This anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on 19th-century philosophers who represent a variety of responses to the issue of their day: whether or not there was a knowable, nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act.
This book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy by putting it in conversation with key 20th and 21st century thinkers such as Beauvoir, Coates, Derrida, Paz, Rorty, and Zizek.
This anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on 19th-century philosophers who represent a variety of responses to the issue of their day: whether or not there was a knowable, nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act.
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.
'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most influential philosophical texts of the twentieth century.
El libro parte de la hipótesis de que la metafísica occidental nace con una sobredosis, identificada por Platón con la idea del Bien en República 509b, a la que sin embargo intenta conjurar por todos los medios.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are arguably the most important period in philosophy's history, given that they set a new and broad foundation for subsequent philosophical thought.
Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability.
The papers in this second selection of articles by Professor Colish focus on thinkers of the patristic age, and relate to her three monographic studies in this area published over the last two decades.
The papers in this second selection of articles by Professor Colish focus on thinkers of the patristic age, and relate to her three monographic studies in this area published over the last two decades.
Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability.
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.
This book considers the role of postmodernism (skepticism towards metanarratives and anti-essentialism) in Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy by putting it in conversation with key 20th and 21st century thinkers such as Beauvoir, Coates, Derrida, Paz, Rorty, and Zizek.
While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful socialist revolution, Marx and Engels by no means ignored developments outside this region.
The clean separation between manifold phenomena and a systematic order that prevails in them is a basic feature of the rational-scientific orientation system.
En estas páginas Héctor Garza Saldívar, SJ, despliega la propuesta de que el pensamiento del filósofo Xavier Zubiri reconceptualiza la historia y el papel del conjunto de las acciones personales en ella.
Inhalt: Die Begriffsform im mythischen Denken (1922) · Der Begriff der symbolischen Form im Aufbau der Geisteswissenschaften (1923) · Die Kantischen Elemente in Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachphilosophie (1923) · Eidos und Eidolon.
Die dreibändige »Philosophie der symbolischen Formen« ist das herausragende Werk, in dem Cassirer die Transformation der traditionellen Transzendentalphilosophie zur Kulturphilosophie vollzog.
Kants Leben und Lehre wendet sich nicht an solche Leser, »die mit Kant und seiner Lehre schon in irgendeinem Sinne 'fertig' zu sein glauben, sondern sie rechnet auf Leser, die noch mitten im Studium von Kants Werken stehen«.
Die dreibändige »Philosophie der symbolischen Formen« ist das herausragende Werk, in dem Cassirer die Transformation der traditionellen Transzendentalphilosophie zur Kulturphilosophie vollzog.
Die dreibändige »Philosophie der symbolischen Formen« ist das herausragende Werk, in dem Cassirer die Transformation der traditionellen Transzendentalphilosophie zur Kulturphilosophie vollzog.
After some friendly pestering from six of his students curious about his thinking about immigration, a philosophy professor invites them to present their own ideas to him over a series of meetings throughout the term.
Während des englischen Bürgerkrieges fand 1645 im Pariser Exil eine zunächst höflich, dann gereizt und zuletzt erbittert geführte Kontroverse zwischen Thomas Hobbes und dem anglikanischen Bischof John Bramhall über Willensfreiheit statt.
