In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives.
Dreams and fantasies of immorality date back to the first human being who was expelled from the Garden of Eden and fell into time, as Augustine recounts.
Dreams and fantasies of immorality date back to the first human being who was expelled from the Garden of Eden and fell into time, as Augustine recounts.
En el presente libro, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff produce una conjunción sorprendente: extrae psicoanálisis a partir de las luminosas fuentes de la ontología política.
This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy.
This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy.
Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.
Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself.
Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself.
Dieser Essay stellt sich den grundlegendsten Fragen der Philosophie: der Frage nach dem Ursprung des Seins überhaupt, vor allem aber der Frage nach der Entstehung des Endlichen, weshalb wir dieses für unsere »Natur« halten und wie wir diesen Glauben aufbrechen können.
Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today's 24/7 culture.
The downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy.
The downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy.
Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries.
In The Key to the True Kabbalah, Franz Bardon demonstrates that mysticism of letters and numbers, the true Kabbalah, is a universal teaching of great antiquity and depth.
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain 'real-world' conditions of objectivity.
This book departs from approaches to truth in social science and ideas in philosophy that connect truth to the ability of language to fulfil certain 'real-world' conditions of objectivity.
Por el vasto, vastísimo alcance de los pensamientos formulados por Heidegger en este texto crucial de la Modernidad radical (Moderne), aparecido en la estela de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; por la fuerza con que ahonda en su visión de una historia que no es sino la de la metafísica y en la necesidad de preparar un nuevo comienzo para el pensar, atento menos a la literatura que al "cuidado de la letra"; por la tajante claridad con que señala los límites del existencialismo francés (Sartre) y la vanidad de toda ética pretendidamente autárquica; y no en último lugar, por la concentración ejemplar con que el autor conduce de principio a cabo su discurso; por todas estas razones, la "Carta sobre el Humanismo" merece ser leída con la atenta solicitud que reclama un diálogo platónico y a la vez con la circunspección y la delicadeza con que debemos acercarnos a un texto poético.
Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject.
Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject.
Der erste Band der »Philosophischen Schriften« enthält die Kategorien, die Einführung in die Kategorien (Isagoge) von Porphyrios, die Hermeneutik (De interpretatione), die Erste Analytik und die Zweite Analytik und damit, zusammen mit der Topik und den Sophistischen Widerlegungen (Band 2), die Grundkonzepte der Aristotelischen Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie.
Actualmente, el medio-ambiente, el medio-cultural o las new media abarcan nuevas cuestiones y nuevos desafíos a la humanidad, especialmente en el ámbito de un Occidente moribundo y de sus antiguas colonias.
La filosofía no ha dejado de plantearse, fundamentalmente desde el siglo XX, el problema de cómo pensar la irrupción de la novedad, la posibilidad de crear o de inventar una nueva forma de pensamiento.
