Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C. Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book.
He shows us how much more peop……続きを見る
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of ……続きを見る
Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelis……続きを見る
著者:Catalin Avramescu
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2011年08月08日
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Di……続きを見る
The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. Grayling
Everyone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is ……続きを見る
著者:Plato
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年04月09日
Includes the following works: The Republic, Alcibiades I, Alcibiades II, Apology, Charmides, Critias, Eryxias, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Ion, Laches, Laws, Lysis, Menexenus, Meno, Parmenides, ……続きを見る
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, conte……続きを見る
著者:Charles Seife
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2000年09月01日
A New York Times Notable Book.
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern phy……続きを見る
著者:Jeanine Grenberg
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
In this book, Jeanine Grenberg argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from careful reflection upon the common human moral experience of the conflict between happiness……続きを見る
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovativ……続きを見る
Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His ground-breaking philosophy is based on a creative reading of set theory, offering a new understanding of what it means to be h……続きを見る
Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient ……続きを見る
著者:Thomas More
出版社: BK Publishers
発売日: 2013年03月01日
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Utopia [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ]
Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by……続きを見る
著者:Peter Loptson
出版社: University of Ottawa Press
発売日: 2016年03月18日
In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and natura……続きを見る
Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1……続きを見る
In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Žižek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous th……続きを見る
著者:John Portmann
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年06月01日
Although many of us deny it, it is not uncommon to feel pleasure over the suffering of others, particularly when we feel that suffering has been deserved. The German word for this concept-Schadenfre……続きを見る
著者:Stefano Gattei
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年10月16日
This book seeks to rectify misrepresentations of Popperian thought with a historical approach to Popper’s philosophy, an approach which applies his own mature view, that we gain knowledge through co……続きを見る
The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accom……続きを見る
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve a……続きを見る
著者:Robert R. Clewis
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a……続きを見る
著者:Thomas More
出版社: ngims Publishing
発売日: 2013年06月30日
FEATURES:
• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations
• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book
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• Manuall……続きを見る
What is courage and why is it one of the oldest and most universally admired virtues? How is it relevant in the world today, and what contemporary forms does it take?
In this insightful and crisply ……続きを見る
著者:Charles Darwin
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年11月03日
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the co……続きを見る
What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age? What……続きを見る
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of ……続きを見る
Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 17 November 1494) was a renowned Italian Renaissance philosopher despite his early death. At the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on ……続きを見る
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific wr……続きを見る
Leibniz states that 'metaphysics is natural theology', and this is especially true of his metaphysics of modality. In this book, Michael V. Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and t……続きを見る