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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-707-8
EAN 9780871407078
No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine. It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence of Augustine-the once-hedonistic pagan turned ascetic theologian and defender of the early Christian Church-over all the subsequent history of Europe. Augustine 's political philosophy is pregnant ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-848-8
EAN 9780871408488
A guiding light to America's Founding Fathers, Hobbes created the first truly modern political philosophy. In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-057-6
EAN 9781631490576
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle was born in Stagira, Macedon, in 384 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-058-3
EAN 9781631490583
An essential, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the life and works of Machiavelli. In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-63149-060-6
EAN 9781631490606
A lucid introduction to the philosophical complexities and the practical limits of the political thought of Karl Marx. When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-706-1
EAN 9780871407061
In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly empirical cast of mind was brought to bear on a stunning range of subjects and the resulting system dominated European thought from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-87140-705-4
EAN 9780871407054
For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, Machiavelli's influence on the modern state is explored in this book. In On Machiavelli, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the godfather of realpolitik. Often outraging popular opinion, Machiavelli eschewed ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1152 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-028518-5
EAN 9780140285185
A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan Ryan This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves? Almost every modern ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 808 páginas
PVP: 43,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15813-6
EAN 9780691158136
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he ...
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