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All human beings are born with equal dignity and possess equal rights. This statement appears normatively just as irrefutable as it is empirically refuted every day. But what are the grounds of this principle, and how should we think about its realization? Its...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-04-15
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The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning?This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-04-15
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In response to this situation, it is understandable that many people are...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-04-09
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In the space of a century, technologies have acquired unprecedented power. The result of these developments is a new form of the world. These transformations test our capacities and generate new crises with multiple issues at stake. Drawing on the lessons of a long...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-04-09
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The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future...
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Polity
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2024-04-09
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This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists, and proposes a new perspective – radical in its moderation. It examines in depth the work of the philosopher Joshua Greene...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-08
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Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway’s most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and useful definition on...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-08
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This book shows that true ‘revolutionary’ achievements in contemporary civil society must start from an analysis of traditional categories. In particular, the proposition of new models for the functioning of democracy, through participatory institutions, must pass...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2024-04-08
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What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called “first philosophy” or “metaphysics”? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest – namely the unity of...
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Polity
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2024-04-08
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Presents struggles for liberation in the Americas from the perspectives of structural victims Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala explores the ways people occupying different positionalities respond to various catastrophes while discussing how collective processes of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-04-08
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This volume collects six original essays by internationally respected researchers who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation. It brings together works that innovatively address key dimensions of the current debates concerning legal obligation from...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-06
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This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective. Accordingly, good arguments in...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-04
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This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-known thinkers...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-03
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The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi’s social, political philosophy.The essays combine philosophical and historical approaches to show Polanyi’s social thought in the context of his epistemology and philosophy of science...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-04-03
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This book provides philosophers and logicians with a broad spectrum of views on contemporary research on the problem of deduction, its justification and explanation. The variety of distinct approaches exemplified by the single chapters allows for a dialogue between...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-04-01
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Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology, from the classical and familiar (knowledge and justified true belief, and the problem of induction) to the unusual and often neglected (what alien science might look like, the ethics of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-01
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Epistemic Aphorisms is a wide-ranging consideration of issues in epistemology, from the classical and familiar (knowledge and justified true belief, and the problem of induction) to the unusual and often neglected (what alien science might look like, the ethics of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-01
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In this profound metaphysical treatise, René Guénon explores the universal symbolism of the cross—not merely as a Christian emblem, but as a timeless, archetypal figure expressing the deepest principles of traditional cosmology and spiritual realization.The Symbolism of...
Editeur :
V Bros.
Parution :
2024-03-29
Collection :
The classics
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Was Dante Alighieri merely a poet—or was he an initiate transmitting profound esoteric truths beneath the veil of verse?In The Esoterism of Dante, René Guénon unveils the hidden symbolic and initiatic dimensions of Dante’s Divine Comedy, arguing that the celebrated...
Editeur :
V Bros.
Parution :
2024-03-29
Collection :
The classics
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‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-03-28
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