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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: 18,30 €
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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Elbow Room
The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52779-8
EAN 9780262527798
In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of ...
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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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Erasmus, Man of Letters
The Construction of Charisma in Print
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16569-1
EAN 9780691165691
The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself'the historical as ...
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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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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16564-6
EAN 9780691165646
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians ...
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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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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9569-3
EAN 9780745695693
In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Their conversation ranges from the plight of monotheistic religions cast onto a polytheistic world stage to the nature of religious experience ...
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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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Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants
An Introduction to Ethics
- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16923-3
EAN 9780231169233
A beloved best-seller in France, Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and the scenes we witness, we develop an understanding of right and wrong as ...
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"Dans la vie, il faut, je crois, observer la loi qui est gardée dans les festins des Grecs : "Qu'il boive ou qu'il s'en aille !" C'est raisonnable : que l'on jouisse comme les autres et avec eux du plaisir de boire ; ou bien que l'homme sobre ne se heurte pas à la violence ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-96751-9
EAN 9780674967519
For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality-both the physical and the social world-and our shared understanding of it."A ...
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