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Addressing perspectives about who "we" are, the importance of place and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals, this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences, including the different places we all inhabit and the many places where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "The motive which inspires Aristotle throughout the Metaphysics is the wish to acquire that form of knowledge which is most worthy of the name of wisdom." - W. D. Ross
Many of the great and perennial problems in philosophy are to be found in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Aristotle thought that wonder at the world around us, and at the "world beyond physics" was the beginning...
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Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by Adriaan Peperzak outlines Levinas's philosophical development...
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El pensamiento de Kant, agotado el neokantismo desde que Ernst Cassirer y Martin Heidegger confrontaron sus modos de leer a Kant en el debate de Davos, entabla un diálogo creativo con las diversas filosofías del siglo veinte.
Este libro perfila las formas de un recorrido analítico que comienza con "Kant y el problema de la metafísica" (1929) y llega a los textos de Habermas y Foucault en los años ochenta, no solo como un capítulo de la historia...
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Thoughtful essays on the history, significance, and pleasures of whiskey
Everyone becomes a philosopher with a drink in hand, but Whiskey & Philosophy takes this natural pairing to a new level. It explores a range of philosophical topics related to whiskey through engaging reflections written by philosophers, whiskey writers, and others.
You will learn things that are both practical (how do tasting notes vary across guides and whiskey brands?) and...
7) De Anima
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In De Anima, Aristotle seeks to uncover what separates the living from the dead. He steers a course between two extremes, with all of reality as nothing more than atoms On one side and the mind as independent from the body On the other side. Ultimately, he invents a third kind of position that views mental phenomena to be thoroughly dependent on, though not reducible...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ryan Holiday's and Stephen Hanselman's The Daily Stoic by Instaread Preview: The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is an introduction to the practical application of Stoic philosophy in the format of a daily devotional. Often derided as discouraging emotion, Stoicism is a philosophy that encourages discipline, fortitude, and control of perceptions. The greatest possession of a Stoic is reasoned choice,...
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En noviembre de 2006, celebrando el centenario de su nacimiento, tuvo lugar el congreso internacional Lévinas, la Filosofía como Ética. Organizado conjuntamente por el MUVIM y la Universitat de València, este volumen recoge las actas de dicha reunión acedémica. Un recorrido a través del pensamiento de Lévinas: su posición dentro y fuera de la filosofía, la torsión del concepto tradicional de ética o de lenguaje, la convergencia o divergencia...
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Essential Dialogues of Plato, by Plato, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds by Instaread Preview: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses the evolution of intelligence in cephalopods in order to better understand the development of consciousness and cognition. Cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish have the most complex nervous systems in the invertebrate world. Examining the similarities and...
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La presencia de Hegel en el pensamiento contemporáneo no es sólo un trasfondo contra el que éste deba perfilarse, sino que puede verse también al trasluz de la «madurez de la conciencia europea» y de ese punto culminante de la filosofía occi-dental que su obra representa. En el presente volumen se recogen las intervencio-nes de un nutrido grupo de especialistas en la obra hegeliana, todos ellos partici-pantes en el congreso internacional sobre...
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Philosophers enjoy working with ideas that arise as they engage the world. They like to think carefully, looking at ides from more than one perspective, and without partisan urgency or desperate defensive moves. Of course, not all people who call themselves philosophers follow this ideal, but it has a long history, having been exemplified by Socrates and others in the ancient world. The essays in this volume attempt to live up to this ideal, which...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Countless readers have found peace of mind and gathered inner strength from savoring this collection of Epictetus' sayings. Unlike many ephemeral and faddish dispensations of wisdom, Epictetus' philosophy lacks nothing in depth and complexity. It has been a staple of Western education for centuries, and has exercised a formative influence over such diverse figures...
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Essays explore the significance of Julia Kristeva's concept of intimate revolt for social and political philosophy.
Over the last twenty years, French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist Julia Kristeva has explored how global crises threaten people's ability to revolt. In a context of widespread war, deepening poverty, environmental catastrophes, and rising fundamentalisms, she argues that a revival of inner psychic experience is necessary and...
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In this collection, Stations on the Journey of Inquiry, David Burrell launches a revolutionary reinterpretation of how any inquiry proceeds, boldly critiquing presumptuous theories of knowledge, language, and ethics. While his later publications, Analogy and Philosophical Language (1973) and Aquinas: God and Action (1979), elucidate Aquinas's linguistic theology, these early writings show what often escapes articulation: how one comes to understanding...
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This anthology has been significantly expanded for this edition to include a wider range of contemporary issues. The most important addition is a new section on multicultural theory, including important and controversial selections ranging from discussions of art in other cultures to discussions of the appropriation of nonWestern art in Western cultures.
The material from Kant's Critique of Judgment has been expanded to include his writing on aesthetical...
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En 2014, Roma fue testigo de una extraordinaria reunión de cuatrocientos intelectuales y líderes religiosos de todo el mundo, convocados en un coloquio internacional para hablar sobre la complementariedad del hombre y la mujer en el matrimonio.
Inaugurado por el Papa Francisco, el coloquio Humanum puso a los líderes religiosos en diálogo directo con académicos, investigadores, consejeros familiares, trabajadores sociales, y organizadores comunitarios,...
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La difusión de los conocimientos de la universitas, a veces demasiado restringidos a las paredes de las aulas de las facultades, es un objetivo prioritario y de interés de las instituciones académicas y culturales. En este sentido, los textos que se reúnen en este libro -procedentes del Congreso sobre Emmanuel Kant celebrado en el año 2004 en Valencia- permiten acercar el pensamiento del gran filósofo que siguió aquellas jornadas, desmintiendo...
20) Politics
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Aristotle’s Politics is one of the earliest, and at the same time one of the most thorough and balanced, accounts of politics. It provides extended analyses of the origin and function of the state; the proper distribution of political power among the branches of government; a classification of the different types of regime; the reasons why the different regimes fail and how to prevent such failure; and, in general, the principal details of practical...
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