| |
Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-11-01
ePub
|
Anhand ausgewählter Beispiele wird untersucht, wie die Naturwissenschaften unser gegenwärtiges Weltbild beeinflussen. Dabei wird in einem interdisziplinären Dialog zwischen Vertretern der «exakten» Wissenschaften und Philosophen ausgelotet, ob und wie neuere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-31
PDF
|
This book introduces identity politics into the analysis of international relations. Through the usage of identification approaches, combined with an extensive presentation of the specific features of Norwegian nation-building, it offers a lucid account of how Norway’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-31
PDF
|
Interkulturalität ist zum allgegenwärtigen Schlagwort geworden, das Weltoffenheit und Flexibilität signalisiert. Die Herausforderung, die mit diesem Begriff verbunden ist, kommt allerdings nur selten zur Geltung. Ziel der interdisziplinären Tagung «Interkulturalität als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-26
PDF
|
'The Big Questions' series is designed to let renowned experts confront the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. In'The Big Questions: Ethics' Julian Baggini, one of Britain's best-known philosophers, condenses...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
Parution :
2012-10-25
Collection :
The Big Questions
ePub
|
The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. Yet this assumed absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, neither their constitutive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-24
ePub
|
This book shows how pressing issues in bioethics – e.g. the ownership of biological material and human cognitive enhancement – successfully can be discussed with in a virtue ethics framework.This is not intended as a complete or exegetic account of virtue ethics....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-24
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Ethics
ePub
|
This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-23
ePub
|
PresentationThe truth, synthesis of the spirit."To each his own truth", says a proverb, and it is in the name of their particular "truth" that humans keep confronting each other. However, the truth never comes to present itself as obvious which is imposed on us, and...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
Parution :
2012-10-22
Collection :
Izvor (EN)
ePub
|
In recent years, calls for a new humanism have arisen from a variety of voices across the spectrum of philosophy, expressing frustration with outdated models of the human that cannot account for the richness of our social being. The postmodern deconstruction of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-19
PDF
|
Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changing sociopolitical circumstances of the post-1989 period and the continued burden of the Nazi past have directly contributed to this upsurge in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-19
PDF
|
This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-17
Collection :
Synthese Library
PDF, ePub
|
This book contains texts devoted by Alfred Schutz to the "normative" areas of literature and ethics. It includes writings dealing with the author-reader relationship, multiple realities, the literary province of meaning, and Schutz's views on equality. Never published...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-13
ePub
|
The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. Yet this assumed absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, neither their constitutive force. ...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-11
ePub
|
Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines were...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-11
ePub
|
Der norwegisch-dänische Philosoph und Naturforscher Henrich Steffens (1773-1845) hat den größten Teil seines Lebens in Deutschland zugebracht – er war Professor in Halle, dann in Breslau und schließlich ab 1832 in Berlin. Seine Autobiographie Was ich erlebte (10 Bände,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-10-11
PDF
|
The present volume containing the dissertation of Dorion Cairns is the first part of a comprehensive edition of the philosophical papers of one of the foremost disseminators and interpreters of Husserlian phenomenology in North-America.Based on his intimate knowledge ...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-02
ePub
|
How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science.In Answers for Aristotle,...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2012-10-02
ePub
|
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in concern for the rule of law. Not only have there been a multitude of articles and books on the essence, nature, scope and limitation of the law, but citizens, elected officials, law enforcement officers and the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-09-28
Collection :
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
ePub
|
Europe is the community of nations which, in the favorable conditions of a small yet extremely diversified continent, took over and developed the legacy of Greco-Roman civilization transformed and enriched by Christianity. Philosophy, theology, liturgy, religion,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-26
PDF
|