Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination-the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams.

In the most original interpretation of Aristotle's Politics in years, Michael Davis delivers many memorable and provocative formulations of Aristotle's messages concerning the constitutive tensions of political life.

This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century.

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city.

Countless academic books have been written about how to interpret literary texts.

This volume sheds new light on Immanuel Kant's conception of anthropology.

This book focuses on understandings of higher education in relation to notions of decoloniality and decolonization in southern Africa.

This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale.

This work raises for the contemporary reader the ancient and abiding question of the nature and meaning of human virtue.

Do you wish you had more qualified, committed, and mission-oriented leaders in your church to share the ministry workload?

Immanuel Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense gives us only appearances, never the reality, of ourselves.

Nietzsche's Immoralism begins a two-volume critical reconstruction of a socialist, democratic, and non-liberal Nietzschean politics.

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A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.

Distinguished international scholars discuss the connection between emotion and value in Kant's philosophy, from his ethics to his philosophy of mind, aesthetics, religion and politics.

First published in 1935, The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico is a succinct biography of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico.

If we can learn how to relax, before our minds become agitated and our perceptions bombarded and overwhelmed, we can bring out the hidden qualities of our senses and appreciate their nuances and textures.

A team of international experts present a collection of articles on William James's philosophy of religion and its current relevance.

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William James' Pragmatismus und Jean-Paul Sartres Existentialismus sind die beiden letzten «großen Erzählungen» der Philosophie.

Dem Menschen, dessen Seele die Natur den verhängnisschweren Keim zu einer vollgiftigen, mündlichen und schöpferischen Persönlichkeit gelegt hat, bleibt es kaum erspart, sich von der Partei, der er angehört, in deren Schoß er groß geworden ist, zu lösen und sich zu befreien.

First published in 1935, The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico is a succinct biography of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico.

The Veda is not only a religious text, but also a literature of the most ancient period, a primordial source of human, knowledge, Knowledge par excellence.

Interweaving phenomenological, hermeneutical, and sociopolitical analyses, this book considers the ways in which feminists conceptualize and produce the temporalities of feminism, including the time of the trace, narrative time, calendar time, and generational time.

Worin besteht die wesentliche Zeitstruktur?

Der wichtige Ertrag der Existenzphilosophie des 20.

Normas y prácticas, discursos y acciones, estructura y agencia, planes y realidad, experiencia y expectativa: formas duales demasiadas veces en juego en nuestras reflexiones sobre el pasado.

This sourcebook presents nearly 200 specially-translated Greek and Roman texts from Homer to Plutarch, revealing the place of the animal in the moral consciousness of the Classical era.

This book aims at introducing Jeanne Hersch, holding together her biography and her philosophy and showing in which sense her whole path can be seen as a continuous endeavour to guarantee better conditions for the exercise of freedom to more and more people.

Knepper criticizes existing efforts in the philosophy of religion for being out of step with, and therefore useless to, the academic study of religion, then forwards a new program for philosophy of religion that is in step with, and therefore useful to, the academic study of religion.

Keen to boost your mental and physical wellbeing, general health, or gain a supportive framework to help you to overcome difficult situations that you're facing in life?

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.

Uno de los asuntos sobre los que el hombre se pregunta a lo largo de su historia es el de la procedencia de la creación artística y la naturaleza de la inspiración.

En las páginas de Arte y hostilidad se vuelve, una y otra vez, por senderos distintos, al problema, que es también recurso, de la "inactualidad de Hegel", y a fortiori de la inactualidad de la estética en el programa mayor de la Enciclopedia.

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En Apología de Sócrates, diálogo compuesto entre 393 y 389 a.

Lay Morals, and Other Papers is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are arguably the most important period in philosophy's history, given that they set a new and broad foundation for subsequent philosophical thought.

For thinkers young and old, this philosophy book will help you discover your own powers of thought and experience for yourself the freaky thrills of befuddlement.

The late-scholastic school of Scotism (after John Duns Scotus, 1308) left considerable room for disagreement.

The way which society conceives of power in the twenty-first century determines how it approaches future issues.

Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion.

This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy.

Spinoza (1929) offers an 'estimate' of Spinoza - his life, philosophy and influences - while retaining, as far as possible through translation, 'the very words Spinoza wrote'.

Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age.

A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "e;On the Shortness of Life,"e; a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life?

Bankhurst examines how news regarding the violent struggle to control the borderlands of British North America between 1740 and 1760 resonated among communities in Ireland with familial links to the colonies.

Placing topical debates in historical perspective, the essays by leading scholars of history, literature and political science explore issues of difference and diversity, inclusion and exclusion, and faith in relation to a variety of Christian groups, Jews and Muslims in the context of both early modern and contemporary England and America.

This book argues for a modern version of liberal arts education, exploring first principles within the divine comedy of educational logic.

In seinem Hauptwerk bedient sich Nietzsche der Stimme des erfundenen altpersischen Propheten Zarathustra, um seine ›Lehren‹ zu verkünden: von der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen, dem Übermenschen und dem Willen zur Macht.