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In a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals-courage, contemplation, and compassion-that once gave life meaning. Here, Mark Edmundson makes an impassioned attempt to defend the value of these ancient ideals and to resurrect Soul in the modern world.
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 120 páginas
PVP: 19,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16714-5
EAN 9780691167145
Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because others have more, and some have far too much. So why do many people appear to be more distressed by the ...
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- Forgotten Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-1-330-41792-8
EAN 9781330417928
Excerpt from Principia Ethica It appears to me that in Ethics, as in all other philosophical studies, the difficulties and disagreements, of which its history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer. ...
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- Fitzcarraldo, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-910695-06-7
EAN 9781910695067
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On Aristotle
Saving Politics from Philosophy
- Norton, 2015
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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On Machiavelli
The Search for Glory
- Norton, 2015
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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On Marx
Revolutionary and Utopian
- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
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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- Norton, 2015
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PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-114-6
EAN 9781631491146
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour.Whether attempting to explicate "the ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 37,20 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16850-0
EAN 9780691168500
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have ...
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- Stanford, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 68 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8047-9509-8
EAN 9780804795098
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age ...
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Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
- Atlantic Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-559-1
EAN 9781782395591
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be morality ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8712-4
EAN 9780745687124
Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Throughout history the awareness of good and evil has always been linked to the awareness of choice ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16566-0
EAN 9780691165660
Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of ...
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- Routledge, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-415-73936-8
EAN 9780415739368
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- Wiley & Sons, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8756-8
EAN 9780745687568
Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world ...
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- Yale University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21233-4
EAN 9780300212334
How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Engaging with a phenomenally wide range of ideas, issues, and thinkers from the Enlightenment to today, ...
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- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17241-7
EAN 9780231172417
How should we evaluate the success of each person's life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the view that our well-being is dependent not on particular activities, accomplishments, or awards but on finding personal satisfaction while treating others with due concern.The authors suggest that moral behavior ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-939169-1
EAN 9780199391691
After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of concern over the impact of industrial agriculture on food animals and the broader environment, all while a global epidemic of obesity-related diseases threatens to overwhelm modern health systems. An ...
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter
A Portrait of Descartes
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 22,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16575-2
EAN 9780691165752
In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait of a middle-aged man with long dark hair, a mustache, and heavy-lidded eyes, and he is dressed in the starched white collar and black coat of the typical Dutch burgher. The painting is now the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter ...
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The Physicist and the Philosopher
Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16534-9
EAN 9780691165349
On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time should not be understood exclusively through the lens ...
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