Author : Marcel van Ackeren
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197266298
Some pursue philosophy via its history, while others focus on current debates without reference to the past. But a growing group of philosophers believe historical perspective can contribute to current debates. 'Philosophy and the Historical Perspective' explores the importance of this perspective and investigates the very nature of philosophy.
Author : Carl Joachim Friedrich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226264661
Author : Adrian M. Dupuis
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761850902
Education students are continually asked to reflect upon their own philosophy of education and how it relates to their teaching practice. Philosophy of Education in Historical Perspective: Third Edition focuses on major educational philosophies that have had an impact on Western education and helps the reader to make sense of past and current trends and to place them in a historical context. This third edition is updated to correspond with the increasingly swift changes that have been taking place in education. As we move forward into the twenty-first century, it is hard to recall that only twenty years ago, computers were not part of standard classroom equipment. This widely-accessible edition will update the second with another look at postmodernism as it has continued to develop in the past fifty years.
Author : Amelie Rorty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 2005-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134654332
Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education. As Amelie Rorty explains, in describing a history of education, we are essentially describing and gaining the clearest understanding of the issues that presently concern and divide us. The essays in this stellar collection are written by some of the finest comtemporary philosophers. Those interested in history of philosophy, epistemology, moral psychology and education, and political theory will find Philosophers on Education to be both an engaging and fascinating read.
Author : Anthony K. Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107027322
An exposition of the development of Nietzsche's philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.
Author : Alan Woods
Publisher : Wellred Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release :
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Alan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophical outlook, which looks at the real material world, not as a static immovable reality, but one that is constantly changing and moving according to laws that can be discovered. It is this method which allows Marxists to look at how things were, how they have become and how they are most likely going to be in the future, in a long process which started with the early primitive humans in their struggles for survival, through to the emergence of class societies, all as part of a process towards greater and greater knowledge of the world we live in. This long historical process eventually created the material conditions which allow for an end to class divisions and the flowering of a new society where humans will achieve true freedom, where no human will exploit another, no human will oppress another. Here we see how philosophy becomes an indispensable tool in the struggle for the revolutionary transformation of society.
Author : Remy Debes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190677546
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it is only in the last century that this meaning of the term has become standardized. Before this, dignity was instead a concept associated with social status. Unfortunately, this transformation remains something of a mystery in existing scholarship. Exactly when and why did "dignity" change its meaning? And before this change, was it truly the case that we lacked a conception of human worth akin to the one that "dignity" now represents? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer such questions by clarifying the presently murky history of "dignity," from classical Greek thought through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to the present day.
Author : Radim Bělohlávek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0190200014
The main part of the book is a comprehensive overview of the development of fuzzy logic and its applications in various areas of human affair since its genesis in the mid 1960s. This overview is then employed for assessing the significance of fuzzy logic and mathematics based on fuzzy logic.
Author : Mogens Lærke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0199857164
Many chapters articulate new, detailed methods of doing history of philosophy. These present conflicting visions of the history of philosophy as an autonomous sub-discipline of professional philosophy.
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0241980860
AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.
