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This book contends that Africa’s sustainable development must be built on African identity and values. Contributors reflect of the role of values in Africa’s effort to overcome poverty, the focus of SDG 1. The volume reflects on how indigenous values such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Das Eine, das Gute, das Wahre und das Schöne – unum, bonum, verum, pulchrum – werden in der hochmittelalterlichen Philosophie als allgemeine Bestimmungen eines ungegenständlichen Seins, dessen erkennbare Spur sich in allem gegenständlich Seienden findet,...
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Springer VS
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2022-11-04
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POETICS OF ALTERITY Education today is commonly oriented towards citizenship and skills for life, with aims of happiness and wellbeing. But this benign image harbours surreptitious forms of control, which ultimately undermine the goods it professes to safeguard and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Journal of Philosophy of Education
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This pivot focuses on “the concept of edification” in a bid to systematically expound its connotative structure and logical evolution. It is divided into ten chapters, embracing various issues, such as human nature as the foundation of edification, the development of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein. The two phenomenologists discussed and debated insights and ideas about the nature of the soul, phenomenology, personhood and individuality, animal life, nature,...
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Springer
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2022-11-03
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Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage? The world is out of sorts....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-03
Collection :
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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David Hume was a highly original thinker. Nevertheless, he was a writer of his time and place in the history of philosophy. In this book, M. A. Stewart puts Hume's writing in context, particularly that of his native Scotland, but also that of British and European...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective. It examines several ways in which we are bound. We are bound to acknowledge the truth and to follow laws; we are bound to others and to the world. Who we are is partly...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-01
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Aesthetic judgements that are formed on the basis of testimony are commonly held to be defective, illegitimate, or otherwise problematic. This book assesses the debate surrounding aesthetic testimony and argues for the surprising conclusion that this widespread view is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-31
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The essential offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty. At the same time, it provides a brief introduction to the main features of Richard Rorty's neopragmatism.The author proposes to read it as a fragile balance of pragmatism and romanticism by which...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the relations between philosophical approaches to language and the language of literature. It has proven easy for philosophers of language to leave...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-29
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In this hyperconnected, dynamic world we live in, permeated by profound challenges and transformations, the awareness of complexity is unequivocally on the rise. This monograph argues that it is high time that our educational institutions and pedagogical approaches come...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-28
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This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner’s work. The contributors look critically at Gellner´s legacy, questioning whether he remains an inspiration for today’s social theorists. Chapters proactively probe...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-28
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The study shows the reception of the views of Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite by Gregory Palamas.The author presents the doctrinal context of Palamas' dispute with Barlaam from Calabria on the possibility of knowing God, the most important issue in 14th-century Byzantium....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-28
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This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It begins with the classical understanding of time as flux, and its problems and paradoxes entailing from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant and Husserl. The reader will see how these...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book examines Husserl’s approach to the question concerning meaning in life and demonstrates that his philosophy includes a phenomenology of existence. Given his critique of the fashionable “philosophy of existence” of the late 1920s and early 1930s, one might...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book, a rich collection authored by rhetorical scholars, unpacks how rhetoric contributes to argumentation studies. It begins with an introduction that identifies defining features of a rhetorical approach to argumentation which has several corollaries,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-22
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This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It follows on from the previous volume which examined Classical Greece until the emergence of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-21
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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 :
2022-10-20
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