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The Identities of Persons: Volume 3
ISBN: 9780520033092 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity, edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975)
In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of ...
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155,90 zł |
Essays on Descartes' Meditations: Volume 4
ISBN: 9780520055094 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world. There are essays on the genre of meditational writing, on the implications of the opening cathartic section of the book on Descartes' theory of perception and his use of skeptical arguments; essays on the theory of ideas and their role of Descartes' reconstructive analytic...
The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze t...
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265,30 zł |
Essays on Aristotle's Ethics: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780520040410 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuos commentary on the Ethics. Philosophers and classicists alike will welcome them.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropri...
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166,66 zł |
The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt
ISBN: 9780195176551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion in the name of science; others attacked science in the name of mystical poetry; some served tyrants; others were radical revolutionaries.
This historically based collection of philosophers' reflections--the letters, journals, prefaces that reveal their hopes and hesitations, their... Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and thre...
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199,78 zł |
Explaining Emotions: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780520039216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 543 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history. Part of the fascination has been that the emotions resist classification. As adequate account therefore requires receptivity to knowledge from a variety of sources. The philosopher must inform himself of the relevant empirical investigation to arrive at a definition, and the scientist cannot afford to be naive about the assumptions built into his conceptual apparatus. The contributors to this volume have approached the problem of characterizing and classifying...
The challenge of explaining the emotions has engaged the attention of the best minds in philosophy and science throughout history. Part of the fascina...
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246,78 zł |
Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780520202283 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory of rhetoric, as it affects political and legal argumentation, has been continuous and far-reaching. This anthology presents Aristotle's Rhetoric in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. The contributors--eminent philosophers, classicists, and critics--assess the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and in the public sphere....
Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric offers a fresh and comprehensive assessment of a classic work. Aristotle's influence on the practice and theory ...
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166,66 zł |