Humanism

Death is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy, and this attention has resulted in diverse and complex views on death and what comes after. In Meaning and...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Shape of Agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518758Author Irving SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407361Author David McRaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 22mm

Naturalism is widely regarded as the dominant philosophical worldview in the West. The prestige of science and the power of technology have driven naturalism to prominence, even as deep questions mount on all sides. In this volume of all new essays,...

HumAnimal explores the experience of dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond law. Employing the...

First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the...

The ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Gilbert Ryle have had a major influence on the work of Anthony Kenny, who has explored many aspects of the philosophy of mind in a series of books over the past twenty-five years. Modelled on the structure of Ryle's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307587749Author Roger HousdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623171124Author Peter RalstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Nathan L. King's The Excellent Mind considers the importance of the intellectual virtues: the character traits of excellent thinkers. He explains what it means to have an excellent mind: one that is curious, careful, self-reliant, humble, honest,...

Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190051495Author Susan B LevinImprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And...

Featuring nine new articles chosen by coeditor Steven M. Cahn, the third edition of E. D. Klemke's The Meaning of Life offers twenty-two insightful selections that explore this fascinating topic. The essays are primarily by philosophers but also include...

The Seventeenth-Century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist Margaret Cavendish went to battle with the great thinkers of her time, and arguably got the better of them in many cases. She took a creative and systematic stand on the major...

What is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart? Is an act...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778014Author Walt AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

When we fail to achieve our goals, procrastination is often the culprit. But how exactly is procrastination to be understood? It has been described as imprudent, irrational, inconsistent, and even immoral, but there has been no sustained philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972582Author John PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 813g

A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell's arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural.John McDowell is one of the...

Why are we here? What does it mean to love? How do we overcome suffering? Why do we feel so alone? Is happiness truly possible? For thousands of years, humanity has turned to the same sacred texts to explore these universal questions - from the Bible...

Must we always later regret actions that were wrong for us to perform at the time? Can there ever be good reason to affirm things in the past that we know were unfortunate? In this original work of moral philosophy, R. Jay Wallace shows that the...

Over six previous editions, Twelve Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. Now titled Thirteen Theories of Human Nature, the seventh edition adds a...

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human...

What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating...

Recent decades have seen a remarkable upsurge of interest in German Idealism in the English-speaking world. However, out of the three leading thinkers of the period directly after Kant--Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel--Schelling has received relatively...

In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany in the decades leading up to the Reformation. Contrary to the traditional wisdom, Collins's research uncovers a resurgence in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602139Author Marcus AureliusFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542914Author Morris BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

One of the world's most illustrious and influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical and religious questions of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as...

This volume collects a number of Perry's classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity,Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry's Introduction puts his own work and...

The Objects of Thought addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. Tim Crane argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that we will not...

Mark C. Taylor's latest book is a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age. How do we find silence--and more importantly, how do we understand it--amid the incessant buzz of the networks that enmesh us? Have we forgotten how to listen to...

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-LewisThe Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the...

E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning...

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human...