Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs 'Aus den Sudelbüchern' ist eine Sammlung von aphoristischen Notizen, Gedanken und Reflexionen des Autors, die einen faszinierenden Einblick in sein scharfes intellektuelles und literarisches Genie bieten.
In der Tradition der ökologischen Marxlektüre bietet dieses Buch eine philosophische Reflexion der ökologischen Krise auf Basis der von Karl Marx entworfenen Theorie der modernen, kapitalistischen Gesellschaft.
Sich mit feiner Ironie für »inkompetent« erklären, den anderen durch einen sinnlosen Wortschwall verdutzen oder einfach das Thema wechseln – nur drei Möglichkeiten, wie man sich in einem Streitgespräch verhalten kann, bei dem es nicht mehr allein um die Wahrheitsfindung geht, sondern darum, recht zu behalten.
Kant's account of emotions has only recently begun to receive the attention that this topic deserves, as it casts new light over the manifold features of transcendental philosophy.
This core textbook provides a clear and accessible introduction to the key concepts of phenomenology in relation to theatre, showing how they shed light on the works of influential theatre-makers such as Brecht, Artaud, and Stanislavski.
This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation.
In seiner "Volkstümlichen Geschichte der Philosophie" präsentiert Karl Vorländer eine umfassende Darstellung der Philosophiegeschichte auf verständliche und zugängliche Weise.
Dieses eBook: "Des Sokrates Verteidigung" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
In Volume Two of Ernest Fortin: Collected Essays, Fortin deals with the relationship between religion and civil society in a Christian context: that of an essentially nonpolitical but by no means entirely otherwordly religion, many of whose teachings were thought to be fundamentally at odds with the duties of citizenship.
Neoplatonists from Plotinus onward incorporate Aristotle's logic and ontology into their philosophies: this process is of both intrinsic and historical interest and paves the way for subsequent philosophical debates in the Middle Ages and beyond.
Die leitende These der Untersuchung lautet, dass der von Berkeley inaugurierte und uneingeschränkt verteidigte Idealismus bei Kant und Schopenhauer eine spannungsreiche Bewegung der Problematisierung und Kritik freisetzt.
In der Tradition der ökologischen Marxlektüre bietet dieses Buch eine philosophische Reflexion der ökologischen Krise auf Basis der von Karl Marx entworfenen Theorie der modernen, kapitalistischen Gesellschaft.
This is a letter in which His Eminence Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltut collected research on women and their place in the Qur'an, and added other topics to it on "birth control" and on "Islam and peace.
This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain.
As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy-across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics-and showed the ways in which any problem, pushed back to its beginning or taken to its end, is a philosophic problem.
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance-so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought.
Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career.
In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism.
God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own salvation or damnation.
Giorgio Agamben has come to be recognized in recent years as one of the most provocative and imaginative thinkers in contemporary philosophy and political theory.
Nés à plus d'un quart de siècle d'intervalle, Paul Tillich et Paul Ricœur n'ont guère eu l'occasion de mener ensemble un dialogue nourri sur les thèmes qui leur étaient chers.
En este volumen se presentan tres breves Upanishads —libros poseedores de una gran sabiduría espiritual—, que nos hablan acerca de las diferentes disciplinas o Sâdhanas para meditación, y al mismo tiempo, nos revelan las principales características del discípulo y las virtudes que éste debe cultivar.
