This volume is the follow-up to Understanding Confucian Philosophy: Classical and Sung-Ming, which presented the first two Epochs of Confucian philosophy.
In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger developed a way of considering human existence as 'being there', a process of interrelationships with aspects of the environment in which the very process itself constitutes the essence of human being.
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.
This is the first extended study comparing the philosophies of mind promoted by Sigmund Freud and William James, whose opposing views had profound influences on the development of twentieth-century philosophy, cognitive science, and psychology.
The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing the developments of Greek thought from Thales of Miletus to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
A history of philosophy from the origins of reason in Ancient Greece to the most influential philosophers working today, this long-awaited single volume companion to Frederick Copleston's historic 11-volume series is a must-have for any aspiring philosopher.
Reversing the usual order of interpretation, Donald Wilson reinterprets Kant's moral theory through his later practical works offering a new inner freedom account informing obscure aspects of Kant's formal moral philosophy and the practical focus of ideals of proper respect.
The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various interpretations, before endeavouring to formulate an idealist theory of evolution.
For Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, who both authored seminal theoretical works on early cinema and photography, the history of modern media begins much earlier, in Baroque culture and science.
Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "e;Western"e; liberalism of empire.
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually.
Through a series of case studies, the book thoroughly investigates the pragmatic elements of "e;new pragmatism,"e; which inherits the legacy of classical pragmatism and combines the topics and methods of analytic philosophy.
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