A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today?
Desate el pensamiento positivo y la imaginación productiva, y cambie los pensamientos y conductas negativas para mejorar cada aspecto de su vida, cada mañana, de un día a la vez.
In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work.
Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time.
Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity, reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America.
Aura und Eros markieren in Walter Benjamins Denken ein Spannungsfeld philosophischer Fragestellungen, anthropologischer Überlegungen und politischer Intervention.
This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny s acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.
This broad-ranging Companion comprises original contributions from leading Platonic scholars and reflects the different ways in which they are dealing with Plato s legacy.
This Companion provides an authoritative survey of the whole range of Kant s work, giving readers an idea of its immense scope, its extraordinary achievement, and its continuing ability to generate philosophical interest.
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive and current overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from its origins until late antiquity.
Written by an outstanding international team of scholars, this Companion explores the profound influence of Socrates on the history of Western philosophy.
This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny s classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published.
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.
A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship.
In Kant s Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant s fascinating and demanding philosophy.
In An Introduction to Kant s Aesthetics, Christian Wenzel discusses and demystifies Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment, guiding the reader each step of the way and placing key points of discussion in the context of Kant's other work.
Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English German scholar's edition.
Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux s famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy.
This fresh orientation to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents his central theme, the development of his Transcendental Idealism, as a ground-breaking response to perceived weaknesses in his predecessors' accounts of experiential knowledge.
This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers.
Setting the stage with a selection of readings from important nineteenth century philosophers, this reader on truth puts in conversation some of the main philosophical figures from the twentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions.
The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy is an accessible but sophisticated introduction to the most important figures in Continental philosophy in the last 200 years.
Desate el pensamiento positivo y la imaginación productiva, y cambie los pensamientos y conductas negativas para mejorar cada aspecto de su vida, cada mañana, de un día a la vez.
A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking.
Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"e;It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,"e; wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c.
A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness.
Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he remains a central figure in political theory.
Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest oratorAll of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision.
Why philosophers have advocated simple living for 2,500 years-and why we ignore them at our perilFrom Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness.
In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
How the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures-and what it reveals about philosophy todayWhat would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions-ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years?
A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging worksIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air.
Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophersWorried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too?