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Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C. Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book.He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-12-09
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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound intrigue with mass-murderers. Exploring existential, ethical and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive via an exploration of grisly...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2010-12-03
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Philosophy for Everyone
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How should liberal democratic governments respond to citizens as religious believers whose values, norms and practices might lie outside the cultural mainstream? Some of the most challenging political questions arising today focus on the adequacy of a policy of ‘live...
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Springer
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2010-11-29
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The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist...
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Springer
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2010-11-25
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Im Zeitalter der digitalen Vernetzung wird eine Vielfalt an Informationen angeboten. Innerhalb eines Themenbereichs vermischen sich dabei Erkenntnisse unterschiedlicher Denkdisziplinen – jedoch oft ohne eindeutige Reflexion. Philosophie, verstanden als einsichtsvolles...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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In dieser Arbeit geht es um ein In-Beziehung-Setzen von Menschenbildern mit Menschenrechten. Dabei wird von einer Klärung der in Diskussion stehenden Begriffe ausgegangen und die vorherrschenden Menschenbilder werden erörtert. Bei einer nüchternen Betrachtung der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, die Bewegung der Junghegelianer auf neuestem Forschungsstand darzustellen und wichtige Aspekte ihres politischen Denkens und Wirkens zu untersuchen. Die Junghegelianer werden vor allem im Kontext der Aufklärung gesehen und beurteilt. Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Der Autor unterstreicht intensiv die zentrale Bedeutung des Abendmahls für die gesamte Theologie Luthers, indem er eine umfangreiche Textpassage aus der Abendmahlsschrift von 1527, die bisher in ihrem argumentativen Zusammenhang kaum gewürdigt worden ist, heraushebt,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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«Fangen die Engel/wirklich nur Ihriges auf/ihnen Entströmtes,/oder ist manchmal, wie aus Versehen, ein wenig/unseres Wesens dabei? Sind wir in ihre/Züge soviel nur gemischt wie das Vage in die Gesichter/schwangerer Frauen?» Diese Verse aus der zweiten Elegie von Rainer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2010-11-23
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Offering the first general introductory text to this subject, the timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics reflects the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated in both psychology and philosophy. The book presents students to the areas of cognitive...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-23
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Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional...
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Springer
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2010-11-18
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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue
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Kant, in the Critique of pure reason, only dedicates a few pages to the principle of Anticipations of Perception and only a few critical studies are outspokenly dedicated to this issue in recent critical literature. But if one considers the history of post-Kantian...
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Springer
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2010-11-18
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Studies in German Idealism
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This volume represents the first which interfaces with astronomy as the fulcrum of the sciences. It gives full expression to the human passion for the skies. Advancing human civilization has unfolded and matured this passion into the comprehensive science of astronomy....
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Springer
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2010-11-18
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This is the first book-length treatment of hybrid logic and its proof-theory. Hybrid logic is an extension of ordinary modal logic which allows explicit reference to individual points in a model (where the points represent times, possible worlds, states in a computer,...
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Springer
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2010-11-17
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This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant’s doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject. Well-known Kantians Karl Ameriks and Manfred Baum present...
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Springer
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2010-11-17
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The New Synthese Historical Library
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Especially when there is a lot of political rhetoric in the air, those of us with strong political convictions are inclined to reflect on just why we hold certain views even as others who are basically like us hold very different ones. Social scientists and other...
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Springer
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2010-11-10
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SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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This is the first book that provides access to twelve Continental philosophers and the consequences of their thinking for the philosophy of religion. Basically, in the second half of the twentieth century, it has been treated from within the Anglo- American school of...
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Springer
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2010-11-05
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The Concept of Logical Consequence is a critical evaluation of the model-theoretic and proof-theoretic characterizations of logical consequence that proceeds from Alfred Tarski’s characterization of the informal concept of logical consequence. This study evaluates and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Understand Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to this sometimes challenging domain. Using contemporary examples to further your understanding, it takes a broad look at theorists in a range of disciplines. Whether you're encountering postmodernism for the first...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2010-10-29
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