Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Philosophers

In John Dewey, America's Peace-Minded Educator,...

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain is distinguished philosopher Ralph McInerny s hymn of praise to the spiritual and intellectual life of the great Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1881 1973). The structure of this work is modeled on the medieval book of hours, making use of the daily offices, from Matins through Compline, to examine each stage of the life of Maritain and his wife, Raissa. Through this unique blending of biography and meditation, McInerny creates a powerful portrait of the Maritains, one that reveals a model of the intellectual life as lived by...

In his essay "On Liberty," John Stuart Mill writes that a person "whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steamengine has a character." Although Mill never devoted an essay or treatise solely to character, Janice Carlisle argues that the subject was central to his writings on politics, philosophy, science, literature, sociology, and psychology.

This interdisciplinary study proposes a comprehensive reevaluation of the links between Mill's experience and his writings, and it does so by examining such larger issues as the relation between gender and...

This, however, is no ordinary study of Krishnamurti, for it is written by one whose earliest memories are dominated by his presence as a doting second father-tolerant of pranks and...

The two volumes of A Philosopher at War examine the political thought of the philosopher and archaeologist, R G Collingwood, against the background of the First and Second World Wars. Collingwood served in Admiralty Intelligence during the First World War and although he was not physically robust enough to play an active role in the Second World War, he was swift to condemn the policies of appeasement which he thought largely responsible for bringing it about. The author uses a blend of political philosophy, history and discussion of political policy to uncover what Collingwood says about...

Eighteen seminal thinkers who left lasting impressions in such fields as ethics, medicine, religion, politics,...

When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandora's Box of unimaginable illness and death.

Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link between occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields and human disease. Milham takes readers through his early years and education, following the twisting...