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This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out……続きを見る

Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the natur……続きを見る

This book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its under……続きを見る

Originally published in 1931, Muirhead’s study aims to challenge the view that Locke’s empiricism is the main philosophical thought to come out of England, suggesting that the Platonic tradition is ……続きを見る

This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a pe……続きを見る

不正義的另一種面貌 　　貶低一個人的人性， 　　並且剝奪一個人的力量的最好方法， 　　就是剝奪他的發言權 　　正義是哲學裡面最古老、最核心的主題，人們總以為只要了解正義是什麼，便能以否定的方式來理解所謂……続きを見る

During the Renaissance science was never separated from mysticism and alchemy. Some of the finest minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton were all heavily involved in what they would of cal……続きを見る

Port Bou: ¿alemán? es un recordar, un sentar por escrito a fuer de interpretación y actualización la vida de Walter Benjamin; pero uno que lucha contra su propio descuidarse, que quiere venir a ser ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's Tim……続きを見る

This is a book that contrary to common practice, shows the commonalities of ancient and modern theories of freedom, law, and rational actions. Studying the works of the ancients is necessary to unde……続きを見る

Philosophy like you've never seen it before The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental……続きを見る

“This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”ーWalter Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame In fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the ……続きを見る

A study of the rise and decline of puritanism in England and New England that focuses on the role of godly men and women. It explores the role of family devotions, lay conferences, prophesying and o……続きを見る

The core of what we refer to as ‘the project of modernity’ is the idea that human beings have the power to bring the world under their control, and hence it is based on a ‘kinetic utopia’: the movem……続きを見る

Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in mo……続きを見る

For the past thirty years, Howard Caygill has been a distinctive and radical voice in continental philosophy. For the first time, this volume gathers together Caygill's most significant philosophica……続きを見る

Le témoignage existentiel d'un Européen qui reçut une éducation philosophique de l'entre-deux-guerres. Les textes de Günther Anders renferment le témoignage existentiel d'un Européen qui reçut une é……続きを見る

Amartya Sens meistzitierter und einflussreichster Aufsatz: Die ökonomische Theorie reduziert den Menschen auf Gier und Egoismus. Dabei verfolgen Menschen in konkreten Situationen zum Glück häufig ga……続きを見る

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to……続きを見る

What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williams……続きを見る

In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today’s heated culture wars within the c……続きを見る

How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith……続きを見る

那些對話、往來、抗衡、離亂，留下了許多非常不一樣的思想風景，影響了那時代許多哲學家的一生，以及現在的我們…… 在徳國萊茵河畔的哲學咖啡館，評論作家蔡慶樺為我們推開哲學世界的大門，思考康徳、黒格爾、馬克……続きを見る

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough phi……続きを見る

This is the first translation of Fichte's addresses to the German nation for almost 100 years. The series of 14 speeches, delivered whilst Berlin was under French occupation after Prussia's disastro……続きを見る

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosoph……続きを見る

The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. Th……続きを見る

Our Knowledge of the External World isa compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the ……続きを見る

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the second edition of The Oxford Handbook of Plato pro……続きを見る

Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Easte……続きを見る