Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher SenecaTo give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do-but it is also the closest you can come to divinity.
An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America.
La actual disolución de las fronteras de los géneros artísticos va acompañada de experimentos estéticos que renuevan la vieja pretensión vanguardista de borrar la clásica brecha entre arte y vida.
Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity.
These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom-views that later found expression in such famous works as "e;Two Concepts of Liberty"e; and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics.
Timeless political wisdom from ancient history's greatest statesmanMarcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic troubles, foreign turmoil, and political parties that refused to work together.
Christians are not on a mission for God; his church is on his mission-the mission of bringing the grace of Christ to sinners; the mission of bringing the whole world into obedience to Christ; and the mission of filling the world with his fame and glory.
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protectionsThis provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse?
Pasan los años y, lejos de diluirse entre la cháchara del tiempo, el pensamiento de Guy Debord (1931-1994) —su aportación teórica y práctica— se percibe con mayor nitidez.
One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal traditionThe Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond.
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution.
While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail.
Thomas Kilian untersucht die Ausdifferenzierung von Wissenssystemen in der modernen Gesellschaft anhand von Wissenschaft, Bildung, Journalismus und Medizin.
Arturo Roig consideraba sustancial comprender al sujeto en su concrecion historica y, por tanto, pensaba que era no solo legitimo sino indispensable generar una Historia de las ideas de America Latina.
Inspirierende Persönlichkeiten im Gespräch über die Fragen des Lebens Michael Horowitz und Mira Ungewitter sind ein ungewöhnliches Gesprächspaar und sich doch zugetan.
Uno de los asuntos sobre los que el hombre se pregunta a lo largo de su historia es el de la procedencia de la creación artística y la naturaleza de la inspiración.
Argumenta philosophica es una revista internacional de carácter científico y de investigación filosófica que se publica semestralmente y se dirige a un público universitario.
Allerorten werden die innovativen Kräfte in Wirtschaft, Technik, Politik und Gesellschaft beschworen - es herrscht eine regelrechte lnnovationsinflation.
Este libro recoge ensayos y estudios sobre diferentes aspectos y momentos de la obra del filósofo cordobés Gustavo Ortiz (1941-2014), realizados por profesores-investigadores de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba, que tuvieron diversos vínculos con Ortiz.
En este libro se desentraña cómo Silencios muestra la continuidad o "repetición" de la historia como catástrofe, esto es, la hermandad de las víctimas, entre el judío que sobrevive y el desplazado, o entre el quemado y el ahogado.