Filósofo que supo criticar como nadie los fundamentos metafísicos de la cultura occidental, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) es una figura esencial para entender el cambio entre la moral tradicional y la filosofía que estaba por venir.
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way.
Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek emigres to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done.
The thirty-four essays in this volume follow the particular interests of Leonard van der Kuijp, whose groundbreaking research in Tibetan intellectual and cultural history imbued his students with an abiding sense of curiosity and discovery.
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way.
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.
A lifelong Emersonian scholar, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emersons twelve essential teachings hold the answer to living an authentic and fulfilling life, one that is in harmony with our souls.
Kants Verhältnis zur Religionsphilosophie ist von faszinierender Komplexität: Erkenntnistheoretisch ist Gott eine Leerstelle, praktisch hingegen nicht zu vermeiden.
The people who have already built up knowledge by drawing on their immediate environments are only confronted, in education, with the calls for professional integration, at the crossroads between learning knowledge or learning to communicate; whereas the people who have not built up knowledge go from consuming refined products in economics to consuming the most remote conclusions in science and teaching.
Wilfrid Sellars tackled the difficult problems of reconciling Pittsburgh school-style analytic thought, Husserlian phenomenology, and the Myth of the Given.
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Zizek and Malabou.
This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.
This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.
A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction.
While prophethood is the backbone of the Islamic tradition and an uncompromised tenet of faith, the impact of modernity with its ambivalent status afforded to the prophet and institution of prophethood shook many Muslim scholars.
A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, with its story of a woman's fight for her place in the world, reminiscent of Khaled Hosseini's 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'.
Entre quienes estudian filosofía se nota, en las últimas dos décadas, cierto redoblado interés por el Idealismo Alemán, fenómeno llamativo pues los términos "idealismo" e "idealista" han padecido flujos de desprecio desde hace casi doscientos años.
This book offers an important contribution to the field of curriculum studies and higher education by examining the impacts of colonialism and neoliberalism in the South African education system and addressing ways to decolonise curriculum and teaching.
