Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Ethics
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Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Ethics
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Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 1748
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
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Author : Lex Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827235
First published in 1689, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. The Essay puts forward a systematic empiricist theory of mind, detailing how all ideas and knowledge arise from sense experience. Locke was trained in mechanical philosophy and he crafted his account to be consistent with the best natural science of his day. The Essay was highly influential and its rendering of empiricism would become the standard for subsequent theorists. This Companion volume includes fifteen new essays from leading scholars. Covering the major themes of Locke's work, they explain his views while situating the ideas in the historical context of Locke's day and often clarifying their relationship to ongoing work in philosophy. Pitched to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it is ideal for use in courses on early modern philosophy, British empiricism and John Locke.
Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603840176
A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
Author : John Locke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141956577
John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the history of Western thought. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195074857
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
Author : Barry Stroud
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : 9780198250333
Since the 1970s Barry Stroud has been one of the most original contributors to the philosophical study of human knowledge. This volume presents the best of Stroud's essays in this area. Throughout, he seeks to clearly identify the question that philosophical theories of knowledge are meant to answer, and the role scepticism plays in making sense of that question. In these seminal essays, he suggests that people pursuing epistemology need to concern themselves with whether philosophical scepticism is true or false. Stroud's discussion of these fundamental questions is essential reading for anyone whose work touches on the subject of human knowledge.
Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745694608
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1750
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783487414300
Author : John Locke
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 1693
Category : Education
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A work by John Locke about education.