Author: Smilansky, Saul Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality. Explores what the...
Author: Benson, Arthur Christopher Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: There surely may come a time for each of us, if we have lived with any animation or interest, if we have had any constant or even fitful desire to penetrate and grasp the significance of the strange a...
Author: Row, T. Subba Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: These very lectures are conspicuous for the fact of having created between Mr. Subba Row and Madame Blavatsky a difference of opinion regarding the Koshas or principles of which the human being is for...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to many significant analytic philosophers and concepts of the last hundred years. Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most signifi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to the most significant philosophers and philosophical concepts of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.Provides a comprehensive g...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Genethics is the first substantial study of the multifaceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social and political significance.Brings together the b...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Considers the most important el...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic.Presents controversies...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. Provides a comprehensive "who's who" guide to medieval philosophers. Offers a refreshing mi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education. Offers a state-of-the-art account of current and controversial issues in education, inclu...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studie...
Author: Tolstoy, Leo Publisher: White Crow Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'A Confession' is Tolstoy's chronicle of his journey to faith; his account of how he moved from despair to the possibility of living; from unhappy existence to 'the glow and strength of life'. It desc...
Author: Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Leo Tolstoy's A Confession (1884), he contemplates his life and the goals. He dwells on the principles of science, philosophy, and eastern wisdom while also taking into account the views of his col...
Author: Boonin, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every hum...
Author: Lucy, Niall Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. From ‘aporiaR...
Description: The book is considered to be one of the greatest classics in philosophy. It provokes one into thinking about the truths and realities of life. The author has presented his philosophy that all sufferin...
Author: Rousseau, Jean Jacques Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Jean Jacques Rousseau was born at Geneva, June 28, 1712, the son of a watchmaker of French origin. His education was irregular, and though he tried many professions-including engraving, music, and tea...
Author: Frede, Michael Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a ...
Author: Frede, Michael Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a ...
Author: Kerin MD, Robert Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Almost seven billion people roam the earth. Although we have different beliefs, lifestyles and physical characteristics, there are patterns of behavior that we all share. We also share the same buil...
Author: Stock, St. George Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This in...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A topic ignored in mainstream scientific inquiry for decades, wisdom is beginning to return to the place of reverence that it held in ancient schools of intellectual study. A Handbook of Wisdom explor...
Author: Broad,Jacqueline / Green,Karen Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women's ideas about topics such as the b...
Author: Chakravartty,Anjan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a single volume that will be of service to philosophy students of all levels and to their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of ...
Author: Becker, Lawrence C. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Philosopher Lawrence Becker applies modern knowledge and psychology to the ancient stoic ethic system. In keeping with the ancients, Becker argues that virtue, not happiness, is the proper end of all ...
Author: White, Morton Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more import...
Author: Bottici,Chiara Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici demonstrates that myth is a process, one of continuous work on a basic narrative pattern that responds...
Author: Melnyk, Andrew Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Physicalist Manifesto is the fullest treatment yet of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best formulated ...
Author: Newburn, Kathy Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Key points from the Ageless Wisdom teachings of the Tibetan provide insight into the challenges and opportunities of our time. As we witness the events unfolding on our planet, we know the future sta...
Author: James, William Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our age is growing philosophical again, 3. Change of tone since 1860, 4. Empiricism and Rationalism defined, 7. The process of Philosophizing: Philosophers choose some part of the world to interpret t...
Author: Corrington, Robert S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contempora...
Author: Hallen, Barry Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Short History of African Philosophy discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philoso...
Author: Marshall, John Publisher: Andrews UK Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This excellent introduction to Greek Philosophy has been specially formatted for today's e-readers. Containing chapters including those on Plato, Socrates and schools such as The Atomists and The Sop...
Author: Marshall, John Publisher: Andrews UK Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This excellent introduction to Greek Philosophy has been specially formatted for today's e-readers. Containing chapters including those on Plato, Socrates and schools such as The Atomists and The Sop...
Author: Scruton, Roger Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Dr. Scruton writes with an unusual clarity and fluency, and is always a pleasure to read . . . this is certainly a book which you could give to anyone who was curious about philosophy and expect them...
