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This book offers a new and original hypothesis on the origin of modal ontology, whose roots can be traced back to the mathematical debate about incommensurable magnitudes, which forms the implicit b……続きを見る

This edited volume is the first specialized book in English about the Swiss zoologist and anthropologist Adolf Portmann (1897-1982). It provides a clarification and update of Portmann’s theoretical ……続きを見る

Una visione a tutto tondo del grande pensatore «Kant mise al centro del suo pensiero gli ossi più duri e coriacei della filosofia: il come si conosce e i suoi limiti; la morale e i comportamenti; la……続きを見る

This book is a miscellany of thoughts and writings from Christ Himself, Martin Luther, Hannah Whitall Smith, Ellen. G White, A.W. Tozer, C.S. Lewis, Pavel Goia, and others, using the bible as a foun……続きを見る

Nel suo libro più «politico», Peter Sloterdijk, filosofo tedesco le cui posizioni controverse sono sovente oggetto di dibattito, propone intuizioni mai banali per decifrare i cambiamenti che interes……続きを見る

A inveja, o ciúme, o mal-entendido, as desilusões amorosas, o desencontro de opiniões - além das grandes indagações sobre os mistérios da nossa existência e espiritualidade -, são temas desta derrad……続きを見る

Utopia - Thomas Morus - Thomas Morus Utopia | Neu lektorierte 2020er-Ausgabe, mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung, voll verlinkt und mit einem aktuellen Vorwort des HerausgebersDieses Buch hat gewalt……続きを見る

Meno Plato - Meno is a Socratic dialogue scripted by Plato. It appears to attempt to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as ……続きを見る

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernityーand examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-o……続きを見る

Maxims and Reflections Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre pr……続きを見る

Coinvolto suo malgrado nella disputa sul libero arbitrio, Erasmo da Rotterdam in questo libro affronta la polemica con l'umiltà dello studioso. La libertà umana per Erasmo è libertà di salvarsi. Ma ……続きを見る

Tra la fine del Cinquecento e l’inizio del Seicento, il più stimato filosofo naturalista dell’Inghilterra elisabettiana, John Dee, con l’aiuto di un cristallo chiamato “pietra divinatoria” parlò con……続きを見る

Tras más de noventa años de la publicación de Ser y tiempo de Martin Heidegger, una de las obras más emblemáticas e importantes del siglo pasado, resulta un hecho sorprendente constatar su vigencia,……続きを見る

This book demonstrates that the common belief that humanity is naturally disposed to religion did not disappear with the emergence of the Enlightenment. Going beyond a narrow focus on John Locke’s e……続きを見る

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovann……続きを見る

This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Dele……続きを見る

This volume is dedicated to the life and work of Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) counted among the influential twentieth-century philosophers of science. Forgotten by the history of philosophy of science c……続きを見る

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernityーand examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-o……続きを見る

As a scholar studying in the United States, Tsunezo Kishinami wrote the comprehensive text - The Development of Philosophy in Japan. Written during a critical period for Japan, when it was emerging ……続きを見る

This volume offers arguments from eastern and western philosophical traditions to enrich and diversify our present conceptions of knowledge. The contributors extend contemporary Western epistemology……続きを見る

In this comprehensive tour of the long history and philosophy of expertise, from ancient Greece to the 20th century, Jamie Carlin Watson tackles the question of expertise and why we can be skeptical……続きを見る

Religion ist nichts Eindeutiges. »Religion« ist ein Begriff, der gerne missbraucht wird und dessen Vielschichtigkeit zu ergründen lohnt. Charles Taylor arbeitet sich aus zwei Perspektiven heran: aus……続きを見る

Das »Philosophische Taschenwörterbuch« ist alles andere als ein Nachschlagewerk. Es ist eine scharfe Abrechnung mit Dummheit, Fanatismus, Borniertheit und Intoleranz. Voltaire führt hier in besteche……続きを見る

Der Begriff der ›Natur‹ ist so etwas wie ein Bedeutungs-Chamäleon und wird entsprechend leicht missbraucht. Mill wendet sich in seinem kurzen Essay mit Macht gegen Behauptungen, etwas sei ›natürlich……続きを見る

Wir verstehen uns als Europäer, doch unsere traditionell verankerten Vorstellungen von europäischer Kultur sind fragwürdig. Denn wir schleppen aus der Kolonialzeit und aus der Romantik Ansichten mit……続きを見る

Der Mensch ist das improvisierende ›Tier‹ schlechthin. Denn er kann aus mangelnder Vorbereitung Chancen kreieren, sich Situationen anpassen und mit Flexibilität das Beste daraus machen. Improvisatio……続きを見る

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fic……続きを見る

This book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century. Best known today for her important correspondence with the philosopher ……続きを見る

An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century. Although attempts were made by Calvinists to reach agreement over key beliefs, and to establish uniformity in pa……続きを見る

The Architectonic of Pure Reason, one of the most important sections of Kant's first Critique, raises three fundamental questions. What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? Taken together ……続きを見る