(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198940432)
Many philosophers have been gravitating to Iris Murdochs philosophical work in recent years, turning to her ideas and attempting to make use of them in their thinking. Mason suggests that Murdoch is a more original and ambitious thinker than has yet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674298859)
Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli’s brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, and Hegel all issued challenges, and finally Ni...Loe edasi...
Employs a contemporary medical perspective to explore ancient ideas about the workings of the body, the soul and the mind which underpin the notion of consciousness challenging, thereby, some established ideas about mental illness in antiquity. All...Loe edasi...
This Element argues that Kants practical philosophy offers a systematic basis for understanding corporations. It shows their promise and dangers. Corporations bridge the central distinctions of his practical philosophy: ethics versus right, public...Loe edasi...
Platos Charmides is a rich mix of provocative drama and intricate argument. This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of its disparate elements. Paying close attention to its complex structure, and to the methodology of reading Plato, Raphael...Loe edasi...
This book attempts to situate Platos ethics within his profoundly revisionist metaphysics. It aims to show why Plato makes the keystone of his metaphysical system a normative principle, the Idea of the Good. In doing this, we can see how Platos me...Loe edasi...
This Element explores Kierkegaards Two Ages, his literary review of a contemporary novella, situating it in the context of his other writings from the same period of his life and his cultural/political context. It investigates his reviews analysis...Loe edasi...
From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, phrenitis, to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and me...Loe edasi...
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and ho...Loe edasi...
This Element examines the roles and activities of women and their contributions to the Platonic tradition from Platos time, fourth century BCE, through to the sixth century CE. The existing evidence allows us to glimpse a wider pattern of female ph...Loe edasi...
This Element analyzes Kants metaphysics and epistemology of the exact science of nature. It explains his theory of true motion and ontology of matter. In addition, it reconstructs the patterns of evidential reasoning behind Kants foundational doctr...Loe edasi...
Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has come center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalised postmodernism. Dr. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name compri...Loe edasi...
In both a philosophical and a practical work, Clausewitz defines the essential nature of war, debates the qualities of a great commander, assesses the relative strengths of defensive and offensive war, and - in highly controversial passages - consid...Loe edasi...
Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many...Loe edasi...
