus on Spinoza's influence illuminates both the nature of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Over the last two decades, scholarship on Kant and modern German philosophy has become increasingly focused on understanding their historical roots. Central to this development is the work of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-62), whose textbooks profoundly influenced...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-24
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This book offers a selection of 13 case studies on how the notion of grounding helps illuminate philosophical discussions of our past with a special focus on debates of the Middle Ages. It thereby makes not only the case that the notion of grounding, which has become so...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-09
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Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional theories of imagination, as a kind of fantasy that we exercise only in relation to objects that are not real or not present,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-07
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This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place by insecurities...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-04-24
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Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kants theory of imagination. In contrast with more traditional theories of imagination, as a kind of fantasy that we exercise only in relation to objects that are not real or not present,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-04
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This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a typical, systematic philosopher. Despite her short life, Weil's philosophy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-07
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This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a typical, systematic philosopher. Despite her short life, Weil's philosophy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-23
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This book investigates the concept of freedom as it has been defined by Søren Kierkegaard and some of existentialism’s major figures, including Jean-Paul Sartre. In an attempt to delineate an ontology of the human condition, special emphasis is placed on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-13
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This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-01-03
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