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Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell was a notable 20th century British philosopher, mathematician, historian, social critic, and political activist. Considered one of the founders of analytical philosophy, Russell was an iconoclast who helped lead the revolt against British idealism, a prominent philosophy in England at the end of the 19th century. First written in 1912, Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy" was an attempt by the author to create...
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Mit unbändiger Energie hat Johannes Kepler im frühen 17. Jahrhundert sein Projekt einer finalen Theorie des Himmels vorangetrieben. Werner Diederich zeigt in seinem verständlich geschriebenen und auch zur Einführung in Keplers Denken geeigneten Buch, dass dessen Ziel vor allem darin bestand, mit mathematischen Methoden die Harmonie im göttlichen Weltaufbau zu erfassen. -
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"Around the world, visionary leaders succumb to cynicism. Zealous advocates lose hope. Seasoned ministers coast as their passion for the cause grows cold. Using real-life stories and biblical insight, this book invites Christians to move past false idealism and cynicism into a resilient and enduring expectancy that looks upward to God and outward to others"--
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An exploration and defense of immaterialism, Principles of Human Knowledge, details George Berkley's views on reality and perception. The book offers insight into the theory posited by one of the world's greatest philosophers.
Principles of Human Knowledge, is a criticism of English philosopher John Locke and his beliefs surrounding conceptualism and realism. Berkley's theory of immaterialism is in direct opposition, stating that material objects...
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En La flauta mágica (1791) la noche es tiniebla, irracionalidad, mujer, en oposición al día, que es luz, racionalidad, varón. La razón es revolucionaria, pero su fuerza le viene de una noche que aún no entiende, porque viene del futuro.
El decorado de Schinkel (1816) para la gran escena de la Reina de la Noche reconoce esa fuerza. El Idealismo alemán trata de entenderla. Monarquías e imperios se tambalean, la guerra cubre Europa, religión,...
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The Idea of History (1946) is a book of philosophy that explores the nature of history and the historian's interpretation of it. Written by English historian, archaeologist, and philosopher R.G. Collingwood, the work encourages students of history to go beyond events into the motivations of the actors themselves.
R.G. Collingwood (b. 1889, d. 1943) was the son of an artist/archaeologist father and artist/pianist mother. Showing an aptitude for the...
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The story of Chauncey Gardiner--Chance--an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy advisor, and a media icon.
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Extrait : "Il existe à Douai dans la rue de Paris une maison don’t la physionomie, les dispositions intérieures et les détails ont, plus que ceux d'aucun autre logis, gardé le caractère des vieilles constructions flamandes, si naïvement appropriés aux moeurs patriarcales de ce bon pays..."
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La Filosofía del derecho de Hegel constituye un parteaguas en la historia de las ideas políticas. Siguiendo a Norberto Bobbio, aristotelismo e iusnaturalismo moderno serían los discursos políticos hegemónicos que antecedieron a Hegel , si bien es cierto que ya David Hume y Adam Smith habían aterrizado la reflexión política de lleno en el terreno histórico y social de la acción humana, y en lo concreto de la dinámica económica capitalista...
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Extrait : "Les idées spiritualistes, représentées par une école puissante et à peu près sans rivale dans la première moitié de ce siècle, ont traversé pendant cette période deux phases bien distinctes. La première a été une phase d'invention, d'investigation et de promesses."
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Published posthumously in 1965, this book contains various essays by R. G. Collingwood concerning history, philosophy, and their relationship. The essays mostly concern the idea of a 'philosophy of history', exploring its aims, limitations, and relevance. Highly recommended for students of philosophy and collectors of vintage literature of this ilk.
Contents include: "Croce's Philosophy of History", "Are History and Science Different Kinds of Knowledge?",...
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Este apasionante ensayo se centra en la explicación y análisis de la Crítica de la Razón Pura, de Immanuel Kant, una de las obras más influyentes de la historia y cuya comprensión, por su complejidad y profundidad, escapa a la comprensión en primera lectura. Tanto si ya has leído la Crítica de la Razón Pura como si no, este ensayo te permitirá sumergirte en todos y cada uno de sus significados, abriendo una ventana al pensamiento filosófico...
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Embark on an intriguing journey through the realms of physics, neuroscience, and philosophy with "Plato's Prisoners." In this thought-provoking narrative, you will find yourself immersed in a legal case involving humans and artificially intelligent machines, prompting you to challenge the conventional view of a purely physical universe. Inspired by modern science and drawing upon Plato's allegory of the cave, you will delve into the nature of reality,...
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Décryptez La Mare au diable de George Sand avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir de La Mare au diable, le roman idéaliste incontournable de la littérature française? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
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17) Purity
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"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever...
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This book presents Giovanni Gentile's actual idealism as a radical constructivist doctrine for use in moral theory. The first half describes the moral theory that Gentile explicitly identifies with actual idealism, according to which all thinking, rather than an exclusive domain of 'practical reason', has a moral character. It is argued that after Gentile's turn to Fascism in the early 1920s, this theory is increasingly conflated with his political...
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This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading.Whether you have already read Phenomenology of Spirit or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Hegel's philosophical thought...
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This collection of recent scholarship on the thought of Michael Oakeshott includes essays by both distinguished and established authors as well as a fresh crop of younger talent. Together, they address the meanings of Oakeshott's conservatism through the lenses of his ideas on religion, history, and tradition, and explore his relationships to philosophers ranging from Hume to Ryle, Cavell, and others. The collection assigns no single or final meaning...
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