Addressing the myriad ways in which heresy accusations could fulfill political aims during the Middle Ages, this collection shows acts of heresy were not just influenced by religion.
Most modern literature on the rationality of religious belief is primarily written from Christian and Secular perspectives, the introduction of a reflective Muslim perspective provides a fresh and alternative perspective.
Friedrich von Hardenberg und Friedrich Schlegel verdanken wir zwei der berühmtesten Denkfiguren der Romantik: die ‚blaue Blume‘ und die ‚progressive Universalpoesie‘.
This exploration of Hegel's critique of the individualistic ethos of modernity and the genesis of his alternative vision traces the conceptual schemes Hegel experimented with to show how he settled on the concepts of 'ethical life' (Sittlichkeit) and Spirit as the means for overcoming subjectivity and domination.
El presente volumen recoge el único libro que Serra dejó inédito, una recopilación de ensayos breves sobre obras y autores que le marcaron especialmente.
Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.
In The Lost Fragments of Heraclitus, award-winning poet Neil Carpathios channels the great Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, who may be a distant relative of the author.
Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of diverse communities during the turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Conservatism and Pragmatism illustrates the intersections between classical British Conservative thought and classical American Pragmatist philosophy with regard to methodology in politics, ethics, and law.
Esta tercera entrega de Biblia y Teología Hoy contiene cuatro artículos variados, uno de teología pastoral, otro de teología propia, el tercero de teología bíblica y el último de teología histórica.
An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing on the question: How did the Socratic education help Xenophon reconcile morality with effectiveness, the noble with the good, as a ruler?
This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre.
El Tattva Bodha, o Conocimiento de la Realidad Divina, es un libro breve, ameno y metodico, presentado en forma de preguntas y respuestas sobre los principales terminos y temas del Vedanta Advaita.
Die griechische Geisteswelt hat sich in Abhängigkeit vom Alten Testament entwickelt, wobei die Offenbarung mitunter verfälscht wurde – so die Sicht der Kirchenväter.
Der zweite Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält mit der Topik und den Sophistischen Widerlegungen zwei Texte, die dem sogenannten Organon, also den logischen und methodischen Schriften des Aristoteles, zugerechnet werden.
La Joya Suprema del Discernimiento, cuyo nombre en sanscrito es Vivekachudamani, es uno de los tratados mas importantes escritos por el gran maestro Sri Sankaracharya.
Esta obra expresa el interés contemporáneo de la filosofía en torno al mundo de la vida y a la constitución de la subjetividad, o región de lo espiritual, al conmemorar los cien años de la publicación de Ideas Ide E.
Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598.
En este libro se cita una y otra vez al filosofo chileno Patricio Marchant, autor de Árboles y madres (Gato Murr, 1984) y Escritura y temblor (Cuarto propio, 2000).
This collection of essays by leading exponents of contemporary Buddhism and psychotherapy brings together appreciation and critical evaluation of Mindfulness, a phenomenon that has swept the mental health field over the last two decades.
The book consists of a series of chapters on Carnap's ideal of explication as an alternative to the naturalistic conceptions of science, setting it in its historical context, discussing specific cases of explications, and enriching the on-going debate on conceptual engineering and naturalism in analytic philosophy.
This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues.
Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy critically rethinks and extends Hegel's project for systematic philosophy without foundations, engaging the most important contemporary debates concerning logic, epistemology, metaphysics, nature, mind, economic justice, political freedom, globalization, and literary theory.
This edited volume examines women's voices in phenomenology, many of which had a formative impact on the movement but have be kept relatively silent for many years.
The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called 'action' which all reason-giving explanations of action are geared towards.
