Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who is Course Leader in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire, Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy-both theoretical and practical-in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.

The self for Kant is something real, and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself, but rather has some third status.

This new book by Michael Slote argues that Western philosophy on the whole has overemphasized rational control and autonomy at the expense of the important countervailing value and virtue of receptivity.

The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days.

This volume of new essays explores Kant''s views on the laws of nature.

This book, first published in 1974, presents a critical examination of Berkeley's immaterialism.

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Heidegger's Shadow is an important contribution to the understanding of Heidegger's ambivalent relation to transcendental philosophy.

Leading scholars of Kant examine and elucidate his views on evil and how they can be extended to contemporary questions.

This book advances our understanding of the nature, grounds and limits of human dignity by connecting it with Kant's notion of an ideal moral community, or "e;Kingdom of Ends"e;.

Immanuel Kant is widely considered to be the most important and influential thinker of modern Europe and the late Enlightenment.

This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which Hegel's project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality.

Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.

This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is arguably the single most important work in western philosophy.

While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media.

Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution.

David Humes "Untersuchung über den menschlichen Verstand" (zuerst 1748) gehört zu den großen Texten der Philosophie der Aufklärung.

Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce''s thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18.

This book focuses on the notion of desire in late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life and works of two of Italy's most prominent authors at that time, Giovanni Pascoli and Gabriele D'Annunzio.

The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new 'cultivation of the self' strand within contemporary moral philosophy.

Johann Gottfried Herder hat 1799, achtzehn Jahre nach dem Erscheinen der »Kritik der reinen Vernunft«, eine umfangreiche und scharfe Kritik von Kants theoretischem Hauptwerk verfasst.

Wilfrid Sellars made profound and lasting contributions to nearly every area of philosophy.

Der Band widmet sich der Entwicklung des modernen Naturrechts vorwiegend im ausgehenden 18.

Kant's Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a reading of Kant's theory of mental representation as a direct response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature.

Stehen sich Kants Ethik und die mit Edmund Husserl beginnende phänomenologische Bewegung tatsächlich in Form eines Antagonismus gegenüber?

This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy.

Without Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) there would probably be no modern discipline of 'the philosophy of religion'.

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.

Nur zwei Jahre nach dem Beginn des Spinoza-Streits trat Jacobi mit einem neuen Werk hervor: »David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus.

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant''s lectures on ethics.

Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution.

Hier erstmals zusammengefasst, sind rund 20 der wichtigsten Aufsätze zur Philosophie Immanuel Kants von Volker Gerhardt aus fünf Jahrzehnten, die in verschiedenen Publikationen verstreut, teilweise schwer und kaum noch zugänglich sind.

Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain.

Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason, in the celebrated transcendental deduction.

Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18.

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