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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "The motive which inspires Aristotle throughout the Metaphysics is the wish to acquire that form of knowledge which is most worthy of the name of wisdom." - W. D. Ross
Many of the great and perennial problems in philosophy are to be found in Aristotle's Metaphysics. Aristotle thought that wonder at the world around us, and at the "world beyond physics" was the beginning...
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El pensamiento de Kant, agotado el neokantismo desde que Ernst Cassirer y Martin Heidegger confrontaron sus modos de leer a Kant en el debate de Davos, entabla un diálogo creativo con las diversas filosofías del siglo veinte.
Este libro perfila las formas de un recorrido analítico que comienza con "Kant y el problema de la metafísica" (1929) y llega a los textos de Habermas y Foucault en los años ochenta, no solo como un capítulo de la historia...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds by Instaread Preview: Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses the evolution of intelligence in cephalopods in order to better understand the development of consciousness and cognition. Cephalopods like octopuses and cuttlefish have the most complex nervous systems in the invertebrate world. Examining the similarities and...
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Thoughtful essays on the history, significance, and pleasures of whiskey
Everyone becomes a philosopher with a drink in hand, but Whiskey & Philosophy takes this natural pairing to a new level. It explores a range of philosophical topics related to whiskey through engaging reflections written by philosophers, whiskey writers, and others.
You will learn things that are both practical (how do tasting notes vary across guides and whiskey brands?) and...
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La presencia de Hegel en el pensamiento contemporáneo no es sólo un trasfondo contra el que éste deba perfilarse, sino que puede verse también al trasluz de la «madurez de la conciencia europea» y de ese punto culminante de la filosofía occi-dental que su obra representa. En el presente volumen se recogen las intervencio-nes de un nutrido grupo de especialistas en la obra hegeliana, todos ellos partici-pantes en el congreso internacional sobre...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Countless readers have found peace of mind and gathered inner strength from savoring this collection of Epictetus' sayings. Unlike many ephemeral and faddish dispensations of wisdom, Epictetus' philosophy lacks nothing in depth and complexity. It has been a staple of Western education for centuries, and has exercised a formative influence over such diverse figures...
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La difusión de los conocimientos de la universitas, a veces demasiado restringidos a las paredes de las aulas de las facultades, es un objetivo prioritario y de interés de las instituciones académicas y culturales. En este sentido, los textos que se reúnen en este libro -procedentes del Congreso sobre Emmanuel Kant celebrado en el año 2004 en Valencia- permiten acercar el pensamiento del gran filósofo que siguió aquellas jornadas, desmintiendo...
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En 2014, Roma fue testigo de una extraordinaria reunión de cuatrocientos intelectuales y líderes religiosos de todo el mundo, convocados en un coloquio internacional para hablar sobre la complementariedad del hombre y la mujer en el matrimonio.
Inaugurado por el Papa Francisco, el coloquio Humanum puso a los líderes religiosos en diálogo directo con académicos, investigadores, consejeros familiares, trabajadores sociales, y organizadores comunitarios,...
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Philosophers enjoy working with ideas that arise as they engage the world. They like to think carefully, looking at ides from more than one perspective, and without partisan urgency or desperate defensive moves. Of course, not all people who call themselves philosophers follow this ideal, but it has a long history, having been exemplified by Socrates and others in the ancient world. The essays in this volume attempt to live up to this ideal, which...
10) De Anima
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In De Anima, Aristotle seeks to uncover what separates the living from the dead. He steers a course between two extremes, with all of reality as nothing more than atoms On one side and the mind as independent from the body On the other side. Ultimately, he invents a third kind of position that views mental phenomena to be thoroughly dependent on, though not reducible...
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En noviembre de 2006, celebrando el centenario de su nacimiento, tuvo lugar el congreso internacional Lévinas, la Filosofía como Ética. Organizado conjuntamente por el MUVIM y la Universitat de València, este volumen recoge las actas de dicha reunión acedémica. Un recorrido a través del pensamiento de Lévinas: su posición dentro y fuera de la filosofía, la torsión del concepto tradicional de ética o de lenguaje, la convergencia o divergencia...
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Essential Dialogues of Plato, by Plato, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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13) Politics
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Aristotle’s Politics is one of the earliest, and at the same time one of the most thorough and balanced, accounts of politics. It provides extended analyses of the origin and function of the state; the proper distribution of political power among the branches of government; a classification of the different types of regime; the reasons why the different regimes fail and how to prevent such failure; and, in general, the principal details of practical...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ryan Holiday's and Stephen Hanselman's The Daily Stoic by Instaread Preview: The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is an introduction to the practical application of Stoic philosophy in the format of a daily devotional. Often derided as discouraging emotion, Stoicism is a philosophy that encourages discipline, fortitude, and control of perceptions. The greatest possession of a Stoic is reasoned choice,...
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Axios's Essence of... Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one.
Goethe: " [In his] Ethics..., I found the serenity to calm my passions...."
This new edition makes Spinoza's own words understandable by everyone.
Now with linking index.
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Axios Press's Essence of...series takes the greatest works ever written in the field of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. We select the best passages-the ones that are immediately relevant to us today, full of timeless wisdom and advice about the world and how best to live our lives, and leave behind the more obscure or less important bits. Our selections are not isolated: they flow together to create a seamless work that...
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Axios's Essence of... Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one.
Kant may be the greatest Western philosopher. In this extraordinary little book, one of the most influential in history, he offers an ethics based on universal logic. This edition makes his own words both readable and understandable....
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This volume centers on debates about how far moral judgments bind across traditions and epochs. Nowadays such debates appear especially volatile, both in popular culture and intellectual discourse: although there is increasing agreement that the moral and political criteria invoked in human rights documents possess cross-cultural force, many modern and postmodern developments erode confidence in moral appeals that go beyond a local consensus or apply...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind by Instaread Preview: Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion is an application of Haidt's research on moral psychology to the context of American politics. Haidt argues that morality is based on both intuition and reasoning, and that liberals and conservatives base their beliefs on different and often competing moral constructs. He...
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Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. But Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems; they often wrestle with serious philosophical and moral dilemmas, whether it is Horton discovering the very essence of life or the Lorax teaching us about morality. Dr. Seuss...
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