Surveys category: 1940 books

Philosophy flourished in Australia after the war. There was spectacular growth in both the number of departments and the number of philosophers. On top of this philosophy spread beyond the philosophy departments. Serious studies, and interest in philosophy is now common in faculties as diverse as...

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher, from his decision to become a doctor to his later work in psychiatry. The Selected Writings...

 This book deals with medieval Jewish authors who wrote in Arabic, such as Moses Maimonides, Judah Halevi, and Solomon Ibn Gabirol, as well as the Hebrew translations and commentaries of Judaeo-Arabic philosophy. It brings up to date a part of Moritz Steinschneider’s monumental Die hebraeischen...

No es fácil definir la idea de cultura, ni el papel que ésta desempeña en nuestras vidas. Terry Eagleton, uno de los críticos literarios y culturales más reconocidos y brillantes, ofrece una amplia historia intelectual que aboga por la recuperación del valor de la cultura como aspecto definitorio...

Charting the history of Western thought from Socrates to Sartre, from Epicureans to Existentialists, Western Philosophy Made Easy offers a short, readable historical summary of aspects of Western philosophy and key philosophers from Ancient Greece to the modern day, with the emphasis on topics of direct relevance to our own lives.

In this book Han Thomas Adriaenssen offers the first comparative exploration of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern philosophy. Descartes is traditionally credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that the direct objects of perception are...

Gorgias by Plato One of the middle or transitional dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, "Gorgias" is one of his more important writings. Plato contrasts the rhetorician and the philosopher, whose differing specialties are persuasion and refutation, respectively. The famous foreign...

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle 'does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain'. Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics investigates his claim and its reception in ancient and medieval Aristotelian traditions, including Arabic, Greek,...

The contents of this book are among the last writings of Max Heindel, the mystic. They contain some of his deepest thoughts, and are the result of years of research and occult investigation. He, too, could say as did Parsifal: “Through error and through suffering I came, through many failures and...

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Mes premières paroles seront des paroles de re­merciement à l’Université...

本書由余英時先生的25篇論文組成，討論主題集中在中國思想史，從先秦到當代，釋證中國文化中的人文情懷和理性精神。體裁有專論、書評、條目和序跋，先後發表於1980-2006年。內容包括「魏晉時期的個人主義和新道家運動」、「清代儒家智識主義的興起初論」、「孫逸仙的學說與中國傳統文化」、「20世紀中國國史概念的變遷」等。 ■作者簡介 作者：余英時 中央研究院院士、美國哲學學會院士。1930年生於天津，籍貫安徽潛山。美國哈佛大學博士，師從錢穆先生、楊聯陞先生。曾任密西根大學、哈佛大學、耶魯大學講座教授、普林斯頓大學校聘講座教授、康乃爾大學第一任胡適講座訪問教授和香港新亞書院院長兼中文大學副校長。2001年6月自普林斯頓大學校聘講座教授榮退。著作等身，作育英才無數。曾獲國際多所大學的榮譽和名譽博士學位。2006年榮獲有「人文諾貝爾獎」之稱的「克魯積人文終身成就獎」(the...

Immanuel Kant's three Critiques—Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment—have been the cornerstone of Western philosophy. While the West has extensively debated on these works, Indian perspectives on them have been few and far between. This book is a singular...

Hegels "Phänomenologie des Geistes" ist eines der großen Werke der philosophischen Weltliteratur. Seit ihrem Erscheinen im Jahre 1807 ist sie bis heute Gegenstand heftiger Auseinandersetzung. Merkwürdigerweise stehen den vielen globalen Interpretationen aber nur wenige Versuche einer sorgfältigen...

Eine der intensivsten Epochen der Philosophiegeschichte ist der Deutsche Idealismus, gekennzeichnet durch das Ringen um das Absolute, besonders bei Fichte, Schelling und Hegel. Nach dem Zusammenbruch dieser Systeme kommt es zu einer vielgestaltigen Differenzierung philosophischen Denkens: Es entstehen...