Author: Henry M'CormacPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
The philosophy of human nature, in its physical, of human nature, in its physical, intellectual, and moral relations
Author: Henry M'CormacThe Philosophy of Human Nature, in Its Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Relations
Author: Henry M'CormacPublisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Philosophy of Human Nature, in its physical intellectual and moral relations
Author: Henry MacCormacThe Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man
Author: Maine de BiranPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472579690
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Maine de Biran's work has had an enormous influence on the development of French Philosophy – Henri Bergson called him the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes and Malebranche, Jules Lachelier referred to him as the French Kant, and Royer-Collard called him simply 'the master of us all' – and yet the philosopher and his work remain unknown to many English speaking readers. From Ravaisson and Bergson, through to the phenomenology of major figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Henry, and Paul Ricoeur, Biran's influence is evident and acknowledged as a major contribution. The notion of corps propre, so important to phenomenology in the twentieth century, originates in his thought. His work also had a huge impact on the distinction between the virtual and the actual as well as the concepts of effort and puissance, enormously important to the development of Deleuze's and Foucault's work. This volume, the first English translation of Maine de Biran in nearly a century, introduces Anglophone readers to the work of this seminal thinker. The Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man is an expression of Biran's mature 'spiritualism' and philosophy of the will as well as perhaps the clearest articulation of his understanding of what would later come to be called the mind-body problem. In this text Biran sets out forcefully his case for the autonomy of mental or spiritual life against the reductive explanatory power of the physicalist natural sciences. The translation is accompanied by critical essays from experts in France and the United Kingdom, situating Biran's work and its reception in its proper historical and intellectual context.
Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Author: Stefanie BuchenauPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350142948
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity. Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors. With contributions from a team of internationally recognized scholars, including Stephen Gaukroger, Michael Forster, Céline Spector, Jacqueline Taylor, and Günter Zöller, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Enlightenment that is both clear in focus and impressive in scope.
History of the Philosophy of Mind
Author: Robert BlakeyPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The Westminster Review
Author: An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Author: John Daniel MorellHistory of the Philosophy of Mind Embracing the Opinions of All Writers on Mental Science ... By Robert Blakey
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Jurisprudence
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description