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Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-10-07
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
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Distinguished international scholars discuss the connection between emotion and value in Kant's philosophy, from his ethics to his philosophy of mind, aesthetics, religion and politics. Through a mixture of interpretation and critical discussion, this collection...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-25
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Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein's philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an account of its relevance to the study of religion that is completely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-18
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Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein's philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an account of its relevance to the study of religion that is completely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-18
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Richard Cross provides the first complete and detailed account of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, tracing the processes involved in cognition from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought. He provides an analysis of the ontological status...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-11
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Die Autorin bietet in ihren einführenden philosophischen Reflexionen eine Auswahl an klassischen und modernen Themen der Ästhetik: Dialektik der Aufklärung, Kunst nahe am Verstummen, Begriffsgeschichte des Schönen und andere. In zehn Kapiteln werden Zitate durch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-09
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Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-Oedipus the King and Antigone-for performance and study. The editor's introduction contains a brief biography of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-09-08
Collection :
Crofts Classics
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Raymond Larson's excellent translation of the dialogues that deal, respectively, with the nature of eros and the immortality of the soul are supplemented by careful annotation, a fine introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Plato, and a selected...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-09-08
Collection :
Crofts Classics
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Die Lehre Platons ist mit der schriftlich festgehaltenen Ideentheorie nicht völlig gleichzusetzen. Im Buch wendet sich der Autor nach der historisch-genetischen Methode den Testimonia Platonica der innerakademischen Prinzipienlehre zu. Er versucht, die fundamentale...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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In this book Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of Kant's theories of mind, action, and ethics.
As the author of a Copernican revolution in philosophy, Kant grounded his philosophy in his positive theory of the mind, which remains an enigma two...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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In this book Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of Kant's theories of mind, action, and ethics.
As the author of a Copernican revolution in philosophy, Kant grounded his philosophy in his positive theory of the mind, which remains an enigma two...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-08-28
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This highly regarded volume features a modern translation of all ten books of The Republic along with a synoptic table of contents, a prefatory essay, and an appendix on The Spindle of Necessity by the translator and editor, Raymond Larson. Also included are an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-08-26
Collection :
Crofts Classics
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Engaging recent developments within the bio-cultural study of religion, Shults unveils the evolved cognitive and coalitional mechanisms by which god-conceptions are engendered in minds and nurtured in societies. He discovers and attempts to liberate a radically atheist...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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The Logical Must is an examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of logic, early and late, undertaken from an austere naturalistic perspective Penelope Maddy has called "Second Philosophy."The Second Philosopher is a humble but tireless inquirer who begins her...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-01
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This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-31
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While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-28
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This book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron’s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron’s Wisdom was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi’s first published book, the Exercitationes...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-07-10
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The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Augustine's Confessions is a masterpiece of world literature. Written by Augustine in his forties, at the height of his philosophical and rhetorical skills, the Confessions is at once autobiographical, philosophical, theological, and psychological. The aim of the eight...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-03
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A Companion to Derrida is the most comprehensive single volume reference work on the thought of Jacques Derrida. Leading scholars present a summary of his most important accomplishments across a broad range of subjects, and offer new assessments of these achievements. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-06-30
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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