Nietzsche, Psychohistory, and the Birth of Christianity

Morgan Rempel

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Philosophy
• Despite characterizing himself as the antichrist, Nietzsche had great respect for Jesus and his message and often identified with his life. His opinio... Lees meer

Diogenes of Sinope

Luis Navia

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Philosophy
• The life and teachings of Diogenes of Sinope, the Greek philosopher who gave rise to classical Cynicism, deserve careful consideration because of thei... Lees meer

Physician-Patient Decision-Making

Douglas N Walton

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• Walton offers a comprehensive, flexible model for physician-patient decision making, the first such tool designed to be applied at the level of each p... Lees meer

The Adventure of Philosophy

Luis Navia

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• Well-written and engaging, this volume explores the most important questions and issues that have absorbed philosophers over the past twenty-five cent... Lees meer

Language and Value

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Philosophy
• This detailed analysis and evaluation of the enormously varied, rich, and productive career of one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting in... Lees meer

Diverse Perspectives on Marxist Philosophy

Sara F Luther

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• In the first dialogue of its kind after the abandonment of communism in Eastern Europe, philosophers from Russia, Hungary, Canada, and the United Stat... Lees meer

Einstein and the Humanities

Lsi

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• Albert Einstein's landmark theory of relativity, simplistically explained as all things are relative, sparked a revolution in thought affecting all fi... Lees meer

Insight-Imagination

Douglas Sloan

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• Sloan argues that a fundamental transformation of our ideas about knowing, our selves, and our world is not only possible, but necessary. The key to t... Lees meer

Begging the Question

Douglas Walton

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• This book offers a new theory of begging the question as an informal fallacy, within a pragmatic framework of reasoned dialogue as a normative theory ... Lees meer

Natural Law Ethics

Philip E Devine

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• The natural law tradition, which takes as central to moral discussion an appeal to our common humanity, provides a sustainable and attractive approach... Lees meer

Mind-Body

Adrian C Moulyn

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• In this innovative work, Moulyn examines some of the most fundamental questions arising from human experience: Why do we feel and behave as if mind an... Lees meer

Arguer's Position

Douglas Walton

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• Douglas N. Walton considers the question of whether the conventions of informal conversation can be articulated more precisely than they are at presen... Lees meer

The Transient and the Absolute

Mordecai Roshwald

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• The two principles of the Transient and the Absolute are fundamental to man's self-perception. While we perceive ourselves as transient biological phe... Lees meer

Sartre and Evil

Haim Gordon, Hayim Gordon

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• Sartre has more to say about Evil--its origins in, effects on modern man, and how to fight it--than any other philosopher in the 20th century. In this... Lees meer

The Life and Death Debate

J P Moreland, Norman L Geisler

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• This work is an introductory treatment of issues and options in social and bioethics which center on the end of life. Moreland and Geisler have attemp... Lees meer

The Logic of Liberty

Gary Brent Madison, G B Madison

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• Political liberalism has increasingly come under fire from both the right and the left, in politics as well as in philosophy. In this new study, G.B. ... Lees meer

The Politics of Rhetoric

Bernard K Duffy, Martin Jacobi

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• Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) was one of the leading rhetoricians of the 1950s, whose philosophical and pedagogical writings helped revitalize interes... Lees meer

Self-Construction and the Formation of Human Values

Teodros Kiros

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• This volume presents a theoretical defense of the potential of ordinary individuals to construct values and through them to become self-empowering, re... Lees meer

The Heidegger-Buber Controversy

Haim Gordon

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• The I-Thou controversy between these two thinkers is a significant but often overlooked issue in philosophy and theology. In one of the first books to... Lees meer

Classical Cynicism

Luis E Navia

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• More than a school of philosophy with a defined set of beliefs and convictions, classical Cynicism represents an unconventional sect of philosophers a... Lees meer

Anglo-American Idealism, 1865-1927

W J Mander, William Mander

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• At the turn of the century, philosophical thinking on both sides of the Atlantic was dominated by the idealist movement, a school of thought that infl... Lees meer

Certainty as a Social Metaphor

Min Lin

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• This volume combines philosophy, the social theory of knowledge, and historical analysis to present a comprehensive study of the idea of certainty as ... Lees meer

Stalking Nietzsche

Raymond Angelo Belliotti

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions in Philosophy
• This introduction to Nietzsche's thought is geared to those who approach his work with grave skepticism. Belliotti begins each chapter with a brief ex... Lees meer

Understanding Confucian Philosophy

Shu-Hsien Liu, Shuxian Liu

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• Although Western interest in Chinese philosophy has been increasing in the last decade, the Confucian tradition is still often misunderstood. This vol... Lees meer