Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo.
Imagine yourself sitting on the cool damp earth, surrounded by deep night sky and fields full of fireflies, anticipating the ritual of initiation that you are about to undergo.
This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Machiavellis »Il Principe«, 1513 eigentlich als Empfehlungsschreiben des politisch kaltgestellten Autors an den designierten Fürsten von Florenz verfasst, zählt zur Weltliteratur und gilt als das erste Werk der modernen politischen Philosophie.
In den hier behandelten prominenten Schriften des Erasmus von Rotterdam überschneiden sich die vielfältigen und für ihn charakteristischen Kompetenzen und Stilmerkmale – die Ironie, die philologische Strenge, die skeptische Methodik, das Engagement für ein friedliches Europa und seine republikanischen Neigungen.
Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives.
Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher, argued that human beings needed government in order to save their lives from being "e;solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Das Handbuch bietet insgesamt etwa 23 exemplarische, zum Teil sehr umfangreiche Abhandlungen zu Diskursen und Themenkomplexen der Gelehrten- und Wissenschaftskultur der Frühen Neuzeit (15.
Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems.
En la filosofía conviven distintos estilos y metodologías, así como diversas concepciones de lo que significa justificar adecuadamente una posición, lo que no representa una limitación sino, por el contrario, una señal de sano pluralismo.
The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a "e;secular outlook"e; on life and politics.
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion.
Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights.
Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible.
One of the most celebrated of Plato's ideas was that if human society was ever to function successfully then philosophers would need to become kings, or kings philosophers.
The relationship between new religious movements (NRMs) and violence has long been a topic of intense public interest--an interest heavily fueled by multiple incidents of mass violence involving certain groups.
Why do some strategies for critique of religion seem to be more beneficial for constructive engagement, whereas others increase intolerance, polarization, and conflict?
