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This book addresses the problem of justifying the institution of criminal punishment. It examines the “paradox of retribution”: the fact that we cannot seem to reject the intuition that punishment is morally required, and yet we cannot (even after two thousand years...
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Springer
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2012-08-28
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Platon gilt bis heute als ein Urvater der Bildungsphilosophie. Seine Überlegungen zu Begabung und Lernen, zu Charakter und Bildung, zum Bildungsziel der Gerechtigkeit und zum Erziehungsmittel der Liebe werden bis heute pädagogisch diskutiert. Seine eugenischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-17
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Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it...
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Springer
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2012-08-15
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Synthese Library
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This volume is a collection of articles dealing with the function of scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity. It is a result of the cooperation between the Center for the Study of Antiquity and Christianity (C-SAC) at the University of Aarhus and international...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-15
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Die Entwicklung eines philosophischen Systems ist für den Autor Folge der persönlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage nach dem Lebenssinn und der Stellung des Menschen in der Welt.Die Frage nach dem Sinn des menschlichen Lebens ist die zentrale Frage des Menschen.Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-09
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Hunger and nutrition are central to public health, social stability and a balanced economy. A powerful interdisciplinary field has recently emerged among demographers, cultural, economic and science historians around food studies. This book is a study of the historical...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-08-07
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On Liberty, John Stuart Mill's classic critique of the ethical limits of governmental authority, remains one of the most influential philosophical treatises ever written. This interactive edition in our popular Bold-Faced series prompts readers to reflect on the...
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Union Square & Co.
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2012-08-07
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Philosophy might make you think of dusty statues in togas or Zen masters meditating, but the philosophical world has far more to offer than ancient men in beards: it can also tell you everything there is to know about life, love anddeath. In a series of highly original,...
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Quercus
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2012-08-02
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-08-02
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Action offers a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems central to the philosophy of action. The first volume to survey the entire field of philosophy of action (the central issues and processes relating to human actions) ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-08-02
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Although Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science. During this period, Swedenborg thought of the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. This...
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Springer
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2012-07-31
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The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses.The general thesis of...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-07-30
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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A renewed approach to democratic ethics is needed, one that takes into consideration the management of complexity and memory in a global world. The expansion of democratic ethics for the stewardship of a postnational, postmetaphysical, and postsecular world is the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-07-30
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Simone de Beauvoir was among the 20th century's most influential thinkers. She was a philosopher at the forefront of existentialism, a pioneering thinker on women and feminism in ""The Second Sex"", the writer of prize-winning fiction, an autobiographical writer and a...
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Teach Yourself
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2012-07-27
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BGKF
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Il volume analizza il rapporto fra la scoperta di sentimenti e affetti a priori e la rivoluzione nel modo di pensare annunciata nella «Prefazione» alla seconda edizione della Critica della ragion pura.Il lavoro mostra che il passaggio dall’ipotesi alla certezza...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-25
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Dieser Band ist der zweite Teil einer Lektüre von Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes, in dem die Kapitel «Geist» und «Religion» von Hegels erstem Hauptwerk umfassend kommentiert werden. Diese Lektüre verdankt sich dabei einem über viele Jahre laufenden Seminar, welches...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-25
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This volume is dedicated to Barbara Skarga – her works, profile and biography. It is a unique character in the Polish intellectual life, but also virtually unknown abroad, except a meager milieu of her readership in France. Dubbed «the first Lady of Polish Philosophy»...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-23
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Open this book and you will: - learn about Marx's life - know his key works - deal with dialectic - assess his influence
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2012-07-20
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Band 9 der zweisprachigen Ausgabe der Sermones ad populum bietet die erstmalige deutsche Übersetzung der drei Predigten zur Apostelgeschichte 148-150. Die lateinischen Texte beruhen auf dem Vergleich der bisherigen Editionen, im Fall von sermo 150 auch auf Codex I 9 der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-18
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States of Nature investigates the removal of the animal and its moral import from accounts of the human in political thought. By engaging some of the most foundational Western political texts (from Plato’s Republic to Locke’s Two Treatises to Rousseau’s Discourse on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-07-11
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