According to anthropologists, religion arose in the Neolithic period, a time that began 12 thousand years ago when people abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started settling down in communities.
According to anthropologists, religion arose in the Neolithic period, a time that began 12 thousand years ago when people abandoned the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started settling down in communities.
This tale of mind control, the use of fear to manipulate vulnerable people, and final escape from a suffocating cult environment is a revealing exposeof a secretive contemporary sect, as well as a true psychological thriller.
Are the four canonical Gospels actual historical accounts or are they imaginative literature produced by influential literary artists to serve a theological vision?
Are the four canonical Gospels actual historical accounts or are they imaginative literature produced by influential literary artists to serve a theological vision?
Credo Book Award Winner-Natural TheologyDiscover how Aristotelian thought has shaped Christianity through history and remains relevant for Christians todayWhen Christians of any age, country, or denomination debate the nature of the good life, the soul, free will, or design, Aristotle lies behind their logic as well as their rhetoric.
On a rocky, sea-fractured peninsula at the edge of the ancient world, a small and quarrelsome people invented an astonishing share of the things we still live by: democracy and political theory, philosophy and science, history and the theatre, the Olympic Games and the very idea that the human mind, freely exercised, can understand the world.
Escritos entre diciembre de 1941 y mayo de 1942, en su exilio durante la guerra, estos textos son el fruto más luminoso del pensamiento de Simone Weil.
En esta obra sugerente y luminosa cuyo título toma Mauro Bonazzi de unos versos de Píndaro, se acomete a través de un recorrido a lo largo del pensamiento griego antiguo -desde Homero hasta Platón y Aristóteles, pasando por los grandes dramaturgos y los poetas- una reflexión y un análisis del hecho que marca de forma indeleble la condición humana, a saber: la conciencia de la certeza de la muerte y, en consecuencia, de la de lo efímero de la existencia.
Obra fundamental para el desarrollo y la comprensión de la estética a partir de su redescubrimiento en la edad moderna, "Acerca de lo sublime" es un tratado en el que Longino analiza el concepto de lo "sublime", en el que posteriormente profundizarían Boileau, Burke, la Ilustración alemana y el Romanticismo.
Der vorliegende Band bietet die erste deutsche Übersetzung der »Teologia politica« des Philosophen Merio Scattola (1962–2015) sowie eine Einführung von Luise Schorn-Schütte.
¿Qué es lo que tiene el estoicismo que, a pesar de contar con más de 2000 años, sigue interesando a tanta gente, que intenta aplicar sus enseñanzas en su día a día?
"Monarchia" constituye un momento relevante de la historia de las doctrinas políticas, ya que concibe el Estado moderna y laicamente, en su radical autonomía con respecto a cualquier injerencia de la Iglesia.
Generally known for its advanced, often radical suggestions of reform in politics, religion, morality, and human behavior, the Greek Enlightenment has long been studied in terms of its doctrines and theories.
Stephen Salkever shows that reading Aristotle is a starting point for discussing contemporary political problems in new ways that avoid the opposition between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism, between the politics of rights and the politics of virtues.
When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle.
The two studies, "e;Indivisible Magnitudes,"e; and "e;Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action,"e; explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of the ancient Greek and Latin texts which describe them, and second by showing how earlier Greek philosophy gave rise to the problems Epicurus tackled.
CÓMO ENTENDER HOY UNA FILOSOFÍA MILENARIA, JUSTA, COMPRENSIVA Y ALENTADORATomando como punto de partida el género latino de la consolatio, Antonio Cascón Dorado nos propone acercarnos al estoicismo romano y, en concreto, a la forma de afrontar la muerte y la pérdida de un ser querido.
Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "e;free thought,"e; Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself.
In the field of philosophy, Plato's view of rhetoric as a potentially treacherous craft has long overshadowed Aristotle's view, which focuses on rhetoric as an independent discipline that relates in complex ways to dialectic and logic and to ethics and moral psychology.
Available for the first time in paperback, this volumecontains text with translation of De Motu Animalium,Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for ageneral theory of the explanation of animal activity,along with commentary and interpretive essays on thework.
