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Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good
by Mary Keys Publisher Comments Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas??'s normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining...
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The Philosophy Of Despair
by David Starr Jordan Publisher Comments In the presence of the infinite problem of life, the voice of Science is dumb, for Science is the coördinate and corrected expression of human experience, and human experience must stop with the limitations of human life. Man was not present "When the...
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You, Sir, Are an Idiot
by Richard Edward Larsen Publisher Comments 'You, Sir, Are an Idiot' compiles journalist Richard Edward Larsen's short columns on America's recent big events. Larsen's columns arise from the belief that reasonable debate must be restored to understand and to resolve the issues polarizing too much...
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Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion
by Michelle Grier Publisher Comments This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the doctrine of transcendental illusion....
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Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others
by Richard Foley Publisher Comments A novel and provocative account of the primacy of intellectual trust and authority....
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Vico: The First New Science
by Gianbattista Vico Publisher Comments This account of the basic theme of Vico's mature philosophy explores the question of whether philosophical theories can ever be more than an intellectual expression of the underlying beliefs of an age. The first complete English translation of the 1725...
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Self-Fulfillment
by Alan Gewirth Publisher Comments Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical or as so value-neutral that it fails...
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The Olynthiacs And The Phillippics Of Demosthenes
by Charles Rann Kennedy Publisher Comments The present crisis, O Athenians, requires, if any ever did, much thought and counsel. Not that I am puzzled, what advice to give in the matter; I am only doubtful, in what way, Athenians, to address you thereupon. For I have been taught both by hearsay...
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Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill Publisher Comments We are continually informed that Utility is an uncertain standard, which every different person interprets differently, and that there is no safety but in the immutable, ineffaceable, and unmistakable dictates of justice, which carry their evidence in...
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Meno
by Plato Publisher Comments MENO: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?...
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Socratic Virtue
by Naomi Reshotko Publisher Comments Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory allowed him to demonstrate that actions and objects have no value other...
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Thoughts Out Of Season Part One
by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments A corpse is a pleasant thought for a worm, and a worm is a dreadful thought for every living creature. Worms fancy their kingdom of heaven in a fat body; professors of philosophy seek theirs in rummaging among Schopenhauer's entrails, and as long as...
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Blanchot
by Leslie Hill Publisher Comments Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War....
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger
by George Pattison Publisher Comments This Routledge Philosophy GuideBook offers a clear introduction to Heidegger's notoriously difficult later thought, examining key later influential works concerning the nature of technology, art and thinking....
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The Nature of Belief
by Robert G Spann Publisher Comments Our conception of reality is an internal model in our minds. This model is a mental conception that only approximates true actuality, growing further in all probability from what reality actually is as we proceed up a hierarchy of levels from that of...
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Nature of God: A Comparative Study in Sri Aurobindo and Whitehead
by Satya, Prakash Singh Publisher Comments This work stems from a chance discovery of certain striking points of similarity between the views of Sri Aurobindo and Alfred North Whitehead on the Nature of God. The author was particularly fascinated by Whitehead's well known equations regarding the...
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The Legalization of Drugs
by Doug Husak Publisher Comments In the United States today, the use or possession of many drugs is a criminal offense. Can these criminal laws be justified? What are the best reasons to punish or not to punish drug users? These are the fundamental issues debated in this book by two...
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On The Improvement Of The Understanding
by Benedict De Spinoza Publisher Comments [4] (1) By sensual pleasure the mind is enthralled to the extent of quiescence, as if the supreme good were actually attained, so that it is quite incapable of thinking of any other object; when such pleasure has been gratified it is followed by extreme...
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Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics
by B Longuenesse Publisher Comments Hegel's Science of Logic has received less attention than his Phenomenology of Spirit, but Hegel himself took it to be his highest philosophical achievement and the backbone of his system. The present book focuses on this most difficult of Hegels...
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Francis Bacon: The New Organon
by Francis Bacon Publisher Comments A new translation and edition of Bacon's revolutionary work of scientific philosophy....
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