That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom.
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books.
Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each section.
Because of their ever-changing personalities, their high energy, and their emerging ability to think critically, younger adolescents present a special faith formation challenge to the congregations who love them.
Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world.
Die Auflösung der Blöcke im Jahre 1990 hat eine grundlegende Veränderung der internationalen Sicherheitssituation hervorgerufen: Es entstanden neue Arten von Bedrohungen und neue Wege, diesen zu begegnen.
How Molyneux''s Question shaped the conflict between empiricism and idealism in nineteenth-century British, American and Australian landscape painting and criticism.
One of the most enduring achievements of Indian civilization is undoubtedly its architecture, which extends to a greatening more than the Taj Mahal or the.
The present series of 75 volumes is compiled, edited and arranged encounter wise alphabetical order dealing with various aspects of Buddha, Buddhists, and Buddhism viz.
A comprehensive, authoritative, innovative and accessible account of Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West.
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy.
One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention.
Nach dem Ende der römischen Republik stellte sich für Augustus und seine Nachfolger die Aufgabe einer Restabilisierung der sozialen und politischen Ordnung.
This book, first published in 1987, is a study of the development of Sartre's political thought from the late 1920s to the liberation of France in 1944, concentrating particularly upon his concept of freedom.
This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain.
Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, with his work spanning theory of knowledge, metaphysics, philosophy of art, philosophy of history, and social and political philosophy.
In der aktuellen sprachphilosophischen Debatte um die Semantik/Pragmatik-Unterscheidung bezieht die Autorin gegen eine kontextualistische und zugunsten einer minimalistischen Position Stellung, der zufolge der genuin semantische Gehalt eines geäußerten Satzes nicht von Sprecherintentionen abhängt, sondern allein unter Rekurs auf die konventionelle Bedeutung der verwendeten Ausdrücke und die Regeln ihrer Komposition bestimmt wird.
Philosophers of religion are often caught up with the epistemic justification of their religious beliefs, rather than the qualities of the religious life that make it valuable.
Modern developments in philosophy have provided us with tools, logical and methodological, that were not available to Medieval thinkers - a development that has its dangers as well as opportunities.
Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise.
