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Heidegger's Children by Wolin Richard Wolin Richard
epub |eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Wolin, Richard, Wolin, Richard

Perils of Political Guardianship While the dynamism and scope of Jonas’s metaphysical vision are undeniably powerful, that vision, like all claims to knowledge, is hardly above criticism. The strategy of ...
( Category: Regional January 5,2016 )
German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Bowie Andrew
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-26 | Author:Bowie, Andrew [Bowie, Andrew]

Ideology and commodity Marx’s mature work in Capital (first volume published 1867) seeks to analyse the mechanisms of 19th-century capitalism which lead to the impoverishment of the many in economies ...
( Category: History & Surveys January 1,2016 )
The Columbia History of Western Philosophy by Richard H. Popkin
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Richard H. Popkin

BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, R. Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Aiton, E. Leibniz: A Biography. Bristol: Adam Hilger, 1985. Coudert, A. P. Leibniz and the Kabbalah. Dordrecht: ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 28,2015 )
Aesthetic Theory by Adorno Theodor W
epub |eng | | Author:Adorno, Theodor W.

Notes 1 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis, 1987), p. 43. 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid., p. 64. 4 Adorno, Notes to Literature, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, ...
( Category: Theory December 25,2015 )
Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Belsey
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-14 | Author:Catherine Belsey

6. The goddess of love is subject to desire. Venus Blindfolding Cupid shows the goddess of love punishing her son for shooting his arrows apparently at random. Ironically, her action ...
( Category: Structuralism December 21,2015 )
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Scruton Roger
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2002-08-28 | Author:Scruton, Roger [Scruton, Roger]

Individuals and conatus As so far presented, however, the theory is radically incomplete. For it tells us only of the relation in the abstract of the mental to the physical. ...
( Category: Modern December 20,2015 )
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Tuck Richard
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-05-29 | Author:Tuck, Richard [Tuck, Richard]

The second claim which Hobbes made, and which has proved puzzling to many readers, was the one which I summarized earlier by saying that men in a state of nature ...
( Category: Modern December 20,2015 )
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Okasha Samir
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2002-05-29 | Author:Okasha, Samir [Okasha, Samir]

11. Kekule arrived at the hypothesis of the hexagonal structure of benzene after a dream in which he saw a snake trying to bite its own tail. Another important theme ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 19,2015 )
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
epub, pdf | | 2008-07-15 | Author:Simon Critchley [Critchley, Simon]

Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) We briefly met Gassendi above (see Epicurus). Apparently, Moliere was a student of Gassendi and was inspired by his teacher to translate Lucretius' On the Nature of ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 19,2015 )
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Singer Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-22 | Author:Singer, Peter [Singer, Peter]

The task of the Phenomenology That my presentation of Hegel’s views up to this point has been seriously incomplete can be seen by returning to a question I brushed aside ...
( Category: Modern December 16,2015 )
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Michael Tanner
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-10-18 | Author:Michael Tanner [Tanner, Michael]

It is a powerful passage, but for all its ponderable wisdom it is strange coming from a prophet. For prophets do not argue, they announce. And so by what methods ...
( Category: Modern December 14,2015 )
Consequences of Ideas by R. C. Sproul
mobi |eng | 2000-06-20 | Author:R. C. Sproul

Figure 8.1 Hume’s Illustration from Pocket Billiards We remember that the law of causality simply declares that every effect must have an antecedent cause. This law is analytically true and ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State December 10,2015 )
The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

Not many tourists go to the northeast Italian town of Padua today, except perhaps to see Giotto’s famous frescoes in the Arena Chapel. However, for more than one hundred years ...
( Category: History & Surveys November 12,2015 )
Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Richard Tarnas [Tarnas, Richard]

The Forging of Newtonian Cosmology Although Kepler’s mathematical and Galileo’s observational support assured the success of the heliocentric theory in astronomy, the theory still lacked a more encompassing conceptual scheme, ...
( Category: History & Surveys October 12,2015 )
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-08-01 | Author:David Hume [Hume, David]

Few men would envy the character which Caesar gives of Cassius: He loves no play, As thou do'st, Anthony: he hears no music: Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such ...
( Category: Utilitarianism October 12,2015 )

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