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| Pris: 528,- | Bellah, Robert N. The Axial Age and Its Consequences (0674066499)The first classics in human history?the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages?appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. The canonical… | Pris: 270,- | Gerson, Lloyd P. Aristotle and Other Platonists (0801473373)'Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au… | | Pris: 1 089,- | Roochnik, David Retrieving the Ancients (1405108614) Retrieving the Ancients tells the story of the first philosophers in the West. * A clear and engaging introduction to ancient Greek philosophy. * Tells the story of the first philosophers in the West, from Thales to… | Pris: 315,- | Garber, Marjorie Character: The History of a Cultural ObsessionWhat is 'character'? Since at least Aristotle's time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage, 'character' derives from a… | | Pris: 288,- | Blasi, Fulvio Di From Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas: Natural Law, Practical Saint Thomas Aquinas is an Aristotelian (few scholars would question that) and he is the most important author in the entire history of natural law theory. Yet, there is no natural law theory in Aristotle. Even the… | Pris: 313,- | Hetherington, Stephen Epistemology: The Key Thinkers (1350085316) What have the great philosophers written about the nature of knowledge? Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how our thinking about knowledge has developed, introducing you to some of the problems and forces… | | Pris: 1 086,- | Worthen, Hana Humanism, Drama, and Performance (3030440656) This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related disciplines of literary, drama, theatre, and performance history and… | Pris: 638,- | A History of Western Philosophy - From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism Plato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel. Every student of philosophy needs to know the history of the philosophical discourse such giants have bequeathed us. Philosopher C. Stephen Evans brings his expertise to… | | Pris: 685,- | Algra Keimpe The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c.320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade… | Pris: 305,- | Bees and Their Keepers - From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to A beautifully illustrated and compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader | | Pris: 331,- | Grondin, Jean Introduction to Metaphysics (0231148445) Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato,… | Pris: 287,- | Sober Elliott Ockham's Razors (1107692539) Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in current physics,… | | Pris: 396,- | Pasnau, Robert After Certainty (0198852185) No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings… | Pris: 262,- | It All Adds Up - The Story of People and Mathematics 'Fascinating ... so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn't seem so fearsome as it once did' SIMON WINCHESTER From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world… | | Pris: 594,- | Aesthetics of Mimesis Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly… | Pris: 332,- | The Beowulf Manuscript - Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole surviving manuscript: the prose Passion of Saint Christopher, The Wonders of the East, The Letter of… | | Pris: 417,- | Howard, Dick The Primacy of the Political (0231135955) The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. 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Though it references widely known anatomists, such as Aristotle, Galen, and Bell, the book… | | Pris: 393,- | Species The complex idea of 'species' has evolved over time, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work takes a fresh look at an idea central to the field of biology by tracing its history from antiquity to… | Pris: 316,- | Guyer, Paul A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 2, The Nineteenth Century A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value… | | Pris: 341,- | Guyer, Paul A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 1, The Eighteenth Century A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value… | Pris: 261,- | Khalidi Muhammad Ali Natural Categories and Human Kinds (1107521726) The notion of 'natural kinds' has been central to contemporary discussions of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Although explicitly articulated by nineteenth-century philosophers like Mill, Whewell and Venn, it has… | | Pris: 244,- | Classical Philosophy - A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume In 43 lively chapters Peter Adamson tells the story of philosophy from its beginnings to Plato and Aristotle. Most histories jump from one famous name to another, but Adamson shows that the people and ideas in between,… | Pris: 294,- | Connell, Sophia M. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology Aristotle's voluminous writings on animals have often been marginalised in the history of philosophy. Providing the first full-length comprehensive account of Aristotle's biology, its background, content and influence,… | | Pris: 550,- | Biological Classification - A Philosophical Introduction A comprehensive philosophical introduction to modern biological classification which covers its cultural, psychological and linguistic basis, its history from Aristotle to modern evolutionary approaches, and recent and… | Pris: 365,- | Guyer, Paul A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 3, The Twentieth Century A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value… | | Pris: 331,- | Morus, Iwan Rhys The Oxford Illustrated History of Science (0199663270) The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East… | Pris: 1 238,- | Shapiro, Stewart The History of Continua (0198809646) Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts… | | Pris: 332,- | Korsgaard, Christine M. The Constitution of Agency (0199552746) Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. Korsgaard draws on the work of important figures in the… | Pris: 382,- | Lehoux, Daryn Creatures Born of Mud and Slime (1421423812) We accept that, at some point in the history of our universe, living creatures emerged from nonliving matter. Yet from the time of Aristotle until the late nineteenth century, many people believed in spontaneous… | | Pris: 130,- | The Politics The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized… | Pris: 375,- | Introduction to Metaphysics - From Parmenides to Levinas Jean Grondin completes the first history of metaphysics and respects both the analytical and the Continental schools while transcending the theoretical limitations of each. He reviews seminal texts by Parmenides, Plato,… | | Pris: 299,- | Retallack, Joan The Poethical Wager (0520218418) In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of… | Pris: 244,- | A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy Brent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche and Levinas. You'll learn what the philosophers actually said about how to live the best kind of… | | Pris: 270,- | Markos, Louis From Plato to Christ (0830853049) What does Plato have to do with the Christian faith? Quite a bit, it turns out. In ways that might surprise us, Christians throughout the history of the church and even today have inherited aspects of… | Pris: 384,- | Malpass Alex The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic (1350094846) The History of Philosophical and Formal Logic introduces ideas and thinkers central to the development of philosophical and formal logic. From its Aristotelian origins to the present-day arguments, logic is broken down… | | Pris: 367,- | The Fate of Place - A Philosophical History Offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. In this title, the author begins with mythological and religious creation stories and the theories of Plato and… | Pris: 481,- | Halliwell, Stephen The Aesthetics of Mimesis (0691092583) Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly… | | Pris: 360,- | Kraut, Richard Aristotle's Politics (0742534243) Aristotle's Politics is widely recognized as one of the classics of the history of political philosophy, and like every other such masterpiece, it is a work about which there is deep division. Many readers of Aristotle… | Pris: 1 268,- | Aristotle's Method in Ethics - Philosophy in Practice This book argues for a scientific interpretation of Aristotle's ethical method and takes an innovative approach toward understanding his conception of philosophy. It will interest readers working in the fields of… | | Pris: 352,- | Russell Daniel C. The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics (0521171741) Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned… | Pris: 979,- | Connell Sophia M. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology Aristotle's voluminous writings on animals have often been marginalised in the history of philosophy. Providing the first full-length comprehensive account of Aristotle's biology, its background, content and influence,… |
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