Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

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.

Analytic Philosophy began in the first decades of the 20th century at Cambridge with Bertrand Russell, in Vienna with the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists, and in Berlin with Hans Reichenbach's Society for Empirical Philosophy.

This book undertakes to show how the exercise of reading Tolstoy's "e;The Death of Ivan Ilyich"e; involves articulating for ourselves, as readers, what it means to liberate life through death.

With a focus on phenomenological methods, this new edition of Shaun Gallagher's highly regarded textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to phenomenology considered as a philosophical and interdisciplinary practice.

Using a lens of mindfulness, this book explores how digital dependencies can displace attention and undermine attentional control, leading to experiences of stress and mindless involvement with digital technology.

African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is - at least since the 20th century if not even earlier - inherently intercultural.

This edited collection provides new perspectives on some metaphysical questions arising in quantum mechanics.

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.

This book focuses on the unique philosophical relationship between Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein.

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.

This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe.

Friedrich Schiller is justly celebrated for his dramas and poetry.

Join Jung Eun Sophia Park on her personal quest for God and her true self through the writings of Thomas Merton.

A holistic reading of Nietzsche's distinctive thought beyond the "e;death of God.

This book studies how the relationship between philosophy, morality, politics, and science was conceived in the Vienna Circle and how this group of philosophers tried to position science as an antidote to totalitarianism and irrationalism.

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity.

This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.

This book takes an epistemological and theoretical stance in investigating the phenomenon of creativity and its processes.

This book is about Madeleine Slade (1892-1982) and Catherine Mary Heilemann (1901-1982), two English associates of Mohandas K.

This book provides the foundations of trust amidst radical uncertainty.

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This book offers a comprehensive analysis on the evolution of philosophy of science, with a special emphasis on the  European tradition of the twentieth century.