The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome.
Fethullah Gülen is universally acknowledged as an accomplished scholar and independent thinker who has had a life in tears dreaming of a “golden generation,” but also a life spent in persecution and ongoing trials.
The philosophy of play during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance has been largely neglected by scholars, despite the fact that influential thinkers, such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, perceived recreational play to be a vital part of a philosopher's life.
Finding a fascinating and gratifying medical practice in Kathmandu saved his medical career, but befriending a reincarnate Tibetan lama transformed his life.
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero's life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field.
First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero's life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field.
As the second volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China, this book focuses on six leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century.
As the second volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China, this book focuses on six leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century.
As the first volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China, this book charts the development of this intellectual trend and examines four leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century.
As the first volume of a two-volume seminal work on contemporary New Confucianism in China, this book charts the development of this intellectual trend and examines four leading thinkers of this intellectual movement in the 20th century.
Verdadera acta fundacional de una nueva época del pensamiento, en el Discurso del método, primer escrito publicado por René Descartes (1596-1650), se forjan los tópicos en torno a los cuales girará la reflexión filosófica hasta que la Modernidad entre en una crisis definitiva.
Bajo el título de Más allá de la filosofía se ofrece una serie de textos de Hannah Arendt, en su mayoría inéditos en lengua castellana, que dan a conocer el importante papel que en sus reflexiones desempeñan la crisis de la cultura, la poesía, el arte y la narración literaria.
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusionand why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed.
This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working.
El Bhagavad Gîtâ con notas pedagógicas de Ada Albrecht, es un texto muy completo y exhaustivo que contiene detalladas explicaciones acerca de cada uno de los versos del Bhagavad Gîtâ.
Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality.
Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality.
In this book Stephen Phillips focuses on one of the most important poems about meditation in world literature, as understood by two of the greatest philosophers of India, one classical, one modern.
Written between the age of eighteen and twenty-one, the entries in the third volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student take readers into Simone de Beauvoir's thoughts while illuminating the people and ideas swirling around her.
Hegels »Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts« zählen zu den klassischen und wirkungsmächtigsten Werken der neuzeitlichen Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie.
»De l'infinito, universo e mondi« ist ein eindrucksvolles Dokument neuzeitlichen Denkens, in dem sich der epochale Umbruch vom Mittelalter zur Moderne manifestiert.
Der Streit um die Göttlichen Dinge (1811/12) ist - nach dem Pantheismus-Streit (1785) und dem Atheismusstreit (1799) - der dritte große Streit um das Verhältnis von Philosophie und Religion.
Die 1585 in London erschienene »Cabala del cavallo pegaseo« ist Giordano Brunos radikalstes Werk und der einzige Text, von dem sich der Philosoph aus dem süditalienischen Nola freiwillig distanziert hat.
Hegels »Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts« zählen zu den klassischen und wirkungsmächtigsten Werken der neuzeitlichen Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie.
Die bereits 2007 in Band 5,1 veröffentlichten 17 Texte Jacobis stammen aus jeweils besonderen Lebenssituationen oder philosophischen Problemlagen der zweiten Hälfte seines Lebens.
