| |
Der Autor untersucht verschiedene Antworten auf die grundlegende existentiell-ethische Frage, wie man über sein eigenes Leben bestimmen soll. Dabei werden drei grundlegende Denkparadigmen betrachtet. Im aristotelischen Paradigma steht die Wahrheit als grundlegendes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, guided by Gilles Deleuze’s concept of metamorphosis, «becoming-animal». In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Clézio dismantles the opposition between mind and matter,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-12-26
PDF, ePub
|
"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly) “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees. In...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2023-12-19
ePub
|
Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this compelling and timely book, the eminent moral philosopher Jonathan...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-12-19
ePub
|
Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that have been little engaged with in publication to the present. This book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-12-18
PDF, ePub
|
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patocka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions surrounding and analyzing this text. In his essay, Patocka reflects on our relation to the dead and on how the departure of a loved...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-12-12
PDF, ePub
|
This book attempts to reveal Karl Marx’s philosophical critique of the social being in capitalist societies from the text of Capital. Marxists’ different understandings of Capital in different historical periods reveal the rich meaning of Capital, which plays an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-30
PDF, ePub
|
The philosophy that will help you become more resilient in the face of life’s challenges Stoicism For Dummies will teach you the basic principles of stoic philosophy and show you how it can help you navigate the ups and downs of life. We all face challenges and...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2023-11-30
PDF, ePub
|
This second edition of International Public Health Policy and Ethics complements the popular first edition with contemporary problems in international public health. It brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-29
PDF, ePub
|
The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine, and for an influence that extends into the wider world. His remarkable work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is notoriously...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-11-29
Collection :
Classic Thinkers
PDF, ePub
|
|
|
|
|
This volume explores Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics within a musical context. It features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from a variety of backgrounds, and sheds light on both the hermeneutic nature of music and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-28
PDF, ePub
|
The presented volume contains a critical edition of questions 8–10 from Book II of the commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by Marsilius of Inghen († 1396). Marsilius was a famous scholar and the first rector of the University of Heidelberg, educated in Paris. He...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-11-28
PDF, ePub
|
The book examines the meaning of justice in African political philosophy, building on the use-theoretical approach. Currently, most of the philosophical works in this context advocate for a communal interpretation of the meaning of justice, such as the 'relational...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-27
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents an original exploration of philosophical questions pertaining to the ways we grasp the Absolute by bringing together the Buddhist notion of interpermeation of all phenomena into contemporary strains of thought in continental philosophy.This text...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others.Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual conditionals, grounding,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-25
Collection :
Outstanding Contributions to Logic
PDF, ePub
|
The translation of legal documents in today’s globally interconnected world calls for novel approaches to overcoming traditional language barriers.The verbal language used in legal documents can be accompanied or even replaced by various types of semiotic resource, such...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-21
Collection :
Law and Visual Jurisprudence
PDF, ePub
|
This book is the first to present a comprehensive investigation of the technical features of the metainferential logics developed in the last years, with their most relevant results and applications. It provides some new paths to define and investigate metainferential...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-17
Collection :
Trends in Logic
PDF, ePub
|
Does the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) 2003 provide for consent to be vitiated in all the circumstances we think it should? Can, and should, section 76(2)(b) (the impersonation provision) be read to include a different class of identity deceptions? How should the concept of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-11-10
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Law
PDF, ePub
|