Philosophy
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Kant, Ontology, and the a PrioriKant, Ontology, and the A Priori is a close study of Kant's conception of metaphysical propositions. In it Moltke Gram aims to show in what sense Kant is offering a theory of metaphysical propositions about objects in general. Gram presents a criticism of the...
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Kant and the Problem of MetaphysicsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient GreeceThis volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring scholars working in...
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Iamblichus of Chalcis: The LettersAuthor: Iamblichus, John M. Dillon, Wolfgang PolleichtnerPublisher: Society of Biblical LiteraturePublished: 10/16/2009Pages: 146Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34dISBN: 9781589831612Review Citation(s): Chronicle of Higher Education 11/13/2009 pg. 17Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 3This title is not returnable
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Heidegger's Metaphysics: The Overturning of 'Being and Time'Heidegger and Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a critique of Kantian transcendental philosophy.Drawing on Heidegger's published and unpublished work in the late 1920s, including lecture courses, drafts, and correspondence, it reconstructs...
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Film and Everyday ResistanceA philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and totalitarianism V?clav Havel's concept of "living within the truth" in an authoritarian regime frames Marguerite La Caze's readings of international cinema, highlighting forms of resistance in which seemingly pre-...
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Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the AnthropoceneIn this sweeping volume of comparative philosophy and intellectual history, Barry Allen reassesses the values of experience and experiment in European and world traditions. His work traces the history of empirical philosophy from its birth in Greek medicine to its emergence as a philosophy...
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El Discreto: The Complete Man (1646)"In the experience of life, Graci?n shows incomparable wisdom." -Friedrich Nietzsche Almost four hundred years ago, in Zaragoza, Spain, Baltasar Graci?n began to write what many modern-day scholars consider to be the most prolific and mysterious of his seven works, El Discreto: The Complete...
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Distracted: A Philosophy of Cars and PhonesApplying insights from philosophy and cognitive science to address the urgent issue of smartphone-induced distracted driving Although the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. And connectivity features in new cars...
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del Sentimiento Trágico de la VidaDel sentimiento trágico de la vida es una de las obras cumbre de Miguel de Unamuno, quizá la de más calado filosófico de cuantas escribió. Publicada en 1913, desarrolla y analiza las opciones y respuestas existentes ante la tragedia mayor del ser humano: el...
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Contract Law Directions 9th EditionAuthor: TaylorPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 08/30/2023Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 9.61h x 7.53w x 0.70dISBN: 9780192873507
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Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of PoetryLiterary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and...
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Common Scents: Poetry, Modernity, and a Revolution of the SensesThe sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory sense-making by tracing the appearance of odors in modern German and French poetry. Jonas Rosenbr?ck argues that smell's...
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Cartas a Lucilio: Ep?stolas Escogidas / Letters to Lucilius: Selected EpistlesUno de los libros m?s celebrados de S?neca. Los sabios consejos dirigidos a su disc?pulo Lucilio tienen una validez que traspasa las fronteras del tiempo. S?neca nos habla sobre la conveniencia de una relaci?n de equilibrio con la naturaleza, sobre la importancia de las...
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Bushido: the Soul of JapanNitobe wrote a great deal. He was the author of numerous works, both for academics and the general public (see below). Not only that, but he peddled hundreds of articles to widely read newspapers and magazines. Nitobe wrote Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900),...
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Buddhism and the Senses: A Guide to the Good and BadAcross Buddhist traditions, the five senses--sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch--are perceived both positively and negatively. Share our eminent scholars' fascination and deep insight into what makes a sensuous experience good or bad. Following on the exhibition Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across...
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Beyond LiberalismLiberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. "Classical liberalism" tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent theorists, however, recognize that capitalism, left to itself, would be characterized by mass social ills and argue...
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Awakening: Finding the LightSince she was a child, Laura Lynn dealt with overwhelming feelings of empathy and being emotionally sensitive. Learning how to cope began with counseling and medication, which eventually led to feelings of being numb and ignored. Mental health is a topic that needs to...
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At the Heart of ReasonIn At the Heart of Reason, Claude Romano boldly calls for a reformulation of the phenomenological project. He contends that the main concern of phenomenology, and its originality with respect to other philosophical movements of the last century, such as logical empiricism, the grammatical...
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A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of LifeAlain de Botton's redemptive volume - now in paperback - charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom."Alain de Botton, one of our era's most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives." -- The MarginalianA Therapeutic Journey is a collection...
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