Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This volume features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering and evil....Loe edasi...
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concer...Loe edasi...
This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of his fierce critique of atomism, which is the most emblematic and disputed example of his polemical accounts, and demonstrates his reliability....Loe edasi...
Revised and updated throughout, and includes a new chapter on badness, freedom, providence and responsibility. An ideal introduction to this major figure in Western philosophy, and essential reading for students of ancient philosophy and classics....Loe edasi...
This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. For Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departme...Loe edasi...
Anyone new to philosophy soon encounters new ideas that challenge their hidden biases and cherished beliefs, or are at odds with common sense and tradition. Yet, these philosophical ideas are backed by strong arguments, arguments so strong that its...Loe edasi...
This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle, the book draws on work from philosophy, classics, history, biology, psychology and media studies to understand the place of pla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2025, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN-13: 9781315452050)
Philosophy and Leadership offers a panorama of the main philosophies, both ancient and modern, which form the basis of contemporary leadership theories....Loe edasi...
In Creative Characters, originally published in 1991, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl reflects on the long search for an understanding of creativity and offers a novel approach. She notes that studies of creativity fall into types. She offers an original ana...Loe edasi...
This volume provides, for the first time, a focused study of scare tactics and fearmongering in a broad range of Greek and Roman authors and genres, showing how alarmist tactics were used in both antiquity and today....Loe edasi...
This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotles value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will...Loe edasi...
Socrates recommends that we live examined lives, but what exactly does that mean? Should we criticise and dismantle our moral convictions? Or construct theories of virtue and the good? This book argues that the answer is neitherthe best human life i...Loe edasi...
This new edition of Stoicism provides an introduction to one of the most influential schools of philosophy in antiquity, the influence of which has persisted to the present day....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003538912)
This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations. It reconnects Plato and philosophy to the issue of theology and religion...Loe edasi...
Explores boredoms intellectual history from its early origins to the modern day. Essential reading for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, emotion studies, phenomenology, and moral psychology. It will also interest scholars in rel...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1926, this volume analyses the history of irony in ancient writers such as Homer and Lucian and how the use of Irony in modern literature has been shaped and coloured by the Ironical tradition. The works of Tacitus, Shakespea...Loe edasi...
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazd...Loe edasi...
This book focuses mainly on the practical moral poetics in Platos late masterpiece, the Laws, and applies a comparative approach to Platos philosophizing and the Chinese way of thinking in the fields of art making, cultivating a good life, and mus...Loe edasi...
