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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Hegel's philosophical history of the world is a work that grows out of a genre in philosophy that looks at history as the development of human abilities and charts the progress of humankind through a series of epochs. For Hegel, history is centered largely on political developments, on the deeds of the great historical figures, such as Alexander the Great and Napoleon...
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Schopenhauer is perhaps best known for his 1818 work "The World as Will and Representation" and developed an enduring reputation for his philosophical pessimism, in contrast to the idealism of Immanuel Kant. Much of Schopenhauer's work is a reaction to post-Kant German romanticism. Despite his failure to gain wide recognition for his philosophy during his lifetime, Schopenhauer has since become regarded as one of Western philosophy's most important...
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First published in 1757, the treatise "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke, provides a distinct transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Burke's treatise was the first fully realized exposition that separated the definition of the sublime from the beautiful. His work received much attention from other philosophers upon its publication and influenced thinkers...
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Friedrich Nietzsche, der sehr religiös erzogen wurde, stellt Moral per se in seinem Werk "Jenseits von Gut und Böse" als Fehler, bzw. Übel in der Menschheitsgeschichte dar und erläutert, dass vor der Erfindung und der Verbreitung von Moral unter den Menschen, diese Handlungen nur nach deren Nutzen bewertet haben – nicht, ob sie böse oder gut sind.
Nietzsche tritt dafür ein, sich auf die Vorstellungen solcher von ihm beschriebenen vormoralischen...
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Who am I? What is justice? What does it mean to live a good life? Many of the fundamental questions of philosophy are questions that we begin to ask ourselves as young adults when we look at the world around us, at ourselves, and try to make sense of things. This engaging and accessible book invites the reader to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of one hundred of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual...
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Correspondence and texts by Fichte and Schelling illuminate their thought and the trajectory of their philosophical falling out.
The disputes of philosophers provide a place to view their positions and arguments in a tightly focused way, and also in a manner that is infused with human temperaments and passions. Fichte and Schelling had been perceived as "partners" in the cause of Criticism or transcendental idealism since 1794, but upon Fichte's...
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The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But what do contemporary thinkers say about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age-old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In his search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer,...
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En cierta medida, respondemos al cine como lo hacemos frente a la realidad. La simulación postula un mecanismo de respuesta empática que explica nuestra capacidad para tratar con la gente real, con sus sentimientos, pensamientos y comportamiento. ¿Podemos recurrir a este mecanismo para explicar nuestra respuesta a la ficción cinematográfica?
Artes y mentes contiene trece ensayos que analizan cuestiones centrales para la filosofía del arte,...
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It seems like everywhere we turn, we're confronted by shaking heads, thumbs down, brick walls, brush-offs, and closed doors. NOs surround us--in our workplaces, in our communities and places of worship, in government, in social settings, in schools, and even within our families. Whether you're applying for a job, making a request, looking for a house, dating to find the right mate, seeking some type of approval, selling a product or an idea (or yourself),...
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Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy. It belongs beside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. Here Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues.
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Béatrice Longuenesse is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Her other books include Hegel et la critique de la métaphysique.
Kant claims to have established his table of categories or "pure concepts of the understanding" according to the "guiding thread" provided by logical forms of judgment. By drawing extensively on Kant's logical writings, Béatrice Longuenesse analyzes this controversial claim, and then follows the thread through...
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Quisiera ilustrar y comentar algunos de los procesos que entran a formar parte de la construcción de un mundo, sin afán alguno de instruir a dioses o a otros demiurgos, y sin intentar que la investigación sea completa o sistemática. Más que el hecho que algunos mundos en particular estén construidos a partir de otros, y el cómo es así, me preocupan algunas de las relaciones que se dan entre esos mundos.
Entre lo que genéricamente suele denominarse...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 When a new political regime takes power over a country, citizens typically adapt and comply with it out of fear of punishment.
#2 People are also surprisingly willing to follow orders from a higher authority, even if those orders involve harming or killing someone.
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Este libro pretende, al igual que su homónimo anterior, La filosofía contada por sus protagonistas, acercar a las aguas cristalinas que son los escritos de los grandes pensadores a lectores no especializados en temas filosóficos. Su objetivo es dar a conocer de manera clara, sencilla y amena las respuestas que dieron a las cuestiones que se plantea la filosofía algunos de los pensadores más importantes de la Historia de Occidente.
Epicuro, Galileo,...
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In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums-by asserting some very strange things. But the great philosophers don't merely make unusual claims, they offer powerful arguments for those claims that you can't easily dismiss. And these arguments suggest that the world is much stranger than you could have imagined:
• You...
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La historia de la Filosofía más mordaz y divertida que jamás has leído.
¿Hay alguien más chiflado que un filósofo? Llega el esperado retorno de la hilarante serie de culto Historia Torcida. El libro que tienes en tus manos es la historia de la Filosofía más irreverente e ingeniosa.
Luis Soravilla nos presenta un desternillante paseo por la historia y las aportaciones de ilustres y peculiares pensadores, desde la Antigua Grecia hasta el nacimiento...
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Richard Wolin is professor of history and comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Politics of Being, The Heidegger Controversy, and The Terms of Cultural Criticism.
Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest...
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