Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books

In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about...

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the ethical orientation of human beings with respect to them without falling into the trap of either subjecting human rights to totality or relegating non-human beings and their habitats to instrumentalism.

In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories--whether we should regard them as true or merely empirically adequate, for example. The other concerns the nature of scientific...

El escrito que se ofrece en este volumen constituye el primer libro sociológico de Georg Simmel, inédito hasta ahora en español. Partiendo del principio de que "todo está en un intercambio de efectos con todo”, el sociólogo y filósofo berlinés, que al momento de publicación de este...

‘Potted Grammar’? ‘Natural Dialectic?’ This book is a companion to ‘Science and the Soul’ whose subtitle reads ‘facts and philosophy translated into Natural Dialectic’. It extracts, for clarity, the framework of that book; it thereby simplifies a model of creation that is ancient and,...

When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have. In this book, this simple requirement is defended...

(FORMATO A5, 320 PÁGINAS) (...)[1] “Para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”. Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar e, sendo...

(A5, 215 PÁGINAS) - Não resta-nos dúvidas de que “Saber é Poder”, frase esta proferida por Francis Bacon (1561-1626), um dos fundadores do chamado método indutivo de investigação científica. No mundo em que se vive, todavia, marcado este pela exclusão social, pela ideologia, pelo individualismo,...

(A5, 156 PÁGINAS) - Hannah Arendt[1], em seu livro “Eichmann em Jerusalém: relatório sobre a Banalidade do Mal[2]” (1963), fala-nos sobre a existência do Homo Totalitarius[3], definido por ela como um fenômeno moderno. Ou seja, O Homo Totalitarius (Nazista, Fascista, Stalinista, etc.), segundo...

This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that explains that points of view...

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This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive...

El más extraordinario regalo que puede darse a un niño o joven, ¿sabes cuál es? La prenda más lujosa y valiosa que puedes exhibir a todos, ¿la conoces? Albert Einstein dijo: “Intenta no volverte una persona de éxito, sino volverte una persona de valor.” Los Valores...

The author makes a unique contribution to the field by discussing the history and philosophy of the neurosciences, and then developing critical approaches which integrate techniques, theory, and ethics. Taken as a whole, Jacobson's work will provide a coherent and humane framework for future research...