Western philosophy from c 1800 Books

The phenomenon of nihilism casts a troublesome shadow across modern society and culture. The idea was introduced by Nietzsche and concerns the loss of meaning in a world without God. Among other things, it leaves us with the problem of moral...

An assessment of Martin Heidegger's notion of releasement (Gelassenheit) is essential due to former misconceptions concerning its applicability for environmental ethics. Recent material on Heidegger is bringing new interest in the practical...

What does it mean to act freely? In other words: Howcan we - practically and epistemologically - specifythe ability that rational beings have to make thingshappen in the world in a way that warrants that theybe held responsible? This book suggests a...

The book deals with the history of Russian philosophy and ideas from the Enlightenment to the religious-philosophical renaissance of the first decade of the 20th century. It provides readers with an exhaustive account of relationships between various...

This book tells the story of the philosophy of science from its inception in the aftermath of the first World War to its current stage, and relates this story to the status of theology. In doing so, it fills a remarkable gap in the literature. The...

The much-acclaimed present-day philosophical turn to the letters of Saint Paul points to a profound consonance between ancient and modern thought. Such is the bold claim of this study in which scholars from contemporary continental philosophy, new...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

The First Thermodynamic Law states that energy neither goes out of being nor comes into being. Consciousness is not dependent on the existence of matter, space, or time, although it interacts with these variables.  As a fundamental force, dark...

Christ told his disciples shortly before his Passion, ""But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved"" (Matt 24:13). So Paul in his Letter to the Galatians is similarly frank about the effort that obtaining the promise of salvation will...

Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological sociology and to critiques of positivist sociology...

The value of psychology as a science has been challenged in phenomenology and in other epistemological trends. The main objective of this book is to draw the attention of students of human and animal behaviour to important achievements in...

Professor Grossman's introduction to the revolutionary work of Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre studies the ideas of their predecessors too, explaining in detail Descartes's conception of the mind, Brentano's theory of intentionality, and Kierkegaard's...

Since its first publication in 1970 this book has become one of the most widely read introductory books on phenomenology and is used as a standard text in many universities from Germany to Korea and China. Praised for its accessibility and clarity the...

Cognitive therapies are often biased in their assessment of clinical problems by their emphasis on the role of verbally-mediated thought in shaping our emotions, and in stressing the influence of thought upon feeling. Alternatively, a more...

In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science. Stump emphasizes the unique...

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were...

The centerpiece of Émilie Du Châtelet's philosophy of science is her Foundations of Physics, first published in 1740. The Foundations contains epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, mechanics, and physics, including such pressing issues of the time as...

In the first ever book-length treatment of David Hume's philosophy of action, Constantine Sandis brings together seemingly disparate aspects of Hume's work to present an understanding of human action that is much richer than previously assumed. Sandis...

Introducing the thought of philosopher and theologian Jean-Yves Lacoste, this book provides an overview spanning Lacoste's earliest works on sacramentality to his latest work Etre en Danger (2011) in which Lacoste opens up the liturgical experience onto...

At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philosophy, not least its interpretation of human existence in terms of nothingness, evoked the...

 'Why don't young athletes in sport just quit?' Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of...

The Evolution Of An Intellectual is a non-fiction book written by John Middleton Murry and published in 1920. The book is a memoir that traces the author's intellectual development from his childhood to his adulthood. Murry was a prominent literary...

Das Buch ""Die Taktik der Neuzeit vom Standpunkt des Jahrhunderts und der Wissenschaft"" von Arkolay, M. wurde im Jahr 1868 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Abhandlung �����ber moderne Taktiken aus Sicht des 19. Jahrhunderts und der...

Das Buch ""System Der Ethik V2, Teil 1"" wurde von Immanuel Hermann Fichte im Jahr 1851 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine umfassende Abhandlung �����ber die Ethik und Moral. Der Autor besch�����ftigt sich darin mit Fragen der Freiheit,...

Le Rationalisme est un livre �����crit en 1858 par Ausonio Franchi. Ce livre explore le mouvement philosophique du rationalisme, qui met l'accent sur la raison et la logique pour arriver ������ la v�����rit�����. Franchi examine les origines du...

Die Psychologie in Kants Ethik (1891) von Alfred Hegler ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Beziehung zwischen Immanuel Kants ethischer Philosophie und der Psychologie. Das Buch untersucht, wie Kants moralische Theorie auf seinen Ansichten �����ber die...

Commentaires Sur Le Traite De La Guerre De Clausewitz (1853) est un livre �����crit par Edouard De La Barre Duparcq. Il s'agit d'un commentaire sur le c�����l�����bre trait����� de guerre de Carl von Clausewitz, publi����� en 1832. Dans ce livre, Duparcq...