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by John Portmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Although many of us deny it, it is not uncommon to feel pleasure over the suffering of others, particularly when we feel that suffering has been deserved. The German word for this concept-Schadenfreude-has become universal in its expression of this feeling. Drawing on the teachings of history's most...
Philosophy of Meaning, Knowledge and Value in the 20th Century
Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 10
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The twentieth century brought enormous change to subjects such as language, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology. This volume covers the major developments in these areas and more.
Voltaire - The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…
From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “Voltaire - The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table...
Bible et Science
Création ou évolution ? Quelques réflexions
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2014
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Cet ouvrage ne prétend pas répondre aux nombreuses questions que posent...
by Edith Sichel
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art,...
Der Antichrist
Fluch auf das Christentum
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Friedrich Nietzsche: Der Antichrist. Fluch auf das Christentum Abgeschlossen 1888. Erstdruck in: »Nietzsches Werke«, Band 8, Leipzig (C.G. Naumann) 1889. Vollständige Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Friedrich...
by René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
René Descartes was a prominent French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Descartes’ greatly influenced modern Western philosophy with his writings. Meditations on First Philosophy is still one of the widest read works in philosophy. This edition of Selections from the Principles of Philosophy includes a table of contents.
Metaphysics
An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; determinism and free will. Anna Marmodoro and Erasmus...
Historia de la filosofía III
Filosofía del siglo XX
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 9, 2015
La presente obra es ya un clásico de la historiografía filosófica. Publicada en castellano por primera vez en 1954, ha contribuido a la formación en filosofía de varias generaciones tanto en España con en América Latina. Johannes Hirschberger aspira a fundir la actividad historiográfica con...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy, with a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
Bescherelle Chronologie de l'histoire de la philosophie
de la philosophie orientale au XXIe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: August 24, 2016
L’histoire de la philosophie, des origines à nos jours, mise en perspective à travers 128 dates emblématiques.
• Un panorama de l’histoire des idées – de la philosophie orientale aux mutations de la pensée au XXIe siècle –, dans les différents domaines : métaphysique, morale,...
by E.D. Klemke
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this volume, I have given attention to what I consider to be some of the central problems and topics in the philosophical thought of SJ2jren Kierkegaard. Some of the chapters have been previously publish ed but were revised for their appearance here. Others were written expressly for this book....
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2
A New Vision
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
An in-depth history of the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, from a leading philosopher of language
This is the second of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century. Scott Soames, a leading...
Wittgenstein's Investigations 1-133
A Guide and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.