El presente curso dictado por Alain de Libera en el Collège de France se centra en la investigación sobre la historia de tres cuestiones: "cuestión del hombre", "cuestión del sujeto", "cuestión del sí mismo", tríptico que pondrá de manifiesto la tensión existente entre metafísica y antropología y a partir de la cual se producirá la invención del sujeto moderno.
El pensamiento del general chino Sun Tzu ha influido en la obra de Maquiavelo, fue decisivo en los planes militares de Napoleón, modeló las ideas políticas de Mao Tse Tung y se apoya en estos dos preceptos: Todo el arte de la guerra se basa en el engaño.
Dieses eBook: "Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Napoleon: Die Darstellung marxistischer Gesellschaftsanalyse und Geschichtstheorie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
»Menschliches, noch Menschlicheres« ist ein authentisch-philosophischer Essay, in einer Sprache geschrieben, die so verständlich und präzise wie inspirierend ist.
"El Comentario a las Sentencias de Pedro Lombardo constituye la primera obra mayor de Tomás de Aquino fruto de su enseñanza como bachiller sentenciario al comenzar su primera estadía en París (1252).
How the concept of ';deep time' began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of ';deep time'most often associated with geological epochsbegan as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record.
Euthyphro - 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.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity.
In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity.
The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the second volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinusa text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep influence on early Christian thought and medieval and Renaissance philosophy.
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.
The story of German philosophy from the Middle Ages to todayThis concise but comprehensive book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today.
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.
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.
If we can learn how to relax, before our minds become agitated and our perceptions bombarded and overwhelmed, we can bring out the hidden qualities of our senses and appreciate their nuances and textures.
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.
