Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws.
A complete and original theory of aesthetics based on Marx and Althusser in the modernist Marxist anti-humanist tradition (Brecht, Althusser, Benjamin, Adorno).
Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives' sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument.
Thought by many to be the quintessential philosopher of the modern age, John Locke's ideas are the key to understanding society and politics in the West.
When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged that she had been assaulted by a man in the politician's household.
An inspired and impassioned historical examination of humanity's search for the divineFrom Plato to Wittgenstein and religions from Judaism to the Hindu tradition, interspersed with divine influences from Classical Greece, Romantic poetry, and the occasional scene from 'Alien', ';God: A Guide for the Perplexed' charts the path of humanity's great spiritual odyssey: the search for God.
The only book to cover the evolution of one of the most important areas of philosophyThe birth of the Enlightenment heralded a new reverence for the power of reason.
In this lively and entertaining introduction to the philosophy of mind, Edward Feser explores the questions central to the discipline; such as 'do computers think', and 'what is consciousness'; and gives an account of all the most important and significant attempts that have been made to answer them.
From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American CitiesNo one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.
'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division.
'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it'What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned'Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, modern thought is unthinkable - all those whose ideas have made the modern age have worked in his shadow.
Dieses eBook: "Zum Problem der Einfühlung" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Este libro aborda la relación intelectual entre dos exponentes clave de la fenomenología francesa del siglo XX: Maurice Merleau-Ponty y Jean Paul Sartre.
In his compelling new book, The Catholic Case for Trump, Austin Ruse cuts through leftist lies aimed at squashing the Catholic vote and offers his audience broken down into three categories of Liberal, Faithful, and Generic Catholics a guide as to why all Catholics should not only vote for President Trump, but do so enthusiastically with confidence that he is the only moral choice.
From the origins of critical theory in the bowels of the academy to its use in justifying rioting and arson in the name of a dubious equity agenda, an eminent philosopher unmasks the intellectual origins of this mental virus, and details steps rational thinkers can take to combat its insidious spread.
Tucked in the Old Testament book of Isaiah is a warning meant for ancient Judah, but it might as well have been written for twenty-first century America: ';Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness' (Isaiah 5:20).
Este texto colectivo contiene ocho capítulos con distintas perspectivas sobre la innovación tecnológica en la educación; realiza algunas precisiones terminológicas acerca de la temática y sus distintas manifestaciones en la sociedad actual; reflexiona acerca de la educación digital y su incidencia en la innovación; analiza el pensamiento colectivo conectado; presenta pautas para el desarrollo de la competencia digital en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de las diferentes áreas del saber y establece pistas acerca del uso de las herramientas tecnológicas en la educación de la sociedad red.
Für alle, die das Handwerk der Philosophie von der Pike auf erlernen wollen, ist – wie auch für die philosophische Lehre – die Logik der Anfang von allem.
Este libro es el resultado de un ejercicio académico que tiene como inspiración central la necesidad de comprender tanto el complejo edificio de la constitución de la ciencia moderna, como, por su puesto, ´el lugar´ que ocupamos en este proyecto inacabado como profesionales de las ciencias sociales y humanas.
