Surveys category: 1940 books

Carl G. Hempel exerted greater influence upon philosophers of science than any other figure during the 20th century. In this far-reaching collection, distinguished philosophers contribute valuable studies that illuminate and clarify the central problems to which Hempel was devoted. The essays enhance...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Narcisse ou l'amant de lui-même de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. -...

Spinoza's heritage has been occluded by his incorporation into the single, western, philosophical canon formed and enforced by theologico-political condemnation, and his heritage is further occluded by controversies whose secular garb shields their religious origins. By situating Spinoza's thought...

In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...

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Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, , course: International Teilhard Asia Conference 2006 Manila, Philippinen, August 200, language: English, abstract: The aim of the present article is to situate the Teilhardian vision of 'unification of all in Christ'...

Partez à la découverte de Saint-Simon et du saint-simonisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Né à Paris, en 1760, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, lointain cousin du mémorialiste Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, apparaît à la fois comme le dernier encyclopédiste...

This book is an assemblage of some of the most insightful and enlightening ideas which have been extracted from the writings of four of the most influential figures in the philosophy of Stoicism: Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. It is hoped that through this amalgamation of...

This is one of the most respected books on Marx's philosophical thought. Wood explains Marx's views from a philosophical standpoint and defends him against common misunderstandings and criticisms. All the major philosophical topics in Marx's work are considered: the central concept of alienation;...

Astronomers discarded first hand visual observations, because each observer measured a star's transit as occurring at a different time. Physicists soon followed them, so that now instrumental measurements are the only data that physics and astronomy accept. The theory of evolution followed them in...

This entire literary endeavor to separate Biblical literalism from observable reality was prompted by the fact that one supposedly erudite scholar managed to propound on American National Public Radio (with a presumably straight face) the "fact" that the Colorado River's Grand Canyon, a notable feature...

The properly metaphysical dimension of Augustine's thought has received little special attention among scholars - even "Scholastics. " The Thomist metaphysicians - especially we "Anglo-Saxon" ones - receive first honors for being the most neglectful of all. Why? I t is a puzzling...

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...

Vasta erudición y profunda sensibilidad no están reñidas en este estudio que rastrea, a través de todas las grandes culturas de la historia, eso que Leibniz denominó "Philosophia Perennis": la búsqueda de lo esencial.