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This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics.This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist...
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This book provides a comparative study of the accounts of the relationship between essence and existence, which are provided by Sadra and Hegel respectively. Sadra is presented as having a project that is similar in scope to Hegel’s own.
The author argues that while...
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The presented volume contains a critical edition of questions 8–10 from Book II of the commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences by Marsilius of Inghen († 1396). Marsilius was a famous scholar and the first rector of the University of Heidelberg, educated in Paris. He...
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This book, Thales and the Beginnings of European Reflection, is more than a field guide to all major testimonies about Thales. It does not merely contain a summary and critique of the available literature on the subject, but also lays down a new, holistic...
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The study shows the reception of the views of Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite by Gregory Palamas.The author presents the doctrinal context of Palamas' dispute with Barlaam from Calabria on the possibility of knowing God, the most important issue in 14th-century Byzantium....
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This book is the first comprehensive study of Plato’s conception of justice. The universality of human rights and human dignity—recognized as the source of the former—are among the crucial philosophical problems in modern-day legal orders and in contemporary culture in...
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Why was (and is) Aristotle «right» and why are we «wrong»? In other words, why are Aristotle’s philosophical reflections on man and the world full, real, and convincing and why is so much of our modern philosophy partial and false? This work offers a detailed assessment...
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Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. Misch’s notion of a logic of life considers the Word in the plenitude of its great powers. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study...
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The presented text offers a basic overview of the terms and topics of the very wide philosophical discipline called metaphysics.The text includes, besides an overview of individual problems, reflections to consider and recommended literature. Readers will become...
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This coursebook addresses key presocratics from Heraclitus to the sophists, who stand at the origin of philosophy as cornerstone of European spirituality. Readers might find that already at this point we encounter timeless and actual questions concerning the human...
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The coursebook presents Plato and Aristotle as the two most significant and groundbreaking thinkers of European thought from the era of classical Greek philosophy.The author provides prefatory orientation in the labyrinth of their complex thought and sketches their...
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The book deals with martyrdom understood as a philosophical category.The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death.The author approaches an answer through a philosophical interpretation of the belief in the evidential role of...
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"Die Geschichte der Philosophie für Dummies" erklärt anschaulich und humorvoll, was kluge Männer wie Platon, Kant oder Heidegger, aber auch viele weniger bekannte Philosophen erdacht haben. Das Buch geht chronologisch vor und stellt dabei philosophische Theorien der...
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This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admirers from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche to Benjamin. A variety of readings,...
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Dialectics beyondDialectics is a study of contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism understood as philosophy of totality. Many French philosophers of the 20th century...
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This history of Russian thought was first published in Polish in 1973 and subsequently appeared 2005 in a revised and expanded publication. The current volume begins with Enlightenment thought and Westernization in Russia in the 17th century and moves to the...
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Plotinus’ mysticism of henosis, unification with the One, is a highly controversial topic in Plotinian scholarship. This book presents a careful reading of the Enneads and suggests thatPlotinus’ mysticism be understood as mystical teaching that offers practical guidance...
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The second issue ofThe Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology focuses on the intertwined topics of normativity and of typification.The area of their application and specification is relatively broad: from biological questions through various lived...
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This book presents and analyzes specific metaphysical tendencies that were revived within particular branches of French philosophy from the 1930s to the 1960s. Using the examples of the five philosophers active in this period (Louis Lavelle, Ferdinand Alquié, Jean Wahl,...
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Die Autorin bietet in ihren einführenden philosophischen Reflexionen eine Auswahl an klassischen und modernen Themen der Ästhetik: Dialektik der Aufklärung, Kunst nahe am Verstummen, Begriffsgeschichte des Schönen und andere. In zehn Kapiteln werden Zitate durch...
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