Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms, from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows on Netflix.
Die große Denkerin und ihr Werk - auf Basis neuer Quellen»Meyer ist eine völlig überraschende Biografie einer intellektuellen Ikone gelungen, der man im Ringen um das Leben anderer so schmerzlich nahekommt wie noch nie.
Das Buch, das Hannah Arendt weltberühmt machteUnter dem Eindruck des Holocaust, der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtung des europäischen Judentums, hat Hannah Arendt mit »Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft« – zuerst 1951 in New York erschienen, in deutscher Übersetzung 1955 – zugleich eine Geschichte und eine Theorie des Totalitarismus geschrieben.
Collected here are five short essays, Human Nature, Government, Free-will and Fatalism, Character, Moral Instinct, and, Ethical Reflections, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
The politicizing of facts and factual claims has led some to abandon all talk of a meaningful distinction between a fact and a strongly held political commitment.
This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
A collection of heartrending and heartwarming stories of people, both famous and unknown, who have suffered great emotional or physical hardship and went beyond their pain to help others.
Con su estilo personal y provocador, a través de estos pequeños ensayos el filósofo inglés Timothy Morton nos invita a reflexionar sobre ecología, arte y antropocentrismo y apela a nuestras emociones y experiencias como base para la construcción de un compromiso filosófico con el medio ambiente.
A collection of heartrending and heartwarming stories of people, both famous and unknown, who have suffered great emotional or physical hardship and went beyond their pain to help others.
Dieses eBook: "Das Gastmahl: Gespräch über Liebe und Erotik" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value.
The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times-bestselling author of The Art of Loving discusses the nature of evil and humanity's capacity for it.
A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value.
In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there's much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells.
In an impassioned defence of the importance of our own thoughts, feelings and experiences, the renowned philosopher Mary Midgley shows that there's much more to our selves than a jumble of brain cells.
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.
Im Anthropozän tritt der Mensch als Naturmacht in Erscheinung, die sich in letzter Konsequenz auch gegen sich selbst wendet: Erste und zweite Natur verschmelzen zur dritten Natur.
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot.
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.
