Anyone new to philosophy soon encounters new ideas that challenge their hidden biases and cherished beliefs, or are at odds with common sense and tradition.
The book "The Origin of the Family System, the State, and Individual Property" by Friedrich Engels is considered an essential reference in Marxist philosophy, as it deals with the origin and development of family relations, and the relationship between those relations and economic changes.
In his book "Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals," the German philosopher Immanuel Kant reviews his radical ideas about ethics, presenting a new vision of the moral system that focuses on the principle of freedom.
This book is about the human mind in ancient philosophy, with a focus on sense perception, a subject that Richard Sorabji has previously treated more in articles than in books.
Von Platons Ideenlehre über Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft bis hin zur postmodernen Dekonstruktion aller Wahrheitsansprüche: Wer Theologie treibt, muss dies immer im Rahmen der Weltsicht seiner Zeit tun.
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages.
Das umfangreiche Werk von Carl Christian Erhard Schmid (1761–1812) hat in der Philosophiegeschichtsforschung mit Ausnahme seiner Lehre vom intelligiblen Fatalismus bislang keine Beachtung erfahren.
This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of nonhuman relations.
Immanuel Kant gehört zu den bedeutendsten Denkern der Aufklärung und prägte mit seinen revolutionären Ideen über Erkenntnis, Moral und Freiheit die Philosophie bis heute.
Ferran Sáez Mateu traza un recorrido desde la solitaria torre de Montaigne en el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad, marcada por tecnologías que nos fascinan aunque siempre exigen algo a cambio.
