Author: Adam SmithPublisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Author: Adam SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Changing the Subject
Author: Raymond GeussPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545729
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
“A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.” —Times Literary Supplement “Exceptionally engaging...Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Geuss is something like the consummate teacher, his analyses navigable and crystal, his guidance on point.” —Doug Phillips, Key Reporter Raymond Geuss explores the ideas of twelve philosophers who broke dramatically with prevailing wisdom, from Socrates and Plato in the ancient world to Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Adorno. The result is a striking account of some of the most innovative thinkers in Western history and an indirect manifesto for how to pursue philosophy today. Geuss cautions that philosophers’ attempts to break from convention do not necessarily make the world a better place. Montaigne’s ideas may have been benign, but the fate of those of Hobbes, Hegel, and Nietzsche has been more varied. Yet in the act of provoking people to think differently, philosophers remind us that we are not fated to live within the systems of thought we inherit.
Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects
Author: David HumePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770484000
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
This is the first edition in over a century to present David Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dissertation on the Passions, Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Natural History of Religion in the format he intended: collected together in a single volume. Hume has suffered a fate unusual among great philosophers. His principal philosophical work is no longer published in the form in which he intended it to be read. It has been divided into separate parts, only some of which continue to be published. This volume repairs that neglect by presenting the four pieces that Hume in later life desired to "alone be regarded as containing [his] philosophical sentiments and principles" in the format he preferred, as a single volume with an organization that parallels that of his early Treatise of Human Nature. This edition’s introduction comments on the historical origins and evolution of the four parts and draws attention to how they mutually inform and support one another. The text is based on the first (1758) edition of Hume’s Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. Notes advise the reader of the changes made in the final (1777) edition. Excerpts from the work of some of Hume’s most important contemporary critics are included as appendices. Hume’s abundant references to ancient historians, geographers, poets, and philosophers—many of them now quite obscure—are rendered accessible in this volume through extensive textual notes and a bibliography of online sources.
Letters on Philosophical Subjects; particularly the Creation, the Deluge, vegetation, &c. The powers producing their operations ... shewn to be heat, cold, air and water, &c. Second edition
Author: Francis PENROSEPhilosophical Questions
Author: James FieserPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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"This topically organized anthology and textbook includes numerous excerpts from contemporary philosophers, as well as from Western classics and major Eastern texts, encouraging students to explore connections between works from the Western and Eastern traditions and from different time periods."--BOOK JACKET.
Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Author: Adam SmithPublisher: London : T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies
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Category : Economists
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Author: Adam Smith (économiste)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art
Author: David CarrierPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350245151
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The artwork of Maria Bussmann, a trained academic German philosopher and a significant visual artist, provides an ideal test case for a philosophical study of visual art. Bussmann has internalized the relationship between art and philosophy. In this exploration of the history of German aesthetics through Bussmann's work, David Carrier places the philosophical tradition in the context of contemporary visual culture. Each chapter focuses on the arguments of a major philosopher whose concerns Bussmann has dealt with as an artist: Kant, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein and Arendt. Offering comparative accounts of artists and philosophers whose work is of especial relevance, Carrier shows how Bussmann responds visually to writings of philosophers in art that has an elusive but essential relationship to theorizing. Tackling the question of whether philosophical subjects can be presented visually, Carrier offers a fresh perspective on the German idealist position through the visual art of 21st-century artist steeped in the tradition and continually challenging it through her work.
Twenty Essays on Literary and Philosophical Subjects
Author: Philosophical Topics
Author: Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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