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This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-07
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Why do people persist in commitments that threaten their happiness, security, and comfort?Why do some of our most central, identity-defining commitments seem to resist the effects of reasoning and critical reflection? Drawing on real-life examples, empirical psychology,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-07
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An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions—this delicate and difficult life. Yet when you consider that your existence is...
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Basic Books
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2022-12-06
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Unity and the Holy Spirit investigates the work of the Holy Spirit in the world (as distinct from the church). John E. Hare proposes that the Spirit aims at unity of four different kinds: unity between us and the material world, unity within us, unity between us and...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-06
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INTERPRETING KANT FOR EDUCATION No thinker in the modern world has laid the way for the development of philosophy so influentially as Immanuel Kant, and it is hard to think of the philosophy of education without some sense of Kant in the background. Yet simplified...
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Wiley
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2022-12-02
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Journal of Philosophy of Education
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Félix Ravaisson's French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is one of the most influential and pivotal texts of modern French thought. Commissioned by the Minister of Public Instruction as one of a series of reports to record the progress of the French sciences and...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-01
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On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and...
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Polity
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2022-12-01
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Love has been the subject of much fascination. It is indeed one of those things which elude us in many ways. The long-lasting disagreement over love's nature is unsurprising. In light of this, a piecemeal approach to love is in order. Instead of asking what love is down...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-01
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Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a periodical publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia,...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-12-01
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Few fields in philosophy are so seemingly distant from ordinary human experience as theories of knowledge. How much information do we draw in from bodies outside of us? And to what degree do our perceptual and mental processes subjectify that information to the point of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2022-11-30
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This book addresses the place of religious knowledge in religion, particularly within Christianity. The book begins by examining the difference between the general concepts of knowledge and belief, the relation between faith and knowledge, and reasons why belief as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-11-30
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The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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Atheistic Platonism is an alternative to both theism and nihilistic atheism. It shows how any jobs allegedly done by God are better done by impersonal Platonic objects. Without Platonic objects, atheism degenerates into an illogical nihilism. Atheistic Platonism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-11-30
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The two treatisesThe Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) andThe Essence of Nihilism (1946–1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different questions...
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Polity
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2022-11-29
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The texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s – a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole. Following Germany’s...
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Polity
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2022-11-29
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Should droids be free?Should clone troopers? What political and ethical ideas ground resistance and rebellion? What’s wrong with the way women are portrayed in Star Wars? Does Han Solo have a philosophical worldview? Was Galen Erso responsible for the destruction of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-29
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book critically assesses arguments for the existence of the God of classical theism, develops an innovative account of objects’ persistence, and defends new arguments against classical theism. The authors engage the following classical theistic proofs: Aquinas’s...
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Springer
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2022-11-29
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Dieses Glossar unternimmt den ersten Versuch, das semantische Feld des Begriffs ‚Vulnerabilität‘ einzugrenzen und die mit ihm verbundenen heterogenen Phänomene in ihren Überlappungen und Wechselwirkungen kenntlich zu machen. Das Glossar ist dabei an einem...
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Springer VS
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2022-11-29
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This book challenges the standard view that modern hermeneutics begins with Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher, arguing instead that it is the dialectic of reflective and teleological reason in Kant’s Critique of Judgment that provides the actual...
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Springer
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2022-11-28
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Public reason, which urges that only laws based on principles reasonably agreeable to all those bound by them are legitimate, has rarely been applied to constitutional law, and never in a comparative way. This book aspires to fill that gap, by studying the use of public...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-28
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