Bern - Philosophy 1

This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies ar……続きを見る

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional vio……続きを見る

How often do we ask this question: what love does God want from us? So often it is just the opposite; we pray to God to tell him what we want - never thinking that we are in a relationship - never c……続きを見る

A new volume of philosophical essays by Bernard Williams. The book is a successor to Problems of the Self, but whereas that volume dealt mainly with questions of personal identity, Moral Luck centre……続きを見る

In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that wer……続きを見る

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relatio……続きを見る

"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one ……続きを見る

Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, philosophic and literary traditions has provoked thi……続きを見る

Method in Theology stands with Insight as Bernard Lonergan’s most important work. It is Lonergan’s answer to those who would argue that in this time of cultural change and dissolution, the believer ……続きを見る

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In "The Distinction between Mind and Its Objects," Bernard Bosanquet presents a profound exploration of the interplay between consciousness and the external world. Through a rigorous examination of ……続きを見る

In "Three Lectures on Aesthetic," Bernard Bosanquet presents a profound exploration of the nature of beauty and art within the context of late 19th-century aesthetics. Through a blend of philosophic……続きを見る

His Holiness the Dalai Lama states, "We need a worldview grounded in science that does not deny the richness of human nature and the validity of modes of knowing other than the scientific". This boo……続きを見る

Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher. His work excited intense controversy among his contemporaries and continues to do so in our own time. In this masterly introduction t……続きを見る

Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes".In this book, B……続きを見る

Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of t……続きを見る

Nothing that can be said is independent of us. Whatever can be said is coloured by our dreams and aspirations, by the way our brain works, by human nature and human culture. Whoever claims to know o……続きを見る

Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanal……続きを見る

An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radio’s Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues ー most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy ー som……続きを見る

Richard J. Bernstein is a leading exponent of American pragmatism and one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection he takes a pragmatic approach to specific problems……続きを見る

Essay aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Praktische (Ethik, Ästhetik, Kultur, Natur, Recht, ...), , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sie möchten zur letzten Wahrheit unseres Seins vordringen?……続きを見る

Originally published in 1905, Bosanquet’s translation of Hegel’s Philosophy of Fine Art brings Hegel’s commentary and analysis of what constitutes beauty and fine art to an English audience as well ……続きを見る

Received opinion has it that humans are morally superior to non-human animals; human interests matter more than the like interests of animals and the value of human lives is alleged to be greater th……続きを見る

Willy Brandt (1913–1992) setzte sich wie wenige andere mit den großen ideologischen und politischen Tendenzen seiner Zeit auseinander. Seit seiner Jugend und während der Emigration mit Hitler und de……続きを見る

In 2016 is het 500 jaar geleden dat Dirk Martens uit Aalst de***Utopia***van Thomas More op de drukpers legde van zijn atelier in Leuven. In Aalst wordt dat onder meer herdacht met de***Podcast (E)U……続きを見る

*2016 Silver IPPY Award Winner for Aging/Death & Dying In Spiritual Perspectives on Death and Dying, the author gathers basic insights from five major sources: C. G. Jung, the LSD research of Stanis……続きを見る

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Mea……続きを見る

Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? "How to Understand Langua……続きを見る

Michael Dummett's approach to the metaphysical issue of realism through the philosophy of language, his challenge to realism, and his philosophy of language itself are central topics in contemporary……続きを見る

First published in 1970, Bernard E. Jones’s selection of Gifford lectures includes excerpts from the writings of over ninety scholars who occupied a Gifford Chair between 1888 and 1968. Lord Gifford……続きを見る