According to Taoist philosophy, every bodynot to mention everything in the cosmospossesses quantities of the five elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood.
In a narrative that extends from fin de siecle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European and pre-modern cultures as they developed new conceptions of "e;pure sound.
This book interprets the concepts, philosophies and cultural traditions of lunli (roughly construed as "e;relationships and rationality"e;) from the perspective and domain of 'dialogue civilization.
Lo sagrado y lo profano, el proceso de subjetivación y desubjetivación o la percepción del capitalismo como religión de la modernidad son algunas de las sutiles indagaciones que se reúnen en estos diez ensayos breves.
Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers.
Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as well as shorter samples from transitional thinkers.
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially.
Drawing on the theories and philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, this edited collection explores the concept of rhizomatic learning and consolidates recent explorations in theory building and multidisciplinary research to identify new directions in the field.
The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and constituted experientially.
Drawing on the theories and philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, this edited collection explores the concept of rhizomatic learning and consolidates recent explorations in theory building and multidisciplinary research to identify new directions in the field.
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.
This book is an attempt to write about Kierkegaard's philosophy in the style of Kierkegaard's philosophy: energetic, playful, free spirited, surprising, and joyous.
René Descartes es sin duda uno de los pilares de la filosofía moderna y uno de aquellos filósofos cuyo pensamiento se halla plasmado en una gran obra: Meditaciones acerca de la Filosofía Primera.
Inhalt: Die Bedeutung des Sprachproblems für die Entstehung der neueren Philosophie (1927) · Erkenntnistheorie nebst den Grenzfragen der Logik und Denkpsychologie (1927) · Zur Theorie des Begriffs.
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach.
In diesem Band werden die abschließenden Erörterungen der ›Untersuchungen über die Wahrheit‹ vorgelegt, die Thomas von Aquin zwischen 1256 und 1259 in Paris verfasst hat.
This book is an abridged version of Feng Qi's two major works on the history of philosophy, The Logical Development of Ancient Chinese Philosophy and The Revolutionary Course of Modern Chinese Philosophy.
This book is an abridged version of Feng Qi's two major works on the history of philosophy, The Logical Development of Ancient Chinese Philosophy and The Revolutionary Course of Modern Chinese Philosophy.
The aim of this book is to ascertain how ancient Greek and Latin authors, both pagan and Christian, formulated and answered what is now called the problem of evil.
Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach.
Levinas formuliert die strukturell einzig mögliche Kritik an Hegel, indem er eine Dimension menschlicher Subjektivität freilegt, die von der dialektischen Totalität vorausgesetzt werden muss, ohne in sie aufgehoben werden zu können.
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have seen a renaissance in the study of virtue -- a topic that has prevailed in philosophical work since the time of Aristotle.
Die vorliegenden »Quaestionen »erörtern Fragen der Willensfreiheit in einem Rahmen, der in der zeitgenössischen Philosophie weitgehend verloren ist: in einer Metaphysik des Seins, welches auf sein Gut-Sein hin befragt wird.
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animalsand our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them.
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animalsand our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them.
