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This book investigates the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question: what makes us human beings from a moral standpoint? To do this, Riccardo Bonfiglioli explores the relationship between the concepts of ‘human nature’, ‘mind’ and ‘the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-24
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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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What is the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger? Scholarship on Seneca has often historically treated emotion as an obstacle to moral progress in his thought--an inherently treacherous aspect of human experience...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-22
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This volume offers collective exploration of major aspects of Christian Wolff's ethics. It focuses on what is arguably Wolff's most important and influential text on moral philosophy, namely his Rational Thoughts on the Action and Omission of Human Beings for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-04-05
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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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The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi’s social, political philosophy.The essays combine philosophical and historical approaches to show Polanyi’s social thought in the context of his epistemology and philosophy of science...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-03
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This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-known thinkers...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-03
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This collection of original articles draws from a cross section of distinguished scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. It is focussed primarily on the philosophy of Aristotle but comprises as well studies of the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Epicurus. Its authors...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-03-12
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THIS IS ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY “A masterful introduction to ancient philosophy. Fitzpatrick knows the contemporary scholarship on these authors, so he can shift from summarizing their thought to scrutinizing individual arguments. Meanwhile the writing remains so accessible...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-03-11
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This is Philosophy
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This volume offers collective exploration of major aspects of Christian Wolff's ethics. It focuses on what is arguably Wolff's most important and influential text on moral philosophy, namely his Rational Thoughts on the Action and Omission of Human Beings for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-02-25
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This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel respectively. Sadra is presented as having a project that is similar in scope to Hegel’s own.
The author argues that while...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-02-19
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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...
Editeur :
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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A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as Homo sapiens. But in a world where experiencing and achieving as much as possible is the number one preoccupation, there is little room for reflection. Technology is also...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-12-27
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?Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-20
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This volume offers a collective study of the work of P. F. Strawson (1919-2006) and an exploration of its relevance for current philosophical debates. It is the first book since Strawson's death to cover the full range of his philosophy, with chapters by world-leading...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-29
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The presented volume contains a critical edition of questions 8–10 from Book II of the commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by Marsilius of Inghen († 1396). Marsilius was a famous scholar and the first rector of the University of Heidelberg, educated in Paris. He...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-28
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This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 begins with Homeric poetry and the politics of fearless demi-gods thriving on war. The tales of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-20
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