Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature.
Timeless political wisdom from ancient history's greatest statesmanMarcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together.
A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "e;philology"e; was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more.
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the techne, or "e;handbook,"e; tradition-which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates-as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model for contemporary rhetoric.
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories.
In The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood, Chris Altieri contends that the forma mentis of the founders of the political society often viewed--by its members and by those external to it--as the non plus ultra of modernity, i.
This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life.
Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature.
Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination-the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams.
This is the first of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century.
Dem Menschen, dessen Seele die Natur den verhängnisschweren Keim zu einer vollgiftigen, mündlichen und schöpferischen Persönlichkeit gelegt hat, bleibt es kaum erspart, sich von der Partei, der er angehört, in deren Schoß er groß geworden ist, zu lösen und sich zu befreien.
Normas y prácticas, discursos y acciones, estructura y agencia, planes y realidad, experiencia y expectativa: formas duales demasiadas veces en juego en nuestras reflexiones sobre el pasado.
This book aims at introducing Jeanne Hersch, holding together her biography and her philosophy and showing in which sense her whole path can be seen as a continuous endeavour to guarantee better conditions for the exercise of freedom to more and more people.
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Uno de los asuntos sobre los que el hombre se pregunta a lo largo de su historia es el de la procedencia de la creación artística y la naturaleza de la inspiración.
En las páginas de Arte y hostilidad se vuelve, una y otra vez, por senderos distintos, al problema, que es también recurso, de la "inactualidad de Hegel", y a fortiori de la inactualidad de la estética en el programa mayor de la Enciclopedia.
For thinkers young and old, this philosophy book will help you discover your own powers of thought and experience for yourself the freaky thrills of befuddlement.
A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "e;On the Shortness of Life,"e; a pointed reminder to make the most of our timeWho doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life?
In seinem Hauptwerk bedient sich Nietzsche der Stimme des erfundenen altpersischen Propheten Zarathustra, um seine ›Lehren‹ zu verkünden: von der ewigen Wiederkehr des Gleichen, dem Übermenschen und dem Willen zur Macht.
Este libro recoge ensayos y estudios sobre diferentes aspectos y momentos de la obra del filósofo cordobés Gustavo Ortiz (1941-2014), realizados por profesores-investigadores de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba, que tuvieron diversos vínculos con Ortiz.
Para poder decir qué es el humanismo cristiano caben dos métodos: uno, que daría lugar a algo interminable: analizar los otros humanismos para señalar las diferencias y posibles coincidencias del "cristiano" respecto a ellos.
Symposium - Plato - Sophist - Plato - Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
El presente volumen recoge el único libro que Serra dejó inédito, una recopilación de ensayos breves sobre obras y autores que le marcaron especialmente.
Esta tercera entrega de Biblia y Teología Hoy contiene cuatro artículos variados, uno de teología pastoral, otro de teología propia, el tercero de teología bíblica y el último de teología histórica.
El Tattva Bodha, o Conocimiento de la Realidad Divina, es un libro breve, ameno y metodico, presentado en forma de preguntas y respuestas sobre los principales terminos y temas del Vedanta Advaita.
Die griechische Geisteswelt hat sich in Abhängigkeit vom Alten Testament entwickelt, wobei die Offenbarung mitunter verfälscht wurde – so die Sicht der Kirchenväter.
Der zweite Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält mit der Topik und den Sophistischen Widerlegungen zwei Texte, die dem sogenannten Organon, also den logischen und methodischen Schriften des Aristoteles, zugerechnet werden.
La Joya Suprema del Discernimiento, cuyo nombre en sanscrito es Vivekachudamani, es uno de los tratados mas importantes escritos por el gran maestro Sri Sankaracharya.
Esta obra expresa el interés contemporáneo de la filosofía en torno al mundo de la vida y a la constitución de la subjetividad, o región de lo espiritual, al conmemorar los cien años de la publicación de Ideas Ide E.
