The Self: A History explores the ways in which the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy.
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles--bridging the gap between theory and on-the-ground impact.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of shame and shamelessness as ethico-political phenomena in the contemporary world, this book stages a cross-cultural dialogue that questions and unsettles established views.
Battista Mondin, alumno del gran Werner Jaeger en Harvard, saboreo -en los textos griegos originales de Platon y Aristoteles- las frescas fuentes de, en palabras de Mondin, "e;la reina de todo saber humano"e;: la metafisica.
This book examines the aftermath of eSwatini's fiftieth anniversary of independence and the COVID-19 pandemic, when many citizens of this last absolute monarchy in Africa took to their communities in unprecedented protests for democratic reform.
The Fellowship Church explores the evolution of the American religious left through a case study of the African American intellectual and theologian Howard Thurman, and the physical embodiment of his thought: The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples.
Feminist Responses to Crises and Dehumanization brings together academic knowledge with activist strategies and lived experiences from different socio-geographic angles--bridging the gap between theory and on-the-ground impact.
In order to gain a deeper understanding of shame and shamelessness as ethico-political phenomena in the contemporary world, this book stages a cross-cultural dialogue that questions and unsettles established views.
The Roman philosopher Seneca addressed himself to the question of how we ought to live in letters and treatises that have engaged the attention of readers from his own day to the present.
Y hoy, mas que nunca, tenemos el deber de amar este mundo, no solo porque somos responsables de su fragilidad, sino porque tenemos una deuda con el: nos ofrece su esplendor, y pasamos de largo.
En extrema sintesis, el paternalismo juridico sostiene que el Estado tiene derecho a limitar la libertad del individuo, a traves de la coaccion -por ejemplo, sanciones penales-, para tutelar (aquello que se pretende que constituye) el bien del individuo mismo, con el fin de impedir que se cause un dano, incluso si no causa un dano a terceros.
Atheists argue that animal pain, disease, suffering, and death cause a problem for theism because they believe that an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good God would not use millions of years of animal suffering just to make a world suitable for humans.
This book explores how prehistoric aesthetic consciousness of the Chinese nation evolved from animality and barbarism, how it was epitomized in prehistoric artifacts, and most importantly, how this aesthetic consciousness has exerted an ever-lasting influence upon the Chinese mind and culture, by examining prehistoric archaeological discoveries, particularly pottery objects, jade ware, and rock paintings from prehistoric cultures, and by studying ancient Chinese historical and literary documents.
