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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-27
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Plato's Hippias Minor has long been considered puzzling in its philosophical purpose, its characterization of Socrates, and its overall design. Departing from a tradition of scholarship that largely relegates the dialogue to the fringes of the Platonic corpus, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-27
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Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as:
· What does it mean to be an agent?
· What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-27
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George Eliot repeatedly stressed the aesthetic and ethical importance of viewing subjects from different perspectives: The Oxford Handbook ofGeorge Eliot presents fifty-two perspectives on this major nineteenth-century writer. Together, the chapters provide the most...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-26
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Ludwig Giesz (1916–1985) verbindet einen ausgeprägten philosophischen Spürsinn für das Hinter- und Abgründige der menschlichen Existenz mit einer selten gewordenen stilistischen Brillanz. Die dritte Auflage der „Philosophischen Spaziergänge“ bietet eine erweiterte und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-02-26
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When Minds Converse argues that we do not speak because our human minds are special; our minds are special because we can speak. It maintains that six capacities characteristic of our species emerge as social skills in conversing with one another and that we internalize...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-26
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-26
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The idea that improving our character requires modelling ourselves on another will seem natural to many. But what might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? This book investigates how Muslim thinkers developed this idea against a rich backdrop of historical...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-26
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Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-25
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This book collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations.
Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-25
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-25
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In his comprehensive guide to weighing reasons, Chris Tucker explains how to weigh reasons well, from daily choices to complex ethical puzzles.
There are two central claims in the book. The first concerns the weights of reasons, namely Weight Pluralism, the idea that...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-02-24
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This book explores three connected insights into humor. First, that humor provides a privileged access to the deepest kind of truth, the sense as such of its topics and so of their very reality. It is argued that humor allows us to see things afresh and truly by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2025-02-24
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The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-24
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Saying what one thinks can be difficult; sometimes one knows that a thought is there, but it takes time and effort to find its proper articulation. This book is about articulatory self-knowledge, or the sort of knowledge about one's own mind that results from successful...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-24
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The comprehensive volume delves into the discursive valences and contingencies of resistance. It examines key issues and situations within the complex power dynamics of various cultures, societies, nations, and ethnicities. It explores the varying meanings of resistance...
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Springer
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2025-02-24
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Gaslighting, flattery, misdirection, nagging, emotional blackmail, charm offensives, playing on emotions. These are all examples of ordinary manipulation. Such manipulation is common in everyday life, which is unfortunate, since manipulation seems like a bad thing....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-24
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Oppressive Praise examines the expressions we often use to elevate others, esteem them, and celebrate the things they do. These expressions are a pervasive feature of social life: within families, between friends or colleagues, in institutional settings such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-24
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Das „Handbuch Religionsphilosophie“ bietet einen orientierenden Überblick über die Geschichte, die klassischen Problemfelder bzw. Leitbegriffe sowie einige gegenwärtig dominierende Debatten auf dem Gebiet der Religionsphilosophie. Präsentiert wird der aktuelle...
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J.B. Metzler
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2025-02-24
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The book based on the concept of kenosis explores the thought of a political theology as deconstruction of sovereignty. It takes up the most difficult question of God’s revelation as the very revelation of love. It connects the theological inquiry to ecology,...
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Springer
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2025-02-23
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