Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon's foundational years.
One of the best ENG translations of this ancient Indian treatise on politics, social mores, love, and intimacy are the Kama Sutra, which Mallanaga Vatsyayana wrote in the second century CE.
Legend holds that a border guard refused to let the aging sage Laozi leave China until he wrote down his wisdom - so he did, in eighty-one short verses, and then rode off and was never heard from again.
El Teeteto es un dialogo que trata sobre la naturaleza del saber y que corresponde a la preocupacion de Platon por revisar la metafisica de las formas, explorada en los grandes dialogos de la madurez platonica y llevando a cabo esta mision segun los origenes socraticos de la filosofia, es decir, entendida como la busqueda, mayeuticamente orientada, de la definicion.
Argues that our experience of becoming engrossed in the fictional world of a novel is connected to the fundamental condition of human being: our capacity for language in all its broadest shapes.
Reveals how making small, strategic changes to habits and behaviors in daily life can lead to better physical, mental, and spiritual well-being Explores breathing practices, sleep habits, the energetic effects of specific foods, and different types of fasting Explains how exercise and yoga, massage, bathing, and sexual energy retention can increase vitalityIn this classic guide to Ayurvedic principles, Indian artist, teacher, and scholar of tantra, Harish Johari reveals how making small, strategic changes to habits and behaviors in daily life can lead to better physical, mental, and spiritual well-being no matter what your current age or state of health.
For a very long time, Kant's Doctrine of Right languished in relative neglect, even among those who wanted to defend a Kantian position in political philosophy.
America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced society.
The main objectives of this book are to critically evaluate the problem of scientificity in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, to argue that his phenomenological reflection further awakens possibilities for the rational sciences and finally, to question the standard narratives of his theory of reason in order to revitalize his intuitions in light of the present day.
In this fresh evaluation of Western ethics, noted philosopher Richard Taylor argues that philosophy must return to the classical notion of virtue as the basis of ethics.
The main objectives of this book are to critically evaluate the problem of scientificity in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, to argue that his phenomenological reflection further awakens possibilities for the rational sciences and finally, to question the standard narratives of his theory of reason in order to revitalize his intuitions in light of the present day.
This book develops the concept of Asian Commons as a conceptual and methodological tool to engage with Asia, both in its incredible heterogeneity and its important historical resonance.
This book develops the concept of Asian Commons as a conceptual and methodological tool to engage with Asia, both in its incredible heterogeneity and its important historical resonance.
This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s provocative claim that “the unconscious is feeling itself,” reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content.
This book explores Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s provocative claim that “the unconscious is feeling itself,” reframing the unconscious as a fundamentally relational phenomenon rather than a private repository of repressed content.
This book argues that Nietzsche's political thought and his own proposed model of governance is Bonapartist in conception: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule.
This contributed volume investigates the non-Western understanding of happiness under the influence of various religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity against Western thought on happiness.
This contributed volume investigates the non-Western understanding of happiness under the influence of various religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity against Western thought on happiness.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama.
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama.
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, , language: English, abstract: The article investigates fragments of the two Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, which are frequently seen as indicating two drastically different views of the world - the former often being summarized as "e;Everything flows"e;, the latter as "e;Everything rests"e;.
