Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature.

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature.

What did the Romans know about their world?

This Key Concepts pivot discusses the significance of the ancient Chinese concept of xing or 'Association' in defining Chinese civilization and thought through the centuries.

This book explores feminine archetypes and mythological figures in African and European traditions with an underlying goal of describing the foundations of social status for women.

Yoga and Breast Cancer is a practical how to guide to using yoga to manage stress, relieve pain, and gain the strength necesary to make it through this illness.

Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years.

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B.

Considered one of Russia’s greatest philosophers, Vladimir Soloviev (1853–1900) was also a theologian, historian, poet, and social and political critic.

Gregory Fried offers in this book a careful investigation of Martin Heidegger’s understanding of politics.

In the European Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct rather than adherence to certain theological doctrines was the true measure of religious belief.

In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (172390), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor.

Selections from Leopardi’s prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge—Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don’t mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.

A leading writer and researcher on Tibet, Sam van Schaik offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by examining its key texts, from its origins in the eighth century to teachings practiced across the world today.

In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement.

This book is an introduction to trinitarian theology as it developed from the late medieval period.

This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserl's articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizoin 1923.

The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason.

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years.

The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy.

What is empiricism and what could it be?

In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L.

Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre's later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre's understanding of freedom and communal action.

We inhabit a time of crisis-totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism.

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language.

This book—the first commentary on Ernst Cassirer’s Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms—provides an introduction to the metaphysical views that underlie the philosopher’s conceptions of symbolic form and human culture.

For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices.

An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma,artha, and kama.

Serving in numerous ministry capacities together, Geoff and Sherry Surratt have valuable lessons and observations to pass along to couples seeking to serve in ministry together.

Biblical Guidance for Ministering God's Love in a Sexually Diverse Culture In a time when sexual norms are changing rapidly, how can a local church be a place of gracea loving community for all kinds of peoplewhere everyone can flourish and disagreements are overcome in a Christlike spirit while at the same time stay true to biblical standards?

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man.

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.

This book contends that Africa's sustainable development must be built on African identity and values.

Being Zen(ish) is what we call it - and it's the ish that we endorse!

By drawing on the insights of diverse scholars from around the globe, this volume systematically investigates the meaning and reality of the concept of negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy-German Idealism, Early German Romanticism, and Neo-Kantianism.

Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms - until now.

Many philosophical accounts of reason are geared toward providing rational justifications ex post facto rather than accounting for the role reason plays in actu in the process of creative work.

Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer Tagung, die im Februar 2019 mit Unterstützung des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel und der Dr.

This book examines the link between sensual austerity and moral leadership-a topic largely neglected in contemporary academic scholarship and public policy-by exploring the comparative cross-cultural perspectives of Plato, Confucius, and Gandhi, on this theme.

This monograph reevaluates a school of thought concerned with truth and inquiry.

This comprehensive collection brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the Zhuangzi.

This book offers the first comprehensive collection of essays on the key concepts of Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945), the father of modern Japanese philosophy and founder of the Kyoto School.

This book is dedicated to Edith Stein (1891-1942), who is known widely for her contributions to metaphysics.

This book contains a collection of papers devoted to the problems of body, mind and soul in medieval Europe between 1200 and 1420.

The essential offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty.

Michel Foucault es el autor de libros emblemáticos del siglo XX, que trascendieron los límites de las lenguas y las disciplinas y lo convirtieron en uno de los pensadores más citados en el campo de las humanidades.