Western philosophy: Enlightenment

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Slavoj i ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.

Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section.

Die Vorlesung zur Anthropologie oder Menschenkunden, die Kant jeweils im Wintersemester 1772/73 bis 1795/96 hielt, sollte den Studenten zur Orientierung in ihren künftigen Welterfahrungen außerhalb der Universität dienen.

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought.

This book, first published in 1987, offers a reconstruction of Berkeley's doctrine on notions by examining the implications of his repeated suggestion that there is a close relationship between his doctrine and his semantic theory.

Luxury has been associated with superficiality, consumerism and meaninglessness throughout the history of serious philosophical thought.

The Latin American philosopher Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla published the first study of Kant's concept of nothingness in 1965.

The twelfth-century philosopher Averroes is often identified by modern Arab thinkers as an early advocate of the Enlightenment.

Die klassische deutsche Philosophie nach Kant ist in einem engen Kontakt und argumentativen Austausch unter ihren Protagonisten entstanden und ausgebildet worden.

Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law.

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;.

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger.

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking?

Drawing on the work of major philosophers in 18th and 19th-century German idealism, Thomas Raysmith critically examines G.

A classic study of modern philosophy's founder, translated into English for the first time.

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural?

Explores how Kant''s account of religion provides the church with a role in establishing a cosmopolitan order of peace.

Cumbre de la cultura occidental cuya indiscutible influencia planea sobre toda la historia de la filosofía, la obra de Immanuel Kant ha sido escrupulosamente analizada; sin embargo, el hombre, el Imma­nuel de carne y hueso, sigue siendo un gran desconocido.

Rousseau''s Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text.

Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section.

This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct.

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry.

Shows how Kant attempted to derive the fundamental principle and goal of morality from the general principles of reason.

Why does the ghost of Kant continue to haunt contemporary critical theory?

Designed as a textbook for use in courses on natural theology and used by Immanuel Kant as the basis for his Lectures on The Philosophical Doctrine of Religion, Johan August Eberhard's Preparation for Natural Theology (1781) is now available in English for the first time.

The Routledge Guidebook to Berkeley's Three Dialogues is an engaging introduction to the last of a trio of works that cemented Berkeley's position as one of the truly great philosophers of the western canon.

Material Falsity and Error in Descartes's Meditations approaches Descartes's Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes's views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Fabeln und Erzählungen" verfügbar.

Mit seiner Unterscheidung einer "epistemischen" Diskussionsebene der Denker vor Kant (in der von einer Trennung von Bewußtsein und Ding ausgegangen wurde) und der "epistemologischen" Ebene, die mit der Vollendung der Kantischen Kritik erreicht wurde (auf der die grundsätzliche Relation zwischen Sein und Wissen erkannt ist), behandelt Siemek ein in den 80er Jahren im Brennpunkt der Diskussion stehendes Problem.

This book presents a novel interpretation of Hume as a proponent of sentimental virtue ethics.

David Deamer establishes the first ever sustained encounter between Gilles Deleuze's Cinema books and post-war Japanese cinema, exploring how Japanese films responded to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of their views.

A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most famous people in the world.

The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders.

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