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La place de l’épicurisme dans l’histoire de l’esprit humain est considérable et hors de toute proportion avec le génie de l’auteur même du système. Épicure, — les anciens l’avaient déjà remarqué, — n’est pas original. Sa physique, on le sait, il l’emprunte presque tout entière...

The series, St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Life originates in the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews and is under the general editorship of John Haldane. The series includes monographs, collections of essays and occasional anthologies of source...

What distinguishes evils from ordinary wrongs? Is hatred a necessarily evil? Are some evils unforgivable? Are there evils we should tolerate? What can make evils hard to recognize? Are evils inevitable? How can we best respond to and live with evils? Claudia Card offers a secular theory of evil that...

First published in 2001, this book sets out to shed light on traditional controversies in Mill scholarship, underscore the significance of the contribution Mill made to associationist psychology, argue he is not entirely successful in explaining why art matters, and that this failure is linked to...

Joan Luzzara, convaincu que la Stupidité est le fléau le plus grave et dévastateur de l'humanité, il pense que nous sommes tous capables d'inverser la donne en nous orientant volontairement dans une démarche consciente NOstupide (non-stupide), seul chemin viable pour parvenir au progrès de l'évolution et à la perfectibilité de l'être humain.

Come nasce il male? Cosa lega il male alla paura? Quando ha cominciato il male a imitare il bene? Perché il libero arbitrio non ci protegge dal male? Come fanno maschere e menzogne a servire il male? Da queste domande parte un’indagine appassionata alla ricerca delle radici del male, del primo...

It is no longer possible to ignore the teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, or to consider the trend of modern thought without giving the philosopher of the superman a prominent place in the list of thinkers who contributed to the store of present-day knowledge. His powerful and ruthless mind has had...

Mahesh Dattani is probably the best known playwright in India. His plays are performed and read almost everywhere in India and abroad. One of the reasons for Dattanis success as a dramatist appears to be his artistic response to the problems of the time. Mahesh Dattani and others like Girish Karnad,...

The book presents the concept of representative government, the ideal form of government. Mill suggests that representative bodies such as parliaments and senates are best suited to be places of public debate on the various opinions held by the population and to act as watchdogs of the professionals who create and administer laws and policy.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).  *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.  *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Euthyphro is a dialogue that occurs in the weeks before...

Qual è il senso di tutto questo, di tutto l'immenso che ci circonda? Qual è lo scopo di cotanta perfezione? Se siamo alla ricerca della perfezione nella nostra vita quotidiana, affinché ci renda la vita migliore, perché non ci rendiamo conto che la perfezione del mondo che ci è stato donato,...

Questo piccolo saggio propone un’affascinante congettura sul mistero dell’esistenza, descritta e formalizzata attraverso la nuova Teoria della Realtà Trascendente (Teoria RT). Una teoria che, a partire da concetti di logica elementare, disegna una storia credibile, razionale e soprattutto comprensibile...

Attraverso gli sviluppi di una telenovela ambientata nel multiverso, attori gli spiriti incarnati in corpi umani, il racconto indaga il conflitto bene-male alla luce delle recenti teorie della meccanica quantistica riguardanti la relazione tra l'uomo e il suo mondo, in una chiave di lettura ironica, filosofica e sentimentale dell'esistenza umana e del suo destino.

An award-winning poet, St. M. Koiter is retired from a professional life that spanned 35 years in 4 countries, and which to a large extent, entailed writing. Staunchly non-religious, and passionately Christ-centered, she says that Purpose and the Promise is the kind of book that she has always...