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Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (Hardcover): G Slomp Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (Hardcover)
G Slomp
R2,762 Discovery Miles 27 620 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Hobbes's philosophical discourse is deconstructed as the interplay of the drama of individual behaviour as perceived by rational "agents" and the detached analysis of conflict by a "political geometer". The author offers solutions to some long-standing problems in Hobbesian political philosophy (for example, the role of glory, Hobbes' pessimism) and shows the consistency of Hobbes' attempt to derive absolution as the only stable political association. Although based on extensive textual analysis of Hobbes' works and correspondence, the text is an exercise in political philosophy that students should find iconoclastic and experts challenging.

Hegel and Mind - Rethinking Philosophical Psychology (Hardcover): Richard Dien Winfield Hegel and Mind - Rethinking Philosophical Psychology (Hardcover)
Richard Dien Winfield
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Exploring Hegels philosophical psychology to uncover viable remedies to the chief dilemmas plaguing contemporary philosophy of mind, Hegel and Mind exposes why mind cannot be an epistemological foundation nor reduced to discursive consciousness not modelled after computing machines"--Provided by publisher.

Hegel - Reason in History (Paperback): Robert Hartman Hegel - Reason in History (Paperback)
Robert Hartman
R1,143 Discovery Miles 11 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Library of Liberal Arts title.

Adam Ferguson and Ethical Integrity - The Man and His Prescriptions for the Moral Life (Hardcover): Jack A. Hill Adam Ferguson and Ethical Integrity - The Man and His Prescriptions for the Moral Life (Hardcover)
Jack A. Hill
R2,677 Discovery Miles 26 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is about learning how to live the good life. Part biography and part philosophical inquiry, it is a fresh, original interpretation of the intellectual world of the largely forgotten, eighteenth-century professor, Adam Ferguson. Although less well-known today than his famous Scottish contemporaries, Adam Smith and David Hume, Ferguson was considered their equal in the 18th century. The book shows how Ferguson, who grew up speaking Gaelic and English, and spent a decade ministering to a Highlander regiment, developed a distinctive, cross-cultural approach to moral philosophy that is relevant for doing comparative ethics in today's global village. The premise is that life in the twenty-first century is plagued by a moral disorientation that has affinities with the materialism, privatization, social fragmentation and spiritual crises that were emerging in 18th-century, urban Scotland. Like his peers in medical science, Ferguson pursued what was then known as moral science with a particular concern to diagnose and treat moral "dis-ease." The book contends that his moral philosophy lectures became strikingly modern experiments in recovering moral moorings-disclosing epitomes of moral dynamics, investigating the use of moral terms in ordinary language, and crafting moral principles, such as probity, which preserved classical moral virtues but also incorporated the practical wisdom of 'peoples of the mountains.' Although focused on re-discovering Ferguson as a full-blown ethicist before his time, the book is also intended as a primer for the reader's own quest for living a life which is emblematic of ethical integrity The primary audience for this book is philosophers, historians, religious studies scholars who specialize in ethics, eighteenth-century English literature scholars, and social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists) who focus on the eighteenth-century.

Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions - A Reconstruction Based on his Theory of Meaning (Hardcover): Daniel E. Flage Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions - A Reconstruction Based on his Theory of Meaning (Hardcover)
Daniel E. Flage
R3,422 Discovery Miles 34 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 1987, offers a reconstruction of Berkeley's doctrine on notions by examining the implications of his repeated suggestion that there is a close relationship between his doctrine and his semantic theory. The study ties in with some of the most important topics in modern analytic philosophy, and casts important light on modern philosophical concerns as well as on Berkeley's thought.

Berkeley on Abstraction and Abstract Ideas (Hardcover): Willis Doney Berkeley on Abstraction and Abstract Ideas (Hardcover)
Willis Doney
R3,407 Discovery Miles 34 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Berkeley's critique of abstract ideas in the Introduction to Principles of Human Knowledge has provoked a great deal of commentary of various sorts. This anthology, first published in 1989, presents a selection of historically important and philosophically interesting discussions on Berkeley's theories.

Money, Obedience, And Affection - Essays on Berkeley's Moral and Political Thought (Hardcover): Stephen R.L. Clark Money, Obedience, And Affection - Essays on Berkeley's Moral and Political Thought (Hardcover)
Stephen R.L. Clark
R3,404 Discovery Miles 34 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 1985, presents a key collection of essays on Berkeley's moral and political philosophy. They form an introduction to, and analysis of, Berkeley's immaterialist arguments, part of his consciously adopted strategy to subvert Enlightenment thought, which he saw as a danger to civil society.

Christian Discourses and ""The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress (Hardcover): Robert L. Perkins Christian Discourses and ""The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress (Hardcover)
Robert L. Perkins
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christian Discourses contains some of Kierkegaard's most constructive religious and social thought, founded on his deepening appreciation of the ambiguity of our common human situation before a loving yet commanding God. ""Christian Discourses"" is a collection of provocative arguments and insights which should redefine the approach to Kierkegaard's 'attack on Christendom' and provoke a useful debate about the significance of his 'second literature'.

Being and Freedom - On Late Modern Ethics in Europe (Hardcover, 1): John Skorupski Being and Freedom - On Late Modern Ethics in Europe (Hardcover, 1)
John Skorupski
R4,029 Discovery Miles 40 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Being and Freedom is a panoramic account of ethics in Europe from the French Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century. In this period the influence of ethics ran far beyond philosophy, eventually dominating politics and religion in the West. Developments came from France, Germany, and Britain: this is the first book to treat them together as a Europe-wide phenomenon, paying attention to the context of events and ideas from which they emerged. Skorupski begins by examining the philosophical conflict at the heart of the French revolution, between the individualism of the Enlightenment and two very different forms of holistic ethics: the old regime's ethic of service and the radical-democracy of the Rousseauian left. Responses analysing freedom and modern social relations came from a series of French liberal thinkers. In Germany the reaction was to two revolutions seen as inaugurating modernity: the political revolution in France and the philosophical revolution of Kant. Here, the fate of religion was critical, and with it the metaphysics of being and freedom. Skorupski traces this story from Kant to Hegel's idealist version of ethical holism. In Britain, Enlightenment naturalism remained the prevailing framework. It took different forms: 'common sense' and the theory of the sentiments in Scotland, utilitarianism in England. From all these elements came a synthesis of European themes by John Stuart Mill, comparable in range but opposed to that of Hegel. The final chapter is an assessment of this period's ethical ideas. They remain the core of late modern ethics and the contested ground on which ethical disagreements take place today.

New Atlantis and The Great Instauration 2e (Hardcover, 2nd Edition): J. Weinberger New Atlantis and The Great Instauration 2e (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
J. Weinberger
R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon s masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including The Idols of the Mind, Of Unity in Religion and Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates, as well a Summary of the each work and Questions for the reader. S * Includes works new to the second edition, including The Idols of the Mind, Of Unity in Religion, and Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates * Updates the layout of the previous edition with a more generous interior design, making this work more student-friendly and easier to navigate in the classroom * Each work is introduced and subsequently discussed, revealing the importance of Bacon s work to his contemporaries as well as to modern readers * Includes a comprehensive introduction and annotations throughout the text; as well as an appendix of Principal Dates in the Life of Sir Francis Bacon; a selected bibliography; and synopses and questions to accompany each work

Zarathustra's Last Supper - Nietzche's Eight Higher Men (Paperback): Weaver Santaniello Zarathustra's Last Supper - Nietzche's Eight Higher Men (Paperback)
Weaver Santaniello
R820 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R64 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 2005, explores the historical contextualization of Nietzsche's thought, focusing on his controversial Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The fourth part of Nietzsche's Zarathustra consists of Zarathustra's encounter with eight 'higher men' whom Zarathustra meets in succession on his path. The prophet then invites each individual to his cave for the evening festivities, culminating in a blasphemous festival in which his guests worship an ass as God. Revealing each guest's specific characteristics and distinct roles, the author attempts to discern 'who' these guests are or represent (historically) through glimpsing the characteristics specific to each guest.

Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics - Bentham's Later Years (Hardcover, New): James E. Crimmins Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics - Bentham's Later Years (Hardcover, New)
James E. Crimmins
R4,926 Discovery Miles 49 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Exploring the life, work and ideas of the great 19th Century utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, this study takes a unique look at his intellectual project from the point of view of the development of his political thought and later reassessment of his own ideas. Placing Bentham's work in its historical and intellectual context, Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics considers in particular Bentham's utilitarianism in relation to his later engagement with political and constitutional reform. James Crimmins argues that, despite being one of the most argued over philosophers of the 19 th century, Bentham remains one of the most misunderstood of political philosophers. By attempting to look again at the context in which Bentham was writing and his self-conscious concern with his own legacy, this book offers a new and comprehensive account of this major political and moral thinker.

Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings (Hardcover, New title): Arthur... Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings (Hardcover, New title)
Arthur Schopenhauer; Edited by David E. Cartwright, Edward E. Erdmann, Christopher Janaway
R3,320 Discovery Miles 33 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume of new translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he takes the principle of sufficient reason, which states that nothing is without a reason why it is, and shows how it covers different forms of explanation or ground that previous philosophers have tended to confuse. Schopenhauer regarded this study, which he first wrote as his doctoral dissertation, as an essential preliminary to The World as Will. On Will in Nature examines contemporary scientific findings in search of corroboration of his thesis that processes in nature are all a species of striving towards ends; and On Vision and Colours defends an anti-Newtonian account of colour perception influenced by Goethe's famous colour theory. This is the first English edition to provide extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of these works.

The Undiscovered Self (Paperback): Carl Gustav Jung The Undiscovered Self (Paperback)
Carl Gustav Jung; Foreword by Sonu Shamdasani
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the unconscious, human instinct and spirituality, Jung warns against the threats of totalitarianism and political and social propaganda to the free-thinking individual. As timely now as when it was first written, Jung's vision is a salutary reminder of why we should not become passive members of the herd. With a new foreword by Sonu Shamdasani.

The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy - The God-intoxicated heretic (Paperback): Yuval Jobani The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy - The God-intoxicated heretic (Paperback)
Yuval Jobani
R1,089 R1,006 Discovery Miles 10 060 Save R83 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence. The Euclidean manner in which he presented his philosophy in the Ethics has led readers to assume they are facing a strict and consistent philosophical system that necessarily follows from itself. As opposed to the prevailing understanding of Spinoza and his work, The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy explores an array of profound and pervasive contradictions in Spinoza's system and argues they are deliberate and constitutive of his philosophical thinking and the notion of God at its heart. Relying on a meticulous and careful reading of the Theological-Political Treatise and the Ethics, this book reconstructs Spinoza's philosophy of contradictions as a key to the ascending three degrees of knowledge leading to the Amor intellectualis Dei. Offering an exciting and clearly-argued interpretation of Spinoza's philosophy, this book will interest students and scholars of modern philosophy and philosophy of religion, as well as Jewish studies. Yuval Jobani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies and the School of Education at Tel-Aviv University.

An Introduction to Kant's Philosophy (Hardcover): Norman Clark An Introduction to Kant's Philosophy (Hardcover)
Norman Clark
R3,569 Discovery Miles 35 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Emmanuel Kant has the distinction of having introduced a great revolution into philosophy and yet stood the test of time. He stands as one of the great foundation stones of modern thought. This book, first published in 1925, covers Kant's works essential to his philosophy as a system, and also illustrates his position in the history of thought. It is a clear and accurate statement of Kant's chief doctrines.

The Real in the Ideal - Berkeley's Relation to Kant (Hardcover): R.C.S. Walker The Real in the Ideal - Berkeley's Relation to Kant (Hardcover)
R.C.S. Walker
R3,583 Discovery Miles 35 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 1989, presents sixteen articles on Kant and Berkeley, examining their attitude to the physical world. They were both idealists, regarding the physical world as being in some way a product of perceptions and thought. At the same time they both held it to be no mere illusion, but real and objective: it was in a sense ideal, but in a different sense also real.

Rousseau and the Modern State (Hardcover): Alfred Cobban Rousseau and the Modern State (Hardcover)
Alfred Cobban
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau. It was acclaimed by English reviewers as 'an excellently arranged, lucidly written, unbiased account of Rousseau's political theory', a 'scholarly book, distinguished for lucidity both in thought and style', and a 'first-rate book in defence of the essential sanity of Rousseau's thought'.

Berkeley: The Philosophy of Immaterialism (Hardcover): I.C. Tipton Berkeley: The Philosophy of Immaterialism (Hardcover)
I.C. Tipton
R4,040 Discovery Miles 40 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 1974, presents a critical examination of Berkeley's immaterialism. It is based on a detailed study of his writings (in particular of his notebooks), and while it places his ideas against their eighteenth-century background it also takes into account the various interpretations of Berkeley found in the literature.

Rousseau - The Child of Nature (Hardcover): John Charpentier Rousseau - The Child of Nature (Hardcover)
John Charpentier
R3,729 Discovery Miles 37 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 1931, provides a valuable account of Rousseau's early years, giving an insight into his later philosophies, as well as showing the development of his thought.

Philosophical Commentaries - Transcribed From the Manuscript and Edited with an Introduction and Index by George H. Thomas,... Philosophical Commentaries - Transcribed From the Manuscript and Edited with an Introduction and Index by George H. Thomas, Explanatory Notes by A.A. Luce (Hardcover)
George Berkeley
R3,588 Discovery Miles 35 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition of George Berkeley's Philosophical Commentaries, first published in 1989, provides an accurate transcription of Berkeley's manuscript, and introduction to set it in perspective, extensive notes to aid in interpreting it, and a full index to facilitate the use of it.

Rousseau: Stoic & Romantic (Hardcover): Kennedy F. Roche Rousseau: Stoic & Romantic (Hardcover)
Kennedy F. Roche
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, first published in 1974, studies the similarities between Rousseau's thought and that of the Stoics, examining Rousseau's ideas on man, society, the state and government. It makes close reference to Rousseau's writings, and to the works of Seneca and other Stoics, presenting an opportunity to really come to grips with a complex and often contradictory mind.

Revival: Schopenhauer: His Life and Philosophy (1932) - His Life and Philosophy (Paperback): Helen Zimmern Revival: Schopenhauer: His Life and Philosophy (1932) - His Life and Philosophy (Paperback)
Helen Zimmern
R1,317 Discovery Miles 13 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the following pages are outlined the Life and Philosophy of one of the most original and picturesque intellectual giants of our age. For while Schopenhauer offers marked analogies to Johnson, Rousseau and Byron, and yields in interest to none of them, he was at the same time a man of absolutely unique mould.

James Mill's Utilitarian Logic and Politics (Hardcover): Antis Loizides James Mill's Utilitarian Logic and Politics (Hardcover)
Antis Loizides
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

James Mill's (1773-1836) role in the development of utilitarian thought in the nineteenth century has been overshadowed both by John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). Of the three, the elder Mill is considered to be the least original and with the least important, if any, contributions to utilitarian theory. True as this statement may be, even those who have tried to challenge some of its aspects take the common portrayal of Mill - "the rationalist, the maker of syllogisms, the geometrician" - as given. This book does not. Studying James Mill's background has surprising results with reference to influences outside the Benthamite tradition as well as unexpected implications for his contributions to debates of his time. The book focuses on his political ideas, the ways in which he communicated them and the ways in which he formed them in an attempt to reveal a portrait of Mill unencumbered from the legacy of Thomas Babington Macaulay's (1800-1859) brilliant essay "Utilitarian Logic and Politics".

Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover): Alberto Vanzo, Peter R. Anstey Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
Alberto Vanzo, Peter R. Anstey
R4,478 Discovery Miles 44 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was far from the only natural philosophical method on the scene. In particular, experimental philosophy was contrasted with and set against speculative philosophy and, in some quarters, was accused of tending to irreligion. This volume brings together ten scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science in order to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion in early modern Europe. The first six chapters of the book focus on the respective roles of experimental and speculative philosophy in individual seventeenth-century philosophers. They include Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Isaac Newton. The next two chapters deal with the relation between experimental philosophy and religion with a special focus on hypotheses and natural religion. The penultimate chapter takes a broader European perspective and examines the paucity of concerns with religion among Italian natural philosophers of the period. Finally, the concluding chapter draws all these individuals and themes together to provide a critical appraisal of recent scholarship on experimental philosophy. This book is the first collection of essays on the subject of early modern experimental philosophy. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern philosophy, science and religion.

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