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A Philosophical History of Love explores the importance and development of love in the Western world. Wayne Cristaudo argues that love is a materializing force, a force consisting of various distinc……続きを見る

Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) in light of early modern traditions of el……続きを見る

Have you ever been to museums? If you enjoy looking at paintings there, then you will also enjoy this book filled with the most wondrous arts from the Renaissance era. Just think of this book as you……続きを見る

The Renaissance was a time of beautiful transformations - from art to science and everything else in between. Learn about the events that marked the beginning of the Renaissance. The great thing abo……続きを見る

Technology was very limited during the Middle Ages. Everything had to be done manually and, of course, it wasn’t easy. Hop into a time machine and go back to the times of cobbled steps, peasants, kn……続きを見る

The origins of great civilizations can be cradles of wonders, mysteries and valuable lessons. It is because of the latter that we spend time and resources educating our children about the past. This……続きを見る

Platons Werk 'Phaidros oder Vom Schönen' ist ein bedeutendes philosophisches Dialogwerk, das sich mit der Natur der Schönheit und der Liebe auseinandersetzt. Der Dialog enthüllt die Weisheit und die……続きを見る

Die 'Philosophischen Gespräche' von Moses Mendelssohn sind eine Sammlung von Dialogen, die verschiedene philosophische Themen diskutieren, darunter Erkenntnistheorie, Ethik und Metaphysik. Mendelsso……続きを見る

You may have heard about the Renaissance. You might have discussed it in class, or you've seen movies about them. You read facts and data but what should be the core take away from the Renaissance P……続きを見る

Kaum ein anderer nicht-christlicher Denker des Mittelalters ist so sehr Teil der abendländischen Geistesgeschichte geworden wie der persische Muslim Avicenna (um 980–1037). Durch seine Vermittlung g……続きを見る

The medieval philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) was one of the great thinkers of Western intellectual culture, exerting a considerable influence over many centuries. He had a ge……続きを見る

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O'Brien, former Directeur de recherché at the Centre Nationale de Recherché Scientifique, representing the……続きを見る

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as h……続きを見る

This book explores noteworthy approaches to modal syllogistic adopted by medieval logicians including Abélard, Albert the Great, Avicenna, Averröes, Jean Buridan, Richard Campsall, Robert Kilwardby……続きを見る

Karl Vorländers 'Geschichte der Philosophie' ist ein Meisterwerk der philosophischen Literatur, das in drei Bänden die Entwicklung des philosophischen Denkens von den Anfängen bis zur Neuzeit umfass……続きを見る

The Ascent of Man develops a comprehensive theory of human nature. James F. Harris sees human nature as an emergent property that supervenes a cluster of properties. Despite significant overlap betw……続きを見る

In this classic work the author undertakes to show how Spinoza's philosophical ideas, particularly his political ideas, were influenced by his underlying emotional responses to the conflicts of his ……続きを見る

This title was first published in 2002: Jörg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included Dürer, Cranach, Grünewald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Ha……続きを見る

This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading a……続きを見る

This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Gio……続きを見る

This is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human being in the thought of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas. At first glance this issue might appear arcane, but it was at the centre of pol……続きを見る

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With rea……続きを見る

This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead, rewardingly close studies of philosophical g……続きを見る

Syllogism is a form of logical argument allowing one to deduce a consistent conclusion based on a pair of premises having a common term. Although Aristotle was the first to conceive and develop this……続きを見る

In Friedrich Nietzsches Buch 'Götzen-Dämmerung' wird eine tiefgründige Kritik an den moralischen Werten und religiösen Vorstellungen der westlichen Gesellschaft präsentiert. Der Autor verwendet eine……続きを見る

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. While there have been numerous treatments of properties……続きを見る

Constituting Freedom focuses on the question at the heart of Machiavelli's thinking, that is 'in what mode a free state, if there is one, can be maintained in corrupt cities; or, if there is not, in……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Das Seiende und das Wesen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aus dem Buch: "In der Vernunft nämlich hat eb……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Einführung in die Hauptfragen der Philosophie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aus dem Buch: "Wahrheit u……続きを見る

One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general f……続きを見る