Збірка містить ключові тексти сучасних французьких істориків філософії, в яких осмислюються славетні "Медитації про першу філософію" Рене Декарта. Написані протягом 70-х–90-х рр. XX ст., ці тексти стосуються найрізноманітнішої тематики й визначають напрям сучасних декартознавчих дискусій

В книге впервые целостно освещён жизненный и творческий путь выдающегося отечественного мыслителя, философа, психолога, педагога, богослова и церковно-общественного деятеля В. В. Зеньковского, раскрыты истоки его мировоззрения, прослежены основные линии его многогранного творчества

В 9-11 Ноам Хомский комментирует нападения 11 сентября, новую войну с терроризмом, Усаму бен Ладена, участие США в Афганистане, контроль над СМИ и долгосрочные последствия военных нападений Америки за рубежом

A General Rhetoric is a 1970 book by the Belgian semioticians known as Groupe µ. The first part of the book reformulates classical rhetoric within semiotics, while the second part discusses the new concept of a general rhetoric, which introduces rhetorical figures for storytelling, called figures of narration

In his sixth-century work commonly known as the De hebdomadibus, Boethius (ca. 480-524) poses the question of how created things or substances can be good just as they are―that is, good just by existing―without being the same as the source of all goodness, God, who is understood to be Goodness Itself. In his commentary written in the thirteenth century, St. Thomas Aquinas sets out to explain the problem Boethius is treating as well as to explicate Boethius's solution

The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today

Some words, observes Herbert McCabe in his beautiful What Is Ethics All About?, are “growing” words. That is, they point to realities of such richness, such depth, that they are almost inexhaustible in their intelligibility and meaning

Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which had immediately preceded it, Beyond Good and Evil represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy—but in less flamboyant and more systematic form

Ostatni spośród pięciu rozdziałów, jakie składają się na tę książkę, powstał najwcześniej i on jedynie był dotychczas ogłaszany drukiem. Jest to tekst odczytu wygłoszonego przed audytorium katolickim na zaproszenie F. Veuillota

Many arguments have been advanced in favour of the right to religious freedom, and this essay seeks to present a version of one of them: that based on the individual’s duty to follow the dictates of his conscience. It studies St. Thomas Aquinas‘ account of the nature and authority of conscience, and some of the conclusions to which this theory seems to lead. Since the Thomist idiom and method are unfamiliar to many people, reference is made, from time to time, to British moralists, both classical and contemporary

The Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: De consolatione philosophiæ) is a work by the sixth-century philosopher Boethius that has been described as having had the single most important influence on the Christianity of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance and as the last great work of the Classical Period

In diesem Band sind vier kürzere Abhandlungen Kierkegaards aus der Zeit von 1843 bis 1849 vereinigt, die jedoch nicht minder zentral sind für Kierkegaards philosophisch-theologisches Denken als die frühen großen Schriften.Die Krankheit zum Tode

Pomieszczone w niniejszym tomie teksty Ks. Prof. Stanisława Kamińskiego ukazywały się drukiem w latach 1966-1979

What does the Christian tradition have to say to a person intent on being a success in today’s business world? Is it possible to be a Christian and a competent business leader at the same time?

Takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principle of ethics. Drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, this book discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being

Hegel is a philosopher whom onc neglects at one’s peril. His learning was vast, his discernment keen, his penetration dcep. He had an encyclopedic mind, and his Vision Was synoptic. Nothing humanfiaye, nothing divine, say the facetious was foreign to him

Starting from the premise that supreme authority requires justification, and pointing out that from medieval times the authority of both Church and State has been deemed as delegated from God, Mr. Cameron investigates the relation between secular and religious authority and the role of the individual moral agent

Îentends ici par intellectualisme une doctrine qui met toute la valeur, toute Fintensité de la vie, et Yessence même du bien, identique à Fêtre, dans Pacte dïntelligence, le reste ne pouvant être bon que par participation

This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in contemporary philosophy, the relationship between philosophy and empirical studies

This collection of essays focuses on a current issue of central important in ethic, the relationship between philosophy and ethical studies

THERE Is, as Aristotle tells us‘, a difference in scale between making a discovery and developing a discovery made by someone else. Developing the insight may take on the form of a very large project; it may involve many people and show definite stages of advancement

Assorted fruit from forty years' writing, these essays by David Braybrooke discuss (in Part One of the book) a variety of concrete, practical topics that ethical concerns bring into politics: people's interests; their needs as well as their preferences; their work and their commitment to work; their participation in politics and in other group activities. Essays follow on the justice with which theme matters are arranged for and on the common good in which they are consolidated

Zadziwiające jest to, że w czasie, gdy koncepcje polityczne stawały się coraz bardziej uniwersalistyczne, rosła potrzeba odwoływania się do podstawowych relacji międzyludzkich. I to właśnie Arystoteles stał się dogodnym mistrzem w realizowaniu tej tęsknoty

De Monarchia (pronounced Monàrkia) is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri

Perspectives in Business Ethics offers a foundation in ethical thought, followed by a variety of perspectives on difficult ethical dilemmas in both the personal and professional context

Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty

Philosophy of Liberation is the collective name for a philosophical movement and method of doing philosophy that emerged at first in Argentina during the late sixties, but that went on to spread throughout Latin American during the early seventies. It is for this reason that sometimes some critics and historiographers of the philosophy of liberation make reference to a “strict” and a “broad” conception of the philosophy of liberation, in order to refer to the immediate context of its earliest articulations, and to its later general dissemination and development

The following lecture was delivered by Fred R. Dallmayr on the occasion of his inauguration as the Packey }. Dee Professor of Govern— ment and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame on March 21, 1980. Professor Dallmayr is a political theorist whose major interests include contemporary political theory, contemporary European politi— cal thought, theory of social science, and modern political thought

The lifeblood of English and American philosophy has for Centuries been its involvement With the daily life of ordinary peeple, its preference for ordinary language, its insistence upon verification in the concrete contexts of daily life. Contrast the abstractness of Continental, especially German, speculation

No dictum in traditional Christian doctrine strikes such a note of strangeness to the ears of contem— potaries, even contemporary Christians, as this one: that the virtue of prudence is the mould and ‘mothet'1 of all the other cardinal virtues